Piano Rag

ANIMANIACS TRANSCRIPTIONS --- EPISODE #7 ======================================== NEWSREEL OF THE STARS - Animation: TOKYO MOVIE SHINSHA LTD. NARRATOR: Newsreel of the Stars! Dateline Hollywood, 1930, the Warner Bros. Studio. Here at the studio's new animation department, the artists toil endlessly to come up with cartoon stars, ultimately creating three new characters -- the Warner Brothers and their Sister Dot. Y,W,D: [Leaping off animator's drawing board onto Hello Nurse (or maybe her      great-grandmother)] Helllllllo, Nurse! NARRATOR: Unfortunately, the Warner kids were totally out of control. Y,W,D: Boingy! Boingy! Boingy! Boingy! NARRATOR: The trio ran amok throughout the studio ... until their capture. The Warners' films, which made absolutely no sense, were locked away in the studio vault, never to be released. As for the Warners themselves, they were locked away in the studio water-tower, also never to be released. Publicly, the studio has disavowed any knowledge of the Warners' existence, to this very day, -- when the Warners escaped! MAIN TITLE -- Music: RICHARD STONE Lyrics: TOM RUEGGER Director: RICH ARONS Animation: TOKYO MOVIE SHINSHA LTD. Theme song (see AMLF 1.6, #1) Variable Verse: (Dot): Here's the show's name-y, TOILET ESCAPE - Animation: TOKYO MOVIE SHINSHA, LTD. {Animaniacs Theme} PIANO RAG - Written by: NICHOLAS HOLLANDER Directed by: MICHAEL GERARD Animation: TOKYO MOVIE SHINSA, LTD. DR. S.: The Warners have escaped! Catch them! {Song Break}[Not in the AMLF. Gee, that doc is less complete than I thought] Y,W,D: Lally-dally-loo, Lally-dally-lee, You can't catch us, We're the Warner three. {Animaniacs Theme} {Rita and Runt's Theme} [Cut to street corner; Ralph is by a trash can] RALPH: [To audience] Suschhhhhh. YAKKO: Tag! You're it! RALPH: Yaaaaa! YAKKO: Pbbbttt. RALPH: I-I caught em, Doc. [Singing] I-I-I-I-I got em. DR. S.: Good for you. RALPH: Good for me. DR. S.: You got ME, you big dummy! NURSE: {Drums} Um, there they are. {Warner theme} DR. S.: Get them! [Next shot] Ralph, you take the back. Miss Nurse, you take...       my breath away. N-No; you take the side. Und I'll go in the front! {Warners' theme} CROWD: Yow! YAKKO: [After opening side door] Goodbyyye Nurse! RALPH: [From back door] I-I-I-I got ya! YAKKO: Not! [After trio sit in front row] We'll hide in here till the coast is clear. {Over the Waves} WAKKO: Ooh, a magic show! This ought to be fun. TYMP.: Franz Schubert intended the scherzo to reflect the struggle between intellect and the creative process. YAKKO: @@@@@@@@@@@h -- I don't think he's a magician. DOT:   Sure he is. This a just a set-up. WAKKO: Hey mister, pull a rabbit outta your pants! CROWD: Sshhhh! YAKKO: What are you, leaky tires? TYMP.: However, Schubert was simply incapable of expressing such delicate nuance. But, thanks to *my* genius, I will perform this great work, not as the composer wrote it, but as he *intended*. Schubert's       intermezzo andante allegro opus 9. [Tympannini hits a key] YAKKO: We're outta here. 'Scuse us, DOT:   Coming through, WAKKO: Make way, YAKKO: Pardon us, DOT:   Gang way, WAKKO: Gotta go, YAKKO: Pardon us, DOT:   Coming through. [They stop] Uh-oh. YAKKO: Hit reverse sibs. DOT:   Hgourth gnimoc, YAKKO: Su nodrap, WAKKO: Og attog, DOT:   Yaw gnag, YAKKO: Su nodrap, WAKKO: Yaw ekam DOT:   Hgourth gnimoc, YAKKO: Su esucs. [Tympanini begins. Ralph, Hello Nurse, Dr. S. walk down the aisle] USHER: [Loud whisper] The concert has begun! Take your seats! DR. S.: Your mother used Pampers. TYMP.: Once again, the Schubert. YAKKO: [With his mouth full] Caramel [sounds like "Karmel"] corn? {Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah} WAKKO: Don't mind if I do. Taffy? DOT:   'Kay. [Typannini taps his foot, his arm extended] TYMP.: All of it. [Next scene] WAKKO: Gulp. DOT:   [Aside] Deeee-gusting. TYMP.: The Schubert! [T takes gum from Wakko. It is stuck on his hand as he tries to play] YAKKO: Now *that's* entertainment. [Piano destroyed by T. in the piece; audience applauds afterwards] YAKKO: Very Pete Townsend-esque. DOT:   Who? WAKKO: Exactly. Y,W,D: Who-who-who-who-who!!! TYMP.: Yes, well... um for my next number, Ludwig Von Plotzburger's most compelling musical accomplishment. Regretfully, only as sophisicated ear as mine own can fully appreciate the sheer...depth of this masterpiece. Complete and absolute concentration is required. Von Plotzburger's pavan and dirge in C-Minor, opus 7 -- and 11. [Tympannini plays] Y,W,D:   {I Dream of Jeannie} [Tympanini strikes hard on the piano] Y,W,D: Bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravissimo, more, more, encore! RALPH: Ah, so there you is! [Piano music, presumably Tympannini playing Ludwig von Plotzburger] RALPH: I-I-I-I got 'em now, Doc! DR. S.: Ha-ha! Good job Ralphie! Let's have a look, huh? Vas is das? TYMP.: Grrrrrr! DR. S.: But, where are the Warner Brothers?

Yakko: 'Twas a guy named Joe from Kokomo Playing that piano rag Wakko: He banged the keys with his head and his knees Playing that piano rag Dot : He twiddled with his toes and he diddled with his nose Playing that piano rag YW+D : And when the day was done he had some fun Playing that piano rag! (applause) YW+D : He was playing that piano rag! (wink)