This is pretty cool. A 3-part video interviewing numerous key people in the production of the Animaniacs cartoon.

I love cartoons, and Animaniacs was one of the best cartoons of “the modern era”. It was funny, witty, irreverent (as much as they could be), lots of adult humor but not rated-R humor yet the kids could still get it. Slapstick comedy, just weird stuff (Chicken Boo), classic and modern references, and just some zany off the wall random stuff. Songs like “Lake Titicaca” which had no other point than “we like saying the words ‘titty’ and ‘caca'” — so wonderfully childish. The Wheel of Morality, which made fun of lots of things. The list goes on. It was such a joy of a cartoon.

I’m still watching my way through the videos. I did enjoy hearing the writers saying they had a lot of freedom and very little oversight. It shows. Often that’s how the best things are made: you get good, talented people and let them do their thing. You give them as much freedom and as little oversight as possible, and don’t filter or edit their creation down to a mere shell of the original.