Histeria!

1998
7.6| 0h30m| TV-Y7| en
Synopsis

Perhaps the world's only animated sketch-comedy educational series, Histeria! delivers lessons that stick - to your funny bone. Hosted by Father Time, the cartoon cast careens through time to deliver historical facts from Siberia to Sumeria, despite the efforts of Miss Information, the claims of The World's Oldest Woman and the perpetually poopy diapers of the egg-shaped Big Fat Baby.

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Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place
CommentsXp Best movie ever!
Connianatu How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.
Staci Frederick Blistering performances.
milesschlenker I first saw this show about a year ago on in2tv.com. It is filled with some great ideas, but seldom brings them to the screen in a very funny way. I personally believe that this show has Monty Python syndrome. Monty Python syndrome is when a television show fails to make less than half of its jokes funny. Still, Hysteria! is a classic and is somewhat enjoyable. The most enjoyable aspect of the show was the music. This was the last television show by Warner Brothers that used a full orchestra and an original score in each episode. This was also the last show in the Tom Ruegger dynasty. The earlier shows of the dynasty included: Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, and Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain.
gaijin88 When I first saw this show, I thought it was marginally funny, but very PC. Then one morning before work I caught an episode that tried to depict Joseph Stalin and his crimes in a humorous light. How do you make light of someone who sent millions to their deaths in the Gulag? Of course, they would never try the same thing with Hitler, but it's OK if it's a communist murderer. What's next, cartoons about Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, Kim Il Sung/Kim Jong Il, etc.? The people who wrote this episode are probably the same idiots who are now going around wearing Che Guevara t-shirts without even knowing or caring about Guevara's crimes.
Victor Field This attempt to mix history with comedy in cartoon form didn't quite work, though not for lack of trying. Tom Ruegger and Co filled the series with too many characters (as listed in the opening song by Ruegger and the late Richard Stone) - Father Time, Big Fat Baby, Loud Kiddington, Pepper Mills, Charity Bazaar, Aka Pella, Toast, Miss Information, Froggo, World's Oldest Woman... and they all basically had to take a back seat to whichever people, places and things were at the heart of that particular episode. Of course, "Animaniacs" and "Tiny Toon Adventures" had a ton of characters as well, but they weren't all seen every week.This was pretty funny, but in at least one instance (the episode featuring slavery and the Underground Railroad) the need to educate overtook the need to entertain - I think this had more to do with the subject matter than the country it was in, as the series was overall just as irreverent about American history as the rest of the world's. But it did strike an odd note. (And this may be the only animated series to turn Lizzie Borden into a comic figure - nothing like playing a murderess for laughs to win over the kiddies, eh?)"Histeria!" is neither the best animated series from Warners (although it's still better than "Road Rovers" or "The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries") nor the best historical animated series (France's "Once Upon A Time..." shows beat this hands down), but until I get a chance to see if the "Schoolhouse Rock" shows are as good as they reportedly are this'll do. And it certainly beats "The Magic School Bus," even if the latter does have Little Richard singing the theme song.
CaseyBarkin It seems people have really mixed emotions about Histeria. I, for one, think it's a cute show and very, very amusing. I'm in high school and it's cool to see them talk about things I just learned in history classes on the show (plus it makes it seem like I was paying attention in class). We even get to watch the show in one of my classes. Even if some kids wouldn't quite get the humor of it, I think it's worth watching, else I wouldn't watch it everyday, Monday-Thursday.