Super Strong Warner Siblings/Nutcracker Slappy/Wakko's New Gookie/A Quake, a Quake! is the Season 3 premiere of the original Animaniacs (in some episode packages), and the 70th episode overall. It is one of the first episodes to air on Kids' WB! All cartoons in this episode were animated by Wang Film Production.
Beginning with this episode, the line "We've got wisecracks by the stacks" is replaced with "We pay tons of income tax." Additionally, the line "Meet Pinky and the Brain who want to rule the universe" is replaced with "Meet Ralph and Dr. Scratchansniff, say 'Hi' to Hello Nurse," since Pinky and the Brain had their own show on The WB at the time, although they were not removed from the "pay-or-play contracts" segment of the intro. The clips used to introduce the characters are from "Piano Rag," "Ups and Downs," and "De-Zanitized", respectively.
In the Castilian Spanish, Nickelodeon Dutch, Finnish, French, Italian, Latin Spanish dubs, it replaced the "While Bill Clinton plays the sax" line (which was removed from the English and German versions of the intro in Season 2).
In the German dub, it replaced the "und die jungs die spieleb sax" line.
Super Strong Warner Siblings
Plot
After finishing the shoot of their theme song, the Warners do a parody of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, a show that was also airing on Fox in the 1990s.
Buttons makes a cameo appearance in this cartoon getting hit by a mailbox.
The word "Right!" is spoken a total of 12 times in this episode.
This cartoon has no title card. The title and credits appear at the bottom of the screen a few moments in.
At one point, the giant bug monster destroys a building that displays the logo of Saban Entertainment, former owners of the Power Rangers brand. This could be a foreshadowing to Saban's sale of the brand to Disney and later Hasbro.
This cartoon marks the debut of the longer introduction song for the Slappy Squirrel segments, now renamed "Slappy & Skippy".
According to the script shown in the segment, the production code is #406-673B.
When Slappy mentions that Skippy gets to direct when he's old enough, Skippy does an imitation of Animaniacs executive producer Steven Spielberg.
The music pieces featured are remixes of the following by Tchaikovsky: "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy Op. 71 a Andante ma non troppo", "Dance of the Reed Flutes Op. 71 a Andantino", "Chinese Dance Op. 71 a Allegro moderato", "Russian Dance (Trepak) Op. 71 a Molto vivace".
One of the cars Slappy uses to try to open the nut is a 1959 Cadillac.
The Warners make a brief cameo appearance when Slappy walks off the set to talk to the director.
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Wakko's New Gookie
Plot
Since it is a new season, Wakko decides to try out a new gookie because he's tired of his old one. He tries it out on Yakko, Michaelangelo from "Hooked on a Ceiling", Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, and Larry King. All of them do not believe it really is a gookie, so Wakko decides if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The episode ends with Yakko trying to come up with a new catchphrase.
This is Show #70
You Have Been Watching The WB. - It's a Tough Job But Someone Had to Do It.
Trivia
Starting with this episode, the gag credit to Kathryn Page has been retired, and the gag credits instead follow a format similar to the ones on Tiny Toon Adventures.
Stinger
Yakko, Wakko & Dot: "Go nuts!"
Trivia
The stinger is a re-dubbed version of the "Fla-MEEL!" stinger.
Title in other languages
Language
Title
Translation
Notes
European Portuguese
Os Super-Fortes Manos Warner/Slappy Quebra-Nozes/A Nova Careta do Wakko/Tremor de Terra
The Super Strong Warner Siblings/ Nutcracker Slappy/Wakko's New Grimace/Earthquake
European Portuguese