1998

Pinky, Elmyra & The Brain title card, as shown on the Russian channel 2x2

Television & Movies

• September 21 - Pinky, Elmyra & The Brain premieres on Kids' WB!
• November 14 - Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain air their final episodes on Kids' WB!
• December 12 - Pinky, Elmyra & The Brain is removed from the schedule after it airs its last episode as a standalone program.
• Animaniacs becomes part of the regular schedule on Cartoon Network.
• Bugs 'n' Daffy is dropped from Kids' WB!'s schedule.
• TNT and TBS remove Looney Tunes from their schedule.

Comics

• The last issue of Pinky and the Brain is published.

Videos

• Warner Bros. Sing-Along
• February 3 - The Bugs Bunny Road-Runner Movie
• July 21 - Looney Tunes Presents
• July 28 - Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation

Video Games

• Animaniacs: Ten Pin Alley
• Looney Tunes: Carrot Crazy
• Looney Tunes: Twouble!
• Tiny Toon Adventures: The Great Beanstalk
• Looney Tunes Animated Jigsaws (circa between Summer and Fall)
• The Junkyard Run

Appearances

• Daffy Duck guest-stars in The Drew Carey Show episode "My Best Friend's Wedding"

Events

• Warner Bros. celebrates the company's 75th anniversary.
• Marvin the Martian celebrates his 50th birthday

Character Debuts

• Wally Faust
• Rudy Mookich
• Vanity White

People

Deaths

• February 14 - Thomas McKimson dies, age 90
• February 24 - Henny Youngman dies, age 91
• April 21 - Peter Lind Hayes dies, age 82
• May 27 - Phil Hartman dies, age 49
• June 12 - Richard Thompson dies, age 83
• August 25 - Lee Gunther dies, age 63

Others

This year marks the creation of the 1998 "THIS VERSION" prints from Warner Bros. Unlike the 1997 "DUBBED/THIS VERSION" prints, where only sone of them were restored, all of the 1998 prints of the shorts are fully restored from their original negatives. However, these prints only restore the shorts in standard definition, hence for high definition releases, they had to be restored again. These prints retain the original ending cards, with the notice showing up at the bottom, with the exception of "Kit for Cat", which had the Blue Ribbon ending titles replaced with the 1948-49 Looney Tunes ending title card.

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