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The segments featuring the 'Goodfeathers' were notable for parodying a variety of Mafia films, despite the fact that most of these films wouldn't be considered suitable for the show's supposed young audience. This helped give Animaniacs a touch of sophisticated comic credibility that would make it popular among older audiences.

Squit would often do Liotta-esque voiceovers starting with "As far back as I can remember...." to open the shorts.

Pesto had a temper. Squit would say something innocent to him, and he would invariably take offense and go off on a rant similar to Pesci's famous "Am I a clown to you? Do I amuse you?" bar scene. He would scream "That's it!" and proceed to thoroughly whallop Squit. Bobby would look on and laugh.

Bobby's squinty sneer and careful, measured, "You talkin' to me?" is actually more Taxi Driver than Goodfellas. He seemed to be the brains of the operation.

The Girlfeathers are their female counterparts. One, Sasha, is Pesto's sister, and she's just as bad as he is.

Their boss, the Godpigeon, is an obvious take on Marlon Brando in The GodfatherThe Godfather is a novel written by Mario Puzo about a fictitious Italian Mafia family. The novel was adapted into a film of the same name. Theme The Godfather (in Italian Il Padrino is a term used to identify the boss of a Mafia clan, the eldest or the m : morbidly obsese, waddling, and delivering his lines in an incomprehensible SicilianSicily Sicilia in Italian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,700 sq. 1 million inhabitants. Towns and Cities Sicily's principal cities include the regional capital Palermo, together with t mumble.

The Goodfeathers often parody other movies, such as West Side StoryWest Side Story is a musical written by Arthur Laurents (book), Leonard Bernstein (music) and Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), and originally produced, choreographed and directed by Jerome Robbins. West Side Story debuted on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theate, Fiddler on the RoofFiddler on the Roof is one of the great stage and film musicals. It opened on Broadway in 1964 with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and libretto by Joseph Stein. Zero Mostel played the protagonist, Tevye the milkman, Maria Karnilova his wi, and RockyRocky was a motion picture from 1976 starring Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa and Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed. It tells a rags-to-riches tale about a Philadelphia loan shark's slightly dull-witted but good-hearted "collection agent," one with a pench. A Dean MartinDean Martin ( June 7, 1917 December 25, 1995) was an American film actor and singer. Biography Born Dino Paul Crocetti into an Italian-American family in Steubenville, Ohio, he left school at age sixteen and had a variety of jobs including that of prizefi sound-alike sings their theme song to the tune of "That's Amore".