Wake Mi(nerva) Up

**Wake Mi(nerva) Up**, or **Wake Me Up**, is an unscheduled music video starring Newt and Minerva Mink from Animaniacs, as for their genderbent versions. The song featured is "Sleep" by The Orion Experience.

The animation starts off with Newt, waking up inside his owner's house and the two preparing themselves for a day of hunting. Newt tries to catch Minerva like always, but is too infatuated by her. When the story switches to their genderbent selves, things transpire much the same, though the song's lyrics seems to have flipped and argues Manfred is the victimized party -or rather, he himself believes to be.

There are no plans to realize it beyond a storyboard and there's no desired date of completion set for the project. Conception was somewhere at the end of 2023.

## Description

*(The description below is for personal guidance with the project)*

**(0:13)**

Wide shot of Newt inside his owner's living room. He's in a basket, waking up, but hardly excited to.

**(0:17)**

Newt and his owner are going through their morning routine.

**(0:22)**

Newt and his owner enter their car and head to the forest.

**(0:35)**

Newt is digging a large trench to trap Minerva in, but she swoons him into playing her bridge. A giant bear shows up with the intention to walk over him as well. Plus a few more critters.

**(0:47)**

Newt places down a bear trap at Minerva's front door. Minerva exits while he's still busy, stepping on his head as she does so, causing the trap to decapitate this cartoon dawg.

**(0:49)**

Newt approaches Minerva as she's sunbathing on a garden chair. She gets up when he jumps, the chair eats him.

**(0:53)**

Newt sees Minerva coming closer, he strings up a net, but captures his owner while she took the road just next to his.

**(0:56)**

Newt is very angry and goes to a party/bar he knows Minerva is at. He looks around for her with shotgun in hand. She eventually notices him standing with the weapon, as do all other unsettled patrons.

**(1:05)**

Minerva dances towards him, seducing him to let go and give the gun to her. This scene is a one-shot camera spin that primarily follows Minerva.

**(1:25)**

Minerva points the shotgun at the lovestruck Newt, who finally realizes where he is and appropriately puts his hands up.

**(1:27)**

The screen rotates and switches over to Newt and Minerva's genderbent selves. Manfred finds Newlyn trapped in his garden chair, drink in hand.

**(1:30)**

Manfred is shopping for clothes, his tail pressing down on Newt's head holding a net, trying to capture him, but she's short and embarrassingly feeble. Other mustelids in the store look on, but not with genuine concern.

**(1:32)**

Manfred shows off two shirts he's interested in, asking Newlyn which one she'd pick.

**(1:33)**

Newlyn is looking out more clothes for him, but has already been abandoned.

**(1:38)**

Manfred is dressed for Summer and lying in Newlyn's tree-strung net trap like a hammock. She stands there watching.

**(1:40)**

Manfred is doing yoga (?) and lying on his back, balancing Newlyn on his feet, who is trying to punch and swipe at him. In the background lies a bunch of trash; remnants of failed tools and traps.

**(1:43)**

Manfred exits the house, but with no bear trap waiting for him, suspects something's off. He finds her, her attention with a different man.

**(1:46)**

It grabs his attention for a bit, but he moves on from it anyway.

**(1:48)**

Newlyn and a friend are dressed up and enter a dance club. Newlyn isn't dressed particularly well and showing up was not her idea.

**(1:50)**

Manfred is already there and sees her enter. Newlyn sees him too, but is coerced by her friend not to look at him.

**(1:55)**

Manfred grins to himself at the prospect of ruining her attempt of moving on from him.

**(1:56)**

Newlyn is doing a sad little dance, trying to have fun.

**(1:58)**

Manfred dances over to her and crosses the room.

**(2:02)**

Newlyn's friend tries to shield her. Newlyn continues to do her thing.

**(2:04)**

Manfred tries to switch sides and get into Newlyn's view.

**(2:08)**

Manfred steps back to dance. Newlyn shows short-lived interest, then turns around again.

**(2:12)**

Manfred bends over to try and make eye contact and follow Newlyn's gaze as she keeps turning around.

**(2:18)**

Manfred steps back again and dances a little harder. Almost worked the last time, after all.

**(2:20)**

Newlyn's friend looks rather displeased.

**(2:22)**

Manfred hunches over, past her, and reaches out his hand to Newlyn. She rejects the fake gesture.

**(2:28)**

Manfred notices guys watching on in the background, though it's Newlyn's friend they're focused on. It's hard for him to know for sure.

**(2:32)**

When the camera goes back to full shot, Newlyn and her friend have left the party. Manfred is peeved not to have gotten her attention.

**(2:38)**

A few short, identical shots of the characters, normal, then genderbent. Newt riding in his owner's car, Minerva doing make-up in front of a mirror, Minerva accepting a bouquet of flowers with an obvious stick of dynamite in it, Newt (accidentally?) getting a bucket of used soap water dumped onto him from Minerva's window, etc.

**(2:59)**

Minerva is picnicking with her friends, reading magazines featuring hot male actors and models, placed there by Newt. He casually puts down a rope around their blanket with the intention to capture them at once.

He hides inside of a bush, as if that's necessary, but Minerva is already there and kicks him out, still holding her magazine.

**(3:08)**

Newt falls off a cliff. This involves a one-shot scene of him continuously falling, hitting small platforms attached to the cliff on the beat of the song. Minerva makes appearances, watching him fall or hanging out on a platform like she's supposed to be there.

**(3:28)**

The same happens as above, but Newt falls out of frame and Newlyn drops down instead.

**(3:38)**

Both versions now share the screen as they fall.