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Encyclopedia > Flavio and Marita
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Flavio and Marita, the "Hip Hippos", are characters which were introduced by Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs an animated TV cartoon series from Warner Bros.. Image File history File links Marita. ... Image File history File links Marita. ... Binomial name Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus, 1758 The Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius a. ... Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs was a popular animated TV cartoon series from Warner Bros. ... 12 frames per second is the typical rate for an animated cartoon. ... Idiot box redirects here. ... A cartoon is any of several forms of art, with varied meanings that evolved from one to another. ... The WB Shield used from 2003 to present day Warner Bros. ...


They form an extravagant and obscenely wealthy hippo couple who live in the jungle yet speak with a Barcelona accent. Flavio, the husband, was voiced similarly to Ricardo Montalban. Bored of their pastoral life, they came to the big city and settled atop a skyscraper in a lavish penthouse suite. Barcelona is the capital city of Catalonia, an autonomous community in Spain. ... Ricardo Montalban (born November 25, 1920 in Mexico City) is a television and film actor. ... Night view of Taipei City. ... Taipei 101, the worlds tallest building since its completion in 2004, is located in Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan). ... A penthouse apartment is a special apartment on the top floor of a building. ...

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In the series, an overexuberant naturalist named Geena Embryo — who strongly resembled Nancy Kulp in khaki — strove to keep the Hip Hippos from moving to the city by masquerading as a real estate agent and showing them undesirable location after undesirable location...but they liked them all. Geena would incur injury after injury in her quest to preserve and observe the magnificent beasts in both the shorts she costarred in. Image File history File links Flavio. ... Image File history File links Flavio. ... Table of natural history, 1728 Cyclopaedia Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now usually viewed as several distinct scientific disciplines. ... Nancy Kulp (center) in The Beverly Hillbillies, along with costars Max Baer, Jr. ... Khaki, in British or European parlance, is a type of green tinged brown fabric, or the colour of such fabric. ... Injury is damage or harm caused to the structure or function of the body caused by an outside agent or force, which may be physical or chemical. ...


At other times, the Hippos parodied the opera La bohème, the shirtless hunk advertisement for Coca-Cola, and the show American Gladiators. Brain even attempted once to use the Hippos in his scheme to rule the world by masquerading as their baby. (He was actually masquerading as the Rockefeller family's baby; the stork goofed up.) In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ... Sydney Opera House: one of the worlds most recognizable opera houses and landmarks Opera refers to a dramatic art form, originating in Europe, in which the emotional content or primary entertainment is conveyed to the audience as much through music, both vocal and instrumental, as it is through the... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Shirtless man Bare chested refers to the state of not wearing any clothes above the waist. ... Generally speaking, advertising is the paid promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas by an identified sponsor. ... The wave shape (known as the dynamic ribbon device) present on all Coca-Cola cans throughout the world derives from the contour of the original Coca-Cola bottles. ... American Gladiators was a TV show which ran between 1989 and 1996. ... Pinky and the Brain are cartoon characters from the American animated television series Animaniacs. ... The term baby can refer to: an infant a very early computer—the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, nicknamed Baby a musician – Brian Williams – who performs under the name Baby. ... Rockefeller Rockefeller family Rockefeller Group International, Inc. ...


The pair had relatively few starring roles, but were frequent guests on other shorts, often fulfilling some form of sight gag poking fun at their immense nature (such as stepping on smaller characters).


Flavio was voiced by Frank Welker and Marita was voiced by Tress MacNeille in the English version of the show and by Yutaka Shimaka in the Japanese version. Frank Welker Frank W. Welker (born February 16, 1945) is an American voice actor. ... Tress MacNeille (born June 20, 1951) is an American voice actor who is best known for providing various voices on the animated television shows The Simpsons and Futurama. ...


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AMLF -- 21 through 30 (2060 words)
Marita: (into phone) Hello, hello, Marita Hippo here, I'm having an emergency My life is filled with urgency We need to hire servancy We need a new housekeeper!
Marita: I will not worry; I will not fear I'll do laundry until help is here, Fold the trousers and starch the shirts And I'll do laundry until it hurts!
Flavio: (sung) We realize we've been wrong; we treated you unfair.
Flavio and Marita at AllExperts (347 words)
Flavio and Marita, the "Hip Hippos", are characters which were introduced by Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs an animated TV cartoon series from Warner Bros..
Flavio, the husband, was voiced similarly to Ricardo Montalban.
Flavio was voiced by Frank Welker and Marita was voiced by Tress MacNeille in the English version of the show and by Yutaka Shimaka in the Japanese version.
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