Peter Hastings is an American animation writer. On Animaniacs, he wrote a majority of the Pinky and the Brain cartoons and later moved onto the spin-off. However, when the new head of Kids' WB! suggested making changes to the show, Hastings was an outspoken critic of that move. One of his last scripts for the show he wrote before he quit was "You'll Never Eat Food Pellets in This Town Again", which described his feelings toward the changes.
Hastings also appears as himself in the beginning of "Yes, Always".
Cartoons written
- Win Big (teleplay) (Pinky & the Brain)
- Taming of the Screwy (story with Earl Kress and Tom Ruegger; teleplay
- Operation: Lollipop (Mindy & Buttons)
- Where Rodents Dare (co-written with Tom Ruegger)
- King Yakko
- No Pain, No Painting
- Battle for the Planet
- A Moving Experience
- Hercule Yakko
- Jockey for Position
- The Good, the Boo, and the Ugly (co-written with Deanna Oliver, Nicholas Hollander and Paul Rugg)
- Fair Game
- Puppet Rulers (story)
- Can't Buy a Thrill
- The World Can Wait
- Turkey Jerky (co-written with Tom Ruegger)
- Yes, Always
- Brain Meets Brawn (co-written with Tom Minton)
- Wakko's Gizmo
- Meet John Brain
- Karaoke-Dokie
- Baloney & Kids
- Lookit the Fuzzy Heads
- Bingo
- Previously on Animaniacs
- Please Please Please Get a Life Foundation
- The Tiger Prince
- Gimme the Works
- Buttons in Ows
- This Pun for Hire (co-written with Gordon Bressack, Charles M. Howell IV and Tom Ruegger)
- Yabba Dabba Boo
- Wakko's 2-Note Song