Writers of the Purple Prose

Writers of the Purple Prose is the forty-third episode of Histeria!.
==Plot==
The Histerians meet famous writers Samuel Butler and William Shakespeare and see Mary Had A Little Lamb 2000. Big Fat Baby interviews William Shakespeare before Saturday Night Line opening; John Steinbeck discovers his dog ate his homework; Loud Kiddington rides Steedberg the Horse protecting the Russia from Napoleon during The Invasion of Russia about Leo Tolstoy; Crime and Punishment was written by Fyodor Dostevsky; Walter Farley writes The Black Stallion while Loud Kiddington rides The Black Stallion; Loud Kiddington (Billy) rides Steedberg the White Horse (Blaze, The White Horse) written by C.W. Anderson; The Histeria! Kid Chorus sings Shakespeare Plays; Victor Hugo is the host of Lucky Bob (Quasimodo) in The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Today's Spanish Lesson hosted by Father Time; Froggo talks about A Tribute to Samuel Butler; Mark Twain tells the tale of William Blake's The Lamb; Pepper Mills tells the tale of Mary Had a Little Lamb 2000.
==Sketches==
#A Word From A Wise: William Shakespeare
#Saturday Night Line Opening
#Of Mice, Men and The Dog
#Leo Tolstoy: Loud Kiddington enters The Invasion of Russia (1812/1867) (Loud Kiddington Jingle)
#Fyodor Dostevsky: Crime and Punishment (1866)
#Filler #1
#Walter Farley: Loud Kiddington rides The Black Stallion (1941)
#C.W. Anderson: Billy and Blazes Trilogy
#That's the Story That's Told By the Bard (song)
#Filler #2
#Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre (1831)
#Today's Spanish Lesson
#A Tribute to Samuel Butler
#William Blake's The Lamb
#Mary Had A Little Lamb 2000
#The End
==Voice Casts==
#Maurice LaMarche as William Shakespeare
#Jeff Bennett as John Steinbeck
#Frank Welker as Father Time
#Laraine Newman as Miss Information, Charity Bazaar and Joan of Arc
#Tony Jay as Leo Tolstoy
#Jim Cummings as Fyodor Dostevsky
#Cody Ruegger as Loud Kiddington
#Nathan Ruegger as Froggo
#Luke Ruegger as Big Fat Baby and Billy the Kid
#Tress MacNeille as Toast, World's Oldest Woman and Pepper Mills
#Kevin Michael Richardson as World's Oldest Man
#Andre Sogliuzzo as Victor Hugo
#Scott Innes as C.W. Anderson
#Jerry Orbach as Napoleon Bonaparte
#Corey Burton as Thomas Jefferson
#Seth MacFarlane as Marc Antony
#Mr. Lawrence as Cassius
#Billy West as Chit Chatterson
#Stephen Hillenburg as Julius Caesar
#Rob Paulsen as Mr. Smartypants and Sammy Melman
#Robin Atkin Downes as Walter Farley
#Tim Curry as Samuel Butler
==Trivia==
*The song "That's the Story That's Told By the Bard" is also one of the four songs of Histeria! performed by Randy Rogel and Rob Paulsen in their Animaniacs Live! (or Animaniacs in Concert) touring shows, along with "The Invasion Song" (from Great Heroes of France), "People Wanted Pepper on their Food" (from Histeria! Around the World), and "I Can't Believe You Stabbed Me in the Back" (from Return to Rome). If sometimes accompanied by an orchestra, they optionally sing these four songs with Steve and Julie Bernstein (two of the show's composers and the vocalists for the Histeria Kid Chorus respectively).
*The final shot of the episode (after the characters sign off) is a dictionary meaning of the phrase "The End", similar to the very first scene of the 1994 crime film Pulp Fiction.