I then manually renamed all the video files to properly line up with the TVDB episodes (all the new video files contain multiple episodes, which is how I suppose it was shown on TV). To fix it, I moved the entire Animaniacs folder to another disk - this removed the show from Emby, and I confirmed that Animaniacs was no longer in Emby. Even re-identifying the show didn't help. It continued to see the new seasons 6 to 8 as the originally named seasons 1 to 3. Unfortunately, Emby could not handle this.

So I downloaded the first 5 seasons, renamed the folder to just 'Animaniacs', and renamed the new seasons as 6 to 8, to align with the TVDB. When Emby couldn't find the show, I looked at the TVDB and found that they only had the new seasons as added to the original 1993 Animaniacs show (the new seasons being 6 to 8).

I had only downloaded the new Animaniacs 2020 seasons (seasons 1 to 3) and named them as such, calling it 'Animaniacs 2020'. Thankfully, these more adult-oriented moments never feel out of place, and the experienced, talented voice cast certainly help in that regard.The problem was caused because of how I originally loaded the show into Emby. Whether it's lengthy musical numbers patterned after Gilbert & Sullivan plays or jokes that veer into surprisingly dark territory, the new Animaniacs can be surprisingly edgy at times. The tone may be lighthearted and silly, but the writers have mostly abandoned any pretense of Animaniacs being a show aimed at children. If anything, they have a bit more bite now than they did back in 1994.

Season 2 further cements the fact that Yakko, Wakko, and Dot have lost none of their edge over the past few decades.

That's what winds up driving many of the show's storylines. If there's any sort of through-line at all in this very plot-light series, it's that the Warners are both fascinated with and mystified by 21st Century social media. That said, the series does succeed in casting a slightly wider net this time and not relying too much on political jokes that became outdated sometime between the scripting and animating phases. In case you were wondering, yes, there's still a fair amount of political humor targeted at the previous presidential administration.

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