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[[File:animaniacs_car_jump_347.jpg|link=Don't Come a-Knockin'|frame|[[Catch Phrase|Gooooooodnight, everybody!]]]]

 

{{quote|'''Yakko''': It's that time again!

 

''[[Animaniacs]]'' rivals ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' in terms of the sheer amount of radar-breaking as far as 1990s kids' cartoons are concerned. The show packed in a large amount of "adult-friendly" jokes during its run. In general, "Goodnight, everybody!" is a good sign that the joke they just did has pissed off another censor.

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** Dr. Scratchandsniff refers to his obese girlfriend as his "mushy liebschen." "Mushy" (as the doctor pronounced it) [[Genius Bonus|sounds like a German word for]] [[Country Matters|a particular bit of female anatomy]].

* In their version of ''Jack and the Beanstalk'', Wakko plays the girl-harp, electing a sound that could ''charitably'' be called laughter, and ending in "That tickles!", but [[Parental Bonus|sounds rather like]] something ''else'', if you know what I mean.

{{quote|'''Yakko''': Number-one Sister, dust for prints!

(''time passes; pan over to Dot carrying {then "The Artist Formerly Known As"} [[Prince]]'')

'''Yakko''': No, no, no, ''finger''prints!

'''Dot''': (''stares briefly at Prince {who grins}, then back at Yakko'') I don't think so. (''tosses Prince out a nearby porthole'') }}

* And they were just short of [[Refuge in Audacity|blatant]] in ''King Yakko'':

'''Yakko''': Wait 'til we're alone... }}

* One of the favorite gags is Yakko and his sibs reacting with horror to a word that only ''sounds'' dirty:

{{quote|'''Beethoven''': I am Ludwig Van Beethoven! Vorld famous composer, und ''pianist!''

'''Beethoven''' (''confused''): But zat is vat I am! A pianist!

'''Yakko''': I think we've heard enough out of you! (''proceeds to wash out his mouth with soap'') }}

{{quote|'''Yakko''': Hey, did you know there's P. P. on your smock?

'''Pablo''': THAT STANDS FOR PABLO PICASSO! }}

{{quote|'''Pablo:''' Oui oui!

'''Yakko:''' [[Hypocritical Humor|The things they're]] [[Lampshade Hanging|getting away with on kids' shows these days]]. }}

'''Yakko''': Who, ''ME?'' I've never even kissed a girl.

'''Teacher''': No, no, no! It's easy. I'll conjugate with you.

'''Yakko''': (''to the audience'') Don't look. }}

* In one episode, Dr. Scratchensniff got a parking ticket and Yakko was his legal representation in traffic court. There was a bit of a running gag that was obvious enough for us kids to get:

{{quote|'''Hunter''': Give me the bird!

'''Yakko''': [[Flipping the Bird|We'd love to]], really, [[Media Watchdogs|but the FOX censors won't allow us]]! }}

{{quote|'''Yakko:''' We're not pheasants! We're not even birds! But I'd like to ''give'' you a bird! Here! ''(Wakko stuffs a turkey down his jacket)''}}

{{quote|'''Minerva Mink:''' Give me the bird!

'''Dot:''' We can't, it's a family show. }}

{{quote|'''Yakko:''' All of the shops are closin',

'''Dot:''' Things couldn't get much worse,

'''Slappy:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|Be careful with that last verse!]] }}

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwYacTjyD3U&feature=related THIS] episode.

** 'Course, it could have been missed because "blow the wad" is also real gambling slang.

*** Even outside of gambling, it's a standard English idiom, and the term comes from the way old firearms would have to be reloaded.

* There's a really quick shot of Wakko sipping from a straw stuck in a barrel labeled "Grog" during "The Ballad of Magellan." That's right, a children's cartoon show managed to include a [[Funny Background Event]] that '''beer commercials''' still aren't allowed to depict.

* Dot's worst "Where the hell were the censors on ''this'' one?" moment was in the ''[[Pocahontas|Pocadotas]]'' bit:

'''Dot''' (''with an expression and tone that '''screams''' suggestiveness'') Wanna see how ''we'' do it?

'''Yakko''': (''mmm-wah'') G'night everybody! }}

* The Warners have defeated today's villain by casting him into a giant chocolate Easter bunny, so they donate him/it to the children's home, where he's carried off by a crowd of children. ''Then'':

{{quote|'''Yakko''': "Wait 'till they get to the creamy filling!" (''waggles eyebrows'')}}

{{quote|"Let me know when those costumes get heavy!" (growls suggestively)}}

** Even earlier, Yakko talks with one of the chorus girls during the musical.

'''Yakko''': Alright, then, you can open my mail. }}

* A parody of [[Flipper]] contained the following line:

{{quote|'''Skippy:''' That was just like in "Prehistoric Slappy"!

'''Slappy:''' Actually, it was "Cave Girl Slappy", 1932, directed by Piz Peeners; ah, but let's not be anal... }}

* "What's it like to be the sexiest man in Hollywood?" The censors were slaughtered by Jason.

* In one segment, Slappy mentions needing a sitz bath. [http://www.hemorrhoid-cures.com/sitz-baths.php For those of you who are unfamiliar with this...]

{{quote|'''Buster & Babs:''' Buster and Babs Bunny. No relation.

'''Noah:''' Let's hope not, this is a family show. }}

{{quote|'''Wakko:''' They were right -- it didn't have a chance!}}

* In the Pinky and the Brain segment "Meet John Brain", Larry Kling is interviewing Suzanne Slimmers on her "Thigh Monster" invention. When asked how she stays so thin, she replies, "Thigh Monster, of course!" She then demonstrates how to use it: she presses her elbows between it, [[Gainaxing|making her breasts bounce]] in the process. Kling remarks, "I could watch this for hours!"

* In one of the Slappy shorts, we see the Warner Kids sitting in a tub in one scene. Dot screams at the fact the camera is on her in the tub, and Wakko just looks up smugly and says "Uh oh, I think I feel a bubble coming on..."

''(Crowd runs away screaming)'' }}

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbcZ3oQsA34 The song the siblings sing] to Captain Ahab in "Moby or Not Moby" is, in fact, [[Aluminum Christmas Trees|a parody of an old drinking song]] with the lyrics changed. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_RWtdm81WU Here's the original.]

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{{quote|'''''Yakko''': [[Running Gag|Goooooooooooooooooooooooodnight, everybody!]]''}}