I’ve been asked many times over the past few months what cartoons I’d list as the best and worst of the series. I can’t think of a better quote to end on than one by Rob Paulsen: “I tell people in interviews that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles really changed my career, but Animaniacs really changed by life. In August of 2010, Doug Walker (aka The Nostalgia Critic) put together an hour-long Animaniacs tribute, featuring interviews with Tom Ruegger, Sherri Stoner, Paul Rugg, John P, McCann and Nathan Ruegger and it’s clear that everyone involved loved being a part of the series. Even the people who worked on the show consider it one of the high points of their careers. It was very lucky to have come around at exactly the right time for the pieces to fall together as well as they did.
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Animaniacs accomplished things no series had before and no series probably ever will again. But when the series was firing on all cylinders it was nothing short of incredible, and that first production season was one of the wildest, 65-episode rides I’ve ever had with a syndicated weekday afternoon series. It’s unpredictable format and huge cast all but ensured that every segment wasn’t going to be a winner, and there were just as many clunkers as there were masterpieces. As I’ve made very clear over the past ten months, I don’t think the show is perfect. There were people who hated the series from the very beginning, and there’s even a 2000 episode of South Park that states there are two groups of people: those who like Animaniacs, and those that don’t. In fact, the show had barely begun and John Kricfalusi was already tearing it to pieces, despite admitting that he had never even seen it. For every person that loves every single thing about it and apologizes for even its worst elements, there’s someone else who thinks it’s unredeemable trash that represents everything wrong with '90s animation. With the exception of Family Guy, I can’t think of many other animated shows that divide people the way Animaniacs does. My review of the first episode looks downright embarrassing compared to the entries I was turning out even a week later and I’d be lying if I said there weren’t times I felt in over my head and considered throwing in the towel. I never thought for a second when I began writing about Animaniacs last April that it would take me until late January to actually finish it, and I never imagined that I’d get as in depth as I eventually did. Marathoning the series when the volume four DVD set arrived made me realize just how much I cared about it, and finally having every episode on home video was all the motivation I needed to start this blog. It’s even more amazing to think that my fondness for the show has never diminished despite it being gone for almost fifteen years. It’s hard to believe that I was a freshman in high school when it started, and a junior in college by the time Wakko’s Wish was released. I followed the show over to the WB, kept up with it through the random airings and hour-long “H” episode nonsense, and stuck with it to the bitter end. The winter ‘94 run of new episodes got me through the death of my grandfather, and I remember being obsessed with the “65th Anniversary Special” throughout that Summer. It wasn’t long before I had become infatuated with the series, and drawings of all the characters soon littered every blank piece of paper I could find, while a cassette copy of the original album was a mainstay in my tape deck. By the second week of first-run shows I was watching it religiously, and episode 15 became the first one I actually videotaped. My initial criticism that Animaniacs was nothing but cutesy, educational garbage didn’t last long. 65 notes FebruGoodbye Nurse!: The Final Wrap-Up
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