Episode 17: Roll Over Beethoven/The Cat and the Fiddle
Variable Verse
Dot: Here's the show's namey...
Gag Credit(s)
Tired of These Credits-Kathryn Page
Closing Line
Yakko, Wakko and Dot: (singing and clapping) Clap on...Clap off...Clap on, clap off...Show's over!
Premiered
October 5, 1993
Roll Over Beethoven/The Cat and the Fiddle is the 17th episode of the original Animaniacs . It originally aired on October 5th, 1993.
Last line
Dot : Here's the show's namey...
Good Idea : Playing a piccolo in a marching band.
Bad Idea : Playing a piano in a marching band.
Trivia
Roll Over Beethoven
Animation by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, Ltd.
Plot
The Warners are chimney sweeps who come over to the home of Ludwig van Beethoven, who is attempting to compose his fifth symphony.
Crew
Songs
Trivia
This was the first script Paul Rugg wrote for Animaniacs (and his first paid writing job ever). Based on this script, Sherri Stoner hired him as a series writer.[1]
As the scene starts, a caption says, 'Vienna, Sausage Capital of the World' is a play on word, Vienna Sausage.
As the Warners siblings are looking around, after Beethoven says, 'Now see here', one can see a painting of Elvis on the wall and a few gold records.
The episode title is a reference to the Chuck Berry song of the same name, which has been covered by artists such as Electric Light Orchestra and The Beatles .
This is the third time that Yakko, Wakko, and Dot were seen getting kicked out, the first time occurred in "Cookies for Einstein ," and the second instance occurred in "The Big Candy Store ."
The songs that Beethoven plays at the beginning are "Chopsticks", "Merrily We Roll Along" (the Merrie Melodies theme) and the Animaniacs theme song .
The Goodfeathers make a cameo appearance at the beginning of act two.
The scene of Dot on top of the piano is a parody of the scene in the film The Fabulous Baker Boys.
At the end, Vincent van Gogh is their next appointment, and Wakko makes a reference to his painting Still Life with Sunflowers .
Beethoven as he appeared in this episode would reappear in the Histeria! episode "Music".
Quotes
Beethoven : Do you know who I am?
Yakko : No, but maybe if you hum a few bars.
Beethoven : I am Ludwig van Beethoven, world famous composer and pianist.
Yakko : You're a what?
Beethoven : A pianist !
Yakko : Mwah! Goodnight, everybody!
Beethoven : But that is what I am. A pianist!
Yakko : I think we've heard enough out of you. [Washes Beethoven's mouth out with soap]
Good Idea, Bad Idea
Good Idea : Feeding stray kittens in the park.
Bad Idea : Feeding stray kittens in the park to a bear.
Trivia
"The Bear Went Over the Mountain" is BGM in this cartoon short.
The Cat and the Fiddle
Animation by Freelance Animators, Ltd.
Plot
Rita and Runt wander through Italy. Rita gets lured to the front of a new door by the smell of a good meal and the cat and dog find a home with noted violin maker Antonio Stradivari . The violin maker only wants Rita for her catgut to make strings and distracts the suspicious and frightened cat with yarn. The violin maker tries to get rid of Runt by throwing a ball for him to catch with the intent of him getting lost, which turns out to be very difficult.
Before the violin maker can cut up a distracted Rita, Runt breaks through the door and causes a massive mess in the house just to relieve the ball. The maker looks to his broken violins and angrily yells at the cat and dog to get out, to which the two strays flee.
Crew
Songs
Trivia
The Warners make a cameo while being chased by pizzamaker Ralph while stealing his pizza.
Catgut is made using the fiber found in the walls of the intestines of animals, namely sheep and goats. Ironically, despite its name, catgut strings are never made from cats, and using Rita for catgut wouldn't be as effective as using a sheep or goat as catgut.
Cast
Stinger
Yakko, Wakko and Dot : (singing and clapping) Clap on...Clap off...Clap on, clap off...Show's over!
Transcript
See here
Sources
List of Animaniacs (Original Series) episodes
Season 1
De-Zanitized / The Monkey Song / Nighty-Night Toon • Yakko's World / Cookies for Einstein / Win Big • H.M.S. Yakko / Slappy Goes Walnuts / Yakko's Universe • Hooked on a Ceiling / Film Projector Transition / Goodfeathers: The Beginning • Taming of the Screwy • Flipper Parody / Temporary Insanity / Operation: Lollipop / What are We? • Piano Rag / When Rita Met Runt • The Warners' Lot Song / The Big Candy Store / Bumbie's Mom • Wally Llama / Where Rodents Dare • King Yakko • No Pain, No Painting / Les Miseranimals • Garage Sale of the Century / Fortunes / West Side Pigeons • Hello Nice Warners / La Behemoth / Little Old Slappy From Pasadena • La La Law / Cat on a Hot Steel Beam • Space-Probed / Battle for the Planet • Chalkboard Bungle / Hurray for Slappy / The Great Wakkorotti: The Master & His Music • Roll Over, Beethoven / The Cat and the Fiddle • Pavlov's Mice / Chicken Boo-Ryshnikov / Nothing But the Tooth • Meatballs or Consequences / A Moving Experience • Hearts of Twilight / The Boids • The Flame / Wakko's America / Davy Omelette / Four Score and Seven Migraines Ago • Guardin' the Garden / Plane Pals • Be Careful What You Eat / Session 1 / Up the Crazy River / Session 2 / Ta Da Dump • Yakko's World of Baldness / Opportunity Knox / Wings Take Heart • Hercule Yakko / Home on De-Nile / A Midsummer Night's Dream • Testimonials / Babblin' Bijou / Potty Emergency / Sir Yaksalot • You Risk Your Life / I Got Yer Can / Jockey for Position • Moby or Not Moby / Mesozoic Mindy / The Good, the Boo, and the Ugly • Draculee, Draculaa / Phranken-Runt • Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled / Moon Over Minerva / Skullhead Boneyhands • O Silly Mio / Puttin' on the Blitz / The Great Wakkorotti: The Summer Concert • Chairman of the Bored / Planets Song / Astro-Buttons • Cartoons in Wakko's Body 1 / Noah's Lark / Cartoons in Wakko's Body 2 / The Big Kiss / Cartoons in Wakko's Body 3 / Hiccup / Cartoons in Wakko's Body Conclusion • Clown and Out / Bubba Bo Bob Brain • Very Special Opening / Animaniacs Stew / In the Garden of Mindy / Pinky and the Cat / We've Been Mixing Up the Scripts / No Place Like Homeless / Katie Ka-Boo / We Found This Old Computer / Dottie the Squirrel / Baghdad Café • Critical Condition / The Three Muska-Warners • Dough Dough Boys / Boot Camping / General Boo-Regard • Spellbound • Smitten with Kittens / Alas Poor Skullhead / White Gloves • Casablanca Opening / Fair Game / The Slapper / Puppet Rulers • Buttermilk, It Makes a Body Bitter / Broadcast Nuisance / Raging Bird • Animator's Alley / Hollywoodchuck • Of Nice and Men / What a Dump! / Survey Ladies • Useless Facts / The Senses Song / The World Can Wait / Kiki's Kitten / • Mary Tyler Dot Song / Windsor Hassle / ...And Justice for Slappy • Turkey Jerky / Wild Blue Yonder • Video Review / When Mice Ruled the Earth • Mobster Mash / Lake Titicaca / Icebreakers • Very Special Opening / A Christmas Plotz / Little Drummer Warners • Slippin' on the Ice / 'Twas the Day Before Christmas / Jingle Boo / The Great Wakkorotti: The Holiday Concert / Toy Shop Terror / Yakko's Universe • Branimaniacs / The Warners and the Beanstalk / Frontier Slappy • Ups and Downs / The Brave Little Trailer / Yes, Always • Drive-Insane / Girlfeathers / I'm Cute • Brain Meets Brawn / Meet Minerva • Gold Rush / A Gift of Gold / Dot's Quiet Time • Schnitzelbank / The Helpinki Formula / Les Boutons et le Ballon / Kung Boo • Of Course You Know, This Means Warners / Up a Tree / Wakko's Gizmo • Oh, Oh, Ethel / Inkblot Test / Meet John Brain / Smell Ya Later • Ragamuffins / Woodstock Slappy • Karaoke Dokie / Cranial Crusader / The Chicken Who Loved Me • Baloney & Kids / Super Buttons / Katie Ka-Boom: The Driving Lesson • Scare Happy Slappy / Witch One / MacBeth • With Three, You Get Eggroll / Mermaid Mindy / Katie Ka-Boom: Call Waiting • Lookit the Fuzzy Heads / No Face Like Home • My Father the Tuna / The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special
Season 2
Take My Siblings, Please / The Mindy 500 / Morning Malaise • We're No Pigeons / Whistle-Stop Mindy / Katie Ka-Boom: The Broken Date • Miami Mama-Mia / Pigeon on the Roof / Coo • I'm Mad / Bad Mood Bobby / Katie Ka-Boom: The Blemish / Fake
Season 3
Super Strong Warner Siblings / Nutcracker Slappy / Wakko's New Gookie / A Quake, a Quake! • Variety Speak / Three Tenors and You're Out / Bingo • Previously on Animaniacs / Deduces Wild / Rest in Pieces / U.N. Me • A Hard Day's Warners / Gimme a Break / Please Please Please Get a Life Foundation • The Tiger Prince / All The Words in the English Language (Part 1) / The Kid in the Lid / All The Words in the English Language (Part 2) / Method to Her Madness / All The Words in the English Language (Part 3) • The Presidents Song / Don't Tread on Us / The Flame Returns • Gimme the Works / Buttons in Ows / Hercules Unwound • This Pun for Hire / Star Truck / Go Fish / Multiplication (song) • The Sound of Warners / Yabba Dabba Boo • My Mother the Squirrel / The Party / Oh! Say Can You See / The Twelve Days of Christmas • Dot's Entertainment / The Girl with the Googily Goop / Gunga Dot • 2001 Parody 1 / Soccer Coach Slappy 2001 Parody 2 / Belly Button Blues / Our Final Space Cartoon, We Promise / Valuable Lesson • Wakko's 2-Note Song / Panama Canal / Hello Nurse / The Ballad of Magellan / The Return of the Great Wakkorotti / The Big Wrap Party Tonight
Season 4
One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock • Cutie and the Beast / Boo Happens / Noel / Cold Ending • Animani-rats /• Jokahontas / Boids on the Hood / Mighty Wakko at the Bat • A Very Very Very Very Special Show / Night of the Living Buttons / Soda Jerk • From Burbank with Love / Anchors A-Warners / When You're Traveling • Parody Commercials / Papers for Pappa / Amazing Gladiators / Pinky and the Ralph • Ten Short Films About Wakko Warner / No Time for Love / The Boo Network • Pitter Patter of Little Feet / Mindy in Wonderland / Ralph's Wedding
Season 5
Moosage in a Bottle / Back in Style / Bones in the Body • It / Dot - The Macadamia Nut / Bully for Skippy • Cute First (Ask Questions Later) / Acquaintances / Here Comes Atilla / Boo Wonder • Magic Time / The Brain's Apprentice Hooray for North Hollywood : (Part 1 • Part 2 ) • The Carpool / The Sunshine Squirrels • The Christmas Tree / Punchline (Part 1) / Prom Night / Punchline (Part 2) The Ultimate Animaniacs Super Special : (Birds on a Wire / The Scoring Session / Transition: Very Special Opening / The Animaniacs Suite )