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How Accurate Is The Animaniacs 19th Century Geography Song?

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The new reboot of Animaniacs had a new geography song, but this time set in the 19th century. Is it more accurate than the original?
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20 Comments

@EddyPed 4 years ago

As an animator on this show, I can 100% assure you that we were all making fun of that map while working on this episode 😂

@kucimaka8092 4 years ago

I feel like they definitely knew what they are doing with these awful maps

@D2RCR 4 years ago

I think the map was done that way on purpose, because everyone’s been breaking down how inaccurate the original was.

@Monosekist 4 years ago

When I first saw the original video, I wondered how they’d fit all the German and Italian states. Just cutting to something else definitely made the most sense.

@nateotto3960 4 years ago (edited)

Replacing continental Europe with the British Heptarchy must have been on purpose. That part has the most accurate borders (insofar as Anglo Saxon borders can be accurate) of anywhere else in the video. "Animaniacs" animators are probably bigger geeks than the people who enjoy EmporTigerstar videos, if such a thing is possible. And they've successfully trolled our community of map nerds. Kudos to them.

@wolv0223 4 years ago

That mapping is hilarious. The UK of GB and Ireland is split into the entire Heptarchy, Europe completely wiped, Mongolia map into water, the majority of the HRE is called Prussia despite the zoom-in map having Prussia. They've just gone full meme, trying to be hilariously wrong.

@TheCoal27 4 years ago

"Prussia!"
points to the like one part of Germany that isn't Prussia

@090giver090 4 years ago (edited)

I think they mentioned Queen Victoria as she declared herself the Empress of India thus disbanding the Empire of Maratha under East Indies Company rule. Also they (or someone else) MUST do a "pre-unification german states song" :)

@joseph798 1 year ago

4:40 Okay but the mental image of Britain doubling in size and blowing up Europe is kinda funny.

@samrodrigues3199 4 years ago

I just got recommended the 19th century one a few hours ago and said to a friend "Tigerstar would have a field day with this".

Yep, didn't jinx anything.

@Yannis1a 4 years ago

So when he said “Next Queen Victoria, Goodbye the Empire of Maratha” it’s a reference to the British empire taking control of India after the collapse of the Maratha Confederacy, in 1858 it became part of the British Crown

@InquisitorThomas 4 years ago (edited)

“The South” might refer to the CSA since it technically was “a country” during the 19th century, but it’s existence wasn’t during around the time of Oliver Twist, and there are arguments about whether we should recognize CSA as a country during this time period and not a region in revolt.

@dorofaeya8640 4 years ago

I think Austria already was the "Austrian Empire" at the time since the HRR was abolished in 1816 after Napoleon defeated the Habsburg trooos

@kektuss 4 years ago

“Britain didn’t double in size and destroy the European continent.”: A man can dream though.

@ValueNetwork 4 years ago

It feels like the writing team realised “Ok the old series map had things wrong so lets try it properly” and the Animation team completely dropped the ball

@bork6506 4 years ago

I couldn’t stop laughing at the first reveal of Europe on the zoomed out map

@metametodo 4 years ago

"I'm an obsessive geography nerd and people for some reason enjoy watching me get nitpicky over maps"

I think I talk for most of us here when I say that the reason is, we are also obsessive geography nerds.

@hetmanategaming69 4 years ago

— Artist, how much historical and accurate maps do we have?
— Yes.

@krealyesitisbeta5642 4 years ago

"...As much as they my have wanted too."

European countries: "As much as they what?"

Britain still conquering the irish: "Great, now everyone else knows..."