We also chatted about his battle with throat cancer and his position as the 2020 spokesperson for the Head and Neck Cancer Alliance's Oral Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Program. We talked about the upcoming new series and what it was like to reunite with the returning cast and crew, along with newcomers to the title, plus the musical roadshow Animaniacs in Concert. But that's another review.I recently had the privilege of speaking with Paulsen as part of our ongoing Saturday Mourning Cartoons interviews. Unfortunately, the bliss came to a screeching halt when a certain red-haired girl with a grating voice came into the picture and forever messed up our favorite mice bent on world domination (and belly-button lint). There was pretty much something for everyone, if everyone was paying close attention. I probably appreciated it even more as I grew older, because I understood literary and pop culture references (and even a double entendre or two!) made during the episodes. It's especially special to me because it kept me entertained for so many a Saturday morning, even when I was 'too old' for Kids' WB. Who can forget the cloning experiment that made Pinky and Brain the proud donators of DNA to their clone, Romy? Or the staged reunion special? How about the 'mystery product' infomercial? I'm telling you, a show that can deal with such profound issues as cloning and such bizarre modern phenomena as infomercials, and make it all funny to boot, has to be special. This episode, among others, provided us with a great spoof of modern (for 1997) life.

'I'm going to have to hurt you, hurt you, hurt you! / Have to, have to, have to / hurt you, hurt you, hurt you!' This was one of my favorite 'Pinky and the Brain' moments, coming from an episode in which Brain's plan to take over the world involved a Broadway musical entitled 'Angst'.

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