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[jekylljuice]

Animaniacs

Huzzah, Season 2 arrived in the mail today! (I've actually ordered Seasons 2 and 3, chiefly because they happened to be the cheapest at the time, although I do plan to get hold of Season 1 - and Season 2 of Freakazoid! - within due course.)

I'm a little reluctant to admit it here, this being a Foster's-centred forum and all, but this may just be my favourite animated programme EVER. No disrespect to Foster's of course, but Animaniacs has a wit, panache, inventiveness, energy and character that's simply unparalleled by anything else that I've seen. It has a sturdy enough fanbase already, so obviously I don't need to sing its praises too much...rather, I just wanted to add my love and admiration to the much-deserved pile.

Season Two - or Volume Two, if you want to be picky, since it is technically part of the first season - contains what could well be my favourite Animaniacs segment (it's in the Top 5, anyway), the unassumingly-titled "Potty Emergency". Six minutes of pure unadulterated rip-roaring hilarity, in which it proved an absolute pleasure to indulge myself again this morning. Wakko's predicament in this segment has actually been the subject of a recurring nightmare of mine, so I find it all too easy to sympathise with him here. Plus, Wakko is so endearing, with that Liverpudlian accent of his.

It's all great, though the Pinky and the Brain segments (and subsquent spin-off) were a particular godsend to me when I was younger, and remain so to this day (though Rita and Runt have since come very close to eclipsing them in personal popularity - nowadays I'd say that they're on an equal tier, for vastly different reasons....and Chicken Boo, he's top-notch too). My weakness for villains and unscrupulous characters goes back a very long way, and as a kid, I always longed to see a show in which the megalomanic figure striving for global domination was actually the main character, and not merely the antagonist. P&tB answered that whim, and did it perfectly. Naturally, making that character the reincarnation of Orson Welles in the form of a laboratory mouse (more or less) was a stroke of genius within itself.