Monday PSA: The Animaniacs — Welcome to Emergency World
May 18th, 2009
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In 1995, Warner Brothers and the American Red Cross published a disaster preparedness educational comic featuring the Warner brothers (and sister) called Animaniacs: Welcome to Emergency World. The “emergency World” of the title is an amusement park ride the brothers (and sister) persuade the unfortunate Dr. Scratchansniff to take them on. The ride tours a variety of disaster sites, with the Warner brothers (and sister) providing commentary along the way. As is to be expected, poor Dr. Scratchansniff takes the brunt of the ride, and anything than go wrong, does go wrong — to him at least. |
     
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This is a good PSA comic, if a little busy at times. The Warner brothers (and sister) as well as Dr. Scratchansniff are well-written and perfectly in character. There are no stupid characters here: everyone knows what to do and not to do — there is no ONISGS. The writing is humorous, though not as funny as your average Animaniacs episode — still, that makes this comic far funnier than any other PSA comic.
Topics covered include stranger danger, seatbelts, winter storms, thunderstorms, lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and fire. Nowadays, this would be a twelve-issue limited series.  More PSAs
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