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The TV show spin-off, long a staple of padded-out network programing schedules, is rarely a successful enterprise–the Family Guy semi-spin-offs American Dad and The Cleveland Show can attest to this fact. However, something rather magical happens when some small part of an original entity detaches itself, like a muffin top from a muffin, and ends [...]

Remember that totally delirious Warner Bros. cartoon Animaniacs, in which the old Warner cartoon trio escaped from the studio water tower where they’d been imprisoned an wreaked havoc on just about everything? Well, one of the favorite targets of their wacky, scatter shot sense of humor was history, which they recounted fairly regularly. mental_floss offers [...]