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The Sound of Warners/Yabba Dabba Boo is the 78th episode of the original Animaniacs. It originally aired on November 18, 1995. Both cartoons in this episode were animated by Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd..
In this parody of The Sound of Music, the Warners get a new, extremely nice singing nanny named Prunella Flundergust, which unfortunately, they find her to incredibly unbearable and want her out of their lives.
The Maul from "Survey Ladies" can be seen in the opening panoramic shot.
When the Warners are sleeping, Yakko can be heard having a nightmare about flubbing the lyrics to "Yakko's World".
Since this is a parody of The Sound of Music, Prunella Flundergust is a parody of Julie Andrews' character "Maria". She later becomes the nanny of The Von Trapp family in Austria when Slappy blasted her away and the Von Trapp family's previous nanny recently quits.
Yakko does the longest "Uhh..." of the show.
In the end, there's a reference of another Julie Andrews character who is a nanny named "Mary Poppins" who becomes the Warners' new nanny after Slappy blasts their previous nanny, Prunella Flundergust away to Austria and they want Slappy to get rid of her for them as well.
In this episode, it is revealed that the Warners don't use their force or trickery when a person being nice and kind and polite to them, especially that person annoyed them by doing that, only when they are mean or rude to the Warners or to other people. Slappy Squirrel on the other hand...
Dot's mumbling of "Newt Gingrich" in her sleep is a reference to a deleted song called "Dear Mister Gingrich".
Slappy, alone, makes a cameo at some point in the 2nd half of this segment.
The helicopter circling around Prunella during her first song is a reference to the helicopter that circled around Maria behind the scenes of The Sound of Music during her opening song, “The Hills Are Alive”.
Slappy was charging the Warners to help them to get rid of Prunella for them because she rather get paid to get rid someone for somebody until she met Prunella herself and decided to get rid of her for free because she too finds Prunella extremely unbearable and it would be a pleasure of getting rid of her.
Tress MacNeille did five voice roles in this episode. She did Dot, Hello Nurse, Prunella Flunderglust, Mary Poppins and the Von Trapp's previous nanny.
Goof Troop (which also stars Rob Paulsen as Pete's son, PJ) is mentioned by Dot.
Yabba Dabba Boo
Plot
Chicken Boo plays a script doctor for the Flintstones movie.
The Chicken Boo theme song is changed. Instead of "You wear a disguise to look like human guys", the line is "You're jumbo-sized and you wear a disguise."
The writers are modeled after the real-life Animaniacs writers, including creator Tom Ruegger, Nicholas Hollander (referred to as "Shecky", Hollander's real life nickname), Peter Hastings, and Sherri Stoner, the only writer who provides her own voice.
The Amblin building is essentially a redesigned version of Acme Looniversity from Tiny Toon Adventures.
Chicken Boo's fake name is Larry Gelboo, named after Larry Gelbart, a TV writer best known for creating the hit series M*A*S*H.
This is one of the cartoons that StarToons storyboarded with Wang animating. This is because at the time, StarToons was recovering from financial troubles and couldn’t fully animate until season 5.
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