How Accurate Is The Animaniacs 19th Century Geography Song?

The new reboot of Animaniacs had a new geography song, but this time set in the 19th century. Is it more accurate than the original?

[giver]

I think they mentioned Queen Victoria as she declared herself the Empress of India thus disbanding the Empire of Maratha under East Indies Company rule. Also they (or someone else) MUST do a "pre-unification german states song" :)

[EddyPed]

As an animator on this show, I can 100% assure you that we were all making fun of that map while working on this episode 😂

[Monosekist]

When I first saw the original video, I wondered how they’d fit all the German and Italian states. Just cutting to something else definitely made the most sense.

[DRCR]

I think the map was done that way on purpose, because everyone’s been breaking down how inaccurate the original was.

[nateotto]

Replacing continental Europe with the British Heptarchy must have been on purpose. That part has the most accurate borders (insofar as Anglo Saxon borders can be accurate) of anywhere else in the video. "Animaniacs" animators are probably bigger geeks than the people who enjoy EmporTigerstar videos, if such a thing is possible. And they've successfully trolled our community of map nerds. Kudos to them.

[wolv]

That mapping is hilarious. The UK of GB and Ireland is split into the entire Heptarchy, Europe completely wiped, Mongolia map into water, the majority of the HRE is called Prussia despite the zoom-in map having Prussia. They've just gone full meme, trying to be hilariously wrong.

[TheCoal]

"Prussia!"
*points to the like one part of Germany that isn't Prussia*

[dorofaeya]

I think Austria already was the "Austrian Empire" at the time since the HRR was abolished in 1816 after Napoleon defeated the Habsburg trooos

[kucimaka]

I feel like they definitely knew what they are doing with these awful maps

[InquisitorThomas]

“The South” might refer to the CSA since it technically was “a country” during the 19th century, but it’s existence wasn’t during around the time of Oliver Twist, and there are arguments about whether we should recognize CSA as a country during this time period and not a region in revolt.

[JcBravo]

I think Britian is that big and divided on the map because of how focus and impact aversion has on the world. The Sun never sets on th British empire, etc…

[Yannisa]

So when he said “Next Queen Victoria, Goodbye the Empire of Maratha” it’s a reference to the British empire taking control of India after the collapse of the Maratha Confederacy, in 1858 it became part of the British Crown

[samrodrigues]

I just got recommended the 19th century one a few hours ago and said to a friend "Tigerstar would have a field day with this".

Yep, didn't jinx anything.

[bork]

I couldn’t stop laughing at the first reveal of Europe on the zoomed out map

[frenchballmapper]

*literally all yakko's World videos* :




Yakko : merde, I was wrong again

[robertjarman]

Latin Ameroca should be fairly straightforward to include in a song of this nature. They had what we today would call nation states, although different borders (cue Bolivia still really angry at Peru and Chile and you Tiger know why).

[ghastlyghandi]

4:44 I looked away from the screen for a bit and when I looked back i saw the most Anglo-centric and anti-Mongolian map of the world I have ever seen.

[ValueNetwork]

It feels like the writing team realised “Ok the old series map had things wrong so lets try it properly” and the Animation team completely dropped the ball

[krealyesitisbeta]

"...As much as they my have wanted too."

European countries: "As much as they *what?"*

Britain still conquering the irish: "Great, now everyone else knows..."

[metametodo]

"I'm an obsessive geography nerd and people for some reason enjoy watching me get nitpicky over maps"

I think I talk for most of us here when I say that the reason is, we are also obsessive geography nerds.