Animaniacs (2005 TV series)

***Animaniacs*** is an American animated comedy musical television series created by Tom Ruegger for Cartoon Network from October 15, 2005 until June 12, 2010. A revival of the original 1993 animated television series of the same name, the series follows the return of the Warner siblings, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot as they get into new adventures in a brand new world. Aside from them, other characters like Pinky and the Brain, Slappy Squirrel, Rita and Runt and the Goodfeathers are ready to cause chaos in whatever ways they could.

The series was followed by another revival, which was announced in January 2019 and was premiered on November 30, 2020 on Hulu.

## Characters

### Main

* **Yakko Warner** (voiced by Rob Paulsen) - the oldest of the Warner Siblings who often regarded as the leader of the trio as he's seen to be fond of crude jokes and rather obsessed with women.
* **Wakko Warner** (voiced by Jess Harnell) - the middle one of the Warner Siblings who is also the most childish of the trio and is known for eating a lot and is usually seen doing bizarre things like eating disgusting food aside from sharing his interest for women with Yakko.
* **Dot Warner** (voiced by Tress MacNeille) - the youngest of the Warner Siblings who is the brains of the trio and tends to be more mature than them, although she still gets into situations due to her slight narcissism and general stinginess about her brothers' attitude.

### Supporting

* **Dr. Otto von Scratchansniff** (also voiced by Rob Paulsen) - an easily frustrated and irritated Austrian psychiatrist who is the Warners' caretaker and is often forced to control their zaniness, just to usually fail at it, although he still cares for them.
* **Thaddeus J. Plotz** (voiced by Frank Welker) - the greedy and anger-prone CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment who is obsessed with profit and often tries to get rid of the Warners by doing anything to raise the studio's profits while cutting back on important stuff like the workers' salary and health insurance.
* **Ralph the Guard** (also voiced by Frank Welker) - Warner Bros. Studios' dimwitted and overweight security guard who is often forced to go after the Warners when they get on the loose as he often fails at it due to his incompetence.
* **Slappy Squirrel** (voiced by Sherri Stoner) - a cranky elderly squirrel who often gets into several shenanigans due to her lack of knowledge about the 21st century's evolutions or just to cause chaos.
	+ **Skippy Squirrel** (voiced by Tara Strong and Nathan Ruegger as a teenager) - Slappy's cute and friendly nephew who often gets into situations due to his age.
* **Rita** (voiced by Bernadette Peters) - a feisty and TBD stray cat who wants to find a home for herself as she often gets into situations due to her TBD.
	+ **Runt** (also voiced by Frank Welker) - an idiotic stray dog who is Rita's best friend as he believes she's a dog and is TBD.
* **The Goodfeathers**, consisting of:
	+ **Squit** (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) - TBD
	+ **Bobby** (voiced by John Mariano) - TBD
	+ **Pesto** (voiced by Chick Vennera) - TBD
* **Heloise Nerz/Hello Nurse** (also voiced by Tress MacNeille) - TBD.
* **Minerva Mink** (voiced by Julie Brown) - TBD
* **Mindy** (voiced by Nancy Cartwright) - TBD
	+ **Buttons** (vocal effects by Frank Welker) - TBD
* **Chicken Boo** (vocal effects by Frank Welker) - TBD
* **Katie Ka-Boom** (voiced by Laura Mooney) - TBD
* **Mr. Skull** (non-speaking) - TBD

#### Show-exclusive

* **The Nurses**, consisting of:
	+ **Nurse Kathleen** (also voiced by Tress MacNeille) - TBD.
	+ **Nurse Arabella** (voiced by Grey DeLisle) - TBD.
	+ **Nurse Sophia** (voiced by Hynden Walch) - TBD.
	+ **Nurse Felicity** (voiced by Kath Soucie) - TBD.
	+ **Nurse** **Camilla** (also voiced by Tress MacNeille) - TBD.
* **Jim Jimson** (voiced by Corey Burton) - the CEO of Time Warner and Plotz's superior who is more understanding towards the Warners compared to Plotz.
	+ **Susie** (also voiced by Grey DeLisle) - Jim's sarcastic secretary who often says some snazzy remarks.
* **Barry Queen** (voiced by Tom Kenny) - a friendly and chill news reporter working for CNN who hosts *Barry Queen Alive* and is Gary's self-claimed rival.
* **Zoe** (voiced by Cathy Cavadini) - a love-loving teenager who loves to play her acoustic guitar and just spreading in love.
* **Valerie** (voiced by Ashley Johnson) - an android designed to be the perfect girlfriend to anyone.
* **Dr. Mason Pi** (voiced by Quinton Flynn) - a scientist who created Valerie as he was forced to give her to Yakko due to him wanting a girlfriend.
* **Sir Hector** (voiced by Steven Blum) - a skilled knight who despite his skill, constantly sleeps.
* **Miss Cupcake** (voiced by TBD) - a cutesy teenage girl who is a mascot of a cupcake bakery.

#### Cameos

* **President George W. Bush** (voiced by Tom Kane) - the rather inept and TBD President of the United States until 2009 who is often lured by Cheney into TBD.
	+ **Vice President Dick Cheney** (voiced by Clancy Brown) - Bush's manipulative Vice President who often TBD.
	+ **Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice** (voiced by Cree Summer) - TBD
* **President Barack Obama** (voiced by Phil LaMarr) - the chill and TBD President of the United States since 2009 who is trying to stop the country from being a laughing stock, even if TBD.
	+ **Vice President Joe Biden** (voiced by Jim Meskimen) - Obama's supportive Vice President who TBD.
	+ **Secretary of State Hillary Clinton** (also voiced by Tress MacNeille) - former President Bill Clinton's cunning and TBD wife who now works under Obama as she secretly schemes to impeach him and Biden in order to become President.
* **Steven Spielberg** (voiced by Mark Hamill) - a world-renowned filmmaker and an executive producer for *Animaniacs* who is usually very calm.
* **Bugs Bunny** (voiced by Joe Alaskey) - the leader of the *Looney Tunes* and the mascot of Warner Bros. who is regarded by the Warners as one of their idols and is out to be sure that they don't cause a lot of trouble around Los Angeles.
* **Daffy Duck** (also voiced by Joe Alaskey) - Bugs' greedy and selfish frenemy who has occasionally scammed characters like the Goodfeathers or even the Warners themselves in exchange of getting some quick cash.
* **Porky Pig** (voiced by Bob Bergen) - a friendly but shy stuttering pig who is Daffy's best friend as he's often forced to help him with his schemes, even if he doesn't mind being with him due to wanting to put some reason into his head.
* **Lola Bunny** (voiced by Kath Soucie) - Bugs' tomboyish and rather ditzy girlfriend who is regarded by Dot as one of her role models and TBD.
* **The Tasmanian Devil** (voiced by Jim Cummings) - TBD
* **Buster and Babs Bunny** (voiced by Charlie Adler and also by Tress MacNeille, respectively) - Bugs and Lola's equally TBD *protégés* who seem to be relatively good friends with the Warners, even if they hold some TBD for they overshadowing them in popularity.
* **Plucky Duck** (also voiced by Joe Alaskey) - TBD
* **Speedy R. Dog** (voiced by Billy West) - TBD
* **Freakazoid** (voiced by Paul Rugg) - a goofy superhero who challenged the Warners in a game of zaniness.
* **Zany Maximum** (also voiced by Tom Kenny) - TBD
* **Lucille "Lucy" Rowland** (also voiced by Kath Soucie) - TBD

### Antagonists

* **Pinky and the Brain** (also voiced by Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche, respectively) - a duo consisting of an idiotic and an intelligent genetically enhanced lab mice who often try to take over the world, usually failing at it due to Pinky's idiocy messing up with the Brain's schemes.
* **Walter Wolf** (also voiced by Jess Harnell) - TBD
* **Mr. Director** (also voiced by Paul Rugg) - Damien's father who is now a ghost as he occasionally haunts the Warners.

#### Show-exclusive

* **Damien Director** (voiced by Nolan North) - Mr. Director's unhinged son who wants revenge on the Warners for supposedly killing his father in cold blood.
* **Gary O'Malley** (voiced by John DiMaggio) - a short-tempered Irish news reporter for Faux News who hosts *The O'Malley Retort* who loves to scream and overreact to anything and everything.
* **Laura** (voiced by Carolyn Lawrence) - a very intelligent rat who Brain has a crush on.
* **Slinky and the Drain** (voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz and Kevin Conroy, respectively) - two evil gerbils who are enemies to Pinky and the Brain.
* **The Birds in the Hood**, consisting of:
	+ **Peru** (voiced by Khary Payton) - the leader of the Birds in the Hood who despises Bobby.
	+ **Chocolate** (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) - a dumb member of the Birds in the Hood who is enemies with Pesto.
	+ **Walnut** (also voiced by Phil LaMarr) - a friendly member of the Birds in the Hood who is somewhat enemies with Squit.
* **AnemoneDan CircleShorts** (also voiced by Rob Paulsen) - an extremely annoying anemone who annoys people.
* **Seductra** (voiced by Olivia Olson) - a pop star who happens to be a siren as she uses her mystic abilities to lure people to their dooms.
* **Tara Lovitz** (voiced by Allison Janney) - a witch who lives in the woods and leads people to her oven.
* **Madame Lucke** (voiced by Susan Eisenberg) - a businesswoman who gives wannabe idols a chance to make it big in her traveling circus.
* **Cassandra Van Pierre** (voiced by TBD) - a new female executive at Warner Bros. who is out to completely eliminate the Warners.
* **Li Mae** (voiced by Ming-Na Wen) - a deranged Chinese vampiress who is thirsty for blood and needs it as she turned Dot into a vampire.
* **Danger Dentist** (voiced by TBD) - an evil dentist who loves collecting teeth.
* **Fletcher T. Flea** (voiced by TBD) - a rude flea who leads a gang of other fleas who bite people just for the fun of it.
* **The Tuna** (voiced by Rodger Bumpass) - a living piece of tuna that uses his scales to hypnotize cats.
* **Canadian Yakko, Wakko and Dot** (also voiced by Billy West, John DiMaggio and by Jennifer Hale, respectively) - three Canadian versions of the Warner who are stereotypically nice but hate not getting attention.
* **Simeon Powell** (voiced by Simon Cowell) - a mean and arrogant talent agent who is a judge for *Cartoon Idol* and is TBD.
* **Gordon Ramsay** (voiced by himself) - a famous Scottish chef who is very hostile towards any amateur cooks.

#### Cameos

* **Elmer Fudd** (also voiced by Billy West) - an idiotic hunter who TBD.
* **Yosemite Sam** (also voiced by Maurice LaMarche) - an anger-prone criminal who TBD.
* **Marvin the Martian** (also voiced by Joe Alaskey) - a soft-spoken but vicious alien invader who TBD.

## Episodes

*Main article: List of Animaniacs (2005 TV series) episodes*
## Broadcast

*Main article: Animaniacs (2005 TV series)/Broadcast*
## Theme song

*Main article: Animaniacs (2005 TV series)/Broadcast*

## 2020 revival/reboot

*Main article: Animaniacs (2020 TV series)*
*Coming soon!*

## Trivia

* Most of the voice cast reprise their roles from the original role, with Skippy Squirrel being the only notable exception, although Nathan Ruegger (since he was now an adult) reprises his role for Skippy's teenage self on his first appearance.
	+ To avoid a recast due to child actors' puberty, the show's crew opted to make him now voiced by a female voice actress.
* Rather than using the theme song version from when they were a segment on the original run, the Pinky and the Brain segments opening uses a shortened version of their spin-off theme song.
* Although Minerva Mink, Buttons and Mindy, Chicken Boo, Katie Ka-Boom and Mr. Skull return in this series, neither have their own segments like the original, appearing instead as supporting in several shorts.
	+ As stated by the show's crew, as much some are fan favorites, it was relatively harder to come up with new and creative plotlines for them without rehashing older ones, while in Minerva's case, they opted to play safe to avoid the possibility of having moral guardians protesting once more to her shorts.
	+ Heloise Nerz/Hello Nurse also return in this series, but due to licensing from SkyRuby Studios, she only appearing in cameos in several shorts, while also appearing as supporting.
* The decision to kill off Mr. Director and replacing him with his son was made due to the writers believing that a Jerry Lewis-like character would come out as outdated in the 21st century (especially considering his age at the time) and that the likes of a modern comedian like Will Ferrell could easily attract more interest from the viewers.