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{{quote|'''Pilgrim:''' Give me the bird!
'''Yakko:''' [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|We'd love to, really]], but the Fox censors won't allow it. }}
:* In the ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' [[Spin-Off]], the opening song commented on [[Pinky, Elmyra and& Thethe Brain|the addition of Elmyra]] with the lines "[[Executive Meddling|It's what the network wants, why bother to complain?]]". At the end of the song, Brain also says "I deeply resent this", and, given the very real hatred of the idea by the show's own writers, it seems likely enough he was referring to more than just his in-story predicaments with Elmyra. This was itself preceded by the episode ''Pinky and the Brain and Larry'', with an intentionally lame and useless extra character inserted just to show how the show didn't need a third wheel... but it was railroaded through anyway.
:* The most notable example would be the episode "You'll Never Eat Food Pellets In This Town Again", which features the titular lab mice as the stars of a hit TV show [[Executive Meddling|being heavily meddled with by network executives, who think heavily altering the show's premise will increase ratings]].
:* After being forced to switch from FOX to The WB, they proved to not be the type who played favorites. Practically every episode of ''Animaniacs'' used the [[Couch Gag|rotating gag credit]] at the end to bash their new network: "Be The First Kid on Your Block To Actually Watch The WB!"
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