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it may be best to leave them to rest until some morron decides to bring them and back and butcher the show, or worse; make a bad animated movie!

it was a great show and featured lots of jokes we didnt get back then. look it up on youtube sometime

The Animaniacs never jumped the shark. They were always innovative and the comedy of it is still fresh, especially if you watch it now and realize all the jokes you might not have gotten about Censors or Executive Meddling then is hilarious now! Also, for those who think the show jumped after it turned educational, it ALWAYS poked fun at this in one form or the other. Take "Wheel of Morality" shorts for instance...

Katie Ka-Boom was, by far, the best Incredible Hulk parody ever.

Better than the Infraggable Krunk, the Incredible Hippo or even Saturday Night Live Hulk parodies.

Loved gags like the "Wheel of Morality", but hated the educational stuff, which amounted to little more than propaganda for the agenda of the Clinton administration. It's unfortunate the wheel never actually landed on "Bankrupt". That would have been honest - and, in my view, the most hilarious thing ever to happen on the show. It was already funny that the space was there.

The Animaniacs was a cartoon show that just broke the 4th wall. Even if they were forced to teach something they tried their best to make due with it. All the stuff in the shows still work. Ya some things were censored but what did the show did? They made a cartoon WITH networks rep's trying to force them to make a cutey cartoon. Rather than the slap stick comedy that they do. They NEVER jumped the shark. Nothing majorly new was put in. They made a group and stayed with them. No major new characters, no major new settings, it was the solid group of people we knew. Lot's of singing and the Warner Brother and Sister basically stayed the same in how they acted. Heck I think even the movie did well.

I will say when it was forced to become educational. although some of those songs they do are good, it just seemed to take away from the no direction of the show, other than that i dont think it ever jumped

good show. I'd love to see it again over shows such as "Chowder", "Spongebob Squarepants", and some bum show, uh what, umm? "Johnny Test"? "Animaniacs" proves that cartoons today aren't worth much. Formerly known as "guest", call me Tha Critic.

animaniacs were awsome i wish the would just bring it back*sniffs*i miss it

Okay hold on a sec. you see that really long comment on page four. I'm not speaking for anamaniacs even though I love it so but I'm going to point something out. It's people like this that make me sick. This person is not crazy or deranged for all such reasons like not enjoying anamaniacs or the 90's. But for rejecting and pummelling peoples joy from this show. This person is obviously in a bad mood and can't even bear to let out a chuckle at slight humor found on any cartoon. As for jumping the shark? It didn't. there are many times where it avoided the shark and we didn't notice. The reason it was cancelled is because a new generation of cartoon artists came along with the new century and apparently these classic cartoons didn't fit their taste so now children must engage in stupidity such as spongebob. On a shorter note: Avatar: the last good show on nick.

I used to watch Animaniacs on WTXF 29.

Animaniacs could fit fine with today's humor. it is just like Family Guy or American Dad or even the comedian Cathy Griffin but aimed at a younger crowd with much didactic clips. My guess, it it that it was ahead of its time.

I loved Elmira, The Pinky and the Brain, but hated chicken Boo. There was something for everyone... very clever! I CAN"T WAIT FOR A COME BACK!!

Wait! Don't bring it back! Here me out...
I loved this show too, but if it's brought back, there is an excellent chance that the jump will happen. Right now, it hasn't jumped the shark. Let's keep it that way. Many sharks are jumped because a show is brought back.

I completely agree with most of the statements here: Bring this show back, damnit! It was a classic. My favorite episode: Hot Bothered and Bedeviled. Who wouldn't think that the Warners in Hades wouldn't be funny? Let this generation see what they're missing out on, instead of this crap that is poisoning our children's minds. I used to come home every day and watch this, Earthworm Jim and then Freakazoid all in a row. Bring it back!

The show never jumped, though it did come close on occasions. (Wakko's Wish, anyone?)

I admit, I don't really remember this show very well (I did watch it, but not very often), and most of my knowledge came from watching clips on Youtube, but still. I can see how some parts could be considered annoying (The Warner siblings got on my nerves at times), the pop culture references sometimes felt very, very forced, and Buttons and Mindy was just plain terrible, but I'm absolutely astonished by how witty this show was at times, with their spot-on translations of Shakespeare works and innuendo so clever and subtle that jokes like "finger-Prince" and "PIANIST!" made it past the censors.

And the songs? Usually I hate singing in cartoons, but these songs were catchy, brilliantly written, and just plain awesome. They were educational, but in a very enjoyable way.

Also: The episode Woodstock Slappy had a reference to my favorite band of all time. (Yes) That automatically gives them points in my eyes.

It never jumped. It could have if it was never canceled, but through its lifetime, it never did.

It jumped when I saw Dot for the first time. She is the definition of "cute but ugly". I loved Tiny Toon Adventures because Babs and Fifi were hot. I couldn't find anything hot about Dot.

The show made up for Dot's cute ugliness and jumped back to the good side with Minerva Mink and the Good Idea Bad Idea stuff.