Episode

Animaniacs: Gimme A Break

Name: Animaniacs: Gimme A Break
Released: 1995-09-23
Duration: 22 min
Cast: Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche, Sherri Stoner

AnimaniacsSeason 31995-09-23

Overview

Slappy tries to get away from the filming of a blockbuster action movie on her vacation day.

Details

Series: Animaniacs
Season: Season 3
Episode: Episode 12
Air date: 1995-09-23
Runtime: 22 min

Episode context

Gimme A Break is Episode 12 in Season 3 of Animaniacs. It aired on 1995-09-23. The runtime is 22 min.

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Episode 11: A Hard Day's Warners 1995-09-23 | 22 min In a parody of The Beatles in A Hard Day's Night, the Warners run from their fans as they try to reach a cartoon convention. Guest appearances by Pinky and the Brain; Elmyra Duff is among the crowd of fans.

Episode 13: Please Please Please Get a Life Foundation 1995-09-23 | 22 min The Warners try to tell people in a TV commercial to "get a life" instead of going over every little reference in their show.

More episodes from this season

Episode 10: Bingo 1995-09-16 | 22 min Dr. Scratchansniff has only one player for his weekly bingo game – Wakko.

Episode 14: The Tiger Prince 1995-09-30 | 5 min A parody of the grand opening of Disney's "The Lion King".

Episode 9: Three Tenors and You're Out 1995-09-16 | 22 min Slappy's plans to take Skippy to a baseball game at Dodger Stadium go wrong when an opera performance by the famed Domino, Pepperoni, and Carumba is scheduled for that night instead. The singers (a parody of the Three Tenors) return at the end of the show to perform a shortened version of the Animaniacs theme. This episode also features parodies of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Simon.

Episode 15: All the Words in the English Language 1995-09-30 | 6 min Throughout the episode, Yakko tries to sing all of the words in the English language dictionary to the tune of the "Mexican Hat Dance", similar to the previous skit, "Yakko's World".

Episode 8: Variety Speak 1995-09-16 | 22 min Yakko and Dot explain to Wakko through song about how to read the headlines in Variety Magazine.

Episode 16: The Kid In The Lid 1995-09-30 | 5 min The Warners visit brother and sister Mary and Scooter and raise a ruckus in the style of The Cat in the Hat. Guest appearance by Charlton Woodchuck.

Episode 7: A Quake, a Quake! 1995-09-09 | 22 min The Warners sing a song about the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

Episode 17: Method To Her Madness 1995-09-30 | 5 min In the 1950s, Slappy and Skippy attend a method acting class, which Slappy turns into a comedy class.

Episode 6: Wakko's New Gookie 1995-09-09 | 22 min Wakko tries to come up with a new "gookie", or bizarre facial expression.

Episode 18: Gimme The Works 1995-10-21 | 7 min Tired of their episode's latest plot (meeting a hot-dog salesman), the Warners walk out of their cartoon.