

Its sense of humor ran the gamut from "awww, how sweet" to, "I can't believe a kids' show just got away with that," and everything in between. Animation and the legendary Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, Animaniacs debuted on the Fox Kids programming block in 1993, immediately displaying a willingness to lovingly skewer any and all facets of popular culture.

In addition to the Warners themselves, audiences were periodically treated to the adventures of sardonic veteran 'toon Slappy Squirrel and her nephew Skippy, gangster-y pigeons the Goodfeathers, good girl Mindy and her dog Buttons, alternately sweet and volcanic teenager Katie Kaboom, and of course, a pair of mice on opposite ends of the intelligence spectrum who share a common goal (we think) to take over the world, Pinky and the Brain.Ĭo-produced by Warner Bros.

Each episode contained shorts of varying lengths, featuring a number of recurring characters.
