The BEST episodes written by Nicholas Hollander
#1 - Oh Say Can You See?
Animaniacs - Season 3 - Episode 29
The Flame watches Francis Scott Key write The Star Spangled Banner during the War of 1812.
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#2 - Piano Rag
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 16
Dr.Scratchnsniff, Ralph the guard, and Hello Hurse all chase after the Warners, so they hide in a piano concert until the coast is clear. All goes well until they catch up with the Warners and they end up getting the Pianist instead.
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#3 - Nighty-Night Toon
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 3
In a slight parody of Winnie the Pooh, each of the Animaniacs are wished a good night sleep.
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#4 - The Cat and the Fiddle
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 38
In 1690's Italy, a violin maker named Stradivarius takes a stray Rita, but not Runt, to live with him. Stradivarius hopes to use Rita to make violin strings. When Runt finds out, he rescues Rita and destroys Stradivarius's violins in the process.
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#5 - Wings Take Heart
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 56
When a male moth and a female butterfly fall in love they head to the city. Just as they are about to kiss, the moth is fit by a truck and must make it through a number of challenges to get back to his butterfly.
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#6 - Guardin' the Garden
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 50
God makes Adam and Eve and tells them not to eat the fruit that comes from the tree of knowledge. Slappy Squirrel, however, lives in the tree of knowledge. When evil snake tries to tempt Adam and Eve, Slappy is in charge of guarding the fruit and stopping the snake.
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#7 - Boot Camping
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 92
The Warners go to a boot camp thinking that it is really a summer camp. The drill instructor Sergeant Sweete forces them to into military drills. The Warners, however, still think its a summer camp and give the sergeant a hard time.
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#8 - Katie KaBoom: Prom Night
Animaniacs - Season 5 - Episode 17
Katie KaBoom has been asked to go to the prom. But when her parents refuse to buy her the clothes she needs, she gets angry.
#9 - Icebreakers
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 116
Rita and Runt come to Alaska. They meet Ross Perot who is running for president. He needs a dog to pull his sled so that he can make a fundraiser in Fairbanks. Runt becomes his sled dog and Rita joins up for the ride. Rita saves Perot from a number of dangers, but he always gives Runt the credit. Eventually, the two of them head to a boat and leave Perot behind.
#10 - Mobster Mash
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 115
The Warners go to an Italian restaurant for lunch. When Don Pepperoni the Godfather of the Italian Mob arrives he sees that they are sitting in his private booth. He tries to kick them out, but they refuse to go. They also insist that the Godfather is their waiter and treat him as such. Eventually he gives in to them and serves them spaghetti.
#11 - A Gift of Gold
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 134
A present is wrapped in gold wrapping paper. The gold wrapping paper makes a journey around the city.
#12 - The Flame Returns
Animaniacs - Season 3 - Episode 24
The Flame is present as Longfellow writes his famous poem, "Paul Revere's Ride."
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#13 - Katie Ka-Boom: Call Waiting
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 157
Katie talks to her friends on the phone keeping a number on call waiting. Katie's father gets the phone for a business and gets a call from one of Katie's friends. He finishes and can't remeber who called. She gets angry and explodes.
#14 - Up the Crazy River
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 53
When Mindy chases a butterfly into a rain forest that is being cut down for wood, Buttons follow and protect her.
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#15 - Belly Button Blues
Animaniacs - Season 3 - Episode 35
Katie Kaboom gets furious when her parents won't let her wear clothes that are "in-style" at her school, since they make her belly button visible.
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#16 - Mermaid Mindy
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 156
In this underwater short, a mermaid version of Mindy chases after a jellyfish. It is up to a dogfish version of Buttons to keep her out of trouble. He helps protect her from a number of dangers including an octopus, but he is still scolded by Neptune.
#17 - The Flame
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 47
The flame on a candle tells the story of how it witnesses the beginnings of the United States.
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#18 - La Behemoth
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 28
When Flabbio and Marita's maid quits over a misunderstanding, the Hip Hippos are forced to do their own housework with disastrous results.
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#19 - Puttin' on the Blitz
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 76
Rita and Runt are in Warsaw, Poland during the 1939 German blitzkrieg. The head of the Polish underground arranges to meet his daughter Katrina on a train that is about to leave the train station. When Katrina is discovered by a dog working for the Germans, Rita saves her. They head to the train station, and jump on when the train begins to leave. Katrina is safe, but Rita when she sees Runt being attacked by German dogs decides to stay. She leaps from the train in order to help her friend.
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#21 - Clown and Out
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 83
For Wakko's birthday, the CEO sends him a clown to entertain him. Unfortunately both Wakko and the CEO are deathly afraid of clowns. When the clown arrives Wakko desperately tries to get rid of him.
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#22 - Katie Ka-Boo
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 87
Katie Kaboom introduces her new boyfriend C.B. to her parents. He boyfriend in really Chicken Boo. When her parents tell her that her boyfriend is a chicken, she doesn't believe them. She gets angry and explodes. Later when she discovers that her boyfriend really is a chicken, she explodes again.
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#23 - Noah's Lark
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 80
Noah must gets two of every animal on board his ark before God sends a flood. He gets more than he can chew when he accepts the Hip Hippos. They complain about food, squash games, and spiders until the flood is over.
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#24 - Moon Over Minerva
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 71
Wilford B. Wolf is interested in Minerva Mink and asks her out on a date. Unfortunately, she turns him down. Wilford, however, is a werewolf and when the moon comes out he comes handsome. Minerva becomes interested, but problems arise when the moon in continually obscured by clouds.
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#25 - Wild Blue Yonder
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 112
When a baby bird hatches, he looks up and sees a stealth fighter. The bird becomes convinced that the aircraft is his mother. He sneaks onboard the plane and grabs a bomb which he thinks is an egg. After the bomb is dropped, he heads back to his nest where he finds his real mother and his two other siblings that are just hatching.
#26 - Mesozoic Mindy
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 68
In prehistoric time, a cave girl Mindy chases after an egg. A prehistoric version of Buttons tries to keep her out of trouble.
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#27 - Katie Ka-Boom: The Blemish
Animaniacs - Season 2 - Episode 11
Katie freaks out when she gets a pimple before her study group.
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#28 - Katie Ka-Boom: The Driving Lesson
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 151
Katie gets her learner's permits and is given a driving lesson by her father. Unfortunately, she grows angry as her parents try to instruct her. She turns into an angry green monster and speeds throughout the neighborhood. When they make it home, however, and Katie thanks her parents for the lesson.
#29 - Morning Malaise
Animaniacs - Season 2 - Episode 3
An annoying morning radio show host named Howie Tern critizes people. The Warners challenge him in order to prove that they are funnier than him.
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#30 - Katie Ka-Boom: The Broken Date
Animaniacs - Season 2 - Episode 6
Katie's date doesn't arrive on time.
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#31 - Acme Cable TV
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 2 - Episode 7
Buster and Babs are sick, and they watch cable TV spoofs to help get better. This episode is filled with spoofs of The Cosby Show, Hollywood Squares, and many popular movies and shows of the day. Basically, an improved version of episode 64.
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#32 - Whale's Tales
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 45
This episode is about a little whale who gets separated from his mother. His mother is captured by Gotcha Grabmore (still hasn't learned a thing from her last episode) and her octopus henchmen to make cosmetics. The baby whale is beached and who would find him but Elmyra! Buster and Babs hears the whale at Elmyra's house and takes him out of thsi animal prison and back to the wtare to rescue his mom. The rest of this episode is action packed chaos as Buster and Babs go at it with the octopuses and the seagulls and seals get into the fray as well. The episode ends happily, if not, blissful: Mother and child whale are reunited; Gotcha's being tossed around by seals and likes it; and Elmyra has a new octopus pet!
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#33 - Toon Physics
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 2 - Episode 6
Orson Whale hosts this episode of Tiny Toon Adventures and laces each caroon with a bit of educational trivia. Once Upon a Star: Elmyra wishes that her Barbette doll would come to life. Elmyra soon regrets it when the doll starts acting spoiled and simple-minded.
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#34 - Toons from the Crypt
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 3 - Episode 8
Buster is the Cryptkeeper in this Tales of the Crypt-inspired episode.
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#35 - Dot's Entertainment
Animaniacs - Season 3 - Episode 31
Dot is hired to take up an act in a famous musical. When the director becomes annoying, she and her brothers decide to ruin it.
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#36 - What Makes a Toon Tick
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 3 - Episode 4
Buster and Calamity explore the reasons why many TTA characters are the way they are. Whirlwind Romance: Dizzy is lonely and sad, until he comes across a girl whirlwind whom he think is a devil. She then disappears as quickly as she came and then Dizzy meets the beautiful sexy ladies that he always displays.
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#37 - White Gloves
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 96
Wakko plays the piano and his white gloves begin to play it by themselves. Later the two gloves go off to a dance hall. When they leave they begin to argue about going back in. They are run over by a street sweeper. The two gloves later head to a lumberyard for jobs. Since they are not work gloves, they fail to get them. Eventually one is sent to jail for robbery. When it gets out, the two gloves head back to Wakko and jump back onto his hands.
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#38 - Washingtoon
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 3 - Episode 11
That annoying lady from the Adults Against Funny Cartoons comes by and takes Acme Acres away from its cartoon heritage and makes it educational and a boring place to live. Bustre and Babs go to Washington to see if President Bush (in his last act of presidency before Clinton takes over) can help them out.
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#39 - Elephant Issues
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 2 - Episode 3
Gogo Dodo teaches us about the evils of peer pressure and immoral crimes in this episode. Why Dizzy Can't Read: Dizzy is asked to read a lesson in school and he gets mad because he can't do it. Buster and Babs finds out the reason to Dizzy's illiteracy: He watches a lot of TV. The bunnies get Dizzy to see that reading is good for him and it opens a lot of doors for him. This proves evident when Dizzy is reading to little children.
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#40 - Buster's Directorial Debut
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 3 - Episode 10
Buster has a chance to direct his own episode, but he is distracted by his fellow co-stars. Fit to Be Stewed: Buster and Babs come across a Carrot Cake house with a witch named Sandy that lives inside. Buster watches in horror as Babs is turned into a real rabbit. So he has to defeat the Witch in order to bring his friend back. In fact, she remains a real rabbit until the end of the show.
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#41 - Henny Youngman Day
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 2 - Episode 9
Today's substitute teacher is Henny Youngman, the comedian who just bores everyone in the class out, except Hamton. Stand-Up and Deliver: Babs is practicing for a comedy talent show that she has entered. While there, a young comedian named Red Robin steals the show and Babs freezes on stage. Red helps her out at the end.
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#42 - The Good, the Boo, and the Ugly
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 69
When a dangerous gunslinger comes to town, Chicken Boo is made sheriff in order to protect the town. Eventually, Boo is discovered to be a chicken and is run out of town.
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#43 - Going Places
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 2 - Episode 2
The Tiny Toons visit three places on their field trip. When You're Hot...: While Visiting the fire station, Pete Puma accidentally sets off a rocket in a demonstration and Acme Looniversity burns. It's up to the Tiny Toons to save their beloved school from becoming ashes.
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#44 - How Sweetie It Is
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 60
Buster and Babs get ready to host another show, until Sweetie tells them that she wants an episode of her own too. Egged-On Eagle: The stork brings the American Bald Eagle an egg, but the Bald Eagle is not married and has to deal with being a single parent. The egg hatches, out pops Sweetie, and they instantly clash on their methods of doing things.
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#45 - A Cat's Eye View
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 3 - Episode 18
Little Dog Lost: Byron runs away from Elmyra and finds a home with a nice and wealthy woman who treats him nicely.
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#46 - Three Tenors and You're Out
Animaniacs - Season 3 - Episode 9
Slappy and Skippy try to go to a baseball game and find the Three Tenors performing music. Annoyed by their singing, Slappy and Skippy decide to get them involved in a baseball game.
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#47 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock
Animaniacs - Season 4 - Episode 1
After endless talk shows Slappy the Squirel goes nuts and has to be taken to a place to get help. Skippy refuses to accept this and takes on the responsiblity of getting his aunt back to normal.
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#48 - Playtime Toons
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 2 - Episode 5
The magic of toys is the theme for today's episode. Happy Birthday, Hamton: Buster, Babs, and Plucky go shopping for presents for Hamton's birthday. The presents they pick out are so good they decide to keep them for themselves and give Hamton their old toys. As Hamton receives his new (old) gifts, Buster, Plucky and Babs each have their own fond memories attached to the toys. They rush back to get the presents that they bought and trade with Hamton. Of course, after they leave and the party's over, Hamton lets us in on a little secret: ""Just between you and me, it isn't really my birthday!""
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#49 - Pledge Day
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 2 - Episode 1
The Tiny Toons put together a telethon, but only manages to raise 7 cents the whole episode. It's All Relative: Bab's grandmother comes to visit and wants Babs to do the funny thing that she used to do. Babs goes through a whole lot of impressions of popular people and cartoons until she says ""I'm Falling and I can't get up"", which is the funny thing that they had wanted the whole time.
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