Smitten with Kittens/Alas, Poor Skullhead/White Gloves is the 39th episode of the original Animaniacs
Animation by Freelance
Plot Dot recites her interpretation of"Jack Be Nimble" called "Ode to Jack:" "Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jumped over the candlestick and burnt his butt."
Last line Dot : The rain in Spain-y...
Animation by Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd.
Good Idea : Cleaning up litter.
Bad Idea : Cleaning up kitty litter.
Notes The Fountain in the Park and Shoo Fly are the BGM.
Smitten with Kittens
Animation by Wang
Plot At a French Restaurant, a kind lady is giving treats to Rita and Runt, who are hiding under a table. Rita and Runt’s cover gets blown when Runt steals a sheet. In the alley, Rita and Runt hide in a garbage pail.
Runt sees three pairs of eyes stare at them from the darkness, which turns out to be some stray kittens. Runt, thinking they’re puppies, is quick to father them, while Rita is extremely hesitant about being their “mother” and tries pushing them away. Eventually, she decides to get them food while Runt watches the kittens. She goes to the restaurant she and Runt hid in earlier and is abducted by the Head Chef. Fortunately, the lady rescues her.
The lady returns Rita to Runt. While she meets the kittens, Rita and Runt hide. Surprised that they disappeared, the lady correctly assumes Rita and Runt always planned to part ways with the kittens once they found them a home . She adopts the kittens and leaves. Runt is left in tears at first to see the "puppies" leave, and he and Rita go to take shelter from the incoming rain. But when Rita corrects Runt that the "puppies" were actually cats, Runt starts to get defensive, looking for any nearby cats to fight.
Crew Songs Trivia Pinky and the Brain made a cameo appearance, popping out of a trash can
Queenie is a parody of Ruth Gordon's character from the film Harold and Maude .
Runt says Rita is "a mama with a family" like Vicki Lawrence (who played the title character in the sitcom Mama's Family ), Meredith Baxter (who was going by Meredith Baxter-Birney at the time) and Roseanne.
Animation by Freelance
Plot Dot recites her interpretation of This Little Piggy .
Alas, Poor Skullhead
Animation by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, Ltd.
Plot Yakko , with Mr. Skullhead playing the skull of Yorick, does the "Alas, poor Yorick" soliloquy from Shakespeare's Hamlet Dot "translates" for the viewers at home. In the background, Wakko keeps digging a big hole and finds interesting things, including Cher, and the next cartoon.
Trivia White Gloves
Animation by Akom Film Production
Plot While playing piano, Wakko's gloves take on a life of their own and attempt to run-away and explore.
Crew Trivia This marks the first time one of the Waner's bare hands were shown. Goofs Wakko's lips don't move when he says, "I lose more gloves that way," a possible indication that the line was dubbed in after the animation was finished. Quotes Wakko: Tomorrow I'll play the xylophone! With my butt!
Animation by Wang
Good Idea : Playing the accordion at a polka festival.
Bad Idea : Playing the accordion anywhere else.
Animated by Tokyo Movie Shinsha
The moral of the story is: "Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, but socially dead."
Cast Transcript See here
List of Animaniacs (Original Series) episodes
Season 1
De-Zanitized / The Monkey Song / Nighty-Night Toon • Yakko's World / Cookies for Einstein / Win Big • H.M.S. Yakko / Slappy Goes Walnuts / Yakko's Universe • Hooked on a Ceiling / Film Projector Transition / Goodfeathers: The Beginning • Taming of the Screwy • Flipper Parody / Temporary Insanity / Operation: Lollipop / What are We? • Piano Rag / When Rita Met Runt • The Warners' Lot Song / The Big Candy Store / Bumbie's Mom • Wally Llama / Where Rodents Dare • King Yakko • No Pain, No Painting / Les Miseranimals • Garage Sale of the Century / Fortunes / West Side Pigeons • Hello Nice Warners / La Behemoth / Little Old Slappy From Pasadena • La La Law / Cat on a Hot Steel Beam • Space-Probed / Battle for the Planet • Chalkboard Bungle / Hurray for Slappy / The Great Wakkorotti: The Master & His Music • Roll Over, Beethoven / The Cat and the Fiddle • Pavlov's Mice / Chicken Boo-Ryshnikov / Nothing But the Tooth • Meatballs or Consequences / A Moving Experience • Hearts of Twilight / The Boids • The Flame / Wakko's America / Davy Omelette / Four Score and Seven Migraines Ago • Guardin' the Garden / Plane Pals • Be Careful What You Eat / Session 1 / Up the Crazy River / Session 2 / Ta Da Dump • Yakko's World of Baldness / Opportunity Knox / Wings Take Heart • Hercule Yakko / Home on De-Nile / A Midsummer Night's Dream • Testimonials / Babblin' Bijou / Potty Emergency / Sir Yaksalot • You Risk Your Life / I Got Yer Can / Jockey for Position • Moby or Not Moby / Mesozoic Mindy / The Good, the Boo, and the Ugly • Draculee, Draculaa / Phranken-Runt • Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled / Moon Over Minerva / Skullhead Boneyhands • O Silly Mio / Puttin' on the Blitz / The Great Wakkorotti: The Summer Concert • Chairman of the Bored / Planets Song / Astro-Buttons • Cartoons in Wakko's Body 1 / Noah's Lark / Cartoons in Wakko's Body 2 / The Big Kiss / Cartoons in Wakko's Body 3 / Hiccup / Cartoons in Wakko's Body Conclusion • Clown and Out / Bubba Bo Bob Brain • Very Special Opening / Animaniacs Stew / In the Garden of Mindy / Pinky and the Cat / We've Been Mixing Up the Scripts / No Place Like Homeless / Katie Ka-Boo / We Found This Old Computer / Dottie the Squirrel / Baghdad Café • Critical Condition / The Three Muska-Warners • Dough Dough Boys / Boot Camping / General Boo-Regard • Spellbound • Smitten with Kittens / Alas Poor Skullhead / White Gloves • Casablanca Opening / Fair Game / The Slapper / Puppet Rulers • Buttermilk, It Makes a Body Bitter / Broadcast Nuisance / Raging Bird • Animator's Alley / Hollywoodchuck • Of Nice and Men / What a Dump! / Survey Ladies • Useless Facts / The Senses Song / The World Can Wait / Kiki's Kitten / • Mary Tyler Dot Song / Windsor Hassle / ...And Justice for Slappy • Turkey Jerky / Wild Blue Yonder • Video Review / When Mice Ruled the Earth • Mobster Mash / Lake Titicaca / Icebreakers • Very Special Opening / A Christmas Plotz / Little Drummer Warners • Slippin' on the Ice / 'Twas the Day Before Christmas / Jingle Boo / The Great Wakkorotti: The Holiday Concert / Toy Shop Terror / Yakko's Universe • Branimaniacs / The Warners and the Beanstalk / Frontier Slappy • Ups and Downs / The Brave Little Trailer / Yes, Always • Drive-Insane / Girlfeathers / I'm Cute • Brain Meets Brawn / Meet Minerva • Gold Rush / A Gift of Gold / Dot's Quiet Time • Schnitzelbank / The Helpinki Formula / Les Boutons et le Ballon / Kung Boo • Of Course You Know, This Means Warners / Up a Tree / Wakko's Gizmo • Oh, Oh, Ethel / Inkblot Test / Meet John Brain / Smell Ya Later • Ragamuffins / Woodstock Slappy • Karaoke Dokie / Cranial Crusader / The Chicken Who Loved Me • Baloney & Kids / Super Buttons / Katie Ka-Boom: The Driving Lesson • Scare Happy Slappy / Witch One / MacBeth • With Three, You Get Eggroll / Mermaid Mindy / Katie Ka-Boom: Call Waiting • Lookit the Fuzzy Heads / No Face Like Home • My Father the Tuna / The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special
Season 2
Take My Siblings, Please / The Mindy 500 / Morning Malaise • We're No Pigeons / Whistle-Stop Mindy / Katie Ka-Boom: The Broken Date • Miami Mama-Mia / Pigeon on the Roof / Coo • I'm Mad / Bad Mood Bobby / Katie Ka-Boom: The Blemish / Fake
Season 3
Super Strong Warner Siblings / Nutcracker Slappy / Wakko's New Gookie / A Quake, a Quake! • Variety Speak / Three Tenors and You're Out / Bingo • Previously on Animaniacs / Deduces Wild / Rest in Pieces / U.N. Me • A Hard Day's Warners / Gimme a Break / Please Please Please Get a Life Foundation • The Tiger Prince / All The Words in the English Language (Part 1) / The Kid in the Lid / All The Words in the English Language (Part 2) / Method to Her Madness / All The Words in the English Language (Part 3) • The Presidents Song / Don't Tread on Us / The Flame Returns • Gimme the Works / Buttons in Ows / Hercules Unwound • This Pun for Hire / Star Truck / Go Fish / Multiplication (song) • The Sound of Warners / Yabba Dabba Boo • My Mother the Squirrel / The Party / Oh! Say Can You See / The Twelve Days of Christmas • Dot's Entertainment / The Girl with the Googily Goop / Gunga Dot • 2001 Parody 1 / Soccer Coach Slappy 2001 Parody 2 / Belly Button Blues / Our Final Space Cartoon, We Promise / Valuable Lesson • Wakko's 2-Note Song / Panama Canal / Hello Nurse / The Ballad of Magellan / The Return of the Great Wakkorotti / The Big Wrap Party Tonight
Season 4
One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock • Cutie and the Beast / Boo Happens / Noel / Cold Ending • Animani-rats /• Jokahontas / Boids on the Hood / Mighty Wakko at the Bat • A Very Very Very Very Special Show / Night of the Living Buttons / Soda Jerk • From Burbank with Love / Anchors A-Warners / When You're Traveling • Parody Commercials / Papers for Pappa / Amazing Gladiators / Pinky and the Ralph • Ten Short Films About Wakko Warner / No Time for Love / The Boo Network • Pitter Patter of Little Feet / Mindy in Wonderland / Ralph's Wedding
Season 5
Moosage in a Bottle / Back in Style / Bones in the Body • It / Dot - The Macadamia Nut / Bully for Skippy • Cute First (Ask Questions Later) / Acquaintances / Here Comes Atilla / Boo Wonder • Magic Time / The Brain's Apprentice Hooray for North Hollywood Part 1 • Part 2 )The Carpool / The Sunshine Squirrels • The Christmas Tree / Punchline (Part 1) / Prom Night / Punchline (Part 2) The Ultimate Animaniacs Super Special Birds on a Wire / The Scoring Session / Transition: Very Special Opening / The Animaniacs Suite )
