Richards Favorite Videos

SEASON 2:

At this point, the show, previously known fully as “The Cat & Birdy Warneroonie Pinky Brainy Big Cartoonie Show”, was promoted to being shown on weekday afternoons and, for whatever reason, was also retitled “The Cat & Bunny Warneroonie Super Looney Big Cartoonie Show”, which I never understood because Sylvester and Bugs have clearly never been teamed up (unless you count the non-canonical Bugs Bunny newspaper comic strip). In this form, the show featured only segments from “Tiny Toon Adventures” and “Animaniacs”, plus “Looney Tunes” shorts on weekdays, and was bookended by wrap-around “hosting” segments starring two kids named Karen & Kirby (that’s them you see right at the start), voiced respectively by Cheryl Chase and Richard Horvitz. Worth noting is that the Kids’ WB! press guide for this season claimed that the show was also featuring “Pinky and the Brain” segments (both with and without Elmyra), but aside from their cameo in this intro and the appearance of “Cheese Roll Call” in one episode that I recorded, I have no recollection of the mice actually appearing on the show in this season. The show was taken off the following year, and as a result, “Looney Tunes”, “Tiny Toons”, and “Animaniacs” disappeared from Kids’ WB! altogether. Oh, and it should also be noted that this theme song is different from those used in the first season because this one has a few extra lyrics and is not being sung by the Warner siblings. And there’s the obvious fact that some of the “Animaniacs” animation used in the first season’s intro is replaced by some animation from “Tiny Toons” (i.e. it’s now Plucky instead of the Goodfeathers who gets knocked away by the ball).

“The Cat & Birdy Warneroonie Pinky Brainy Big Cartoonie Show” was a show that began airing on Kids’ WB!’s Saturday morning lineup on January 10, 1999. Originally airing for an hour and a half (with “Histeria!” making up the last half-hour of the schedule), “The Big Cartoonie Show” followed a similar format to many “Looney Tunes” compilation shows of the past, but also included segments from “Tiny Toon Adventures”, “Animaniacs”, “Pinky and the Brain” (and “Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain”), and “The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries”. (Essentially, you could think of it as an attempt to keep “Animaniacs” on the Saturday morning schedule despite the fact that it was now cancelled.) But after four episodes in that form, Kids’ WB! began airing a certain Japanese-created video game-based cartoon that shall remain nameless, and as a result, “The Big Cartoonie Show” was cut down to just half an hour and showed only segments from “Animaniacs” and “Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain” (although it should be noted that most episodes from the latter series were first shown here).

This is actually the second of four intro sequences I know that the show had, three of them in the first season alone. The first one had the “Looney Tunes” characters singing the song alongside the “Animaniacs” characters, then it was replaced with this one where the only “Looney Tunes” character who appears is Michigan J. Frog. Two episodes ran with a shortened version where they cut to “It’s got cheese and pepperooni!” right after “‘Cause this name is not so puny”, which was sung by Brain instead of Slappy in that version.

Dr. Scratchansniff takes the Warners on a car trip and they can’t stop arguing and fighting in the backseat.

This short was originally released theatrically on March 30, 1994. It was was paired with the feature film Thumbelina which ALMOST got me and Johnny to go see it just for the pre-roll toon.

The Master and His Music.

This is CD audio dubbed over the cartoon, which explains the lack of sound effects.

Rasputin rules Russia by hypnotizing the czar and suffers from a toothache. The Warner Brothers (and sister) comes to help.