Good luck getting the theme song out of your head now.
Last Tuesday, Indiewire reported that Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Entertainment are in the early stages of developing a reboot of the popular ’90s cartoon Animaniacs, which aired from 1993 through 1998. The cartoon was styled like a sketch comedy and usually featured 2-3 skits per half hour episode. The cast of approximately a billion characters (rough estimate) featured several standouts, including the Warner siblings, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, and Pinky and the Brain, two mice bent on world domination who went on to receive their own spin-off which ran for four seasons. The details thus far about the potential reboot are extremely limited, but Steven Spielberg, the executive producer of the original series who was also heavily involved in writing, is expected to be involved. However, there has been no word about whether or not creator Tom Ruegger will also be returning.
Animaniacs might not have been Schoolhouse Rock!, but the show did feature some grade-saving educational tunes nonetheless, perhaps most notably “Wakko’s America,” which listed all fifty states and their capitals to the tune of “Turkey in the Straw.” Though the show was geared towards a child audience, it ultimately amassed a sizable adult fanbase, aided by frequent humor and references geared towards adult audiences, such as the recurring “Goodfeathers” skits which featured a trio of Goodfellas-inspired Italian-American pigeons and a Godfather-parodying “Fairy Godpigeon.”
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