YESSSSS!

[filkertom]

Pinky and the Brain and Animaniacs on DVD July 25.

Update: More details of the Animaniacs DVD, a trailer for both sets that should remind you all of why we FRICKIN' LOVE these shows, and...

... the complete series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. on July 18.

Comments

[zachkessin.livejournal.com]

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I think so, Brain, but was "pondering" the Goblin Cleaver or the Foe Hammer?

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Glamdring was Foe Hammer, Orcrist was Goblin Cleaver. It scares me that I remember this kind of stuff without having to hit Google.

OK, it's not Xmas anymore but this was the only Tolkienish icon I had to hand.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Bwaha. I'm never gonna forget myself, because of another animated, Rankin-Bass's The Hobbit. Cyril Richard as Elrond, intoning those names.... *sigh*

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Yah. The voice cast was the best part of that production, yes? And Brother Theodore as Gollum. Crikeys, I can't think who played Bilbo though. Orson Bean? Or was that one of the LotR toons? Meh. Where there's a whip, there's a way. Bwaha.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

You're right in both cases. Rankin-Bass got back Bean to play both Bilbo and Frodo in their Return of the King, as well as John Huston as Gandalf and Theodore as Gollum (and sterling utility work by Paul Frees and Dale Messick). The other biggie was Roddy McDowall as Sam. Oddest casting there was not William Conrad as Denethor, nor even Theodore Bikel as Aragorn, but Casey Kasem as Merry.

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

*does happy dance of insane glee*

[melaniedavidson.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD

[packy.livejournal.com]

FABOO!!!

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

'Bout damn time! Could Hysteria be far behind?

[zillafan.livejournal.com]

Excellent news indeed. Funny just yesterday at lunch a co-worker and I were talking about the Animaniacs. Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes!

[lukeski.livejournal.com]

NARF! :)

http://media.cdstreet.com/artists/1235407/media/Insane_Clip.mp3

I'm hoping "Tiny Toon Adventures" and "Freakazoid" won't be far behind.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Word. I just want a Freakazoid: The Complete Series box, and be done with it.

[sdelmonte]

Amen!

[jss]

Amen!

Halleluia!

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Every now and then I think you're just this great guy you know, then you go and remind me that you're absolutely tuned into the essentials of the universe (though shouldn't there be an exclaimation mark after "Freakazoid"?!!!)

Yay for P&tB and A, and hushed antici-pation for the glorious big F (and has The Tick animated come out on DVD yet?)

Re: Halleluia!

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Let me throw a barrel at it!

Re: Halleluia!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Not yet, and it doesn't look as if it's on any schedule. But that'll change. :)

Re: Halleluia!

[gan-chan.livejournal.com]

The creator of The Tick was at San Diego Comic-Con last year, and one of my friends asked about that. He told her there were some rights issues that were preventing the release of the animated series on DVD - I forget the details, but one of the people that has some rights in the animated series was refusing to play nice with everyone else.

This person was not involved in the live-action series, hence it was able to be released.

[jonnorthwood.livejournal.com]

With this post, you have managed to turn an exceptionally execrable week into something 'squee'-worthy. Thank you. ^_^

[youngcurmudgeon.livejournal.com]

And in case you haven't seen it already ...

http://television.aol.com/in2tv/toontopia_tv

Free eps of Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, Histeria, Batman, and a couple other. Just to tide you over. :-)

(I think so, Brain, but me and Pippi Longstocking -- I mean, what would the children look like?)

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

I think so, Brain, but if they called them "Sad Meals" nobody would want to eat them!

[jss]

I think so, Brain, but isn't Regis Philbin already married?

My favorite is still: "Yes I am!"

[ddrussianinja.livejournal.com]

I think so, Brain, but if Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why does he keep on doin' it?

[jss]

Fine:

I think so Brain, but there's still a bug in there from last time.
I think so Brain, but I get all clammy inside the tent.
Sure, Brain, but how are we going to find chaps our size?
I think so Brain, but I don't think Kay Ballard is in the union?
Well, I think so Brain, but burlap chafes me so.
I think so Brain, but pants with horizontal stripes makes me look chubby.
I think so, Brain, but where we going to find a duck and a hose at this hour?
I think so, but where will we find an open tattoo parlor at this time of night?
I think so Brain, but culottes have a tendency to ride up so.
Well, I think so Brain, but if we didn't have ears, we'd look like weasels.
Uh ... yeah, Brain, but where are we going to find rubber pants our size?
Wuh, I think so, but we'll never get a monkey to use dental floss.
I think so Brain, but if they called them sad meals, kids wouldn't buy them.
I think so Brain, but you but this time you put the trousers on the chimp.
I think so Brain, but this time you wear the tutu.
I think so Brain, but me and Pipi Longstocking, I mean, what would the children look like?
Well, I think so Brain but first you'd have to take that whole bridge apart wouldn't you?
I think so Brain, poit, but where do you stick the feather and call it macaroni?
Well, I think so Brain, but I can't memorize a whole opera in Yiddish.
Aww, I think so, Brain, but balancing a family and a career... uh, it's all too much for me.
Well, I think so Brain, but "apply North Pole" to what?
I think so, Brain, but "Snowball for Windows"?
Umm, I think so Brain, but what if the chicken won't wear the nylons?
I think so Brain, but 3 round meals a day wouldn't be as hard to swallow.
I think so Brain, but if the plural of mouse is mice, wouldn't the plural of spouse be spice?
I think so Brain, but three men in a tub? Ewww, that's unsanitary.
I theenk sew, but why deed ze chicken cross ze road if not for love?
I think so Brain, but I prefer Space Jelly.
Yes Brain, but if our knees bent the other way, how would we ride a bicycle?
Wuh, I think so Brain, but how will we get 3 pink flamingos into on pair of capri pants?
I think so Don Cerebro, but why would Sophia Loren do a musical?
I think so Brain, but the Rocketts...it's mostly girls isn't it?
I think so but pantyhose are so uncomfortable during the summer time.
I think so Brain...no, no it's too stupid.
I think so Brain, but isn't that why they invented tube sox?
I think so Brain, but Tuesday well isn't a complete sentence.
I think so Brain, but who wants to see Snow White and the 7 Samurai?

W00t!

[lizard-sf.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I was just thinking about them...quite possibly because I was listening to "Every Mouse Just Wants To Rule The World" and seriously missing Anim/P&TB. They were the last gasp of the old fashioned fun&anarchy from WB, replaced by turning classic characters into basketball players for no adequately explained reason.

[alicetheowl.livejournal.com]

Yay! About freakin' time!

Thank you for posting about it. Now I shall spread my joy to my flist. ^ v ^

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Robert and Maurice at their very finest!

[shatteredglobe.livejournal.com]

w00t!

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

HA! Just before checking this forum, I read an email from a friend where we've been discussing movies we'd like to support financially if we could. One of the few we've been bantering about is a live action Pinky and the Brain. I want it directed by Peter Jackson, she wants Pinky played by Roberto Benigni, and to further delve into coincidental weirdness, we both agreed we wanted Tom Smith to compose the music (insert Twilight Zone theme here)

What I'm looking forward to is _finally_ showing a friend "Pinky P.O.V." It's the one episode he's never seen and he's always wondering where Pinky comes up with those answers.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Rhythm & Hues studios, that realized Garfield in the feature film of the same name [and the upcoming sequel], as well as Aslan and other talking beasts in the Narnia feature, could probably make P&B happen. Almost convincingly, even.

With all due respct to Roberto Benigni, I can't imagine Pinky with a thick Italian accent, though, honestly.

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

She was thinking who could pull it off the best (including body movement) and readily acknowledges he'd need serious voice coaching. As for my choice, I think Jackson has the sense of grandure to properly portray the grandess of Brain's schemes, and the sense of humor to show them falling apart.

Who do you think should play them?

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Orson Welles as The Brain and Stan Laurel as Pinky, of course.

Modernly? Dunno. Might stick with the voice actors. Maurice is The Brain, he just Is. I could almost see Hugh Laurie as Pinky, but he seems to get getting away from the British Twit pigeonhole he'd been in between Blackadder and Jeeves.

[sylverwolfe.livejournal.com]

true enough. and HL's showing enough irascibility and staggering genius as House, he could probably pull off a convincing Brain. for Pinky, perhaps Rowan Atkinson? there's no getting THAT one away from the British Twit pigeonhole, i think.

[gpeefalt.livejournal.com]

I think so, Brain, but burlap chafes me so.

[ororo.livejournal.com]

w00t!

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

YES. YES ANIMANIACS.

Now where's my Freakazoid?

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahaha! (rubs hands together)

[nuveena.livejournal.com]

YESSSS!

I have been wanting to hear the "Parts of the Brain" song again for YEARS.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Ahem!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=m7HnKBjz1B4&search=pinky%20brain

[nuveena.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

THANK YOU!!!!!! :)

(of course, I'm still going to buy the DVDs.)

And coming COMPLETELY out of left field...

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

This is just some silly memory of mine, but I thought you might get a giggle out of it, Tom...

Back in Triple-H's early days, when he had his post D-X theme song, my brother was humming the opening lines
"One, two... Is this ON?"
And I noticed he said it with the slightest of British accents. So I said "You sounded like Pinky for a second there."

Right away he goes into his impression of Pinky saying;

"One, two... Is this on, Brain? Ummm... Better give me another hit of that Triple-H... NARF!"
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[sylverwolfe.livejournal.com]

*stupids all over the place*
YAY!
with a large amount of SQUEE! and a healthy dose of 'bout fricken time!

Narf!

[theturbonerd.livejournal.com]

I think so, Brain, but "Cruisin' with Tom Cruise" would be a horrible name for a song about Amelia Earhart.