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

 

'''Wakko''': [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|To make the FOX censors cry?]] }}

 

''[[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.

'''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:

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

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

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

* When the Warners are forced to attend educational classes:

'''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:

'''Yakko''' (''to the judge''): You know, the two of you oughta get together. }}

* There were a few scenes when Hello Nurse would be called to escort the Warners away; Yakko and Wakko would sometimes be staring at her breasts.

* Or:

* In one episode, the Warners constantly foil a hunter's attempts to shoot their pet turkey.

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

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

* How did this get past the radar in ''Taming of The Screwy''?

'''Yakko''' (''aside glance''): Mmm-wah! Goodnight, everybody! }}

* Another good one from ''King Yakko'':

'''Dot''': Since when do ''you'' lift the lid? }}

* It's not just the Warners getting in on the action. In ''Slappy Goes Walnuts'', a video explained:

* From "Never Give Up Hope" (''[[Wakko's Wish|Wakkos Wish]]''):

'''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:

'''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'':

* "Oh Lake Titicaca, yes Lake Titicaca / Why do we sing of its fame? / Lake Titicaca, yes Lake Titicaca / [[Inherently Funny Words|'Cause we really like saying its name!]] Titicaca!"

* One of Brain's best moments: [[Buxom Is Better|"I'd say puberty was inordinately kind to]] [[Dolly Parton|you."]]

* [[Hello, Nurse!]] gets in on it, too:

'''Dot''': I'm not touching that one. }}

* A censor tells [[Betty Boop|Googily]] [[Captain Ersatz|Goop]] to take off her suggestive outfit -- cue "Goodnight, everybody".

* In ''Temporary Insanity'', Wakko eats Mr Plotz's paperweight.

'''Wakko''': Okay, but you'll have to wait a while. }}

* In ''Take My Siblings, Please'', there's a scene where Yakko summons a group of busty chorus girls to "romp" with him. Bad enough already, but then comes a later bit where all the ladies are walking away groaning in exhaustion. Yakko, being [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] personified, just has to make it sound even worse.

* In a parody of the poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas":

'''Yakko''': G'night everybody! }}

* At the closing sketch of the "The Warners Escape" tape, Yakko and Dot give a lecture on a medical condition that Wakko's been suffering from. He's been complaining about pains in his eye, ear, and a tooth, out of which they've pulled cartoons. When they ask him for a closing statement, he replies:

* And then there's the "Package" conversation. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY6EHuNW_vo#t=6m Tune in at 6:00 to see the wonder!]

* Yet another example:

'''Yakko''': For a nickel I'll give you a clue (winks at the audience) }}

* In "Garage Sale of the Century" Wakko has broken Papa Bear's (the same Papa Bear who appeared in a series of [[Chuck Jones]] cartoons unofficially known as "The Dysfunctional Bear Family" cartoons) garage opener and he tells him he can fix it, when he puts it back together he experiments with it and discovers he can move things up and down. Two women in skirts walk by. He gives a sly smile and wiggles his eyebrows, pointing it at them. Before he can press the button Dot stops him and says "That'll be enough of that." Yakko says [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s40GGxP7rj4 "Every boy needs a hobby."]

** Come on you guys! We're gonna play "truth or dare."

* This gem:

'''Yakko''': (whispering to the audience) Goodnight, everybody! }}

* After one of his traps for Slappy backfires, Walter Wolf is sewing the crotch his overalls (while still in them). Slappy tells him to watch where he's sewing.

* During "A Christmas Plotz", Yakko (as the Ghost of Christmas Future) performs an elaborate musical number, complete with chorus girls:

** 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:

* One ''Slappy The Squirrel'' short featured Slappy arguing, with her usual aplomb, with a boorish woman in a movie theater.

'''Slappy:''' Well, you should; it's fun! }}

* During the song, ''A Quake, A Quake'' Yakko makes this clever pun.

* ''Potty Emergency'': Everything in Wakko's mad search for the bathroom certainly qualifies, including Wakko [[Kryptonite Is Everywhere|seeing water-related things]], such as a man using a hose on his lawn, kids drinking from a water fountain, and a man serving lemonade (which spills on the ground).

* In ''My Mother the Squirrel'', we get this, after the baby bird has dashed under Slappy's butt so many times:

'''Skippy:''' Goodnight, everybody! }}

* At one point in "Meatballs or Consequences", the Warners ask [[The Grim Reaper]] if he'll be their father and they suggest fun things to do together; at one point, Yakko mentions watching the adult channel together -- a suggestion that gets Yakko and Wakko to wiggle their eyebrows suggestively and shout "Hello Nurse!"

* This little bit from "Slappy Goes Walnuts":

'''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...]

* In "The Girl With The Googily Goop", Wakko's nose has sprung to life and has taken residence in Googily Goop's picnic basket, Wakko asks if she's seen his nose and she replies "Oh do you mean the cherry?, it's right in here" as she pulls out a pie which the nose pops out of and a censor tells her to watch what she says.

* In a [[Tiny Toons]] cameo from "Noah's Ark," Noah is checking in the animals two-by-two, and has this conversation:

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

* 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)'' }}

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