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Histeria! was a short lived cartoon show made by Warner Bros. Animation in the late 1990's. Unlike other similar shows by Warner, Histeria's purpose was not simply to entertain but, to attempt to teach history as well. A regular cast of characters would visit a different period or event in history and try to explain the event using humor. Some critics have suggested that the humor created a biased or even harmful image of historical figures. Others observe that sketches were more or less direct rip-offs of old "Monty Python's Flying Circus" bits. Notable of these is "The Cheese Shop Sketch / Boston Tea Shop". Sometimes musical numbers were also involved. The cartoon did not last very long; one episode even featured a sequence in which many of the characters performed a carol asking their audience to please watch the show or it would be cancelled. (to a beat reminiscent of the 1970s Coca-Cola commercial "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing")

Loud Kiddington and Froggo were voiced by sons of the show's producer, Tom Ruegger.

Histeria! aired from 1998-2000.

Histeria Characters

• Father Time- the 'host' of Histeria. According to one segment, is the reason the cast 'travels' through time.
• Big Fat Baby- a re-occurring baby who constantly has a dirty diaper. When a famous figure asks one of the kids the last time it had a clean diaper, the kids refer to a point in history and says it happened a day/week/month/year before it.
• Miss Information- a ditzy tourguide who also leads the same group of tourists through various moments in history. Had a habit of getting facts wrong, like claiming that George Washington was named after the monument, rather than the other way around.
• Loud Kiddington- a young boy who talks extremely loudly (as the name suggests). Does segments with Father Time that depict really loud moments in history (e.g. the creation of gunpowder)
• Pepper Mills- A crazy teenage girl who constantly bugs people in history for their autograph, thinking it is someone else, and realizing the mistake after the autograph is given (e.g. To Dwight D. Eisenhower- "Hey! You're not Elmer Fudd!")
• Toast- A clueless surfer teen. Has a couple segments on the show called "Ask Me If I Care", where a historic figure has three shots to try to tell Toast something that interests him, or they are sent into space.
• Froggo- a frog-mouthed kid with a really low voice. Often asks historical figures for various strange items.
• Charity Bazaar- a little girl who is constantly unhappy("I'm not happy.").
• Cho-Cho- a little asian girl with no real role, but hangs out with the kids of the show and is always seen with Lucky Bob.
• Lucky Bob- A dumb kid who doesn't seem to be a real lucky charm, but when he sneezes, coins fly out of his nostrils. Often mimics Ed McMahon and says, "High-oooo!" and, "You are correct, sir!"
• Aka Pella- an African-American girl who also has a minor role on the show.
• World's Oldest Woman- a really old woman who claims to have dated every historic man in history. Dating all the way back to Adam in the Garden of Eden.
• Mr. Smartypants- a strange person who wears his pants so high up, it covers half of his face.
• Lidia Karaoke- the 'network censor'. Appears at times in the show where the scene is considered 'inappropriate'.
• Nostradamus: the real life philosopher. Predicts the future for the cast and predicts the next segment. His catchphrase is "SHUT UP!".

Depictions of Historical Figures

• Joan of Arc, who in real life was burned at the stake, constantly puts out all flames near her.
• Plato is depicted as a Greek version of Fred Rogers, while his mentor Socrates is a dry stand-up, similar to Rodney Dangerfield.
• Julius Caesar is meant to look and sound like Frank Sinatra and performs a musical number called "That's Why They Stabbed Me in the Back."
• General Sherman is a parody of Pee-Wee Herman and even has his own segment called "Sherman's Campsite," complete with Pee-Wee's Playhouse-esque characters.
• George Washington acts like Bob Hope, and sometimes even seen with a golf club in hand.
• Captain Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition acts like Jerry Lewis. While William Clark speaks and acts like Dean Martin, he was drawn to look like the DC Animated Universe version of Superman(i.e. Clark Kent).

See also

• Tiny Toon Adventures
• Animaniacs
• Toonsylvania

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