Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: To the song "All About the Benjamins". No Celebrities Were Harmed: Franklin puts on a Sia wig while playing the violin.Historical Villain Upgrade: Unlike most depictions in which he's usually a Nice Guy, here, Benjamin Franklin is an unpleasant, stuck-up, short-tempered, credit-hogging jerk.Tropes found in "All About the Benjamin": The Warners combining their weapons is a nod towards Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, though not to the extent the Warners did.Ralph resembles an odd fusion of Voltron and Mazinger Z.Also counts as a Call-Back to last season's "Bun Control". The signal that lights up is a picture of Yakko donning Kamina's shades, resembling the Gurren-Dan logo.The Warners are all based off of the heroes of Thundercats 1985 with Yakko as Lion-O, Wakko as a fusion of Panthro and Snarf and Dot as a fusion of Tygra and Cheetara.Shout-Out: The entire thing is a heavy nod to a number of 80's-based franchises.Cartoon Creature: Double Subverted in that this segment refers to them as cats and their spotlight symbol looks like a silhouette of the Warner's heads with cat ears (and wearing Kamina's shades), but that this is not a confirmation of them being cats.The original Animaniacs episode "Hooray For North Hollywood (Part 1)" and the first two parts of the Pinky and the Brain three-parter "Brainwashed" also ended on cliffhangers.
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