According to Bressack, this story was originally written to be produced as a cartoon, but was cancelled before it could be made. Wakko is hatless when dressed as an apple inspector.Drawn by: Allen Helbig
The Warners are beneath an apple tree, with Sir Isaac Newton buried in a pile of apples. Dot and Wakko are on a tire swing, with Yakko standing next to the trunk. An apple is bouncing off Newton's head, knocking him silly. Some of the apples are eaten, and a worm is crawling out of one. Wakko, munching on an apple, says, "Funny, this doesn't taste like a fig, Newton." Dot, with hearts around her head, says, "I just love a man in curls!" Yakko says, "I don't think this guy understands the gravity of his situation."
The Animaniacs logo has a worm as the M, and the C is an apple bitten in the appropriate manner. Squit is sitting on the last A; Pesto is hiding behind the first A; and Bobby is sitting in the tree just below the logo.
It's 1687, the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment. Sir Isaac Newton is sitting under an apple tree in front of his house, trying to figure out the right way to complete the sentence, "What goes up must...". Instead of the traditional one apple, though, he is bopped on the head by a whole tree full. The Warners, like most of the rest of England at the time, are poor and hungry. They start munching, and discover Newton in the pile. He notices they've cleaned out his tree as they run off with the apples, demands they be returned, and refuses when they ask for some because they're hungry. He kicks them off his land, literally.
Newton goes inside his house to continue work on the theory. The Warners, disguised as apple inspectors, barge in, interrupt him, and grill him about his apples. They are not satisfied with his answers, and take the apples away for interrogation. Newton discovers the ruse, and catches the Warners making caramel apples. They hand him one, and he screams in pain as he bites into it. Yakko plays dentist and gets Newton to open wide; when he does, Wakko fills the cavity - and the rest of Newton's mouth, and lots of other things besides - with the vat of caramel. The Warners try to leave with the apples, but Newton catches them again.
Newton settles down to work again, but Yakko keeps suggesting the wrong ending to the crucial sentence. His last suggestion is "come and get it"; when Newton repeats it, the Warners do exactly that, taking it as an invitation to a country hoedown. They dance a while, then leave with the apples. They spill some on the way out. Newton trips over them, of course, and does some nifty dance moves in the process and finally figures out, the hard way, that what goes up must indeed come down.
According to Bressack, this story was originally written to be produced as a cartoon, but was cancelled before it could be made. Wakko is hatless when dressed as an apple inspector.
Carzon's Warners are credible, though there are two serious problems: The highlights in their eyes almost always extend to the edge, producing a strange crescent effect, and he adds an extra pad to their feet, at the heel. He tends to show their teeth more often than normal, too. Wakko's teeth are shown as one solid ridge as he pours caramel into Newton's mouth. (page 8) Yakko's belt (usually, a piece of rope) and buckle vary throughout. Wakko's pants disappear in one panel on page 9, as they run out of Newton's house. Yakko's tail is gray in the final panel on page 13.This story is adapted from the cartoon of the same name.
Brain's latest plot to take over the world involves stopping the Earth's rotation with a reverse geotropic arrestor. The idea is to throw everyone off, leaving the mice alone to assume control. To do so, however, the Brain needs to build a one billion ton magnet, and that's an expensive proposition. He has identified a source of funds: He will ride the winning horse in the Kentucky Derby and collect the purse.
They arrive at the stables to examine the horses. The Brain has a definite formula in mind, but he first must talk Pinky out of riding the pretty horse, Phar Fignewton. The Brain's statistical analysis has led him to choose another horse, Daddy's Little Angel. He drags Pinky away from Phar Fignewton, who has fallen for him as well, and they go to the weighing room, where the Brain tricks the jockey originally assigned to Daddy's Little Angel into leaving and takes his place.
At the starting gate, the Brain discovers Pinky has tagged along for the ride. Phar Fignewton does, too, just as the race starts. Pinky falls off and lands on the track, dazed. The race continues, and the Brain and Daddy's Little Angel take the lead - until Phar Fignewton spots Pinky about to get trampled, and rushes forward to save him, winning the race in the process.
Back at their cage in Acme Labs, Pinky nails a picture of his new love to the bars. The banging interrupts the Brain's concentration on the next plan to take over the world.
Cultural references for the cartoon version of this story are discussed in the WebCRGA entry for Animaniacs episode 27, which contains this story. Ed McMen refers to Ed McMahon, former sidekick to talk show hostJohnny Carson and long-time spokesman for Publishers Clearing House. The line, "There's baloney in our slacks", is from the Animaniacs theme song, of course. Stopping the earth's rotation would not cause gravity to cease. The exact effect it would have has been the subject of much recent (as this is being written) debate on the alt.tv.animaniacs newsgroup; that debate is much too voluminous to repeat here. The sign on his stall in the stable reads "Paddy's Little Angel". (page 19) Senseless dialog change: the horse named Leggo My Egoiste in the cartoon has been renamed Leggo My Eggo, thus turning two references into one.The Warners are at the circus. Wakko, arms loaded with food and drinks, sits down next to Dot just in time to spill everything on her when a clown trips and falls on them. She gets angry because her clothes are ruined; the clown, named Rags, apologizes and takes her backstage to give something new to wear. He only has clown clothes, but Dot settles for a duplicate of the outfit he's wearing.
Dot puts on the outfit, and says that she's now both cute and funny. Rags wishes he was; he's been trying to learn how to be a clown, but has been a failure so far. His efforts have resulted in one disaster after another. Dot volunteers to try in his place, and earns a pie in the face for her efforts. Wakko tries next, and conjures up a herd of elephants. Finally, Yakko tries, and gets the trained lions to jump through a hoop - where they start licking the ringmaster.
The ringmaster is angry about all this, and reassigns Rags to cleanup duty. The Warners feel responsible for that, and decide to help him out. The ringmaster annoys one of the lions, then lets him out; Rags manages to snare him and save the ringmaster, who makes him the star of the new circus rodeo.
Wildman's Warners look considerably better in this story than they did in his previous work. The coloring of Wakko's shirt varies considerably, from blue-green to a sky blue. I've never seen a purple lemon meringue pie. (page 30) Rex, the king of the jungle, is a tiger. The term "king of the jungle" usually refers to lions.