The BEST episodes written by Peter Hastings
#1 - Unicorn Club
Catscratch - Season 1 - Episode 3
Gordon, the king of bad lies, tells Human Kimberly that he will take her to see a unicorn in an attempt to impress her. Kimberly is excited to see the fantasy beast but since unicorns don't really exist, Gordon tries to convince Mr. Blik and Waffle to dress up in a unicorn costume rather then admit to Human Kimberly that he lied.
#2 - Go Gomez! Go!
Catscratch - Season 1 - Episode 4
Gentleman, start your engines! The cats challenge their obnoxious neighbors, the Chumpy Chumps, to a high stakes race with the winner taking the others' house and everything in it. Confident Mr. Blik is sure they will win with his driving skills, but disaster strikes when it turns out that only Waffle is tall enough to drive. Blik and Gordon must come up with a plan, and fast!
#3 - Bringin' Down the Mouse
Catscratch - Season 1 - Episode 2
Poor gullible Waffle sets out on his first mouse hunt only to meet Squeakus, the most devious of rodents. While Waffle thinks he has met his new best friends, Squeakus preys on Waffle’s innocence and trusting nature and convinces him that Mr. Blik and Gordon are actually mice. In the end, Squeakus is defeated and Waffle finally gets to the Mouse Hunter's Ball.
#4 - Lookit the Fuzzy Heads
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 158
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).
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#5 - The Visit
Pinky and the Brain - Season 1 - Episode 19
The Brain captures two mice for an experiment to aid in a plan for world domination. He discovers however that the two mice are his parents.
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#6 - This Pun For Hire
Animaniacs - Season 3 - Episode 18
In a parody of The Maltese Falcon and film-noir, the Warners (as detectives) search and protect a mysterious statue from several suspicious characters.
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#7 - Gimme The Works
Animaniacs - Season 3 - Episode 15
The Warners meet a mean hot dog vendor. Frustrated with the situation, the Warners leave the cartoon.
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#8 - Where Rodents Dare
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 21
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.
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Catscratch - Season 1 - Episode 1
When Mr. Blik enters a barbeque rib cook-off it’s off to the moon for the three brothers. Gordon recounts a story of a man making the most delicious ribs using rocks from the moon. Since Mr. Blik is a terrible cook and needs all of the help he can get, he turns Gear into a rocket to chauffer the three cats to the moon. In the end, Blik wins, for the WORST RIBS EVER. Blik is actually happy.
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#10 - Hercule Yakko
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 57
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.
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#11 - Turkey Jerky
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 111
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.
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#12 - King Yakko
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 22
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.
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#13 - No Pain, No Painting
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 23
In 1905, the Warners arrive at the Paris home of the famous artist Pablo Picasso. They want to help him paint and annoy him so much that he will let them paint as he relaxes. As the artist rests, the Warners begin to play a guessing game. Wakko draws surreal pictures and the rest of the Warners must guess what the picture is of. An art critic comes to Picasso's home and loves the surreal paintings. Picasso takes credit for the work, but agrees to pay the Warners money to continue to paint the pictures.
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#14 - Karaoke-dokie
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 146
The Warners want to sing karaoke but are stopped by a man named Willie Slakmer who wants to sing a bunch of karaoke songs before them. The Warners set about getting revenge on him, but in the end another man Lenny Neeboy comes forward and begins to sing his songs.
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#15 - Jockey for Position
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 65
In order to get money for a giant magnet to stop the Earth's rotation allowing Brain to assume control over the world, Brain tries to win a million dollars by participating in the Kentucky Derby.
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#16 - Taming Of The Screwy
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 12
Thaddeus Plotz has invited over some very important buisness people to a buisness dinner and it's Dr. Scratchnsniff's job to train the Warners with manners so they can attend. He suceeds and the Warners are allowed to go to the party, but when they're only there for a minute and are sent back to the Water Tower they start to ruin the party, but in the end the buisness people are pleased and give the check to the Warners instead.
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#17 - A Pinky and the Brain Christmas
Pinky and the Brain - Season 1 - Episode 12
Pinky and the Brain head to the North Pole. Pinky just wants to see Santa, but the Brain has a more sinister plan. He wants pretend to be an elf so that he can mass produce a hypnotic doll named "Noddle Noggin" in Santa's workshop. He then hopes that Santa will distribute the toy all over world so he can take over.
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#18 - TV or Not TV
Pinky and the Brain - Season 1 - Episode 10
Brain develops a special pair of dentures that can produce a smile that can hypnotize anyone who is not wearing a special pair of sunglasses. In order to take over the world, he needs people to see the mesmerizing smile. He figures that he needs to get on TV and in order to do that he has to become a celebrity.
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#19 - Battle for the Planet
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 33
Brain wants to take over the world by tricking people into thinking that an aliens are invading. Brain arranges a pirate broadcast with himself as a reporter and Pinky as an alien. Brain says that aliens have landed and that people should flee from the cities. Pinky, however, has trouble with his costume. They complete their fake broadcast and wait for people to flee the cities. The next day, however, they look at the newspaper and see that everyone thought that the broadcast was a hilarious fake.
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#20 - Win Big
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 6
Brain competes on a trivia game show entitled "Gyp-Parody" to win money to buy a device to take over the world.
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#21 - Das Mouse
Pinky and the Brain - Season 1 - Episode 1
Brain hatches a plot to hypnotize people, but he needs white crab meat to succeed. In order to get the crab meat, he takes a submarine to the wreck of the Titanic. Unfortunately, the CIA spots his sub and orders its destruction.
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#22 - Snowball
Pinky and the Brain - Season 1 - Episode 13
Brain comes face to face with his former friend and now enemy, Snowball. And it seems Snowball has his own plans to take over the world.
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#23 - The World Can Wait
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 107
Brain falls in love with Billie who is a female mouse that lives in another cage in the lab. Brain dresses up and tries to impress her with his intellect, but she seems more interested in Pinky's sense of humor. Pinky, however, is not interested. He already has a girlfriend named Phar FigNewton. Pinky then offers advice to Brain. Brain begins to have some success, but Billie is changed into a super-intelligent mouse by an experiment. Brain becomes worried that Billie will take over the world before he can.
#24 - Napoleon Brainaparte
Pinky and the Brain - Season 1 - Episode 11
While France awaits Napoleon's triumphant return from Austria, Brain develops a recipe for exploding crepe-suzettes in an effort to conquer France. He uses the recipe in a cooking class and when the crepes explode, he is arrested. When he is taken to prison, however, his luck begins to change when people mistake him for Napoleon Bonaparte.
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#25 - Brain meets Brawn
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 131
Brain decides to take over the world by taking a strength enhancing formula developed by Dr. Jekyl. He wants to stop Big Ben at tea time because if tea time never ends, everyone will be more concerned with tea than with trying to stop him from taking over the world.
#26 - Meet John Brain
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 142
Brain tries to take over the world by running for President of the United States. He chooses Pinky as his running mate.
#27 - Of Mouse and Man
Pinky and the Brain - Season 1 - Episode 2
Brain plans to take over the world by creating a voice mail system that will tie up everyone on the planet long enough for him to take over. In order to do this he needs money. He decides to get it by getting a job and then staging an accident in order to sue the company.
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#28 - Fair Game
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 97
The Warners compete on a game show. The three continually hit their buzzers before questions are asked. They give the same answer: Isaac Newton. Their buzzers are eventually broken, but Wakko makes it to the speed round. Unfortunately, he does not give the correct answer: Isaac Newton.
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#29 - That Smarts
Pinky and the Brain - Season 1 - Episode 4
Brain makes Pinky smarter so his stupidity won't ruin anymore plans.
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#30 - Fly
Pinky and the Brain - Season 1 - Episode 15
Brain plans to melt the ice caps with the Hubble Space Telescope once he buys everything higher than the 39th floor.
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#31 - A Moving Experience
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 43
Flavio and Marita head to New York in order to find a trendy new place to live. A zoologist who is pretending to be a real estate agent tries to convince them to stay in the jungle. He shows them a number of run down apartments. Ultimately, the Hip Hippos move to New York, but they move their jungle with them.
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#32 - Buttons in Ows
Animaniacs - Season 3 - Episode 16
Mindy and Buttons parody The Wizard of Oz.
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#33 - Baloney and Kids
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 149
In this parody of the kids show Barney and Friends, the Warners end up on a sickly sweet kids show featuring the cuddly and lovable Baloney. The Warners hate the show and make Baloney's life miserable.
#34 - Wakko's Gizmo
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 141
Wakko constructs an elaborate Rube Goldberg Device in order to flatten a whoopie cushion.
#35 - Fox Trot
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 3 - Episode 3
Buster and Babs are chased by two foxes while presenting three cartoons. My Brilliant Revenge: Hamton relaxes in his home watching his favorite show when Plucky breaks the sound barrier with his god-awful bagpipes. Hamton then destroys Plucky's pipes, and he and Hamton are about to duke it out in the wrestling ring. Hamton then apologizes for his behavior, and Plucky accepts but forgetting that he had a big boombox strapped to Hamton's chair so that it would blare off bagpipe music at a certain time. Plucky gets there too late, but saves Hamton when the music starts blasting.
#36 - Toons Take Over
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 3 - Episode 7
Buster, Babs and Plucky are tired of the same old stuff and they want to develop their own episode, which is a dramatic piece. Everywhere they go, everyone keeps telling them that ""Comedy is what you do"". When their episode is screened, Cooper DevIlle likes it, but doesn't want them to do another one again! So Buster, Babs, and Plucky go back to where the show begins, but a little wiser for the wear.
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#37 - Bingo
Animaniacs - Season 3 - Episode 10
Dr. Scratchansniff starts a bingo game. Unfortunately, the only person that shows up is Wakko.
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#38 - 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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#39 - Wakko's 2-note Song
Animaniacs - Season 3 - Episode 38
Wakko makes up a song with only two-notes.
#40 - Yabba Dabba Boo
Animaniacs - Season 3 - Episode 26
Chicken Boo pretends to be Larry Gelboo a cartoon script advisor.
#41 - Can't Buy A Thrill
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 101
When the Hip Hippos get bored they check out an activities book that suggests a number of high risk adventures. The Hippos try bungee jumping out of a balloon, running with the bulls in Spain, and swimming with sharks. As they go through these dangers they are followed by Geena Embryo who tries to protect Flavio and Marita. Unfortunately, in doing so she takes the brunt of all the dangers.
#42 - 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.
#43 - Weekday Afternoon Live
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 3 - Episode 17
This episode pays homage to the many acts that Saturday Night Live did on its long-running show. Blard Simpleton (a take on Bart Simpson) is the guest star host.
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#44 - 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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#45 - Toon TV
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 3 - Episode 12
Buster and Babs do a countdown of their favorite music videos, done toon style.
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#46 - The Return of Batduck
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 3 - Episode 6
Plucky Duck gets his own show on FOX, and it begins with this episode. Plucky cames back at Batduck and trying to get Tim Burton to give him the role in the new Batman movie that he thinks he deserves.
#47 - Sport Shorts
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 3 - Episode 16
Minister Golf: Baby Plucky is back again. This time, his dad is teaching him how to play miniature golf, and gets hurt by balls in the process. I think this is where Plucky starts cheating and conniving to get his way.
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#48 - Kon Ducki
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 2 - Episode 11
Plucky Duck stars as Pluck Hyerdahl and Hamton Pig stars as his sidekick Koom-Bye-Yah in a saga in whick Plucky tries to find the way of his 1970's prehistoric ancestry. There's also a behind-the-scenes look hosted by Buster Bunny on the making of this story.
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#49 - Yes, Always
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 127
Pinky and the Brain do voice over work at the Warner Brothers Studio.