Comments on: Everybody Knows That

By: PJ

PJ — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

That’s how people get fat? Note to self: Spend more time thinking about Lassie getting lost in the woods…

By: fluffy

fluffy — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

What cartoons have that physical likeness absorption thing? Was it just some bizarre extension of “you are what you eat?”

By: Dave kirwan

Dave kirwan — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I’m thinking of cartoons like “Catch as Cats Can” (Warners -1947) where Sylvester eats a parrot (off camera) who has been parading around like a Bing Crosby caricature… of course, Sylvester pops up in the end of the cartoon sporting a Crosby shirt, hat and pipe talking like Bing Crosby! There are a lot of Warners films like “Foney Fables” where some carnivore shows up mimicking the character he just consumed. Some of the other studios would occasionally do the same schtick… check out the 1944 Terrytoon “Gandy Goose in Ghost Town”

By: Ted Nunes

Ted Nunes — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I think you’d be hard-pressed to find many people wearing white gloves these days. Some of that Fleischer “cartoon logic” always seemed (to me) to be intentional wierdness, which I love about them. In their later cartoons they adhered more to realism, and those just aren’t that much fun.

By: alex kirwan

alex kirwan — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

You once gave me a pretty satisfactory explanation of what alum is and why it posseses head-shrinking properties, but why is it again that you’d want to salt the tail-feathers of an elusive bird you wanted to catch? Oh, and eating crackers has never prevented me from being able to whistle, but then again I’m not a canary.

By: dave kirwan

dave kirwan — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

You know Laurel and Hardy used that alum gag in one of their last shorts (that would be 1935 or so) — I mean it didn’t actually shrink their heads, as I recall, but had the effect of making everybody’s mouth very sphincter-like. The cracker thing reminds me of Jerry the mouse sucking a lemon while Tom was trying to sing high opera. The power of suggestion was always more potent in cartoons…

Oh yeah, sometimes there are “gopher bombs” in old cartoons… I’ve never researched wether hardware stores actually stocked explosives for extermination purposes.