Episode 47: Video Review/When Mice Ruled the Earth

Episode 47: Video Review/When Mice Ruled the Earth
Series
Season	1
Episode	47
Gags
Variable Verse	Dot: "Here's the show's name-y!"
Gag Credit(s)	Plotting Revenge- Kathryn Page
Closing Line	Yakko, Wakko and Dot: "Ciao, America!"
Broadcast Details
Premiered	November 23, 1993
Episode Chronology
Previous	Episode 46
Next	Episode 48

Video Review/When Mice Ruled the Earth is the 47th episode of the original Animaniacs. It originally aired on November 23, 1993.

Theme Song

Last line

Dot: Here's the show's namey...

Chase Transition

Animation by Tokyo Movie Shinsha Co., Ltd.

• Look out! The Warners are loose!
• Ralph follows along.

1/2

Plot

The Warners get chased by Ralph out of a sewer hole.

Video Review

Animation by Wang Film Production

Plot

The Warners star in this cartoon patterned after the Looney Tunes "bookstore come to life" cartoons, taking place in a video store. They prance around the store as they try to avoid a menacing dinosaur from a Jurassic Park tape.

Crew

• Written by Randy Rogel, Sherri Stoner and Tom Minton
• Directed by Michael Gerard

Songs

• "Video Revue"

Trivia

• The featured titles include the following:
  1. The Last Boy Scout
  2. Awakenings
  3. Three Men and a Baby
  4. The Hand That Rocked the Cradle
  5. Silence of the Lambs
  6. Bugsy (ft. Bugs Bunny)
  7. Beethoven
  8. The Player
  9. The Abyss
  10. Paperhouse
  11. Rambo III
  12. Rocky V
  13. Star Trek VI
  14. Sister Act
  15. Phantom of the Opera
  16. The Naked Gun (perhaps)
  17. Twins
  18. Hatari!
  19. Unforgiven
  20. Hook
  21. The Addams Family
  22. Amadeus
  23. A Muppet Family Christmas (replacing A with The)
  24. Citizen Kane
  25. Singin' in the Rain
  26. The Princess Bride
  27. The Prince of Tides
  28. The Fisher King (mentioned)
  29. Father of the Bride (also mentioned)
  30. Jaws
  31. Pyscho
  32. E.T.
  33. JFK
  34. Used People
  35. Cobra
  36. Pat and Mike
  37. Apocalypse Now
  38. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  39. Raging Bull
  40. The Godfather III
  41. Fried Green Tomatoes
  42. The Babe
  43. Lethal Weapon 2
  44. Mystic Pizza
  45. Edward Scissorhands
  46. Top Gun
  47. Wayne's World
  48. Malcolm X
  49. The Mighty Ducks
  50. Duck Soup
  51. Star Wars
  52. Boyz N The Hood
  53. Medicine Man
  54. The Doctor
  55. Jurassic Park
  56. Evil Dead
  57. Evil Dead 2
  58. Doctor Zhivago
  59. Dr. Giggles
  60. Soapdish
  61. Cape Fear
  62. Ben-Hur
  63. The Right Stuff
  64. A River Runs Through It
  65. The Bridge on the River Kwai
  66. A Few Good Men
  67. Taps
  68. The Bodyguard
  69. Sneakers
  70. Dick Tracy (probably)
  71. The Wizard of Oz
  72. Field of Dreams
  73. Batman
  74. Thelma and Louise
  75. Bram Stoker's Dracula
  76. Heaven's Gate
  77. Ishtar
  78. Dune
  79. Howard the Duck
  80. 1941 (Billy Bathgate is in International)
  81. Leonard Part VI
  82. Jacob's Ladder
  83. The Last of the Mohicans (briefly)
  84. Rain Man
  85. Backdraft
  86. City Slickers
  87. Lorenzo's Oil
  88. The Great Escape
  89. City of Joy
  • Some background titles are unclear.
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street is probably not seen but Freddy Krueger appears in the end.
• The film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, was co-produced by Spielberg.
• The sign says, "Animaniacs - Guess Who's #1! New episode at 8pm". New episodes premiered at 4pm. This might be a reference to episode 48, which was a Thanksgiving Weekend episode, thus premiering on November 24, 1993 at 8:00pm.
• This segment may be a "parody" of the 1946 cartoon starring Daffy Duck entitled Book Revue as well as other musical cartoons from the late '30s which featured book covers coming to life.
  • Daffy himself makes an appearance.
• There's a poster for X-Toons (a parody of X-Men) outside the store.
• On the Awakenings video, Robert De Niro references his other movie Taxi Driver.

Goofs

• Baby Plucky and Daffy Duck are seen on the cover of The Mighty Ducks, but when they are on the cover of Duck Soup, Plucky is suddenly his pre-teen self.
• When Yakko enters the Star Wars video, the Death Star appears as it appeared in A New Hope, but when it is shown up close, it's the second Death Star from Return of the Jedi.

When Mice Ruled the Earth

Animation by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, Ltd.

Plot

Pinky and the Brain use H.G. Wells' time machine to travel to prehistoric eras to take over the world.

Crew

• Written by Gordon Bressack
• Directed by Greg Reyna

Trivia

• When Brain announces they have reached "the dawn of time", and Pinky tells Brain to "wake [him] when it's the early noon of time", Wakko appears via the same stock footage of the rimshot from "Taming of the Screwy."
• Julius Caesar is a caricature of Rex Harrison, who played the role in the 1963 Mankiewicz film Cleopatra, which was previously parodied in "Home on De-Nile."

Gallery

Wheel of Morality

Animated by Tokyo Movie Shinsha

Dot and Wakko do not want to do the Wheel of Morality again, until Yakko mentions that it was Fox's idea to do it.

The moral of today's story is: It turns out, nothing! Instead-- WIN A FREE TRIP TO TAHITI.

The Goodbye Song

Animation by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, Ltd.

Plot

Instead of the chase ending, the Warners and Ralph go onto a stage to sing a parody of Carol Burnett's "I'm So Glad We've Had This Time Together."

Crew

• Written by John P. McCann

Songs

• "The Goodbye Song"

Trivia

• The song is a parody of "I'm So Glad We've Had This Time Together" often sung by Carol Burnett at the end of each episode of The Carol Burnett Show.
• The ending where the Warners pull on their ears is even in reference to Carol Burnett ending every show by tugging on her ear lobe. Burnett revealed that it was in tribute to her grandmother.

Cast

Voice Actors:	Character(s):
Rob Paulsen	Yakko Warner, Pinky, Garth, Kevin Costner, H.G. Wells
Jess Harnell	Wakko Warner, Wayne
Tress MacNeille	Dot Warner, Rebecca De Mornay
Maurice LaMarche	The Brain, Groucho Marx
Frank Welker	Ralph T. Guard, Sheep, Beethoven, Dinosaur, Charlton Heston, Dustin Hoffman, Caveman
Greg Burson	Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck
Nathan Ruegger	Baby Plucky
John Mariano	Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson

Transcript

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