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** Then again, knowing this show, it's doubtful whether is accidental.
* [[Awesome Music]]: Tons of it. Yakko's World is a standout and also a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for its performer, [[Rob Paulsen]], who can ''still'' perform it on request and at the same tempo from memory almost twenty years later.
* [[Complete Monster]]: King Salazar the Pushy from [[The Movie]]
* [[Ear Worm]]: The theme song. ''God'', the theme song.
** Not to mention "United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru..."
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* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: [[Deadpan Snarker|Slappy Squirrel]] and [[Ms. Fanservice|Minerva Mink]].
** And of course, the biggest darkhorses in the show, who actually achieved [[Breakout Character]] status...
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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
** 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
** 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 [[
** "A Quake, A Quake" is pretty funny, but the end line takes on a new [[Oh Crap]] meaning after 2006:
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* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: In the ''[[
** 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 (
** 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 [[
* [[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'...
** ''[[
* [[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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** "When the whippoorwill / Whippoors in the wind / The wind can whippoor back / Oh nice and chubby baby!"
** "Hellooooo Nurse!"
**
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"I think so, Brain, but ''[[Non Sequitur|*insert completely random and off-topic question here*"]]'' }}
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGG3iOySMDY WE'RE HAVING SOUP TODAY]!
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* [[Painful Rhyme]]: The reason why "Yakko's World" wasn't as accurate as it could have been.
* [[Periphery Demographic]]: What happens when a majority of the best jokes are of the [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] variety.
* [[Rescued
* [[The Scrappy]]: The Hip Hippos (for their attitudes) and Mindy (for the crap Buttons has to go through for her sake.)
** Mindy actually has a few fans. It's her ''mom'' who's universally hated.
* [[What Do You Mean
** This effect was unintentionally created by some [[Blind Idiot Translation|overly literal Russian translations]] of the show's title. While the official translation was safe, some promotional materials and TV program listings left the "maniacs" part untranslated. In Russian [[You Keep Using That Word|common usage]] the word "maniac" is used almost exclusively as a synonym for "[[Serial Killer]]".
* [[The Woobie]]: Buttons.
** Also Chicken Boo himself near the end in just every Chicken Boo cartoon, after his disguise is off.
** Rita also counts as a woobie, as most of her misfortunes show examples of [[Dude, Not Funny|unfairness and inequality]].
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