It’s interesting watching Animaniacs in the order the episodes originally aired. Because the show is a collection of shorts, most people probably remember Animaniacs on a sketch-by-sketch basis rather than as complete episodes. (The exception of course being the handful of single-sketch episodes, like the upcoming “Taming Of The Screwy.”) But watching the first few episodes in order, it becomes very apparent there’s a method underneath that madness, a purposeful rolling-out of characters, themes, and recurring gags.
Now, I don’t want to overstate things; this is still a very fragmented series, and I’m by no means suggesting the Animaniacs writers were attempting anything approaching serialization. And it’s apparent when looking ahead at upcoming episodes that this pattern doesn’t sustain itself very far beyond the first handful of episodes. But the early episodes—the ones the show’s producers had the longest amount of time ...
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