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Animaniacs: Vol 2

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This is it. The second volume of Speilberg's acclaimed animated series "Animaniacs" featuring an overload of original characters and episodes to keep you laughin' till next week. If you haven't lived during the past decade, that is to say you've never even heard of "Animaniacs", you really don't know what you're missing. By the way, there seems to be a few characters I seem to have missed from the volume 1 review, which are:

Minerva Mink: Like Hello Nurse, no man - or man-beast - can resist her exquisite beauty, that is unless she meets the guy of her dreams.
Chicken Boo: A six-foot chicken who claims to be a master of disguise, but he really isn't.
Randy Beaman: At times this weird little boy tells the weirdest of stories.
Katie Kaboom: She's your average teenage girl with a not-so-average problem.
Mr. Skullhead: An odd bone-faced fellow who stars in a huge number of shorts entitled "Good Idea, Bad Idea". It wasn't long until he had his very own episode, which is in this volume.

Besides the actual episodes, there are a ton of various other shorts starring the Warner Brothers and the Warner Sister and friends, such as "Dot's Poetry Corner", "The Great Wakkorotti", and, of course, "The Wheel of Morality". There's even a catchy song or two in at least one episode. Hey, this is "Animaniacs", anything can happen in this series.

Such randomness features a plethora of puns and references to actual events and/or stories and movies along with hilarious antics and such like dropping anvils and dynamite down one's pants. Some episodes also have very distinct themes like "Cartoons in Wakko's Body", "Useless Facts", and my favorite, "Animaniacs Stew".

So get your Yakko, Wakko, and Dot on with this new release on a 5-disc DVD set. And don't forget to check out the feature "The Writers Flipped, They Have No Script" where we get to meet the madcap minds behind the stories as they discuss their best episodes of the series. You know, all this excitement is making me geared up for volume three, which I hope is real soon !

I probably don't need to go into how great this show was. Others have already done that in their reviews of Volume 1 released back in July. This second volume contains some of my favorite episodes, so I was really thrilled to have them. There are several hours of these great cartoons here for you to discover or (as in my case) re-discover. It seems they don't make shows like this anymore. Highly recommended.

Volume 2 is good. The series was great. However, this shows all too well what happens when focus groups influence and formulas become rooted. In this volume Pinky & the Brain begin their domination of Animaniac-land. The focus groups had said that the Punch & Judy pair were crowd pleasers and so they started hogging more and more of the screen. In that same vein, Slappy and nephew grow in popularity as they now spend most of their time blowing up things, with the dialog being the true victim of the onslaught. Finally, who the heck thought that the GOOD IDEA/BAD IDEA guy could carry a 5 to 10 minute skit? Still, Wakko, Yakko, and Dot show there mastery of the double and triple entendre and the lesser Animaniacs shine when they are given the screen. My kids (6 & 3) love the slapstick (even if I now cringe at some of the carnage) and the plethora of war episodes (historical note: Gulf War I was going on during this time period) has let me have decent discussions about the current Gulf War with my little boingy boingies. I recommend this collection, but if you can only buy 1 vlume, make it #1.

Fox kids had the best shows ever, Animaniacs being one of them. In my opinion, Steven Spielberg's Tiny Toon Adventures, along with its follow-up show Animaniacs and all the other shows on Fox Kids were the very best animated shows of the early 90s. The Animainacs never failed to make me laugh when I was a kid and they never fail to make me laugh now that I'm an adult. Animaniacs is a show that's made in very good taste - it has really smart humor and nice cultural references, it doesn't have any dirty or obscene material, and as opposed to many modern TV shows, movies and animated films that try to be funny by being dirty, Animaniacs is very funny in a good, clean way. Animaniacs has something for all ages - kids and teenagers will have a lot of fun and will actually learn some life lessons along the way (the show has some 'educational' episodes meant to bring a message to the children), while the adults will appreciate the smart humor and cultural references. And of course, everybody will appreciate the top-quality animation created by some of the greatest animation studios of the day and will love the nicely drawn cute characters, each of which is well thought-out and has his/her own personality, and will adore the fun-packed stories in each of the episodes.

In case you're a fan of good, high-quality classic animation, or if you like animated comedy shows, or if you just like to have fun and if you have a good sense of humor, don't miss Animaniacs! If you got the first volume of the first season, I'm sure you'll adore the second volume too, and if you haven't yet experienced Animaniacs, it might just as well be a good idea to grab both volumes and volume 3 and prepare for a few days of fun and wackiness!

The Animaniacs are hilarious, and I'm amazed that more people don't know them. The scripts are simply fun--you can tell that the writers were having a blast coming up with these episodes. The highlight of this set is the Christmas episode, which is funny but reverent, and one of our favorite Christmas shows each year.

I was thrilled to see that this show has become available on DVD. It is one of the best cartoon shows ever and features many segments/shticks/one-liners that are oft-repeated, even today, years after the show stopped airing on television. Filled with humor appropriate for children but witty enough for adults, it is a great addition to any collection!

I bought these for my kids because I remember how much I enjoyed them. These are just hysterically funny and they will be enjoyed by anyone.

When we were younger my best friend and I used to watch this cartoon all the time. I bought it for her a while back as a birthday present and she loved it! She is an elementary teacher and she uses it in her classroom as a special treat when the students have been good and finished all their work. They really like it and she feels comfortable showing it to them because it doesn't have a lot of the violence and fighting that so many other kid cartoons have now. I will probably buy her one of the other volumes for her next birthday.

Love the animaniacs. Love the price. Hate my campus's mail sorting system, but that has nothing to do with newberry comics. Thank you so much. Please continue to be a great seller while I yell at the mail room some more.

As hopefully most of the readers know Steven Spielberg had a hand in the production of this terrific series of cartoons. They are easily on par with the best feature films from Dreamworks, Pixar and Disney. The two comparisons that imediately come to mind are Shrek and Antz. In other words while there are lots of slapstick and visual gags, there are even more subtle grown up jokes, innuendos and hidden meanings. For those that understand Spanish, turn on the Spanish subtitles and get even more hilarity from seeing the translators get some things totally wrong.

My favorite episodes are the Animaniacs themselves on stage of various parodies of cinema or literary classics such as "Moby Dick" and "Frankenstein". The writing is brilliant and the voice over actors deliver the lines with gusto.