Yakko's Universe Song
Yakko's Universe is a song sung primarily by Yakko Warner, describing how vast and big the universe really is compared to us. Wakko and Dot joined him in singing the final verse. It originally aired as the third segment of episode 3, and was later repeated as a segment of one of the Christmas episodes because of the wintry setting of the song. It was inspired by Eric Idle's "Galaxy Song" from Monty Python and the Meaning of Life .
The song was composed and written by Randy Rogel. However, the song went through some changes. The original lyrics are shown below the aired lyrics.
The song was released on the first soundtrack, Animaniacs .
Lyrics [ ]
Yakko Warner :
Everybody lives on a street in a city
Or a village or a town for what it's worth.
And they're all inside a country which is part of a continent
That sits upon a planet known as Earth.
And the Earth is a ball full of oceans and some mountains
Which is out there spinning silently in space.
And living on that Earth are the plants and the animals
And also the entire human race.
It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny.
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
It's big and black and inky
And we are small and dinky
It's a big universe and we're not.
And we're part of a vast interplanetary system
Stretching seven hundred billion miles long.
With nine planets and a sun; we think the Earth's the only one
That has life on it, although we could be wrong.
Across the interstellar voids are a billion asteroids
Including meteors and Halley's Comet too.
And there's over fifty moons floating out there like balloons
In a panoramic trillion-mile view.
And still it's all a speck amid a hundred billion stars
In a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
It's sixty thousand trillion miles from one end to the other
And still that's just a fraction of the way.
'Cause there's a hundred billion galaxies that stretch across the sky
Filled with constellations, planets, moons and stars.
And still the universe extends to a place that never ends
Which is maybe just inside a little jar!
The Warners :
It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny,
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
Though we don't know how it got here
We're an important part here
It's a big universe and it's ours!
Original lyrics [ ]
The third verse originally described all the planets, but when Randy Rogel was informed the writer Paul Rugg was writing a planets song, he changed it. The chorus was also changed to avoid having a call from any lawyers. Here are the original lyrics, which he performed at a special event for Rob Paulsen's podcast "Talking Toons" in August 2012.
And we're part of a vast interplanetary system
With everyone revolving 'round the sun,
With Mercury in between us, and after that comes Venus,
And still the solar system's just begun.
Past the Earth on towards the stars, where we find the planet Mars,
Which is over fifty-million miles away,
And orbiting in pattern, are Jupiter and Saturn,
Uranus, Neptune, Pluto so we say, ...all together!
It's a great big universe and everyone's a part of it,
And no one knows just where's the end or start of it,
We all live here together,
It's our home forever...
It's a small world after all!
Trivia and References [ ]
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Episodes
Season 1: "De-Zanitized / The Monkey Song / Nighty-Night Toon " • "Yakko's World / Cookies for Einstein / Win Big " • "H.M.S. Yakko / Slappy Goes Walnuts / Yakko's Universe " • "Hooked on a Ceiling / Goodfeathers: The Beginning " • "Taming Of The Screwy " • "Temporary Insanity / Operation: Lollipop / What are We? " • "Piano Rag / When Rita Met Runt " • "The Big Candy Store / Bumbie's Mom " • "Wally Llama / Where Rodents Dare " • "King Yakko " • "No Pain, No Painting / Les Miseranimals " • "Garage Sale of the Century / West Side Pigeons " • "Hello Nice Warners / La Behemoth / Little Old Slappy from Pasadena " • "La La Law / Cat on a Hot Steel Beam " • "Space Probed / Battle for the Planet " • "Chalkboard Bungle / Hurray for Slappy / The Great Wakkorotti: The Master and His Music " • "Roll Over, Beethoven / The Cat and the Fiddle " • "Pavlov's Mice / Chicken Boo-Ryshnikov / Nothing but the Tooth " • "Meatballs or Consequences / A Moving Experience " • "Hearts of Twilight / The Boids " • "Four Score and Seven Migraines Ago / Wakko's America / Davy Omelette / The Flame " • "Guardin' the Garden / Plane Pals " • "Be Careful What You Eat / Up the Crazy River / Ta Da Dump, Ta Da Dump, Ta Da Dump Dump Dump " • "Opportunity Knox / Wings Take Heart " • "Hercule Yakko / Home on De-Nile / A Midsummer Night's Dream " • "Testimonials / Babblin' Bijou / Potty Emergency / Sir Yaksalot " • "You Risk Your Life / I Got Yer Can / Jockey for Position " • "Moby or Not Moby / Mesozoic Mindy / The Good, the Boo and the Ugly " • "Draculee, Draculaa / Phranken-Runt " • "Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled / Moon Over Minerva / Skullhead Boneyhands " • "O Silly Mio / Puttin' on the Blitz / The Great Wakkorotti: The Summer Concert " • "Chairman of the Bored / Planets Song / Astro-Buttons " • "Cartoons in Wakko's Body / Noah's Lark / The Big Kiss / Hiccup " • "Clown and Out / Bubba Bo Bob Brain " • "Very Special Opening / In the Garden of Mindy / No Place Like Homeless / Katie Ka-Boo / Baghdad Cafe " • "Critical Condition / The Three Muska-Warners " • "Dough Dough Boys / Boot Camping / General Boo-Regard " • "Spellbound " • "Smitten With Kittens / Alas Poor Skullhead / White Gloves " • "Fair Game / The Slapper / Puppet Rulers " • "Buttermilk, It Makes a Body Bitter / Broadcast Nuisance / Raging Bird " • "Animator's Alley / Can't Buy a Thrill / Hollywoodchuck " • "Of Nice and Men / What a Dump / Survey Ladies " • "Useless Facts / The Senses / The World Can Wait / Kiki's Kitten " • "Windsor Hassle / ...And Justice for Slappy " • "Turkey Jerky / Wild Blue Yonder " • "Video Review / When Mice Ruled the Earth " • "Mobster Mash / Lake Titicaca / Icebreakers " • "A Christmas Plotz / Little Drummer Warners " • "Twas the Day Before Christmas / Jingle Boo / The Great Wakkorotti: The Holiday Concert / Toy Shop Terror / Yakko's Universe " • "The Warners & the Beanstalk / Frontier Slappy " • "Ups and Downs / The Brave Little Trailer / Yes, Always " • "Drive-Insane / Girlfeathers / I'm Cute " • "Brain Meets Brawn / Meet Minerva " • "Gold Rush / A Gift of Gold / Dot's Quiet Time " • "Schnitzelbank / The Helpinki Formula / Les Boutons et le Ballon / Kung Boo " • "Of Course, You Know This Means Warners / Up a Tree / Wakko's Gizmo " • "Meet John Brain / Smell Ya Later " • "Ragamuffins / Woodstock Slappy " • "Karaoke-Dokie / The Cranial Crusader / The Chicken Who Loved Me " • "Baloney & Kids / Super Buttons / Katie Ka-Boom: The Driving Lesson " • "Scare Happy Slappy / Witch One / MacBeth " • "With Three You Get Eggroll / Mermaid Mindy / Katie Ka-Boom: Call Waiting " • "Lookit the Fuzzy Heads / No Face Like Home " • "The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special "
Season 2: "Take My Siblings Please / The Mindy 500 / Morning Malaise " • "Miami Mama-Mia / Pigeon on the Roof " • "We're No Pigeons / Whistle Stop Mindy / Katie Ka-Boom: The Broken Date " • "I'm Mad / Bad Mood Bobby / Katie Ka-Boom: The Blemish / Fake "
Season 3: "Super Strong Warner Siblings / Nutcracker Slappy / Wakko's New Gookie / A Quake, a Quake! " • "Variety Speak / Three Tenors and You're Out / Bingo " • "Deduces Wild / Rest in Pieces / U.N. Me " • "A Hard Day's Warner / Gimme a Break / Please Please Please Get a Life Foundation " • "The Tiger Prince / All The Words in the English Language / The Kid in the Lid / Method to Her Madness " • "The Presidents Song / Don't Tread on Us / The Flame Returns " • "Gimme the Works / Buttons in Ows / Hercules Unwound " • "This Pun for Hire / Star Truck / Go Fish / Multiplication Song " • "The Sound of Warners / Yabba Dabba Boo " • "My Mother the Squirrel / The Party / Oh! Say Can You See / The Twelve Days of Christmas Song " • "Dot's Entertainment / The Girl with the Googily Goop / Gunga Dot " • "Soccer Coach Slappy / Belly Button Blues / Our Final Space Cartoon, We Promise / Valuable Lesson " • "Wakko's 2-Note Song / Panama Canal / Hello Nurse / The Ballad of Magellan / The Return of the Great Wakkorotti / The Big Wrap Party Tonight "
Season 4: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock " • "Cutie and the Beast / Boo Happens / Noel " • "Jokahontas / Boids on the Hood / Mighty Wakko at the Bat " • "A Very Very Very Very Special Show / Night of the Living Buttons / Soda Jerk " • "From Burbank with Love / Anchors A-Warners / When You're Traveling from Nantucket " • "Papers for Pappa / Amazing Gladiators / Pinky and the Ralph " • "Ten Short Films About Wakko Warner / No Time for Love / The Boo Network " • "Pitter Patter of Little Feet / Mindy in Wonderland / Ralph's Wedding "
Season 5: "Back in Style / Bones in the Body " • "It / Dot - The Macadamia Nut / Bully for Skippy " • "Cute First (Ask Questions Later) / Acquaintances / Here Comes Attila / Boo Wonder " • "Hooray for North Hollywood " • "The Carpool / The Sunshine Squirrels " • "The Christmas Tree / Punchline (Part I) / Prom Night / Punchline (Part II)" • "Magic Time / The Brain's Apprentice " • "Birds on a Wire / The Scoring Session / The Animaniacs Suite "
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Episodes
Season 1: "De-Zanitized / The Monkey Song / Nighty-Night Toon " • "Yakko's World / Cookies for Einstein / Win Big " • "H.M.S. Yakko / Slappy Goes Walnuts / Yakko's Universe " • "Hooked on a Ceiling / Goodfeathers: The Beginning " • "Taming Of The Screwy " • "Temporary Insanity / Operation: Lollipop / What are We? " • "Piano Rag / When Rita Met Runt " • "The Big Candy Store / Bumbie's Mom " • "Wally Llama / Where Rodents Dare " • "King Yakko " • "No Pain, No Painting / Les Miseranimals " • "Garage Sale of the Century / West Side Pigeons " • "Hello Nice Warners / La Behemoth / Little Old Slappy from Pasadena " • "La La Law / Cat on a Hot Steel Beam " • "Space Probed / Battle for the Planet " • "Chalkboard Bungle / Hurray for Slappy / The Great Wakkorotti: The Master and His Music " • "Roll Over, Beethoven / The Cat and the Fiddle " • "Pavlov's Mice / Chicken Boo-Ryshnikov / Nothing but the Tooth " • "Meatballs or Consequences / A Moving Experience " • "Hearts of Twilight / The Boids " • "Four Score and Seven Migraines Ago / Wakko's America / Davy Omelette / The Flame " • "Guardin' the Garden / Plane Pals " • "Be Careful What You Eat / Up the Crazy River / Ta Da Dump, Ta Da Dump, Ta Da Dump Dump Dump " • "Opportunity Knox / Wings Take Heart " • "Hercule Yakko / Home on De-Nile / A Midsummer Night's Dream " • "Testimonials / Babblin' Bijou / Potty Emergency / Sir Yaksalot " • "You Risk Your Life / I Got Yer Can / Jockey for Position " • "Moby or Not Moby / Mesozoic Mindy / The Good, the Boo and the Ugly " • "Draculee, Draculaa / Phranken-Runt " • "Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled / Moon Over Minerva / Skullhead Boneyhands " • "O Silly Mio / Puttin' on the Blitz / The Great Wakkorotti: The Summer Concert " • "Chairman of the Bored / Planets Song / Astro-Buttons " • "Cartoons in Wakko's Body / Noah's Lark / The Big Kiss / Hiccup " • "Clown and Out / Bubba Bo Bob Brain " • "Very Special Opening / In the Garden of Mindy / No Place Like Homeless / Katie Ka-Boo / Baghdad Cafe " • "Critical Condition / The Three Muska-Warners " • "Dough Dough Boys / Boot Camping / General Boo-Regard " • "Spellbound " • "Smitten With Kittens / Alas Poor Skullhead / White Gloves " • "Fair Game / The Slapper / Puppet Rulers " • "Buttermilk, It Makes a Body Bitter / Broadcast Nuisance / Raging Bird " • "Animator's Alley / Can't Buy a Thrill / Hollywoodchuck " • "Of Nice and Men / What a Dump / Survey Ladies " • "Useless Facts / The Senses / The World Can Wait / Kiki's Kitten " • "Windsor Hassle / ...And Justice for Slappy " • "Turkey Jerky / Wild Blue Yonder " • "Video Review / When Mice Ruled the Earth " • "Mobster Mash / Lake Titicaca / Icebreakers " • "A Christmas Plotz / Little Drummer Warners " • "Twas the Day Before Christmas / Jingle Boo / The Great Wakkorotti: The Holiday Concert / Toy Shop Terror / Yakko's Universe " • "The Warners & the Beanstalk / Frontier Slappy " • "Ups and Downs / The Brave Little Trailer / Yes, Always " • "Drive-Insane / Girlfeathers / I'm Cute " • "Brain Meets Brawn / Meet Minerva " • "Gold Rush / A Gift of Gold / Dot's Quiet Time " • "Schnitzelbank / The Helpinki Formula / Les Boutons et le Ballon / Kung Boo " • "Of Course, You Know This Means Warners / Up a Tree / Wakko's Gizmo " • "Meet John Brain / Smell Ya Later " • "Ragamuffins / Woodstock Slappy " • "Karaoke-Dokie / The Cranial Crusader / The Chicken Who Loved Me " • "Baloney & Kids / Super Buttons / Katie Ka-Boom: The Driving Lesson " • "Scare Happy Slappy / Witch One / MacBeth " • "With Three You Get Eggroll / Mermaid Mindy / Katie Ka-Boom: Call Waiting " • "Lookit the Fuzzy Heads / No Face Like Home " • "The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special "
Season 2: "Take My Siblings Please / The Mindy 500 / Morning Malaise " • "Miami Mama-Mia / Pigeon on the Roof " • "We're No Pigeons / Whistle Stop Mindy / Katie Ka-Boom: The Broken Date " • "I'm Mad / Bad Mood Bobby / Katie Ka-Boom: The Blemish / Fake "
Season 3: "Super Strong Warner Siblings / Nutcracker Slappy / Wakko's New Gookie / A Quake, a Quake! " • "Variety Speak / Three Tenors and You're Out / Bingo " • "Deduces Wild / Rest in Pieces / U.N. Me " • "A Hard Day's Warner / Gimme a Break / Please Please Please Get a Life Foundation " • "The Tiger Prince / All The Words in the English Language / The Kid in the Lid / Method to Her Madness " • "The Presidents Song / Don't Tread on Us / The Flame Returns " • "Gimme the Works / Buttons in Ows / Hercules Unwound " • "This Pun for Hire / Star Truck / Go Fish / Multiplication Song " • "The Sound of Warners / Yabba Dabba Boo " • "My Mother the Squirrel / The Party / Oh! Say Can You See / The Twelve Days of Christmas Song " • "Dot's Entertainment / The Girl with the Googily Goop / Gunga Dot " • "Soccer Coach Slappy / Belly Button Blues / Our Final Space Cartoon, We Promise / Valuable Lesson " • "Wakko's 2-Note Song / Panama Canal / Hello Nurse / The Ballad of Magellan / The Return of the Great Wakkorotti / The Big Wrap Party Tonight "
Season 4: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock " • "Cutie and the Beast / Boo Happens / Noel " • "Jokahontas / Boids on the Hood / Mighty Wakko at the Bat " • "A Very Very Very Very Special Show / Night of the Living Buttons / Soda Jerk " • "From Burbank with Love / Anchors A-Warners / When You're Traveling from Nantucket " • "Papers for Pappa / Amazing Gladiators / Pinky and the Ralph " • "Ten Short Films About Wakko Warner / No Time for Love / The Boo Network " • "Pitter Patter of Little Feet / Mindy in Wonderland / Ralph's Wedding "
Season 5: "Back in Style / Bones in the Body " • "It / Dot - The Macadamia Nut / Bully for Skippy " • "Cute First (Ask Questions Later) / Acquaintances / Here Comes Attila / Boo Wonder " • "Hooray for North Hollywood " • "The Carpool / The Sunshine Squirrels " • "The Christmas Tree / Punchline (Part I) / Prom Night / Punchline (Part II)" • "Magic Time / The Brain's Apprentice " • "Birds on a Wire / The Scoring Session / The Animaniacs Suite "