Episode 28: Moby or Not Moby/Mesozoic Mindy/The Good, the Boo, and the Ugly

Episode 28: Moby or Not Moby/Mesozoic Mindy/The Good, the Boo, and the Ugly
Series
Season	1
Episode	28
Gags
Variable Verse	Wakko: "Chicken chow meiny..."
Gag Credit(s)	Ride Operator-Kathryn Page
Closing Line	Mindy: Okay, I love you, buh-bye!
Broadcast Details
Premiered	October 26, 1993
Episode Chronology
Previous	Episode 27
Next	Episode 29

Moby or Not Moby/Mesozoic Mindy/The Good, the Boo, and the Ugly is the 28th episode of the original Animaniacs. It originally aired on October 26, 1993.

Theme Song

Last line

Wakko: Chicken chow meiny...

Good Idea, Bad Idea

Good Idea:
Taking a deep breath before
jumping into a swimming pool.

Bad Idea:
Taking a deep breath after jumping into a swimming pool.

Moby or Not Moby

Animation by Freelance Animators, Ltd.

Plot

The Warners stow away onto Captain Ahab's ship.

Crew

• Written by John P. McCann
• Directed by Michael Gerard

Songs

• "Early in the Morning"

Trivia

• After Yakko says, "Thar she blows!", Dot blows a trumpet and says, "Dat's a high C on da high seas!" in a gravelly Cajun accent a la Louis Armstrong.
• When Captain Ahab ends up inside Moby Dick, he sees Pinocchio is also inside the whale.
• At the end of the cartoon, the Warners are lost at sea and they ask for a ship to pick them up, so the Titanic, the Edmund Fitzgerald and the Minnow from Gilligan's Island arrive. Yakko comments he should have been more specific. This is because all three of those ships were destroyed in the end.
• The Warners repeat their "Monkeys always look" shtick from "Sir Yaksalot".
• The Warners mistake the Peequod for The Love Boat, Ishmael for Doc ("Your Ship's Doctor" portrayed by Bernie Kopell) and Ahab for Captain Stubing ("Your Captain" portrayed by the late Gavin MacLeod, who would later make an appearance in the Pinky and the Brain episode "The Pinky and the Brain Reunion Special").
• The song the Warners sing is set to the melody of "What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor".

Gallery

Good Idea, Bad Idea

Good Idea:
Going alpine skiing in winter.

Bad Idea:
Going alpine skiing in the summer.

Mesozoic Mindy

Animation by Akom Film Production

Plot

In the Stone Age, Mindy and her family are cavepeople and Mindy chases a walking dinosaur egg while her sabre-toothed dog Buttons once again protects her.

Crew

• Written by Nicholas Hollander
• Directed by Greg Reyna

Trivia

• This episode had the working title of "Prehistoric Peril."
• The opening music is a parody of Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring", which was used in the 1940 film Fantasia against a prehistoric setting.
• This is the first Buttons and Mindy cartoon to portray the main cast in another setting and time.

Good Idea, Bad Idea

Good Idea:
Kissing a loved one.

Bad Idea:
Kissing a total stranger.

The Good, the Boo, and the Ugly

Animation by Akom

Plot

In a parody of spaghetti westerns, Chicken Boo takes on the role of "the man with no personality."

Crew

• Written by Deanna Oliver, Peter Hastings, Nicholas Hollander, and Paul Rugg
• Directed by Greg Reyna

Trivia

• The two men in the saloon are modelled and named after actors Lee van Cleef and Eli Wallach, stars of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Additionally, this is one of the few animated Spaghetti Western parodies to feature a caricature of Wallach.
• This is like the Rocko's Modern Life Episode "The Good The Bad And The Wallaby".

Good Idea, Bad Idea

Good Idea:
Doing your own yardwork.

Bad Idea:
Doing your own dental work.

Credits

Animation by Tokyo Movie Shinsha Co., Ltd.

Plot

During the credits, in place of the water tower, the credits take place over a badly damaged Buttons in a park. He is seen whimpering in pain and waving at the audience until Mindy shows up and hugs him, causing him to run away. Mindy then retreats to the tower, where she tells the audience that she loves them and says "bye-bye!"

Trivia

• This sequence parodies the Lassie closing credits sequence.
• This is the first credits sequence that does not feature the regular credits theme.
  • This is also the first credits sequence that is predominately set outside of the Water Tower (though it returns at the very end). The credits sequences to episodes 83 and 84 are also set in different locations, but do not feature the tower.

Cast

Voice Actors:	Character(s):
Rob Paulsen	Yakko Warner, Additional Voices
Jess Harnell	Wakko Warner, Ishmael, Skipper, Additional Voices
Tress MacNeille	Dot Warner, Mindy's Mother, Pinocchio, Female Bartender, Old Lady
Frank Welker	Captain Ahab, Buttons, Chicken Boo, Mindy's Father, Queequeg, Additional Voices
Nancy Cartwright	Mindy
Maurice LaMarche	Eli, Additional Voices
Jeff Bennett	Lee, Additional Voices
Tom Bodett	Announcer

Stinger

Mindy: Okay, I love you, buh-bye!

Transcript

See here

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