Everything old is new again with Huluâs latest reboot, Animaniacs, coming to us 22 years after the popular 90âs show went off the air. Thankfully, our Warner brothers Yakko and Wakko and Warner sister Dot are just as âzany and totally insaneyâ as we remember them. Pinky and the Brain are also back, still spending their nights âtrying to take over the worldâ. Episode 1 fills us in on what our characters have been up to the last 22 years, and weâre off with 13 episodes of jokes and pranks at the incredibly rapid-fire pace as they always did. But weâre different viewers in 2020 than we were in the mid-90s; YouTube and social media have made clever fast-paced comedy a norm for us now, and the Animaniacs are fully aware of not getting stuck in the nostalgia rut, literally.
The show shines with non-stop inside jokes that will please the viewers who grew up on the 90âs version, but also includes enough fresh pop-culture references to win over a new generation. Brain even seems to have turned over a new endearing leaf for his best friend Pinky, highlighted in one of the seasonâs best segments, âFuture Brainâ. As the theme song goes, âthe trolls will say weâre so passe, but we did meta firstâ; they did and theyâre still the best at it.
Animaniacs are putting baloney in their slacks over on Hulu.