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Animaniacs: Hulu briefly removes episode of cartoon reboot after inadvertently advertising a phone-sex hotline

<p>A still from Hulu’s ‘Animaniacs’ reboot</p> (Hulu)

A still from Hulu’s ‘Animaniacs’ reboot

(Hulu)

An episode of the recent Animaniacs reboot was temporarily removed from US streaming service Hulu after featuring a phone number connected to a sex hotline.

Episode six of the new series, entitled “How To Brain Your Dragon” saw regular characters Pinky and the Brain fighting a dragon during Medieval times.

During the episode, an in-universe TV advertisement is shown which included a telephone number. While the number was supposed to be a dead end, it in fact belonged to a real-life operational phone-sex hotline.

The episode was briefly removed by Hulu, before being restored with the offending number edited out.

The strange inclusion, and subsequent removal and re-upload, was noticed by a few viewers, who shared the discovery on social media.

“I see that the phone number in the #pinkyandthebrain segment of episode 6 of the #Animaniacs reboot has been changed thanks to an incident where the previous phone number was an actual number for a phone-sex hotline. No I'm not kidding,” wrote one commenter on Twitter.

Another wrote: “Okay but the Animaniacs reboot episode being pulled because they put in the number of a sex hotline is so f***ing funny bc u KNOW a team checks to make sure it was fine and they knew what it was and it slipped by executives…”

Animaniacs is an animated reboot of the hit animated series from the 1990s, which was comprised of a series of skits and musical numbers centring around an irreverent trio of cartoon stars named Yakko, Wakko and Dot.