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Taming Of The Screwy

Season 1, Episode 23, Aired Sep 17, 1993

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- Yakko is apparently able to speak Japanese.
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- When the Warners are hiding in the music pit, they alternate playing "Turkey In The Straw" and Mozart's "A Little Night Music".
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- Dr. Scratchensniff: (telling the Warners about a party) The bad news is you can only go if I train you to be polite, clean, well-dressed children on your best behavior. Dot: I thought you said it was a party!
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- Scratchansniff: Get up, get up! Dot: What, without a treat? Scratchansniff: Yes! Yakko: All right, but Shamu wouldn't work under these conditions. Scratchansniff: Shamu doen't want to go to the party! Dot: Was she invited?
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- Scratchansniff: Stop it, stop that! I am not here to amuse you! Yakko: Then please stop being so funny!
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- Bea Arthur: I'm putting out a swimsuit calendar. (The Penguin chokes and spits out his food) The Penguin: Not while I'm eating!
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- Scratchansniff: The studio is giving a big fancy party for some new investors with movie stars and everything, and you're invited. Yakko/Wakko/Dot: Movie stars?! Yakko: Michelle Pfeiffer! Dot: Mel Gibson! Wakko: Don Knotts! Scratchansniff: There's also some bad news... Dot: Bea Arthur's putting out a swimsuit calendar? Scratchansniff: She is?! (thinks) Of course not!
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- Scratchansniff: Do you know why you're here? Yakko: None of us really knows why we're here, although Shopenhauer put forth an interesting theory... Scratchansniff: That's not what I meant! Dot: Then why'd you say it?
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- Mr. Plotz: Do you know what keeps this company running? Scratchansniff: Mel Gibson movies?
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- Doctor Scratchensniff (to Batman): I don't want to drive the Batmobile, I just want to sit in it.
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- Doctor Scratchensniff (to Batman): I don't want to drive the Batmobile, I just want to sit in it.
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- Dot: Are you married? Dr. Scratchnsiff: NO NO NO!!! Dot: With a temper like that no wonder!
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- Doctor: Stop playing with my bust! Yakko: Goodnight everybody!
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- (After receiving the $1 billion check) Yakko: You know, Doc, there's a lesson to be learned in all this. Doctor Scratchansniff: What is it? Yakko: I don't know, but whatever it is, it's worth a billion dollars!
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- (After Wayne and Garth take over the band) Whoopi Goldberg: Who says studio parties don't rock? Christopher Walken: Let's shindig, darling!
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- (Trying to open a giant lobster claw) Danny Glover: How do you open this thing? (Mel Gibson breaks it open by slamming his head down on it) Danny Glover: I'm getting too old for this...
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- (The Warners are told to go back up to the tower) Yakko: Well, I know when we're not wanted. I know when we should just give up and go home...(crawls back down ladder) Now is not one of those times!
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- Animation by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, Ltd.
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Allusions
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- Yakko: Aw, you're a wrecking machine! This is a parody of the popular film "Rocky", starring Sylvester Stallone. Yakko is imitating Rocky's trainer in order to motivate Wakko.
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- Studio Executive: It was a giant chicken, I tell you! This is a reference to the character Chicken Boo who joins the cast later in the season. His shorts involved him disguising himself as human and fooling everyone except for one person who would run around yelling, "He's a giant chicken!"
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- Episode Title: "The Taming Of The Screwy" The title of thi episode is a play on words to Shakespeare's "The Taming Of The Shrew". The plot line bears closer similarity to "Pygmalian" by George Bernard Shaw, however.
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