This, my friends, is another great comical short of "Animaniacs": "Broadcast Nuisance"!
In this short, the Warners deliver food to a bossy anchorman named Dan Anchorman, who refuses to pay for his meal, so the Warners do whatever they can to make the nasty anchorman's life a pure heck! And in the end, the anchorman gets his just desserts, and the Warners get their sweet revenge!
Wait, that's not the end of the review, there's more info about our ungrateful anchorman:
Many people wondered why the anchorman, an obvious caricature of ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson, was given the name Dan Anchorman, which doesn't sound anything near the same. The fact is, that was not the name that writers Gordon Bressack and Charles M. Howell IV gave to the character. The name originally written, and recorded, was Slam Fondlesome. My guess is that the U.S. censors did not like that name, so it was changed in ADR.
That was not all that was changed in ADR. The entire William F. Yakkley sequence was changed as well, my guess being to maintain the plot about tipping and to make the Warners less vicious. That also could explain part of why some material was cut out entirely.
One piece of one of the cut sequences was shown on a Fox promo for Animaniacs, showing the anchorman made up like a clown and getting electrocuted.
Another part cut was when the Warners are in the control room and begin flipping through channels, putting the anchorman into various shows. After the Bulk Logan bit, instead of cutting back to the desk, there originally was one more flip. Dan Anchorman/Slam Fondlesome appears in a Slappy Squirrel cartoon. Slappy hands him a bomb then leaves the shot just before it explodes, turning Anchorman/Fondlesome into a standing pile of ash. Slappy peeks back in and says, "Now that's comedy!" and the ashes fall to the ground with eyes still peeking out.
Here is a transcription of the scene:
Slam Fondlesome: This is absurd! I will not have this broadcast interrupted by a bunch of little kids!
Yakko: (appearing on the monitor behind him) We protest you calling us little kids! We prefer to be called vertically-impaired pre-adults.
Slam Fondlesome: I'll call you anything I want! I'm the anchor! (pounds his fist on the desk)
Yakko: We protest you calling yourself an anchor. You should be referred to as the pastry-enhanced.
Slam Fondlesome: Pastry-enhanced? I don't get it.
Yakko: You will. (throws a pie in Slam's face)
Slam Fondlesome: (As he growls in anger, the pie goes up in flames, clearing his face. He stands, rips the monitor that Yakko had appeared in from the wall, throws it upon the ground and begins stomping on it.) I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!!! (realizes he's still on camera) Heh heh...We'll be right back after this commercial. (walks back to the desk, sits, and looks at himself in the mirror, shocked at the appearance of his eyes) I knew it -- tension lines! Makeup!!!
[The Warners appear quickly, one at a time, wearing button-up smocks.]
Dot: (with a Gabor-like voice) Don't worry, Dahlink. We will make you look so beautiful, your own mother won't recognize you.
Yakko: Hot towel! (throws it on Slam's face)
Slam Fondlesome: Yeeowww!!!
Wakko: Hot wax! (Yakko mixes it then Wakko slops it onto Slam's face)
Slam Fondlesome: Auuugh!!!
Dot: (still Gabor-like) And now for your complete make-ovah...
[The Warners swirl around momentarily. When the dust clears, Slam appears like a clown. He looks in the mirror again.]
Slam Fondlesome: Oh no! More tension lines!
Yakko: (snaps his fingers) I knew we forgot something...
[Yakko and Wakko each carry a cable from opposite sides toward Slam, and place them in his hands. He receives a strong electrical shock.]
Slam Fondlesome: Yeeeowww!!! (collapses on the desk)
Director: We're on the air.
Slam Fondlesome: (seemingly recovered from his shock, but still looking like a clown) In our next segment, we'll show you why (Yakko slips a new sheet of paper into Slam's hands) Slam Fondlesome is a big fat dope. -- Huh? -- D'oh!!!
[A Special Report screen comes up.]
Dot: We interrupt NewsTime Live to bring you this special report: Is Slam Fondlesome a Big Fat Dope? For the answer, we turn to William F. Yakkley.
Yakko: (impersonating William F. Buckley)Uh, what I wish to express is that, uh, he is, uh, ipso-facto, a grandly rotund, uh, ipso-dopso. In layman's terms, a big fat dope.
Dot: But would you say that he's a big fat UGLY dope?
Yakko: No, I would say that he's, uh, a big fat STINKY dope.
Slam Fondlesome: (bursting onto their set, he grabs Dot and Yakko) You...You are horrible little-- (notices the On The Air light is flashing) --wonderful tikes. I see I haven't appreciated your playful side.
[As Yakko speaks, Wakko appears and jumps into Slam's arms to join his siblings.]
Yakko: That's us. We're just fun-lovin' rascals.
Slam Fondlesome: Exactly. And I'm going to make sure you get that tip I owe you.
Dot: Really? Then we're sorry about the big-fat-dope routine.
Wakko: Yeah, and you're not even all that stinky -- lately.
Slam Fondlesome: Why, thank you. And now, here's your tip: (shakes them violently) Don't mess with an anchorman!!!
[Slam throws them into the control room, and spends a lot of effort to barricade the door. He laughs maniacally when finished.]
Dot: Do you think maybe he doesn't like us?
Yakko: (sitting at a control console, swinging a cable) If he doesn't like us now, wait'll he gets a load of this.
There you have it, Slam Fondlesome, charicature of Sam Donaldson.moreless
AIRED:
(Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Short) The Warners deliver sandwiches to a news show hosted by Mr. Dan Anchorman. When the arrive late and give him the wrong meal, he refuses to pay them. The Warners protest outside the studio and later sneak into the control room and mess with the controls. Eventually, Dan apologizes. He goes insane and is taken away to a mental hospital.moreless
 Nancy Cartwright |
voice of Mindy |
 Tony Pope |
Additional Voices |
Chick Vennera |
voice of Pesto Pigeon |
 Bernadette Peters |
voice of Rita |
John Mariano |
voice of Bobby Pigeon |
Avery Schreiber |
voice of Beanie the Bison / Additional Voices |
 Phil Hartman |
voice of Dan Anchorman |
Guest Star |
Tress MacNeille |
voice of Dot Warner / Marita Hippo / Hello Nurse |
Recurring Role |
 Frank Welker |
voice of Buttons / Ralph / Runt / Flavio Hippo / Chicken Boo |
Recurring Role |
Maurice LaMarche |
voice of The Brain |
Recurring Role |
Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions
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Dan Anchorman: Now here's your tip: DON'T MESS WITH AN ANCHORMAN!!
(after the Warners have taught him a lesson)
Dot: And here's our tip for the day...
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Dan Anchorman: Why are you all standing around staring at me? Don't you know what time it is?
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Warners: (singing) We're from Salmanela's Coffee Shop. Eat our food, and you're bound to drop. Then the only thing that's left to do: head to the potty and spew, spew, spew! Salmanela's!
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Yakko: We protest your calling us "little kids". We prefer to be called "vertically-impaired pre-adults".
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A lot of footage of this ep has been cut out by Steven Spielberg's request, considering that he felt that the Warners were too mean to Dan Anchorman in this ep. Part of what was deleted included a Slappy cameo, but the ep was kept uncut in French. Also, one of the pieces that was cut from the episode, a shot of Dan Anchorman (in clown make-up) getting electrocuted, evenutally did appear in a Fox ad promoting the show.
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Announcer: And now Bulk Logan will be taking on some guy in a suit!
Bulk Logan, the wrestler that pins down Dan Anchorman, is a parody of "Hulk" Hogan.
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