TV SERIES · 1993

Animaniacs

AdventureAnimationComedyFamilyMusical21 min per episode

Inside the Warner Bros. studio lot, the unruly Warner siblings Yakko, Wakko, and Dot keep escaping the water tower and turning every day into chaos. Their shorts bounce from backstage chases to fairy-tale sendups, classroom disasters, and show-business spoofs, with songs, slapstick, and jokes aimed at pop culture, history, and whatever authority figure tries to contain them. The series keeps shifting focus to other oddball regulars too, including the lab mice Pinky and the Brain, whose nightly plans for world domination collapse in increasingly ridiculous ways. Created by Tom Ruegger and backed by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin, it packs fast sketches, recurring gags, and musical numbers into a nonstop cartoon variety show.