Animaniacs

Animaniacs is a series created by Tom Ruegger for Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Entertainment. It originally aired on Fox Kids from September 13, 1993, to November 12, 1994, and then on Kids' WB! from September 9, 1995, to November 14, 1998. The series made its cable debut on Kids' WB! on September 9, 1995 as a one time event promoting Kids' WB!, and then permanently airing until 2001, when Nickelodeon acquired the rights to air the show.

Show Description

 * Ensemble cast of off-the-wall Warner Brothers characters, appearing in a wide variety of roles. Mainly staring the Warner Siblings Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, who were created by the WB Studios but found they were just too "zany" to be of any use to the studio. Other popular characters in the series include: Pinky and the Brain, two lab mice bent on world domination. Rita and Runt, a cat and dog team who get into perilous situations every episode but always seem to find time to sing a song, Bobby, Pesto, and Squit, the Goodfeathers, part of a New York City mob of pigeons, who take orders from The Godpigeon and worship Martin Scorsese. Slappy the Squirrel is a late middle-age squirrel. She starred in a series of popular cartoons in the Golden Age but is now retired and looking after her nephew, Skippy Squirrel. Buttons is a watch-dog, charged with watching the mischievous toddler, Mindy. Chicken Boo is a giant chicken trying to integrate into human society. Flavio and Marita are two urbane hippopotami.

Episode List

 * The following is a list of episodes of Animaniacs. Only 45 of the show's 99 episodes aired on Fox, with all of them from the first 4 seasons. The rest of the series was slated to premiere on the network in 1993, but that never came to plan.