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Dot's Entertainment/The Girl with the Googily Goop/Gunga Dot is the 80th episode of the original Animaniacs. It originally aired on February 3, 1996. (See below)
Desperate for a performer to sing in his new show, hot-shot musical "mastermind" Andy Lloud Webby hires Dot to perform in her show; and she later brings-in her brothers. In typical Warner fashion, the Warners essentially turn the musical upside-down.
After Andy Lloud Webby says "How about That Girl?" Dot stars in a parody of the title sequence from the show of the same name.
The title card is a parody of the logo for another of Lloyd Webber's musicals, Cats.
The musical in the short, Cats of Phantom Boulevard, is a mashup of several Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals: Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Sunset Boulevard.
The Warners also parody scenes and songs from Lloyd Webber's Evita and Rodgers & Hammerstein's Sound of Music.
It's a parody of the MGM film, "That's Entertainment."
At the end of the cartoon, Dot says "Dot's all, folks," parodying Porky Pig's famous sign-off.
The Girl with the Googily Goop
Animation by Akom
Plot
In this long lost film from the '30s, the Warners are loaned out to a Googi Goop cartoon. In it, the siblings help Googi go to her grandmother's house and battle a whiny censor, Will Hays (who turns out to be the notorious Big Bad Wolf).
This cartoon is a dead-on parody of the Betty Boop cartoons, right down to imitating the Fleischers' animation style.
The end of the cartoon, where the Warners and Googi jump from their paper into the ink bottle even spoofs the ending to Fleischer cartoons.
As the Warners walk down the street, Porky Pig (animated in the old style) passes behind them.
Will Hays is a parody of Will H. Hays and his "Hays Code," which affected the actual Betty Boop cartoons.
When Dot swoons over Will Hays, her brothers say, "Girls, go fig." This is the first time they actually call Dot out for doing the Hello Nurse routine, something she always does to them.
Rita makes her final speaking appearance for this series in this cartoon. All of her future appearances would be silent until the movie Wakko's Wish in 1999.
Production Notes
All of the cartoons in this episode originally aired on February 3, 1996 under episode "H2" of the show's hour long blocks, and was combined with episode 81 and "The Tiger Prince." The standard half-hour format would begin running later in 1996.
