What kind of animals are the Animaniacs supposed to be?
The Animaniacs in their titular show are three characters who vaguely resemble Mickey Mouse or Oswald Rabbit.
What animals are they supposed to be? Mice? Rabbits? Something else?
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The Animaniacs (Yakko, Wakko, and Dot) are not any specific animal and it's intentionally left open, often for humor.
A running gag throughout the Animaniacs series is the question of what animals, if any, the Warners are meant to be modeled after. The series' other characters are cartoon representations of various animals such as mice, birds, monkeys, and squirrels, but the Warners are intentionally ambiguous. Various characters in the series question the Warners about this and refer to them as a variety of different animals, frequently "puppy children" owing to their ears and tails or sometimes Toons because of their 1930s appearance. When asked what they are, most often they state, "We're the Warner Brothers! And the Warner Sister." The Warners themselves often use this ambiguity as a source of humor; in one episode an entire musical number is devoted to guessing their species to which they declare "what we are dear Doctor—is cute!" Source
And here is an interview with The Animaniacs animation director John Over where he is asked this very same question, finally concluding "they aren't any particular animal...they're sorta dogs, they're sorta weird, deformed kids".
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Are the Animaniacs rabbits?
According to The Animaniacs Fandom wiki, they are half dog, half cat. But it's actually not that simple. Although the Warner siblings look like both dogs and cats, they aren't real-life animals at all.Are the Animaniacs mice?
Pinky (voiced by Rob Paulsen, who also voices Yakko from Animaniacs) is a genetically modified mouse who shares the same cage as Brain at Acme Labs. Pinky is an extremely unstable and hyperactive mouse.What race is Yakko?
They are a trio of cartoon characters of an unknown species (Tom Ruegger stated in an interview that their species is Cartoonus characterus). Yakko is the tall, talkative one who is a big-time smart aleck; Wakko is the absurd one with a large appetite; Dot is the cute one.Is Yakko Warner a dog?
Yakko, as his name implies, is the most talkative and quick-witted of the Warner siblings. Like his siblings, Yakko is an ambiguous dog-like cartoon character. He is the tallest and eldest of the three, about the same height as Bugs Bunny, and wears khaki pants up to his waist with a large belt.Animaniacs - What Are We? (English)
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