For people of a certain age, Pinky and The Brain sits alongside the likes of Dexter's Lab and Johnny Bravo as one of the greatest kids' shows of all time. It's a classic.
Well, more than 20 years since the Animaniacs spin-off last aired on TV, one of its stars has confirmed that a new series is on its way.
Voice actor Rob Paulsen was speaking to Comicbook.com about Warner Brothers' plans to bring back Animaniacs - in which he voiced Pinky as well as Yakko Warner - later this year, when he revealed that work was under way for new episodes of Pinky and The Brain.
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Telling the site about the possibility of reviving Animaniacs, Paulsen said: "It's impossible to quantify what a compliment that is.
"Moreover, to be able to do that again, with Maurice [LaMarche, voice of the Brain], with Tress [MacNeille, who played Dot], with Jess [Harnell, who voiced Wakko Warner].
"Yakko, Wakko, and Dot are back and so are Pinky and the Brain. Moreover is that in this era of celebrities doing a lot of animated characters - and I get why the producers do it.
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"I totally get it - but I also know that just having a movie star do the talking chicken doesn't mean that the show's going to be a hit. You've got to have a good script, great characters, and terrific actors, whether they're celebrities or not."
Since the show ended in 1998, Paulsen and co-star LaMarche have been travelling the world on the Animaniacs in Concert tour - which proved to be a springboard for plans to bring the show back.
Paulsen added: "He [producer Steven Spielberg] sees the fact that [LaMarche] and I have been travelling around the country, doing Animaniacs in Concert.
"He sees Maurice and I when we're at a comedy festival, doing 'Who's On First' as Pinky and the Brain or are doing a Q&A with 3000 people, and he's asking me, 'Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?', and I say, [switches to Pinky voice] 'I think so, Brain. But me and Pippi Longstocking? What would the children look like? Narf.'"
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A release date has yet to be set for the new series of Animaniacs, but it's reportedly set to hit Hulu this autumn.
However, if you can't wait for that, the streaming site has every episode of Animaniacs, as well as all its spin-off series, including, of course, Pinky and The Brain - which is the perfect binge-watch during lockdown.
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