Episode 32: Chairman of the Bored/Planets Song/Astro-Buttons

Episode 32: Chairman of the Bored/Planets Song/Astro-Buttons
Series
Season	1
Episode	32
Gags
Variable Verse	Yakko: Dana Delany...
Gag Credit(s)	The Mayor-Kathryn Page
Closing Line	Yakko: "And remember, Yakko spelled backwards is 'Okkay'!"
Broadcast Details
Premiered	November 2, 1993
Episode Chronology
Previous	Episode 31
Next	Episode 33

Chairman of the Bored/Planets Song/Astro-Buttons is the 32nd episode of the original Animaniacs. It originally aired on November 2, 1993.

Theme Song

Last line

Yakko: Dana Delany...

Trivia

• In most prints of this episode, the variable verse mistakenly uses the visuals of Dot singing "Here's the show's namey" with Yakko's audio.
  

Tower Escape

1/2

Animation by TMS

Plot

The Warners escape through a garden hose that Ralph uses.

Chairman of the Bored

Animation by StarToons

Plot

At a big dinner, the Warners meet a fellow named Francis "Pip" Pumphandle, who keeps on droning on and on about random stories involving Bob Barker and bologna and cheese balls and they try in haste to avoid him.

Crew

• Written by Tom Minton, Tom Ruegger, Paul Rugg and Sherri Stoner
• Directed by Rusty Mills and Chris Brandt

Trivia

• Click here for a transcription of Pip's full story.
• Dot says, "Please, sir, I want more" in a British accent, and Yakko, as a Beadle (parish constable) says, "More?!" This is a reference to the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist.
• Among the patrons of the restaurant are:
  • Cher sitting with Jack Nicholson. Cher is seen pouring sugar into her coffee in reference to her time as spokesperson for Equal sugar substitute. Both Cher and Nicholson were in the film The Witches of Eastwick.
  • Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep from Kramer vs. Kramer are seated in between Michael Richards, who played Kramer on Seinfeld. This is mentioned in the Please Please Please Get a Life Foundation cartoon.
  • David Letterman is seen seated with Arsenio Hall.
  • Morgan Freeman watches Clint Eastwood char a steak, both of them were in the film Unforgiven.
  • Tom Selleck watches Marlon Brando (as Don Vito Corleone from The Godfather) make a glutton out of himself. His speech about Christopher Columbus is a reference to his appearance in the panned 1992 WB film Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, which Selleck won a Razzie for and Brando was nominated for a Razzie.
  • Wakko vacuums Sigourney Weaver's hair, a reference to Weaver's performance as Ripley in ALIEN³.
• The name of the restaurant is "Impetago", a play on impetigo, a bacterial skin infection found in younger children. It is also a play on Spago, a restaurant in Los Angeles owned by Wolfgang Puck.
• Pip mentions "a chimpanzee whose name was Fred" and his girlfriend whose name he forgot. This is a reference to real life chimps named (and I am not making this up!) J. Fred Muggs, and his companion, Phoebe B. Beebe.
• Yakko has a poster of Hello Nurse above his bed.

Planets Song

Animation by Akom Film Production

Plot

Yakko sings most of the planets (including Pluto, which was considered a planet at the time) in the solar system, but at the end, Wakko tells him that he forgot Uranus, to which Yakko replies, "Goodnight, everybody!"

Crew

• Music by Richard Stone
• Lyrics by Paul Rugg
• Direction: Rusty Mills

Songs

• "Planets Song"

Trivia

• Animation from this cartoon was briefly utilized in "Yakko's Universe.”

Astro-Buttons

Animation by Akom

Plot

Buttons, Mindy and her family are space-people in an intergalactic setting. Mindy chases her space-orb while Buttons chases her.

Crew

• Written by Nicholas Hollander
• Directed by Gary Hartle and Rich Arons

Trivia

• At one point, there is a parody of Star Trek, with caricatures of Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock appearing.
• Mindy and Buttons pass by a television playing a space version of Gilligan's Island.
• This is the first time Buttons squawks like a chicken in fear.

Chase Ending

Animation by TMS

Plot

The Warners return to the water tower via a trampoline from Wakko's gag bag. When Ralph attempts to use the trampoline, the trampoline closes on him. The Warners just shrug and go back into the water tower.

Trivia

• This is the only chase ending with dialogue. The Warners say, "Boingy boingy boingy!" when jumping on the trampoline. Ralph says the same.

Cast

Voice Actors:	Character(s):
Rob Paulsen	Yakko Warner, Clint Eastwood, Space Gilligan
Jess Harnell	Wakko Warner, Morgan Freeman
Tress MacNeille	Dot Warner, Mindy's mother, Mary Hartless, Mission Control
Ben Stein	Pip Pumphandle
Nancy Cartwright	Mindy
Frank Welker	Buttons, Mindy's Father, Marlon Brando, Ralph
Jim Cummings	Fat Space Bug, Mr. Spock
Maurice LaMarche	Captain Kirk, Mr. Space Bug Man

Soundtrack

1. Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore
2. I've Been Working on the Railroad
3. While Strolling Through the Park One Day by Ed Haley
4. Where, Oh Where, Has My Little Dog Gone?
5. William Tell Overture - Ranz des Vaches by Gioachino Rossini
6. Spring Song by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
7. Home Sweet Home by H.R. Bishop
8. The Mulberry Bush
9. Shoo Fly
10. Dreaming (from Scenes From Childhood, Op. 15) by Robert Schumann
11. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot by Wallis Willis
12. Scenes from Childhood - Dreaming by Robert Schumann
13. The Bear Went Over the Mountain

Transcript

See here

References

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