Two years after Nicktoons debuted in 1991, Animaniacs brought sophisticated jokes and witticism into the homes of millions of children during after school hours.

Best of Nicktoons 1998, a lost VHS featuring the original version of the SpongeBob SquarePants pilot "Help Wanted," is now on the Internet Archive.

No disrespect to Nicktoons’ crude masterpiece, but I was personally an “Animaniacs” kid. The three dog-like troublemakers, alongside sidekicks like Pinky and the Brain, not only hit me with ...