Episode 42: Animator's Alley/Can't Buy a Thrill/Hollywoodchuck

Episode 42: Animator's Alley/Can't Buy a Thrill/Hollywoodchuck
Series
Season	1
Episode	42
Gags
Variable Verse	Yakko, Wakko and Dot: (spoken) "How urbane-y!"
Gag Credit(s)	Insincere Laughter- Kathryn Page
Closing Line	Yakko, Wakko, and Dot: "Sit, Ubu, sit."
Broadcast Details
Premiered	November 16, 1993
Episode Chronology
Previous	Episode 41
Next	Episode 43

Animator's Alley/Can't Buy a Thrill/Hollywoodchuck is the 42nd episode of the original Animaniacs. It originally aired on November 16, 1993.

Animator's Alley (Part 1)

Animation by Freelance Animators, Ltd.

Plot

The Warners interview Cappy Capbarnhouse, an animator from the early days of Warner Bros. animation. He claims that the original purpose of the studio was to make pies, but Leon Schlesinger suggested they make cartoons instead. He talks about how Rudolf Ising and Hugh Harmon created the characters of Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid and Honey. The Warners hardly pay attention to him because he bores them.

Theme Song

Variable Verse

Yakko, Wakko and Dot: (spoken) How urbane-y!

Animator's Alley (Part 2)

Animation by Freelance

Plot

Cappy keeps talking on a tangent and the Warners keep getting bored. So the Warners get a television onto the stage and watch the next cartoon.

Can't Buy a Thrill

Animation by Wang Film Production

Plot

The Hip Hippos are bored, and want to try out dangerous stunts, but Gina Embryo, a la Buttons, attempts to protect them from danger without getting harmed herself.

Crew

• Written by Peter Hastings
• Directed by Michael Gerard and Dave Marshall

Trivia

• Gina Embryo says, "Klattu barada nikto", which are the magic words from The Day the Earth Stood Still.
• This segment is named for the 1972 debut album by American rock band Steely Dan.
• Second and final appearance of Gina Embryo.

Animator's Alley (Part 3)

250p

Animation by Freelance

Plot

Cappy is still speaking and the Warners are even more bored than ever. So they replace themselves with stuffed dummy versions of themselves and finally free themselves of Cappy's drivel.

Hollywoodchuck

Animation by Akom Film Production

Plot

Young Baynarts Charlton Woodchucks leaves his small town, changes his name to Charlton, and takes off for the glitz and glamor of Hollywood. However, he soon discovers that being an actor is not all it is cracked up to be.

Crew

• Written by Paul Rugg
• Directed by Greg Reyna

Trivia

• This is the first and only cartoon focusing on Charlton Woodchuck. He would later go on to be an ancillary character in other cartoons.
• Slappy Squirrel appears on the Warner movie lot lot during the opening pan.
• When Charlton rides a bus from his Kansas hometown to Hollywood, the bus passes a sign reading "You're Not In Kansas Anymore", a reference to Dorothy's famous line in the 1939 film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore,"

Animator's Alley (Part 4)

Plot

The Warners wish each other goodnight, but then wonder what happened to Cappy. We cut back to the studio where Cappy is sleeping and the dummies of the Warners are still seated. The head of the Yakko dummy falls off and Cappy says, "Pies! We made pies." and falls back to sleep.

Cast

Voice Actors:	Character(s):
Rob Paulsen	Yakko Warner
Jess Harnell	Wakko Warner, Bird
Tress MacNeille	Dot Warner, Marita Hippo, Gina Embryo, Mama
Frank Welker	Flavio Hippo, Cappy Capbarnhouse, Warhol, Narrator
Jeff Bennett	Charlton Woodchucks
Jan Rabson	Papa, Director

Transcript

See here.

References

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