What You Read is What You Get

Bonkers"What You Read is What You Get"
Season 1
Number 8
Episode information
Production code	4311-020
Written by	William Scherer
Storyboards by	David Schwartz David Smith
Original airdate	April 25, 1993 (Disney Channel) October 7, 1993 (syndication)
Bonkers Episodes
Previous	"Fistful of Anvils"
Next	"Toon for a Day"

"What You Read is What You Get" is the eighth episode of Bonkers, though it is actually the 57th in chronological order.

Synopsis

Bonkers constantly reads the papers when what he reads happen. At the National Trash the boss and her typewriter Hilde abduct Bonkers. Hilde turns against her boss when she realizes what she types are lies. Bonkers wakes up to find all this never happened.

Gallery

Trivia

• The title is a pun on the phrase "What you see is what you get".
• Launchpad McQuack makes a cameo in The National Trash.

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Media Bonkers • Video game (Super Nintendo)• Video game (Sega Genesis/Mega Drive) Characters Heroes: Bonkers D. Bobcat • Fall-Apart Rabbit • Leonard Kanifky • Fawn Deer • Skunky Skunk • Ludwig Von Drake • Mad Hatter • March Hare • Toots • Harry Handbag • The Mean Old Wolf • Jitters A. Dog • Pops Clock • Roderick Lizzard • Tanya Trunk • Sgt. Frank Grating • Smarts • Snitch The Wrights: Miranda Wright The Piquels: Lucky Piquel • Dilandra Piquel • Marilyn Piquel Villains: The Collector • Mr. Doodles • Ma Parker • Wooly and Bully • Flaps the Elephant • Chick and Stu • Wolf • Baabra • Mikey Muffin • Pitts • Scatter Squirrel • Mammoth Mammoth • Warris and Donald • Hoagie, Knuckles, and Chumps • Toon Pencil • Weather Toons • Seymour Sleazebottom and Limo • Squash and Stretch • The Rat • T.J. Finger • Gloomy the Clown • Mr. Big • Z-Bot Cameos: Mickey Mouse • Donald Duck • Goofy • Pete • Dumbo • Hyacinth Hippo • Ben Ali Gator • Tyrannosaurus Rex • Chernaborg • Honest John • Monstro • Br'er Bear • Lady • Tramp • The Doorknob • Big Bad Wolf • Jasper and Horace • Marsupilami • Darkwing Duck • Shere Khan • Greasy • Ferdinand the Bull Episodes Raw Toonage shorts and compilations: "Petal to the Metal" • "Spatula Party" • "Sheerluck Bonkers" • "Bonkers in Space" • "Draining Cats and Dogs" • "Get Me to the Church on Time" • "Ski Patrol" • "Get Me a Pizza (Hold the Minefield)" • "Dogzapoppin'" • "Trailmix Bonkers" • "Quest for Firewood" • "Gobble Gobble Bonkers" Group One (Miranda Wright): "Trains, Toons and Toon Trains" • "Tokyo Bonkers" • "The Stork Exchange" • "Bobcat Fever" • "The Toon That Ate Hollywood" • "When the Spirit Moves You" • "Fistful of Anvils" • "What You Read is What You Get" • "Toon for a Day" Group Two: (Lucky Piquel): "Going Bonkers" • "In the Bag" • "Hear No Bonkers, See No Bonkers" • "Out of Sight, Out of Toon" • "Is Toon Fur Really Warm?" • "Calling All Cars" • "Fall Apart Bomb Squad" • "In Toons We Trust" • "Never Cry Pig" • "Hamster Houseguest" • "The Cheap Sheep Sweep" • "The Day the Toon Stood Still" • "Weather or Not" • "Basic Spraining" • "Once in a Blue Toon" • "Luna-Toons" • "Time Wounds All Heels" • "Poltertoon" • "Hand Over the Dough" • "The Rubber Room Song" • "Tune Pig" Group Three (Miranda Wright): "New Partners on the Block" • "Witless for the Prosecution" • "Do Toons Dream of Animated Sheep?" • "Quibbling Rivalry" • "Springtime for the Iguana" • "CasaBonkers" • "Love Stuck" • "Of Mice and Menace" • "Dog Day AfterToon" • "The 29th Page" • "Cartoon Cornered" Group Four (Lucky Piquel): "The Good, the Bad, & the Kanifky" • "I Oughta Be in Toons" • "Frame That Toon" • "A Wooly Bully" • "Stay Tooned" • "O Cartoon! My Cartoon!" • "Color Me Piquel" • "Stand-In Dad" • "Cereal Surreal" • "If" • "The Dimming" • "Toon with No Name" • "Get Wacky" • "The Final Review" • "Goldijitters and the 3 Bobcats" • "Seems Like Old Toons" • "Miracle at the 34th Precinct" • "Comeback Kid" • "The Greatest Story Never Told" • "Fall Apart Land" • "Imagine That" • "A Fine Kettle of Toons" • "Stressed to Kill" Locations Toontown • Hollywood Songs Let's Go Bonkers! • He's on the Beat See also Darkwing Duck • Raw Toonage • Goof Troop • Who Framed Roger Rabbit • The Disney Afternoon