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Yakko, Wakko, and Dot
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Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner, usually referred to as the Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister) or just the Warners, are the fictional protagonists of the American animated series Animaniacs. Created by Tom Ruegger, the Warners are zany cartoon characters of an unnamed anthropomorphized species, constantly escaping the Warner Brothers water tower and causing chaos wherever they go. Particular targets of their humour are Ralph T. Guard; the Warner studio's security guard, and Otto Scratchansniff, the lot's psychiatrist.
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The Warners are siblings, with Yakko (voiced by Rob Paulsen)[1] as the oldest of the three. He is gregarious, charismatic, and generally seen as the leader of the group. Wakko (voiced by Jess Harnell)[1] is the middle child, with a Scouse accent modelled on Ringo Starr. He can eat nearly anything in large quantities, whether food or not, and often carries a "Gag Bag" from which he can produce a wide range of objects. Dot (full name Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fanna Bo Besca III; voiced by Tress MacNeille)[1] is the youngest and only female of the three. Dot is cute, bubbly and generally friendly, though can also be vain, rude and bossy.
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Role within the series
The Warners were created by the animation department of the Warner Brothers studio in 1929. However, their antics caused chaos all over the lot and the films in which they starred proved to be completely nonsensical. The films were put into the studio vault and never released, while the Warners themselves were locked in the studio water tower. Warner Brothers disavowed any knowledge of the trio's existence until the series' present time, when they escape and resume their old mischievous habits.[2]
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Concept and creation
Series creator Tom Ruegger initially modeled the Warners' personalities heavily on those of his three sons.[3] The species of the Warners has been made deliberately unclear within the series.[4] Officially, within the series, the Warners are claimed to be Cartoonus characterus, a fake Latin phrase.[5][6] The characters were also originally intended to be ducks.[7] The Warners' parents are not known, but in the movie Wakko's Wish, it is revealed that they were the king and queen of Warnerstock.
The image of the Warner Siblings is an homage and an tribute to cartoon characters from the "rubber hose animation" styles of the late 1920s and mid 1930s.[3] Characters consisting of simple black drawings with white faces were very common in cartoons of the 1920s and 1930s, including Bosko and Honey, Felix the Cat, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Bimbo, Flip the Frog, Foxy, Pooch the Pup, and the early version of Mickey Mouse, Pete, Minnie Mouse, Goofy, Horace Horsecollar, and Clarabelle Cow.[citation needed]
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