The BEST episodes of Animaniacs season 1
Every episode of Animaniacs season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Animaniacs season 1!
The two Warner Brothers Yakko and Wakko and their Warner sister Dot had been created in the 1930's, but their cartoons were too screwy for the general public to handle. The three Warners were locked up in the studio water tower until they escaped in the 90's. There, they run wild, causing chaos everywhere!
#1 - Puppet Rulers
Season 1 - Episode 98 - Aired 11/12/1993
In 1954, Pinky and the Brain are kept in the home of Albert Einstein. They watch television and see a puppet show named "The Meany and Treacle Show". When the show announces that it is looking for new puppets, the two mice mail themselves to the show. They pretend to be puppets and grow enormously popular. They freeze themselves in cryogenic capsules and emerge forty years later. They arrange a pirate broadcast asking all their no adult fans to send them gifts. Unfortunately all their fans felt abandoned by them when they disappeared the show. They send Pinky and the Brain their therapy bills instead.
#2 - Little Drummer Warners
Season 1 - Episode 122 - Aired 12/6/1993
The Warner's travel to Bethlehem to witness the Nativity and sing a song.
#3 - Spellbound
Season 1 - Episode 94 - Aired 11/10/1993
In 1194, Pinky and the Brain are being kept in Merlin's laboratory in Camelot. When Merlin goes out for a snack. Brain tries to take over the world using a magic spell. Pinky gathers all the components but loses a dragon's toenail. Pinky and the Brain must go on a quest to get another toenail. Using a magic wand the recover the toenail, but the dragon chases them all the way back to Camelot. Brain uses the dragon's toenail in the spell but as he recites it Pinky distracts him. Brain's head is turned into cheese.
#4 - When Mice Ruled The Earth
Season 1 - Episode 114 - Aired 11/23/1993
The year is 1895 and Pinky and the Brain are being kept in the laboratory of H.G. Wells. Brain builds a time machine because he wants to go back in time to keys moment in mouse evolution in order to change them and make mice the dominant form of life on Earth. When he returns to the present he hopes to be proclaimed the leader of the planet. Brain heads back in time and after a number of problems manages to teach mice how to make fire. When he returns to the present, he discovers that mice are the dominant form of life on the planet. Unfortunately, all the mice act like Pinky.
#5 - Lookit the Fuzzy Heads
Season 1 - Episode 158 - Aired 5/16/1994
Dr. Scratchansniff has a new patient, and to the Warners's horror, it's Elmyra! Luckily, they're eventually able to get rid of her... with a little help from Buttons and Mindy (mostly Mindy).
#6 - Woodstock Slappy
Season 1 - Episode 145 - Aired 3/1/1994
Slappy and Skippy want to go to her summer cottage, but when they get there the see that they are in the middle the 1960's musical festival Woodstock. Skippy marvels at the music, but Slappy wants them to go away. She doesn't have much success until she decides to play some music herself. She plays a polka and everyone runs.
#8 - Wakko's America
Season 1 - Episode 45 - Aired 10/11/1993
In a Jeopardy style game in the teacher's classroom, Wakko has to name the 50 states and their capitals. He sings an enitre song with everything right but he forgets to answer in the form of a question.
#9 - A Christmas Plotz
Season 1 - Episode 121 - Aired 12/6/1993
The CEO of Warner Brothers Studio fires Ralph for not catching the Warners. The Warners visit the CEO as the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future. Yakko as the ghost of Christmas Past shows the CEO how he has always been mean. He shows the CEO firing his father when he first became CEO. Dot as the ghost of Christmas Present shows the CEO Ralph's family. He sees that they can't afford presents or Christmas dinner since he fired Ralph. Yakko as the ghost of Christmas Future shows the CEO that Ralph's son will grow up to become CEO and will fire him. The CEO has a change of heart and gives the Warners money to buy a fruitcake for Ralph and he goes and gives Ralph his job back. The CEO is then hit by the enormous fruitcake bought by the Warners.
#10 - Potty Emergency
Season 1 - Episode 62 - Aired 10/21/1993
Wakko is at the movies and has to go to the bathroom. When he discovers that the bathrooms don't work, he must find a bathroom somewhere else.
#11 - Bubba Bo Bob Brain
Season 1 - Episode 84 - Aired 11/4/1993
Brain plans to take over the world with subliminal mind control. He pretends to be a country singer and injects subliminal messages into his songs. His music begins to sell and the messages begin to influence people. Unfortunately, Brain ruins his plan by yelling at Pinky during a worldwide televised concert.
#12 - Where Rodents Dare
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 9/23/1993
With one of his new inventions, Brain plans to freeze all the leaders of the world when they are at an international peace conference in the Alps. Pinky and the Brain have a hard time getting to the peace conference, but when they finally do Brain's plans are foiled when someone traps them while they stand on a plate of cheese. The two mice only succeed in freezing themselves.
#13 - 'Twas the Day Before Christmas
Season 1 - Episode 117 - Aired 11/29/1993
Slappy read the poem "The Day Before Christmas" to Skippy as a bedtime story. In the poem, the Warners CEO must give presents to the Warners. He hires Ralph to do it and makes him dress like Santa. Ralph arrives on a sled pulled by pigeons, but sees that Santa has already come. He has already given presents to Rita and Runt and the other Animaniacs. Eventually, Slappy falls alseep and Skippy goes off to open up his presents.
#14 - In the Garden of Mindy
Season 1 - Episode 85 - Aired 11/5/1993
Mindy's mother leaves the house and Brain develops a plan to take over the world. He develops a powerful stink bomb which he hopes to use to force the government officials out of thier jobs. As he makes the stink bomb, Mindy gets on a lawnmower and drives out of control. The lawnmower chases Brain and eventually knocks him into his stink bomb ingredients. Mindy's mother comes home and scolds Brain for letting Mindy feed him old cheese.
#15 - Hercule Yakko
Season 1 - Episode 57 - Aired 10/19/1993
When Marita Hippo's Diamond is stolen onboard a cruise, Hercule Yakko and his associates search around the ship for clues. Eventually they discover that Marita was sitting on the diamond the entire time.
#16 - Opportunity Knox
Season 1 - Episode 55 - Aired 10/18/1993
Brain wants to steal all of the gold out of Fort Knox. He develops a chemical that causes sneezing fits in people. Pinky and the Brain get to Fort Knox and use the chemical on the guards. They break into the safe and realize that they can't steal the gold because the gold bars are too heavy for the mice to lift.
#17 - Turkey Jerky
Season 1 - Episode 111 - Aired 11/22/1993
The Pilgrims are about to celebrate the first Thanksgiving. They, however, can't decide what to eat. Miles Standish goes off to get a turkey for the dinner. He finds the Warners and their pet turkey Mr. Gobble. When he tries to shoot Mr. Gobble, the Warners and their pet turkey set about frustrating him. They drive him crazy and make him think he is a turkey. Eventually, he is served for dinner.
#18 - King Yakko
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 9/24/1993
Yakko inherits the throne of Anvilania a small kingdom best known as the world's largest producer of anvils. Yakko promises to serve his people, but Anvilania is attacked by Dunlikus and its dictator Umlatt. The Warners must face Unlatt by himself. They manage to get the entire Dunlikus army to go to sleep and discover that Unlatt wanted Anvilania so that he can have all its anvils to himself. The Warners decide to give Unlatt the anvils: one at a time, on his head and on his castle.
#19 - Plane Pals
Season 1 - Episode 51 - Aired 10/13/1993
Onboard a plane, the Warners annoy a tightwad who is forced to sit by them because of a computer error. They annoy him so much that he is forced to bail out of the plane.
#20 - Bumbie's Mom
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 9/22/1993
Skippy and Slappy are watching a movie called Bumbie, the Dearest Deer. When Bumbie's mother dies, Skippy gets upset and starts crying. Slappy takes him to meet the cartoon actress who played Bumbie's mom to show him she's not really dead.
#21 - The Three Muska-Warners
Season 1 - Episode 90 - Aired 11/8/1993
There year is 1575 and the place is Paris, France. The King of France believe that someone is about to kill him. He gathers the Three Musketeers to protect him. The Warners arrive as the musketeers and set about guarding the King.
#22 - Broadcast Nuisance
Season 1 - Episode 99 - Aired 11/15/1993
The Warners deliver sandwiches to a news show hosted by Mr. Dan Anchorman. When the arrive late and give him the wrong meal, he refuses to pay them. The Warners protest outside the studio and later sneak into the control room and mess with the controls. Eventually, Dan apologizes. He goes insane and is taken away to a mental hospital.
#23 - Meatballs or Consequences
Season 1 - Episode 42 - Aired 10/7/1993
In Sweden, Wakko enters a meatball eating contest and eats too many meatballs. He is declared dead by Death. Yakko and Dot must play checkers with Death to stop Wakko from being taken to the ever after.
#24 - The Great Wakkorotti: The Master and his Music
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 10/4/1993
Wakko belches "The Blue Danube Waltz" by Johann Strauss.
#25 - Wally Llama
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 9/23/1993
Wally Llama who lives on top of a mountain in the Himalayas is the wisest creature in the world. After he grows sick of answering questions he vows to stop for the rest of the day. The Warners arrive and pester him to answer one question. Eventually he gives in, but when he hears the question he goes crazy because he cannot figure out the answer. The question is why do hot dogs come in packages of ten, and hot dog buns come in packages of eight?