Animaniacs
One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock
TV Flash files “One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock” as a desk essential hour — Animaniacs (1993–1998) on Fox Kids/Kids' WB, season 4, episode 1, aired 1996-09-07, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E01: listed hour 230 of 274 in the Animaniacs guide, first listed hour of season 4. It aired 1996-09-07 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Big Wrap Party Tonight” (S03E46). Next is “Cutie and the Beast” (S04E02).
Essential hour: “One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock”. One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock: later-run pop-culture memory as the actual set, still refusing a single-age joke.
Viewer FAQ
Where does One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock sit in the Animaniacs guide?
S04E01 is listed hour 230 of 274 — first listed hour of season 4, season 4 episode 1.
When did Animaniacs S04E01 air?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock aired 1996-09-07 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Is Pinky and the Brain part of this?
Yes — world-domination sitcom segments inside the variety show, later spun off into a series of their own.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Warner siblings running amok through history, Hollywood, and your parents’ pop-culture memory. Variety-cartoon velocity: Yakko’s geography earworms, Pinky and the Brain’s world-domination sitcom, and gags pitched at two ages in the same frame. Educational chaos as house style — vaudeville, satire, and a music lesson before the next commercial.
Fox Kids, 1993, later Kids' WB: Warner siblings escape the water tower and the drop calendar becomes vaudeville. Tom Ruegger developed the series under Spielberg's Amblin banner. Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche — variety-cartoon velocity: Yakko's geography earworms, parody, wordplay, gags pitched at two ages in the same frame. Pinky and the Brain plotting world domination between segments. Educational chaos as house style — a music lesson before the next commercial. **Five seasons,…
Filed against
- Rob Paulsen as Yakko Warner
Rob Paulsen’s Raphael made cowabunga a business plan on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — pizza, a rat sensei, toy-glut Christmas lists — then ran amok as Yakko-era velocity on Animaniacs. 1987 sewer martial-arts slapstick; variety-cartoon…
- Jess Harnell as Wakko Warner
Jess Harnell’s Wakko Warner ran amok through Animaniacs — Warner siblings looting history and Hollywood, variety-cartoon velocity, Yakko’s geography earworms, Pinky and the Brain in the next cell. 1990s gags pitched at two ages in the…
- Tress MacNeille as Dot Warner
Tress MacNeille’s Dot Warner ran amok through Animaniacs — history, Hollywood, and your parents’ pop-culture memory at variety-cartoon velocity. Yakko’s geography earworms, Pinky and the Brain’s world-domination sitcom, gags pitched at…
- Maurice LaMarche as The Brain
Maurice LaMarche plotted the world as the Brain on Animaniacs — Warner siblings running amok through history and Hollywood, variety-cartoon velocity, Pinky and the Brain’s world-domination sitcom inside the chaos. Gags pitched at two ages…
- Rob Paulsen as Pinky
Rob Paulsen’s Raphael made cowabunga a business plan on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — pizza, a rat sensei, toy-glut Christmas lists — then ran amok as Yakko-era velocity on Animaniacs. 1987 sewer martial-arts slapstick; variety-cartoon…