The first episode of Hulu's Animaniacs' revival contains a character who seems to be a mockery of the Snyder Cut of Justice League. This is not surprising given the original Animaniacs was infamous for satirizing Hollywood in general and Warner Bros. in specific, but in this case the parody seems to be entirely accidental.
First airing in 1993 as part of Fox Kids' afternoon line-up, Animaniacs largely centered around the antics of the Warners, Yakko, Wakko and Dot; three unidentifiable ink-blot cartoon characters from the 1930s, who were sealed inside the water tower on the Warner Bros. studio lot because their meta-humor fueled cartoons made no sense to post-Prohibition audiences. The three escaped their confinement some five decades later and hilarity ensued. The reboot is based around the same concept and the first episode finds the Warners returning to their old home as they discuss their big on-line comeback after 22 years away from the spotlight.
This leads the Warners into a song about how Hollywood is out of original ideas and how, when they can't make any more sequels or prequels about a beloved property, they "reboot it, renew it, reshoot it, redo it and reuse it." After listing off some of the many beloved sitcoms and animated shows that were recently revamped (including Looney Tunes and Duck Tales), the Warners repeat the chorus while assembling a hideous creature, similar to Frankenstein's monster, who vomits up money. The creature is composed of a variety of discarded parts, all of which seem to have come from various Justice League members, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Black Canary, Cyborg and Aquaman.
Given that this episode was written in 2018, this was likely intended to be a reference to the theatrical cut of Justice League. The movie was infamously rushed to completion through a number of reshoots using as much previously shot footage as possible, in order to have a movie ready for the 2017 Holiday season. And yet the sight gag applies equally well to the Snyder Cut of Justice League, which has cost Warner Bros. an additional $70 million to date on top of the $300 million spent on the original film.
The irony regarding this Justice League jab is doubly thick given that the episode opened with a song detailing everything the Warners had missed out on in the 20 years since the original Animaniacs ended and a meta note that they had missed out on even more given the two years between when the episode was written in 2018 and when it aired. This led the Warners to guess that everyone was now living in underground bunkers and having to remain completely silent, lest they anger the polar bears who took over the world. While they were wrong about the polar bears, their prediction that "we don't leave our homes, thanks to Amazon drones" seems oddly prophetic given the COVID-19 pandemic.
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