I don't know what date exactly the show dropped but new episodes are available on Hulu now.

so far, i've only watched the first one. it's still good--clever songs, a great pinky & the brain sketch, funny stuff.

there was a review i was reading that said "zany doesn't work in this era".

yeah, because your average viewer is a raging narrow-minded, self-righteous prig who has their finger poised over the "cancel" button if it isn't to their liking.

this generation has no sense of humor. why would they get zany?

It's time for Animaniacs

And we're zany within socially acceptable parameters considering that black men are murdered by police every day

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Love it. Time to introduce my kids to it.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

It's incredible that an old Pinky & The Brain sketch from '94 was just Maurice LaMarche doing the Orson Welles outtakes but for kids. In fact, I think the whole Brain character arose from LaMarche doing Orson Welles bits to crack people up before voice work.

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it's back for the 2nd season (contracted for 2). another 13 episodes, and we've watched the first 2 so far. again, they're pretty fun and light-hearted. it's a shame they keep the same format for every episode. i don't know if there are plans to expand that if they get picked up for another season.

but i do miss the other characters (they made an all-too-brief appearance in the first season).

this show probably won't pick up many new fans unfortunately. animation has gone through a lot of changes in the past twentysome years. it was way funnier back then, for one thing.

I think so, Brain, but how will we get a pair of Abe Vigoda's pants?

I tried watching the old show on Hulu last couple years based on the rave reviews, but thought it was pretty bad. Only good parts were the geography songs.

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Any Chickenboo in the new episodes? I've watched a few of the old ones with the kids. Pinky and the Brain was a big hit.

I read somewhere that Chicken Boo got poor feedback. I thought it was funny. I appreciated the anti-humor of it even then.

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I don't know what you call the "Bob's Bojack Big Mouth" style of animation programming (it's not CalArts, is it?), but every now and then I catch a promo on social media for this or that new animated series and they're all the same. It's always the same vaguely ugly artwork, the same detached celebrity voice work, the same "adult" humor that doesn't feel subversive anymore. I remember there was one show that I saw a promo for, I don't even remember the premise, just that something was going on in a high school gym. But it came out of the same meat grinder as everything else. John Kricfalusi may have been disgusting in real life, but at least he made something that looked real and different.

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Oh, it was awful but I found it enjoyable. Most of the folks who watched it when I watched it would groan about it but I wasn't the only fan in the room.

Chicken Boo was gaslighting. There would always be one person screaming "that's not a handsome leading man of the Golden Age of Hollywood, that is clearly a poorly disguised giant chicken!" and everyone else would be like "no, you're making it up." I think it really sent a dangerous message to children.

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I like the ensemble cast of cartoons. Underdog was like that.

So were Heathcliff and Garfield, always brought on the B-team to work the middle innings. I barely cared about Heathcliff. Why was I supposed to care about Riff-Raff?

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Riff Raff was on Heathcliff too? First crossover character? I never watched either of those.

well, in any event, we're through 4 episodes and no chicken boo.

That's disappointing.

GoodFeathers was one I didn't appreciate until years later, for obvious reasons. They did a good job with that one.

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bump. we still have yet to finish season 2, there's like 4 episodes left...and it became a slog after episode 6 or 7. this show isn't meant for streaming. it is way too repetitive.

looks like they will have 1 more season, and that's it. i'm not sure i care enough to check it out at this point.

https://movieweb.com/animaniacs-season-3-trailer/