Animaniacs (TV Series)
Rome Sweet Rome/Backwards Pinky/Wakko's Short Shorts: Now Loading (2021)
Fred Tatasciore: Nero, Nils
Quotes
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Nero , Yakko Warner , Dot Warner , Wakko Warner : [Nero sings] I am the very model of An ancient Roman emperor / I overspend and overtax And overthrow my treasurer / I marry family members from my cousin to my step-sister / I'm always right, I'm never wrong, Just ask this neutral Senator. / Through sound investigation By Praetorian inquisitors, / My mother and my brother Were revealed to be conspirators / But mother dear's no longer here, This bust helps me remember her. / I am the very model of an ancient Roman emperor. / Yakko: He fiddles while the city burns, / He rules with fear tyrannical / Dot: He's lazy, brutish, and ill-willed, / He thinks that he's infallible / Wakko: His hands are small, / He steals from Gaul, / His writing's ungrammatical / Warneruses: He's making Roma great again, / Dogmatic, and fantastical / He's gormless and irascible, / Tragic and autocratical / Maniacal and radical, / Positions problematical / Takes endless golf sabbaticals, / His tweets are unsyntactical / Yakko
[pauses the song to say]
Nero , Yakko Warner , Dot Warner , Wakko Warner : Um, we're still talking about Nero, right? / He's a narcissist, a petulant, / Unscrupulous embezzler / He is the very model of An ancient Roman emperor. /
[Nero approaches threateningly]
Nero , Yakko Warner , Dot Warner , Wakko Warner : Yakko
[speaking]
Nero , Yakko Warner , Dot Warner , Wakko Warner : You know? I'm starting to think he didn't like our verse.
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Yakko Warner : [Reading the fax he just received] I have here a DMCA takedown notice demanding this unauthorized parody of Conan the Barbarian be removed from this episode immediately.
Nils : Let me peruse.
[reads the fax]
Nils : It's watertight.
[the barbarians grumble disappointingly]
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Nero : [after John Cena has bombed a second time with a poor joke] Less stand-up, more smackdown!