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"The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to [[Take Over the World]]!" }}
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: The episode ''Magic Time'' had famous magicians [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Schnitzel]] and [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo|Floyd]] being abusive to their pet lion and elephant, and later are mauled by said animals in revenge thanks to the Warners. The two magicians are even dropped off in a jungle, where it's quite obvious they get more of the same. As of [http://articles.cnn.com/2003-10-04/us/roy.attacked_1_roy-horn-mirage-spokesman-alan-feldman-mirage-hotel-casino?_s=PM:US October 3, 2003], that might not be so funny anymore.
** One episode had the gimmick of shorts pairing different characters together, such as Pesto and Runt. Brain's role in "In the Garden of Mindy" saw him paired with, well, Mindy - a young girl prone to causing great harm to her animals without realizing it. [[Pinky, Elmyra, and& Thethe Brain (Animation)|Uh, yeah...]]
** Seeing Dot fawn over Mel Gibson is a bit unsettling now, given his more recent transgressions.
* [[Genius Bonus]]: Some of the cultural references in this show were obscure for ''adults'', to say nothing of kids.
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: After several high-profile scandals led people to become more aware about childhood sexual abuse in the eighties, Pip goes from being relentlessly boring to a possible child molester after he takes a bath with Yakko and Wakko in ''Chairman of the Bored''.
** Dot's crush on [[Mel Gibson (Creator)|Mel Gibson]] has definitely proven to be such of late.
** "A Quake, A Quake" is pretty funny, but the end line takes on a new [[Oh Crap]] meaning after 2006:
{{quote| ''"We want to find some peace and quiet, so we're moving to [[wikipedia:2006 Lebanon War|Beirut]]"''}}
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: In the ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures (Animation)|Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' episode "Fields of Honey", Babs's guiding angel, in a spoof on ''[[Field of Dreams]]'', tells her that even though Bugs Bunny is over 50 years old, he retains his youth because laughter is what keeps a 'toon young. Now with ''Animaniacs'', which can be seen as either a continuation or spin-off from that series, the fact that while not a true Looney Tunes character Slappy's ancient nature may be suggesting she is either an obscure character, forced into retirement, was truthfully not funny, deliberately ignores the earlier series or [[Blatant Lies|Slappy is not telling us something]].
** The first time we see Slappy, she's watching her own cartoon and complains that her end bit got cut short by a commercial. From her commentary and actions then and in other shorts, she's retired - but it looks like her cartoons are still being run, which keeps her alive and in fairly good shape. Compare her apparent physical fitness to that of the friend who played Bumpie's Mom - they're both said to be about the same age, but the friend isn't as well-preserved; the friend looks like she's in her early sixties at least, while Slappy seems like she's closer to her late thirties or early fourties. All this is [[Wild Mass Guessing]], sure - but it's fairly plausible, no?
** In "Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled", [[Ron Perlman]] voiced [[The Devil]]. [[Hellboy (Filmfilm)|Hmm...]]
** Also, "Hot, Bothered, and Bedeviled" began with a Saddam Hussein-esque dictator of Iraq getting dropped through a trap door into Hell. The [[Real Life]] version of this in early 2007 would add a noose, but the principle's the same.
** The "Wheel of Morality" segment made some [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv6IWX1_XHQ&feature=related prophetic] jokes.
** In "Critical Condition" the [[Siskel and Ebert (TV)|Siskel and Ebert]] parodies are tormented by Slappy for giving her a really bad review, finally being put inside an dinosaur movie and squashed. Cut to 1998, when ''[[Godzilla]]'' by Roland Emmerich comes out, and he just mocks them a little in-movie though [[Expy|Expys]]. Siskel even asked by he [[Ironic Echo|"didn't have the monster squash them"]] after he went though the trouble of putting them in a monster movie.
* [[Ho Yay]]: Well, they do all have a tendency to greet ''every''one with a big kiss (mostly guys), and Wakko seems to have a thing for Don Knotts, during and after 'Taming of the Screwy'...
** ''[[Pinky and The Brain (Animation)|Pinky and The Brain]]'' started here, and they've always been kind of Ho Yay-ish.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: "Wakko's America".
** "Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Columbus is the capital of Ohio!..." Jess Harnell can still sing the whole song from memory.
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