Hooray for North Hollywood (Part 1) is the 5th episode of season 5 of the original Animaniacs and the 95th episode overall. It is also the beginning of the series' only two-parter episode; Hooray for North Hollywood.
The Warners finish a script for a movie named "Hooray for North Hollywood", and go to Thaddeus Plotz's office to pitch their new movie script. During an extensive waiting line, Yakko and Dot teach Wakko how to "schmooze". The Warners eventually meet with Plotz, and pitch their movie script, alongside a song. Plotz rejects their script, prompting the Warners to seek another producer to produce their script. After reading a Variety article, The Warners find out that a New Years' Eve party with important people of the movie industry is happening in Beverly Hills, prompting them to attend the party themselves in hopes to get their script produced.
At the beginning and end of the episode, the Goodfeathers bicker over sights in the sky.
Bart Simpson from The Simpsons makes a cameo in the first part of the episode (though only his hair is seen).
A poster of Little Beeper from Tiny Toon Adventures appears in the waiting room outside Mr. Plotz's office. Images of Hamilton J. Pig and Batman also hang on the waiting room walls.
The copy of Variety that Dot holds up just after "Variety Speak" ends features the headline "E.T., Zapruder film Join Nat'l Registry." The Zapruder film is footage of the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Celebrity cameos include Steven Spielberg, Joe Eszterhas (writer of Flashdance, Basic Instinct, and Nowhere to Run), Woody Allen, George Lucas, Bill Clinton, Martin Short, and Steven Seagal.
Celebrity name-drops include Barbra Streisand, Arnold Palmer, Cecil B. DeMille, Don Knotts, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kevin Costner, Marlon Brando, Keanu Reeves (misspelled as "Reaves"), Tom Cruise, Bruce Willis, Johnny Depp, Sean Connery, Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Michael Eisner, Cher, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Zemeckis, Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, and Robert Duvall.
Plotz's secretary Ms. Hoffelmeyer mistakes the Warners for Ewoks, the bear-like aliens from Return of the Jedi.
Chicken Boo appears as Plotz's assistant. The Warners consider telling Plotz that his assistant is a chicken, but decide against it.
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Production Art
Poster by Bob Doucette for the scrapped film
Outline for "There's Only One of You" by former StarToons crew-member Dave Pryor
This gag credit most likely stems from the Animaniacs crews' own resentment towards Kids' WB, possibly due to factors such as the show's cancellation and the network's forced retooling of Pinky and the Brain into Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain.