job of the historical figure featured, which, to her frustration, they can never come close to doing. According to the episode "Histeria Goes to the Moon", Karaoke used to work for the Weather Channel. Sammy Melman (Rob Paulsen) is a spoof of the smarmy and desperate television executives, constantly belittling and demeaning the Histeria! cast for the sake of ratings. Molly Pitcher (Tress Macneille) constantly offers refreshments in the form of water with a wide grin, saucer-sized eyes and overly cheery disposition, modelled after Martha Stewart. Nostradamus (Paul Rugg) claims to be able to "predictiate" the future, though he is proven wrong on occasion. He often acts erratically and impatiently, and will constantly yell "Shutup" in the middle of a sentence, usually to quiet any sort of audience. Parody of historical figures Most of the recurring real-life historical figures in Histeria! were portrayed as caricatures of real-life celebrities from the modern era. The intent was to make analogies to contemporary individuals in terms of personalities and attitudes. Some of these include: Hervé Villechaize as Napoleon Bonaparte (Jeff Bennett) Bob Hope as George Washington (Maurice LaMarche) Bette Davis as Elizabeth I (Tress Macneille) Jack Benny as Thomas Jefferson (Billy West) Woody Allen as Sigmund Freud (Rob Paulsen) and Woodrow Wilson (Maurice LaMarche) Frank Sinatra as Julius Caesar (Fred Travalena) Regis Philbin as Alexander Graham Bell (Jeff Bennett) Jay Leno as Benjamin Franklin (Billy West) John Cleese as Isaac Newton (Jeff Bennett) Katharine Hepburn as Eleonor Roosevelt (Tress Macneille) Cary Grant as William Shakespeare (Maurice LaMarche) Arnold Schwarzenegger as Leif Erikson (Jeff Bennett) Ricardo Montalban as Moctezuma I (Paul Rugg) Kirk Douglas as Amerigo Vespucci and Michelangelo (both voiced by Maurice LaMarche) George Burns as Thomas Edison and John Adams (both voiced by Billy West) Bing Crosby as Socrates (Maurice LaMarche) Pee-Wee Herman as William Tecumseh Sherman (Billy West) Dean Martin as Marc Antony and William Clark (both voiced by Fred Travalena) Jerry Lewis as Meriwether Lewis (Paul Rugg) Christopher Walken as Nicola Tesla (Jeff Bennett) Charo as Eva Peron (Charo) Tasmanian Devil (Looney Tunes) as Atilla the Hun (Jim Cummings) Fred Rogers as Plato (Jeff Bennett) Gregory Peck as Richard E. Byrd (Frank Welker) Episodes Series overview Season 1 (1998–99) Season 2 (1999–2000) See also Tiny Toon Adventures Animaniacs Freakazoid! Toonsylvania Once Upon a Time... Man Max, the 2000-Year-Old Mouse History Bites Time Squad Mr. Peabody & Sherman Horrible Histories References