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Looney Tunes is a series of cartoons which are the backbone of Warner Bros. Since Looney Tunes and Animaniacs are owned by Warner Bros., it is not uncommon for Looney Tunes references to appear on the show. Animaniacs sister series and predecessor Tiny Toon Adventures is a spin-off of the series.
Looney Tunes Appearances and References in Animaniacs Media
Animaniacs (Original Series)
- Probably the most prominent appearances are in Slappy Squirrel, where the title character starred in fictious Looney Tunes cartoons.
- Marvin the Martian greets Buttons in "Cat on a Hot Steel Beam."
- Pepe Le Pew appears in "We're No Pigeons."
- Michigan J. Frog appears in and "Macbeth" as one of the ingredients, as well as "Night of the Living Buttons" where he scares Buttons and Mindy.
- Witch Hazel appears in "Spellbound," and "Witch One."
- Charlie Dog appears in "Plane Pals."
- Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, Porky Pig, Tweety, and (most prominently) Buddy all appear in "The Warners 65th Anniversary Special."
- Elmer Fudd appears in "Turkey Jerky."
- Minah Bird appears in "Bad Mood Bobby."
- Granny appears in "Windsor Hassle."
- Daffy Duck and Tweety are mentioned in the song "I Am the Very Model of a Cartoon Individual" from "H.M.S Yakko." Hugo the Abominable Snowman makes a cameo in the same song.
- Porky Pig appears in a flashback in "De-Zanitized."
- The Dover Boys appear in "Frontier Slappy," "Magic Time," and Wakko's Wish.
- Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote both make cameos in "Bumbie's Mom" and "Little Old Slappy from Pasadena."
- Wile E. Coyote appears solo in "Buttons in Ows."
- Sylvester and Tweety appear in "The Big Wrap Party Tonight."
- Yosemite Sam also appeared in "Back In Style" along with Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, and Daffy Duck being out of their jobs.
- Looney Tunes character portraits can be seen in various episodes inside the WB offices, including "Temporary Insanity" and "Hooray For North Hollywood".
- The Warners' Bugs Bunny phone occasionally appears beginning with Temporary Insanity.
- Space Jam is parodied in "Hooray For North Hollywood" as Jam-A-Lot.
- Taz appears in "Draculee, Draculaa" and "Cutie and the Beast."
- MacRory from the Bugs Bunny cartoon My Bunny Lies Over the Sea appears in "Dot's Quiet Time" playing the bagpipes.
Pinky and the Brain
- "Merrily We Roll Along" can be heard playing in "Brain Drained" as Pinky and Brain pass the Warner Bros. studio lot.
- In the episode "Brain's Way," Bernice has Looney Tunes memorabilia in her store.
- In "The Family That Poits Together, Narfs Together," Brain awkwardly jokes about Bugs Bunny while retrieving Pinky's Father from the Warner Bros. Studio.
- Tweety, Gossamer, Marvin the Martian and Daffy Duck can be seen in "Star Warners".
Animaniacs (Reboot)
- A billboard featuring a bored Bugs for a reboot called Looney Tunes Again and another featuring zombified versions of Bugs, Daffy, and Porky entitled Looney Tunes Zombies appears in "Suspended Animation: Part Two" during the "Reboot It!" song. This is a reference to how the Looney Tunes franchise has been constantly rebooted.
- Various Looney Tunes characters appear in "Suffragette City" as well as their descendants in Loonatics Unleashed, which the show makes fun of by having Dot refer to them as "whoever these guys are". Sylvester, Daffy and Porky each get speaking cameos. The song "Merrily We Roll Along" plays twice, and also closes out the cartoon with a variation of Porky Pig's "That's All, Folks!" gag with him saying "That's Democracy, Folks!".
- Bugs Bunny was going to make a cameo in "Bun Control", but he was cut because the writers couldn't get it to work. [1]
- In "Good Warner Hunting," the 'bedtime story' the Warners make Dr. Walter Grubb read to them refers to him as "a poor man's Elmer Fudd".
- Daffy Duck appears in the episode "The Warners Are Present."
- The episode "Yakko Amakko" is a take on the Merrie Melodies cartoon "Duck Amuck." Pepé Le Pew also makes an appearance, along with Daffy Duck's voice being used on Nora Rita Norita.
Animaniacs Appearances and References in Looney Tunes Media
- In the 2004 documentary DVD featurette Looney Tunes: Back in Action - Behind the Tunes, Yakko, Wakko, Dot, Pinky, and the Brain appear on the old Warner Bros. Studio's Animation mural with other WB animated stars.
- The Warner siblings appear in cameos in Space Jam: A New Legacy. They seem to appear in their original designs based on their model sheet, rather than their more angular redesigns based on the TMS episodes used for the reboot. This is also the first time they appear in CGI outside of video games.
- A golden Dot statue can be seen in the background of one scene.
- In the Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem July 2021 Space Jam promotional event, the Water Tower appears sporting a very similar design to how it looks in the Animaniacs reboot.