Animaniacs

:This article is about the television series. For the Tiny Toon Adventures episode of the same name, see Animaniacs! (Tiny Toons episode).

The Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister)

This show focused around the adventures, or more accurately, misadventures of the Warner Bros. (Yakko and Wakko Warner) and the Warner Sister (Dot), who claim to be the stars of some of the early Warner Bros. cartoons, which were so crazy that the studio execs locked them away in the water tower at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. This description of the Warners is a tongue-in-cheek homage to Bosko, Warner Bros.' first cartoon character, whose cartoons were not highly regarded by many people.

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Warner Bros. (Yakko and Wakko Warner) and the Warner Sister (Dot) - Cartoon - Water tower - Burbank, California - Bosko

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The red-nosed Warner siblings bear a striking resemblance to the portrayals of Bosko and his girlfriend Honey (who look remarkably like Dot and Yakko) in a 1990 episode of Tiny Toon Adventures entitled Fields of Honey, also created by Steven Spielberg. Afraid that the portrayals of Bosko and Honey might be deemed controversial, they were changed to anthropomorphic doglike characters, and that episode served as the "bridge" between Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs. Pictures from Fields of Honey can be seen here

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Originally the Warners were intended to be ducks, but producer Tom Ruegger realized they'd been done to death by Disney (see DuckTales), so he made them indeterminate children. He also modeled their personalities a bit after his three sons (who all did voices on the series at one time or another).

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Disney - DuckTales

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