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Being born in the year 1990, I know the Animaniacs had been a major part of my childhood... even after the show was cancelled, watching the reruns while they lasted helped me laugh my way though my parents' divorce... but looking back on the original version after seeing the first episode of the reboot, and seeing clips from the movie "Wakko's Wish", there was a few detailed of the episode "65th Anniversary Special" that got on my nerves, and it is NOT the fact the show is only that old in its own universe; it's the fact that they seemingly blamed Yakko, Wakko, and Dot for their cartoonist Lon Borax ending up in The Home for Retired Animators (Who Went Nuts!), but that was the wrong way to go. I should know, I grew up wanting to be a cartoonist myself... I even wanted to own my own animation studio... but as I got older, I found that just getting the job is tricky enough, having a disrespectful director insult your work would only make things worse, and I assumed that's what really happened.

All three men below are Lon Borax in different areas of his life: on the left, he was a young man who loved slapstick comedy but hid that side of him away in favor of finding non-violent ways to make kids smile (yes, I chose that outfit to make him a human version of Buddy, as artists put themselves in their work) and probably started as a songwriter but switched to animation as it, to him, was a chance to show the world what happiness looked like, which leads to the middle version of him... when Weed Memlo called Lon's work boring-- after all the effort he put in it-- and demanded more characters to liven up the segment, the cartoonist's long suppressed zany side came out as a coping mechanism to the tight schedule, leading to bringing the Warner kids and their personalities out of the imaginary world and into the real one. Knowing how they'll turn out made him laugh, his joyful laugh became a laugh of madness when he realized how inappropriate this particular side of himself was, thus leading to his final image where he ran of and joined the asylum of his own free will and made the most of it... it takes a truly sane man to admit to being crazy.

Above him are split images of a portal where Yakko, Wakko, and Dot are crossing out of the imaginary realm cartoons are born in BEFORE being drawn on paper (thus their ragged outfits from "Wakko's Wish") and being reborn as the (at the time) newest cartoon characters (thus their well-known "modern" clothes)... unfortunately, what happened to them in their pre-drawn backstory left them undisciplined, and having their animator fly the coop didn't help much, so their zaniness became so out of control they ended up locked in the studio water tower for ages.

Here's hoping in the reboot, the Warner kids have some kind of closer with their creator, but that's probably wishful thinking.

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Being born in the year 1990, I know the Animaniacs had been a major part of my childhood... even after the show was cancelled, watching the reruns while they lasted helped me laugh my way though my parents' divorce... but looking back on the original version after seeing the first episode of the reboot, and seeing clips from the movie "Wakko's Wish", there was a few detailed of the episode "65th Anniversary Special" that got on my nerves, and it is NOT the fact the show is only that old in its own universe; it's the fact that they seemingly blamed Yakko, Wakko, and Dot for their cartoonist Lon Borax ending up in The Home for Retired Animators (Who Went Nuts!), but that was the wrong way to go. I should know, I grew up wanting to be a cartoonist myself... I even wanted to own my own animation studio... but as I got older, I found that just getting the job is tricky enough, having a disrespectful director insult your work would only make things worse, and I assumed that's what really happened.

All three men below are Lon Borax in different areas of his life: on the left, he was a young man who loved slapstick comedy but hid that side of him away in favor of finding non-violent ways to make kids smile (yes, I chose that outfit to make him a human version of Buddy, as artists put themselves in their work) and probably started as a songwriter but switched to animation as it, to him, was a chance to show the world what happiness looked like, which leads to the middle version of him... when Weed Memlo called Lon's work boring-- after all the effort he put in it-- and demanded more characters to liven up the segment, the cartoonist's long suppressed zany side came out as a coping mechanism to the tight schedule, leading to bringing the Warner kids and their personalities out of the imaginary world and into the real one. Knowing how they'll turn out made him laugh, his joyful laugh became a laugh of madness when he realized how inappropriate this particular side of himself was, thus leading to his final image where he ran of and joined the asylum of his own free will and made the most of it... it takes a truly sane man to admit to being crazy.

Above him are split images of a portal where Yakko, Wakko, and Dot are crossing out of the imaginary realm cartoons are born in BEFORE being drawn on paper (thus their ragged outfits from "Wakko's Wish") and being reborn as the (at the time) newest cartoon characters (thus their well-known "modern" clothes)... unfortunately, what happened to them in their pre-drawn backstory left them undisciplined, and having their animator fly the coop didn't help much, so their zaniness became so out of control they ended up locked in the studio water tower for ages.

Here's hoping in the reboot, the Warner kids have some kind of closer with their creator, but that's probably wishful thinking.