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*** Ooh, so the water tower would be their-* WHACK!*
*** But we all know Wakko is a-*BANG*
* Always thought [[
* The introduction says the Warners' films "made absolutely no sense," so they were locked away in the studio vaults. But all the Warner films they show during Animaniacs make perfect sense; they're wacky, sure, but not incomprehensible. ''That's because the films made in the 1930s are full of references to modern pop culture.'' The Warners aren't time travelers, but they ARE prophets/espers.
* They got locked in the water tower before they ''could'' appear in any 1930s cartoons. Once freed, they made cartoons in the 90s.
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* It could also be how Ralph the Guard can be seen in 1930 catching the Warners for the first time, and is later seen in the modern (1990's) setting having not changed one iota. Also, the three Goodfeathers were in World War II, Rita and Runt have survived both the Salem Witch Trials and Nazi-occupied Poland, Mindy and Buttons have been seen hundreds of years in the future without aging a bit, Pinky and the Brain were Merlin's pets, Slappy (and even more unbelievably, ''Skippy'') at Woodstock, the Hippos being on Noah's Ark... Come to think of it, almost no major or minor character has any consistent timeline.
This also explains the 1990s pop culture references in the 1930s. It's like how the Genie in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' travels to other times and why he ends up making pop culture references about us. (See [[Disney Animated Canon/WMG|Wild Mass Guessing on Disney Animated Canon]]. [[Looney Tunes]] and the Disneyverse meet in [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]? so it may even be the same portal network.)
This also explains why the old guy always wants the Warners locked up. He doesn't want them interfering with the timeline, and so he keeps them locked up to make sure they don't erase him from history or something. That, or he's trying to make sure they don't get in the way of his diabolical plans with the portals...
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== Animaniacs, [[Tiny Toon Adventures]] and [[Freakazoid]]! are incarnations of the three [[Looney Tunes]] archetypes ==
[[Tiny Toon Adventures]] is normal kids' programming (compared to the other two) so it's the [[Every Man]] archetype. [[
== After they were captured in the final clip of the last episode, the Warners were put back in the water tower, with a new lock. ==
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They were drawn into this reality by the summonings of a human mind. [[Mad God|They have the power to warp reality on a whim and toy with humanity for their amusement.]] [[Go Mad From the Revelation|They drive anyone who spends time in their company insane.]] No one can discern their actual species because [[A Form You Are Comfortable With|the shapes they assume]] are merely the projections of the mind of the cartoonist who first glimpsed them, trying to make sense of the horrors he witnessed.
Fearing the chaos and ruin they bring about, they were [[And I Must Scream|locked away in a tower for generations, gradually forgotten,]] [[Sealed Evil in
[[Fridge Horror|Think about it.]]
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== Yakko was high at least a few times throughout the series. ==
Mainly during "Yakko's Universe" and "I'm Mad." "Yakko's Universe" sort of speaks for itself since it's so . . . trippy. "And the universe extends/To a place that never ends/Which is maybe just inside a little jar." Then in "I'm Mad" it's not so much the song as it's the way Yakko acts. A few times he's completely spaced out, probably under the pretense of being sleepy, but he just ends up looking like he's stoned.
* Makes even more sense when you consider that his voice is a spoof-[[The Beatles (
** Except that it's Wakko who had the Liverpudlian accent.
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Taking the WMG that Slappy and Screwy once had a thing and the fact that we never see Skippy's parents - plus that the one time Slappy's taken out of the picture, Skippy is taken away by child protective services rather than being sent back to his parents. What if the reason we don't see Skippy's parents has nothing to do with them being dead? We don't really know how old Skippy is - he's young, but...well, so are the Warner kids. And since when Slappy started (during the Thirties) and through most of her career (Fourties to...what, mid-Sixties or late Seventies?), it would have been ''very'' unseemly for a single woman to have a kid out of wedlock - in fact, being caught as an unwed mother could have ruined Slappy's career...unless she said that Skippy was her nephew, whom she was taking care of for his parents while they were sick/on vacation/dealing with some problems. Sure, it might've become a paper-thin excuse after a while (after all, Skippy's parents never show up to take him back) but as long as she didn't show any evidence that it was a lie, most people would be willing to go along with it. Why risk Slappy's wrath if they don't have to?
* This troper loves this WMG. It makes the [[Wham! Episode]] involving them have an even more heartwarming ending. This is ''so'' material for a fanfic.
* This could have potentially far-reaching implications if other cartoon characters who were inexplicably given nephews {[[Donald Duck]], [[Tom and Jerry
* Agreed, this WMG is awesome. Somebody get crackin' with that fanfic!
== Slappy is the Disney-parody gray squirrel -from Screwy's first short- after the tar was beaten out of her by Screwy and Meathead. ==
For no other reason than comedy. The reason she's so different? She was beaten so badly that she couldn't live long with her current body, being more "Disney-styled" and less flexible or resistant to permanent injury. So... they redrew her. [[The Six Million Dollar Man|They had the tec-]] pencils.
* The squirrel was named Sammy, but maybe that was short for Samantha. And she became Slappy after she was redrawn and possibly had some [[Sanity Slippage]] as a result of the beating. Looking at the [[Art Evolution]] [[Bugs Bunny]], Tom of [[
* Having thus been subjected to such severe [[Break the Cutie]], she trained herself in the way of the violent cartoon character and [[Walking the Earth|travelled the world]], seeking revenge on Screwy. Of course, he was dead by that time, so she began to dish her vengeance out on anyone who crossed her path. It made her feel a ''lot'' better.
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Combine some of the elements above regarding the thing Slappy and Screwy had, but instead of wild nights of passion, they were just siblings who happened to both get in the same industry. Then Screwy dies, leaving a son. Skippy did inherit the fur colour. (Then again, this assumes that one parent could've had a grey and red squirrel for kids, so go figure.)
== Skippy is a young [[Conkers Bad Fur Day
Think of it, They look similar if you compare Skippy with young Conker from [[Diddy Kong Racing|Diddy Kong Racing.]] He had his adventures (Conker's Pocket Tales) in a nearby friends house (Berri, soon to be his girlfriend after he turned 13).
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And why, you ask?
(1) Gen-X nostalgiafests are HUGE at the box office right now ([[Transformers (
(2) The success of ''[[Super 8]]'' might motivate Spielberg to continue looking at his older stuff for ideas.
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In other words, 'tis box-office gold waiting to happen. I'm guessing CGI/live-action not just because it's trendy, but because ''Animaniacs'' took place in the "real world". The humans could be played by live actors, with the "toons" and [[Funny Animal|Funny Animals]] being CGI.
** I'd personally hope for 2D animation used to create a [[Roger Rabbit Effect]], but that may be too much to hope for these days. ''Unless'' the ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' sequel comes out and is a box office smash, which would make this movie even more likely.
== When and if the show is revived, it will include a [[Take That]] to [[
No explanation required.
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