Comments on: From the archives: Temporally Increasing Morbidity in Animaniacs http://cartoonoveranalyzations.com/2008/03/06/from-the-archives-temporally-increasing-morbidity-in-animaniacs/ hooking up phrases and clauses that balance Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:06:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Egypt Urnash http://cartoonoveranalyzations.com/2008/03/06/from-the-archives-temporally-increasing-morbidity-in-animaniacs/#comment-82 Egypt Urnash Sun, 11 May 2008 13:42:29 +0000 http://cartoonoveranalyzations.wordpress.com/?p=94#comment-82 "Hysteria: it's ike the historical songs in <i>Animaniacs</i>, without the goddamn Warner Brothers." - the one-sentence pitch I got about that show when talking with a WBTV director at an animation job fair. My general impression - from that quote, and from later discussions with people who'd worked on the show - is that nobody who worked on <i>Animaniacs</i> really <i>liked</i> it much after very long; the increasing amount of morbid humor can probably be traced to this sublimated bitterness. “Hysteria: it’s ike the historical songs in Animaniacs, without the goddamn Warner Brothers.” - the one-sentence pitch I got about that show when talking with a WBTV director at an animation job fair.

My general impression - from that quote, and from later discussions with people who’d worked on the show - is that nobody who worked on Animaniacs really liked it much after very long; the increasing amount of morbid humor can probably be traced to this sublimated bitterness.

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