Familiar Faces: Ralph The Guard

[@joinmarch76]

11:10-11:18 Same way Frank Welker managed to play Ralph again in the reboot: Frank Welker is immortal. For now, at least. Seriously, I still find it amazing that he started out playing Fred Jones all the way back in '69, and yet say for the obvious march of time, sounds almost exactly like he did so long ago!

[@Lepacodelaluz]

I just love this episode

[@captain_hat6247]

7:06-7:27 This is still one of the best points you've ever made, CR. "I have money. I want to GIVE it to you." This can be said for so many shows that for some stupid reasons aren't released on DVD yet.

[@joinmarch76]

Actually, you both are in luck. They recently released all of Animaniacs to DVD, same for TIny Toons. Our prayers have been answered!

[@josephcalabrese6337]

I concur! Said DVD sets should also have commentary from the voice actors, Behind-the-scenes looks, Promo commercials for the shows, And other cool things you can only get with Physical media. (Just like with Gravity Falls, Adventure Time, and Steven Universe.) And yeah I know it takes extra time and work to put all that extra content into a presentable DVD case and digital menus and what not. But in the end you get a product that is worth buying and keeping

[@TheJboy88]

Ralph is one of those characters I never gave much thought to at the time. But like the truly great characters, he's one that seems to get better the more you think about it.

[@utoobisgarbage5210]

I like the Nostalgia critic reference, with the dead care bear and kids lol nice touch

[@HCHaven7619]

I agree! Ralph the Guard definitely deserves a spinoff more so than Elmyra. :)

[@Karlos1234ify]

He’s the CEO of Warner Bros.

[@MrMWorks]

Shame, Ralph could have been one of the most original comedic guards ever. Oh well. He's still Ralph and that's awesome. Keep up the brilliant work CR. Of all the reviewers. You are my fav

[@stanleyteriaca2184]

I find it funny that Ralph's first appearance was a throwaway joke on Tiny Toons funny. "Ralph? Who's Ralph?"

[@Jackie-McCann]

I loved the Mr. Director impression you did at the beginning! I think both Paul Rugg and Jerry Lewis would be proud!

[@thesuperamazingalex810]

Fun fact: Mr. Skullhead, a character drawn by writter Sherri Stoner, also first appeared in Tiny Toon Adventures as a part of Elmyra's fantasy segments.

[@brianrunyon266]

Cool stuff. Note how both shows had most of the same voice cast at times. Both are now on Hulu, BTW. Ah, Ralph, great character.

[@CooperGal24]

This could've be a prediction for the doll line of the children of famous movie and storybook characters going to a school for monsters and fairy tale characters, except Tiny Toons weren't the sons, daughters or relatives of famous Looney Tunes stars.

[@TaiKiGU]

Well, I think the difference in Ralph between the two shows is that in Tiny Toons, he was an obstacle to be overcome, but in Animaniacs, he was something to be avoided. And that's why the difference in intelligence.

[@robbiewalker2831]

Either that, or the Warners have become so synonymous with the studio to the point of being immune to Ralph's later attempts, and that Ralph is only able to capture people who are from OUTSIDE the studio that doesn't have permission to meet a famous celebrity. Also, in response to why CR is confused about Ralph being around since the 1930s, I'm guessing Ralph is about as much of a cartoon character as the Warners, and that he was created for that specific purpose... like he's some kind of guardian created to have the Studio under control.

[@TaiKiGU]

@@robbiewalker2831 I'm not confused about the whole cartoon character thing, that's just cartoons. It's all just silly. However, when one thinks back on the various Looney Tunes shows, you notice that the same pattern repeats. (This is actually true of most cartoons, but I digress.) Anytime a main character needs to get past someone, they are clever and observant. However, when such an individual need to be avoided, they act gullible and slow witted.

[@AdamFairLand]

Ralph was a bit of a reference to Ralph Bakshi and first appeared on Tiny Toon's Buster Bunny Bunch episode ("Ralph? Who's Ralph?").

[@kienesel7]

The intro is simply genius.

[@NijiMarii]

Also technically there WAS one Ralph cartoon that didn't involve the Warners - "Boids on the Hood" involves Ralph trying to defend Plotz' car from the Goodfeathers with no Warners involved.

[@robbiewalker2831]

I would love to see that.

[@rjprankmaster50]

Thank god Hasbro got the rights to animaniacs so we can experience it's awesomeness all over again.

[@KevlarNinja]

Ralph would have been an awesome cartoon star.

[@Rubberman202]

This has GOT to be one of my favorite episodes!

[@NijiMarii]

Besides the Warners, Ralph is my favorite character in Animaniacs. I actually found out recently that he was on Tiny Toons too, which is exciting. Which episode of Tiny Toons is the one at 6:27? EDIT: And yes, I would have loved a spinoff involving Ralph's life other than chasing the Warners, rather than Pinky, Elmyra and The Brain. I'd actually WATCH the Ralph spinoff.

[@daniexists6]

+MonitaLeaf12 Return of Batduck.

[@NijiMarii]

***** Thanks!

[@MegaKittyCyute]

That opening was a great freakazoid reference xD that was a great opening xD man freakazoid was great!! Too bad it didn't go too far >.

[@Johnmrobinson-vb5vd]

This has to have your finest thumbnail

[@JadenVonBat]

11:22 to 11:32 Not to mention that Freakazoid and Road Rovers were connected as well by the Brain (With Wacko's help in the former).

[@Tailzy26]

Dude your Mr. Director impression was great! Paul Ruggs would be proud!

[@crystalgemgirl731]

Ikr? Very accurate.

[@DrakeVagabond]

2:08 Why does that get me every time?

[@gaddock3713]

im the youngest of triplets and we are called yakko wakko and dot by everyone becuase of the chaos that we tend to cause(the oldest which is a girl is dot...the second oldest is yakko...and then me who is the youngest is wakko)GOODNIGHT EVRYBODY!!

[@CynosZilla]

I was just going to drop a "Like" since I've already watch it, but I ended up watching the whole thing. ^^

[@bohemianrhpsdy8]

my soul is doing cartwheels

[@TheLakabanzaichrg]

lol doug as doug

[@HyaenusDominae]

The Mr. Director bit was the best part.

[@WeirdWonderful]

I'd love to see you do a segment on Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain. What little there is of it to be found out. Platypuscomix has a rundown of all the episodes ever aired, including the ones aired after the actual show was canaceled and the segments split into a completely different show.

[@GreycatRademenes]

Hey CR, got a very interesting piece of Trivia for you! Did you know that Ralph also shown up in an episode of Darkwing Duck "A Star is Scourned" (Se1Ep60)? I'm not kidding you! He's less fat, he wears glasses, but it's Ralph! He talks the same and guards the "not-Disney" studio lot! It aired on November 29, 1991 and "Buster and Babs go Hawaiian" aired on November 18, 1991! Also Ralph is among the character I'd really like to see get an episode of instead of Katie Kaboom!

[@Babbleplay]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJjHpqKjjsmFiNU An overlooked Ralph appearance. More cameo than anything, and he's in his civilian clothing, but, they do refer to him by his name, in this one.

[@CaptainLunar1994]

I never thought I'd hear a comparison of Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, and Sin City all in one video. This is why CR is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@SpiffDico]

Good points to it all.

[@PlanetZoidstar]

I think I can explain how Ralph went from being a smart, wisecracking security guard to a dumbed down buffoon. See, he caught the Warners back in the early days, when he was still smart, cunning and capable, and is up till the Tiny Toon days..But the first time the Warners escape for the first time he underestimates them due to forgetting their own cunning, and gets hit in the head hard, effectively suffering brain damage which reduces his intelligence and savvyness.

[@jaywilliams8730]

Good reference to sin city with the title card

[@danielbrant6740]

Let me be the first of probably 100 comments to say that Doug Walker just interviewed one of the (now adult) child writers of that Tiny Toons episode. Expect this video's view count to SKYROCKET!

[@ninjawraith17]

7:20-7:27 CR, I think about those words every time I remember there's STILL no DVD release of the Tex Avery cartoons (except for Region 2). "Magical Maestro," "Bad Luck Blackie," "Red Hot Riding Hood," and "Who Killed Who?"

[@Bladeslingersgamepreserve]

I've been alive for 45 centuries. I am immortal.

[@Dimensioneer88]

I believe he said 4 and a half centuries.

[@mortalanonymous9338]

Aren't all the Spielberg cartoons in the same loose universe though? I always got that sense, what with the constant cameos and references the more got added.

[@emilydark5520]

Danger! Glen Kennedy Dance spotted at the 3:00 mark. Watch with caution!

[@DustyTheKitty]

7:58 - 8:38 Well... that certainly got a little... dark, didn't it?

[@TheChamp820]

"Duh" Ralph-

[@DarkMagicianGirl247]

Actually, not too long ago they announced that in February they're FINALLY gonna release Volume 4

[@Bowmaj21]

Wait, I remember a lot of those shows witht the "Classic characters as kids" shows, but I never knew they did that with the Pink Panther (2:34)!

[@amandaschultz2505]

Hello how are you this fine day/eveing/ungodly hour of the night? Is it possible that from Tiny Toon Adventures more intelligent Ralph to Animaniacs Dimwitted Ralph be their way of showing him aging, since physically he looks the same, but mental he is two knives short of a chefs kit? I agree that for them to just go and kill his ability to think of clever plans seems odd, or is it maybe showing that Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, are so above human Intelligences that Ralph just seem Dimwitted? What do you think?

[@wolfin22]

judge dredd theme X3

[@BennyLlama39]

The opening analysis is like subdued-Jerry-Lewis, right before he turns into spastic-Jerry-Lewis. 😀

[@TheAnchorArmsChad]

I'm glad the animaniacs get to beat up Ralph

[@HCHaven7619]

15:15 Goodnight Everybody!

[@seanpatrickcain2]

7:59 A true story? 6:27 Was that a quip? That was a quip! 5:25 Peter Griffin (from Family Guy): He said it! He said it! 3:04 Rimmer (from Red Dwarf): Well, I can't say I'm totally shocked.

[@EberReaper]

9:23 epic!!!!

[@danthethird4669]

he back bois

[@danthethird4669]

ayy got a heart on an 8 year old video

[@tommydiaz-millan2438]

Ralph is hilarious.

[@darkmyro]

thats what i was thinking all the "hard impacts" from the warners caused some damage over time

[@IGeorge94]

First love the intro, very funny :) & I AM, THE LLLAAAAAWWWWW!!!!!!

[@DarkMagicianGirl247]

The Two-Tones aren't actually prototype Warners, they were old WB cartoons

[@iggykidd]

Oh if only Welker would take the hint...

[@DarkMagicianGirl247]

Have you considered doing a Familiar Face episode with Fiona Fox, she's a very obscured character from the Sonic comics

[@veggietalesremasteredoffic6217]

There's now. A rebpot in the future:)

[@thegoodthebadthegame]

The soap at the end move

[@89Animeknight2nd]

do a Minerva mink one!

[@lakephall]

Wut if ralph goes to the looney toones show?

[@jm7940]

You probably already know this but they are releasing the final season of animaniacs soon.

[@hunnykun101]

Another great job~ and what does the pink symbolism in the comic?

[@Bladeslingersgamepreserve]

there is no pink in Sin City. That was probably a mistake or means to identify Dot.

[@mr.vercetti5085]

Me so funny uh me so funny uh me so funny me hop all time

[@Falcovsleon21]

10:54 Yeah but that's part of why I prefer Rabbit Rampage over Duck Amuck. And that's saying something because Duck Amuck is pretty damn funny.

[@GameKeeper28]

I think it's Mr. Director from Animaniacs.

[@sugarfrosted2005]

that's an orange bill...

[@1mefox]

you should review the new looney toons show

[@MrVariant]

Lol 3:09 damn well be me love you long time. Wow had no idea how inappropriate this was

[@ArthurCrane92]

0:30 A reference to something?

[@BahstX]

Are...you doing a...James Lipton impression at the start? Am...I the only one who knows who that is?

[@Terastas]

Meh. I like your theory, but I think the significance of the color was just so that the readers would be drawn to the same things the characters were drawn to. Red could mean power, sure, but it mostly showed up in the comics when somebody was bleeding. It's not symbolic so much as a grabber -- it indicates this is what the in-verse characters' eyes are drawn to.

[@themangoman9315]

Ralph kinda thick 😳

[@justingochioco1121]

Babs bunny was a clone of Lola Bunny from Space Jam

[@Dimensioneer88]

No Tiny Toons premiered in 1990. Lola's first appearance was Space Jam in 1996.

[@videogamelover121]

Ohhhhh... yeah you made a huge mistake when you said that in two tone town those where the prototypes of animaniacs you are wrong because they were foxy and roxy which were the names of two characters in the 3 merry melodies episodes in the 30s so yeah it was a cameo. i just wanted to tell you so you can fix it

[@AmberTheFangirl]

Frank Welker violent? I don’t believe ya

[@ProfCoolio]

We're the two tones really precursors to animaniacs? Because those 3 characters have been around since the 1930s foxy roxy and goopy gear and I think the greatest porky cartoon is porky in wacky land

[@gamecubeking]

Maybe not directly, as the same characters, but the line up is similar enough that it could have been a spark that inspired the trio.

[@DarkMagicianGirl247]

Shut up and take our money!

[@seanpatrickcain2]

LOL @ 11:18

[@crcoghill]

though, i think Babs came first.

[@TheZipperDragon]

I feel like you could've included the blue in the wb logo. Most of those companies are pretty scummy.

[@willku9000]

intriguing. mind elaborating? o_0 (I'm not trolling, I'm genuinely intrigued)

[@madmachanicest9955]

You know what this means right wako yako and dote are off the scale of cartoon power as thy make Ralph look like a joke but he's more powerful the all of the Tiny Toons . there lick cartoon gods or something.

[@Empanadas9483]

In reboot is so bad but in original is better for more serious

[@mr.vercetti5085]

Long

[@Dracomut]

It always bothered me how adept and powerful Yakko, Wakko, and Dot were. It made watching their antics boring and formulaic, I really wish there were more episodes where they were taken down a peg.

[@daniexists6]

+Dracomut Ahem, Karaoke-dokie.

[@daniexists6]

+Dracomut Also, there was another one. It involved Ben Stein.

[@Dracomut]

+Oswald The Lucky Rabbit I said I wish there were MORE episodes where they were taken down a peg. I am aware there were episodes where they gotten the short end of the stick, but I wished there were more

[@daniexists6]

But they're the main characters. Hell, they didn't get to the shit they put Bugs through every once in a while. They're basically like The Marx Brothers. They always have a leg up on every situation. Besides, the point is, nobody gives a shit. They aren't real. You're bitching about characters that aren't real.

[@Dracomut]

***** Hello Strawman

[@arielfangirlmendez]

I don't care how the reboot was good or bad, but I'm gonna say this reboot is bad

[@wipe93]

Nope