The BEST episodes written by Tom Ruegger
#1 - Star Warners
Animaniacs - Season 5 - Episode 24
In this parody of Star Wars, the Animaniacs play rebels who are attempting to get away from the evil and dangerous Girth Plotz.
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#2 - Little Drummer Warners
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 122
The Warner's travel to Bethlehem to witness the Nativity and sing a song.
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#3 - Woodstock Slappy
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 145
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.
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#4 - Wakko's America
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 45
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.
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#5 - 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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#6 - 'Twas the Day Before Christmas
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 117
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.
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#7 - 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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#8 - 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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#9 - The Great Wakkorotti: The Master and his Music
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 36
Wakko belches "The Blue Danube Waltz" by Johann Strauss.
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#10 - The Great Wakkorotti: The Holiday Concert
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 119
Wakko belches out the holiday song "Jingle Bells".
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#11 - Up, Up & Awave
Snorks - Season 1 - Episode 16
Two oceanographers are exploring communication skills of porpoises and pick up the Snorks. The Snorks are having a balloon contest. Something goes wrong with Junior's balloon and anchors All-Star's balloon to a rock. All-Star fixes it and is in the race again. In order to finish, the teams all face the wrath of Junior's cheating and a big sea current. Now, after saving Junior, they get lost and Tooter, Dimmy, and Daffney's balloon gets carried away by the porpoises. The baloons are caught by the oceanographer's net and are saved by the porpoises. Then, they are caught by a giant funnel, and the town loses hope. The porpoises save all of the balloons in time.
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#12 - Junior's Secret
Snorks - Season 1 - Episode 13
Junior talks about All-Star and his toy drive buit he forgets to mention that he sleeps with a toy turtle. Willie accidentally gives away Junior's turtle and Junior secretly pines for it. Junior then breaks into the school to get the toy turtle back, and gets caught by a guard. The Governor bails him out and he makes up a story about donating toys. At the toy drive, Junior tries to take his turtle back, but Baby Smallstar claims it as her own. Knowing that all is lost, Junior goes out and buys a stuffed seahorse.
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#13 - Of Course You Know This Means War and Peace (2)
Duck Dodgers - Season 2 - Episode 22
The treaty signing does not go smoothly, and Dodgers finally realizes he must restore his friendship with Cadet by clearing Cadet's name. They join forces with Marvin to capture Z9, who kidnapped the Martian Queen in a grab for power.
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#14 - Dangerous Brains
Pinky and the Brain - Season 3 - Episode 46
As he prepares his plan for world domination, Brain goes to work teaching rebellious students.
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#15 - The Adventure Begins Part I
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 1
Pac-Man accidentally opens a portal to the Netherworld, unleashing ghosts. But the power-berries from the Tree of Life gives little Pac the ability to eat ghosts.
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#16 - Beware the Gray Ghost
Batman: The Animated Series - Season 1 - Episode 32
Simon Trent, an actor best known for his past role as "The Gray Ghost", is on the verge of bankruptcy thanks to his declining career. To save himself, he sells off all of his Gray Ghost merchandise. Immediately afterwards, a series of crimes related to the old show begin to occur. Batman, having himself been inspired partly by the show to become the crimefighter he now is, goes to Trent for help, and they team up to put an end to the crimes. In this episode, the voice of Simon Trent is none other than Adam West, the man who played Batman in the 1960's version of Batman
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#17 - Chairman of the Bored
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 78
At a party for Celebrity Gala of the Year, the Warners sneak in from under a table and start taking food from it. When Yakko goes out to get more cheeseballs he meets an icredibly boring person nicknamed Pip who keeps babling on to them throughout the night. They try to get away but he follows them home and when he finally leaves them alone the next morning they realize it's too quiet and want him to come back.
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#18 - The Lobe
Freakazoid! - Season 1 - Episode 6
The Lobe and a hypnotized Steff prepare to lobotomize Freakazoid.
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#19 - Critical Condition
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 89
Lean Hiskill and Codger Eggbert are film critics who review a number of Looney Tunes cartoons. They like a number of them, but hate the ones featuring Slappy Squirrel. Slappy decides to retaliate. She destroys their houses and later at the premier of Jurassic Park she puts them into the movie where they are chased by a dinosaur. The two critics change their mind and, in heavy bandages, give Slappy a good review.
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#20 - Of Course You Know This Means War and Peace (1)
Duck Dodgers - Season 2 - Episode 21
When Dodgers brings Earth and Mars to the brink of war, Dodgers betrays Cadet by letting him take the blame for Dodgers' offense, landing the young pig in space prison.
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#21 - Hand Man
Freakazoid! - Season 1 - Episode 3
After Freakazoid and his new sidekick, Handman, defeat the Lobe, Handman heeds the call of matrimony.
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#22 - The Monkey Song
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 2
In a parody of Calypso music, the Warners and Dr. Scratchansniff sing about the tumultuous relationship.
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#23 - It's Buster Bunny Time
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 9
A parody of Howdy Doody with Buster as Buffalo Bob and Plucky as Howdy Doody. "Bag That Bunny": Elmyra pays Calamity Coyote to help her catch Buster. Despite several attempts, he fails to catch Buster, and is then taken home by Elmyra instead. "Lifestyles of the Rich and Rotten": In this parody of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Buster and Babs attempt to interview Montana Max. "The Anvil Chorus": Anvils repeatedly fall on Plucky during the playing of Giuseppe Verdi's The Anvil Chorus. The finale features cannons shooting at Plucky to the tune of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
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#24 - Pretty Poison
Batman: The Animated Series - Season 1 - Episode 9
When District Attorney Harvey Dent collapses after a meal with Bruce Wayne and his fiancee Pamela Isley, it transpires that he has been poisoned. Batman must find the culprit and discover an antidote before Dent's time runs out.
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#25 - Smell Ya Later
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 143
Slappy faces off against a smelly old rival to get her nuts.
#26 - Five Day Forecast
Freakazoid! - Season 1 - Episode 1
Freakazoid reports on the weather.
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#27 - 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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#28 - Fatman and Boy Blubber
Freakazoid! - Season 1 - Episode 25
Two bulky but plucky superheroes save portly young Louis from a couple of bullying dirtbags. But what is their price?
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#29 - The Christmas Tree
Animaniacs - Season 5 - Episode 15
Slappy ends up pestering everyone when her tree becomes the Christmas tree for New York City's Rockefeller Center.
#30 - Nerdator
Freakazoid! - Season 1 - Episode 31
An evil alien is kidnapping all the nerds and geeks in the world, hoping to utilize their geekiness for himself, become a super-genius, and conquer the world. Freakazoid has to convince the "Nerdator" that being a nerd isn't all it's cracked up to be (which shouldn't be hard...)
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#31 - The Adventure Begins Part II
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 2
PacWorld is under siege by ghosts and there are no more fresh berries from the Tree of Life.
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#32 - Stuff That Goes Bump in the Night
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 8
Buster and Babs scare each other. "Home Wrecker": After finding steel bars driven down into his burrow, Buster finds that Montana Max is building a house right over him. He then disguises himself as a ghost to scare Max away. "Fang You Very Much": Elmyra joins a pet-of-the-month club and receives a bat who turns into a vampire. "Easy Biter": Hamton is annoyed by a mosquito who keeps trying to bite him. He finally releases him, only to have the mosquito's entire family invade his house.
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#33 - Mo-Ron
Freakazoid! - Season 1 - Episode 7
A fat, dumb alien comes to Earth with an important message, that is if he can remember it!
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#34 - Next Time, Phone Ahead!
Freakazoid! - Season 1 - Episode 30
Next Time, Phone Ahead: An alien mother ship winds up in Dexter's backyard.
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#35 - Fields of Honey
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 30
The gang has their own Warner Bros. mentor, except Babs. Buster and Plucky are fighting over who is the best: Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck. They all go to an underground film vault where they check out cartoons of their favorite stars. Babs is disheartened because there hasn't been not one girl star at Warner Bros. The vault keeper gives her some advice: If You watch them, you will find her. So Babs watches one of the movies and she discovers the old cartoon duo of Honey and Bosko. Babs tries to find Honey, but the vault keeper says that no one has seen her in over fifty years. After some extensive research, she finds out that Honey and Bosko were very popular in the 1930s before Porky Pig became popular, and then they disappeared without a trace. Babs tries to find all she can about Honey, and everyone thinks that she is crazy. The vaultkeeper tells her that laughter is what keeps a toon young, and when the people stop laughing, the toon grows old and fades away. In order for Honey to be
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#36 - 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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#37 - Looking Out for the Little Guy
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 10
Buster describes each episode as an example of the characters looking out for those smaller than they are. "Awful Orphan": Elmyra discovers Sneezer in a basket on her doorstep and cares for him as if he were a baby. "The Re-Return of the Toxic Revenger": When the water from Plucky's swamp is stolen by Montana Max to fill his pool, Plucky dresses as a superhero (The Toxic Revenger) and tries to return the water. "Dog-Bird Afternoon": Byron Basset tries to keep Furrball from getting to a nest with baby birds in it. After Furrball is thwarted, the birds rescue Byron from the top of the house.
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#38 - Starting from Scratch
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 11
This episode is a homage to Don Bluth's An American Tail, only it's done with fleas instead of mice. A family of fleas becomes separated when their younger child lands on Furrball. Buster, Babs and Plucky shrink themselves to flea size to help the young flea reunite with his family, who then take residence on Furrball.
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#39 - The Twelve Days of Christmas
Animaniacs - Season 3 - Episode 30
The little blue bird sings his version of The Twelve Days of Christmas.
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#40 - 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.
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#41 - The Cosmic Comet
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe - Season 1 - Episode 20
Skeletor has gained control of the Cosmic Comet above Eternia, and intends to use it to blow open the jaw bridge of Grayskull. He-Man, Teela, Man-At-Arms, The Sorceress and Orko set out to stop Skeletor's scheme, with the help of Zagraz, a wizard with power over comets.
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#42 - Life in the 1990s
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 15
Buster introduces each segment, describing them as examples of life in the 1990s. "Whining Out": Buster, Babs, Hamton and Plucky attend a fancy restaurant called Attitude, where they are treated poorly by the staff. "Paper Trained": While on his paper route, Buster demands subscription money from Montana Max. After Max finally pays, he reads in the paper that the last of his diminished funds was used to pay Buster. "Butt Out": Babs is annoyed by Roderick and Rhubella Rat, who are smoking next to her at a restaurant. She teaches them about the dangers of smoking by posing as a doctor.
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#43 - The Great Wakkorotti: The Summer Concert
Animaniacs - Season 1 - Episode 77
Wakko belches out "The Dance of the Hours" by Amilcare Ponchielli.
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#44 - The Legends Who Lunch
Freakazoid! - Season 1 - Episode 10
A bunch of old superheroes talk about their heydays in crime fighting.
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#45 - Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 18
Buster Bunny is brought home by Elmyra, but tries to escape when he realizes how awful it is. Before leaving, Buster frees the other pets Elmyra has locked up, but he himself is recaptured. Babs, Fifi, Furrball and Tyrone Turtle come to the rescue.
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#46 - The Tailor and the Mice
Pinky and the Brain - Season 3 - Episode 32
A well-meaning tailor makes Pinky and Brain's lives miserable.
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#47 - Psychic Fun-Omenon Day
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 33
It's time to visit that magical guru Shirley the Loon. See what her crystal ball has in store for you, and for Plucky, Hamton and Calamity Coyote. Piece of Mind: Calamity chases Little Beeper again and he ends up falling off a very tall building. As he falls to his doom, Wile E. Coyote appears to show him what his life was like before he comes ""street pizza"".
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#48 - Sewer Rescue
Freakazoid! - Season 1 - Episode 8
Lord Bravery gets his big break in crime fighting when he has to rescue a man who fell into the sewers but can't stand the stench!
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#49 - Citizen Max
Tiny Toon Adventures - Season 1 - Episode 22
A Citizen Kane parody with Montana Max in the role of Charles Foster Kane. Hamton interviews the other characters, asking why Max said "Acme," but is unable to find an answer. At the end, it is revealed that he actually said "acne."
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#50 - 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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