Animaniacs: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Animaniacs Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Deduces Wild
Sep 9, 1995
The Warners bother Sherlock Holmes for help with their scavenger hunt.
Rest in Pieces
Sep 9, 1995
Slappy is asked to attend Walter's funeral, which is really a ruse planned by Walter to blow Slappy sky-high.
U.N. Me
Sep 9, 1995
The Warners sing about the United Nations to the tune of "Down by the Riverside".
Super Strong Warner Siblings
Sep 9, 1995
In a parody of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the Warners fight against a giant insect destroying the Warner Studio.
Nutcracker Slappy
Sep 9, 1995
Slappy and Skippy resort to extreme measures in order to crack the last nut in the kitchen, accompanied by music from The Nutcracker. Guest appearance by Charlton "Baynarts" Woodch
Wakko's New Gookie
Sep 9, 1995
Wakko tries to come up with a new "gookie", or bizarre facial expression.
A Quake, a Quake!
Sep 9, 1995
The Warners sing a song about the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
Variety Speak
Sep 16, 1995
Yakko and Dot explain to Wakko through song about how to read the headlines in Variety Magazine.
Three Tenors and You're Out
Sep 16, 1995
Slappy's plans to take Skippy to a baseball game at Dodger Stadium go wrong when an opera performance by the famed Domino, Pepperoni, and Carumba is scheduled for that night instea
Bingo
Sep 16, 1995
Dr. Scratchansniff has only one player for his weekly bingo game – Wakko.
A Hard Day's Warners
Sep 23, 1995
In a parody of The Beatles in A Hard Day's Night, the Warners run from their fans as they try to reach a cartoon convention. Guest appearances by Pinky and the Brain; Elmyra Duff i
Gimme A Break
Sep 23, 1995
Slappy tries to get away from the filming of a blockbuster action movie on her vacation day.
Please Please Please Get a Life Foundation
Sep 23, 1995
The Warners try to tell people in a TV commercial to "get a life" instead of going over every little reference in their show.
The Tiger Prince
Sep 30, 1995
A parody of the grand opening of Disney's "The Lion King".
All the Words in the English Language
Sep 30, 1995
Throughout the episode, Yakko tries to sing all of the words in the English language dictionary to the tune of the "Mexican Hat Dance", similar to the previous skit, "Yakko's World
The Kid In The Lid
Sep 30, 1995
The Warners visit brother and sister Mary and Scooter and raise a ruckus in the style of The Cat in the Hat. Guest appearance by Charlton Woodchuck.
Method To Her Madness
Sep 30, 1995
In the 1950s, Slappy and Skippy attend a method acting class, which Slappy turns into a comedy class.
Gimme The Works
Oct 21, 1995
Tired of their episode's latest plot (meeting a hot-dog salesman), the Warners walk out of their cartoon.
Hercules Unwound
Oct 21, 1995
After the Warners walk out of this cartoon too, Pinky and the Brain plan to steal Zeus' lightning bolts in ancient Greece as part of Brain's latest plan to take over the world.
This Pun For Hire
Nov 4, 1995
In a parody of The Maltese Falcon and film-noir, the Warners (as detectives) search and protect a mysterious statue from several suspicious characters (Minerva, Hello Nurse, Dr. Sc
Star Truck
Nov 4, 1995
The Warners are beamed onto their favorite old sci-fi show, Star Truck, where they cause chaos to the crew and introduce engineer Squatty to donuts.
The Presidents Song
Nov 11, 1995
To the William Tell Overture, the Warners sing about all presidents from George Washington to Bill Clinton.
Don't Tread on Us
Nov 11, 1995
Pinky and the Brain plot to replace the Declaration of Independence with Brain's Declaration of Obedience, which will make him emperor of the world.
The Flame Returns, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nov 11, 1995
The Flame is present as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes his famous poem called "Paul Revere's Ride"
The Sound of Warners
Nov 18, 1995
In a musical parody of The Sound of Music, Mr. Plotz hires Prunella Flundergust (a parody of Maria von Trappe), a nanny who unknowingly gives the Warners a hard time with her singi
Yabba Dabba Boo
Nov 18, 1995
Chicken Boo attends a table read for the movie The Flintstones.
My Mother The Squirrel
Jan 27, 1996
The little bird from Wild Blue Yonder returns and is adopted by Slappy.
The Party
Jan 27, 1996
The Warners invite several people to their water tower in expectation of a surprise guest, who Thaddeus Plotz believes to be Steven Spielberg, but is really a different "Steven".
Oh! Say Can You See?
Jan 27, 1996
The Flame is present and watches along as Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner during the War of 1812.
The 12 Days of Christmas Song
Jan 27, 1996
The little bird from "Wild Blue Yonder" (accompanied by the Animaniacs orchestra) sings The Twelve Days of Christmas, with all of the gifts being turtledoves.
Dot's Entertainment
Feb 3, 1996
Dot is hired to take up an act in a famous musical. When the director, Andy Lloud Webby, becomes annoying, she and her brothers decide to ruin it.
The Girl with the Googily Goop
Feb 3, 1996
A showing of the Warners' appearance in a Googi Goop cartoon, "Little Red Riding Goop".
Gunga Dot
Feb 3, 1996
In a parody of Rudyard Kipling's poem Gunga Din, Dot is the only one with water in a village and everyone wants it, because it is hot out.
Soccer Coach Slappy
Feb 3, 1996
Slappy is the coach of Skippy's soccer team. Skippy keeps getting hit in the face by the ball, causing him to cry and Slappy deciding to put him out of the game. But at the final g
Belly Button Blues
Feb 3, 1996
Katie Ka-Boom gets furious when her parents will not let her wear clothes that are "in-style" at her school, since they make her belly button visible.
Our Final Space Cartoon, We Promise
Feb 3, 1996
The Warners wake up from suspended animation in a spaceship in a parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey. When AL5000, the computer of the ship, orders them to return to their sleeping pod
Valuable Lesson
Feb 3, 1996
The Warners are visited by network censors after harassing Attila the Hun, their cartoons being too violent.
Wakko's 2-Note Song
Feb 24, 1996
Wakko proves to Schratchnsniff that his song made of two notes is actual music.
Panama Canal
Feb 24, 1996
Yakko sings a song on the Latin American waterway to the tune of "Low Bridge".
Hello Nurse
Feb 24, 1996
Wakko sings a song about his favorite girl (Hello Nurse, of course).
The Ballad of Magellan
Feb 24, 1996
The Warners sing a song about Ferdinand Magellan to the tune of "Git Along, Little Dogies".
The Return of the Great Wakkorotti
Feb 24, 1996
Wakko, suffering from laryngitis and unable to belch, uses fart sounds from his hands to perform the "Chinese Dance" from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.
The Big Wrap Party Tonight
Feb 24, 1996
The Warners sing about their big third-season wrap party at the water tower.