another attempt at a humourous post. Not very humourous, but at least I'm trying..
well, here we go with cartoon characters.
Many a time, I feel that cartoon characters live in a world of their own...
*slaps self*
OF COURSE THEY LIVE IN A WORLD OF THEIR OWN!!!
ah well, let me try again. Cartoon characters, how do I start? It's such a large range, from anime, to those comic strips.
Amazing isn't it? But almost everyone of them has some oddity which makes them even more endearing to their audiences.
One example, typical looney tunes characters. Toons like bugs bunny are an obvious impossibility. Why? Other than the fact that animals DON'T TALK, bunnies NEVER sit around chewing carrots, passing smartass remarks (yeah yeah i know, they can't talk in the first place) because most of the time their running and hiding from danger.
Oh well, I don't really like the looney tunes, so I'm moving on. Ah yes, other characters aren't as innocent as they seem to be. Remember Tom and Jerry? That is by far the most sadistic, twisted cartoon ever created in the history of cartoons. It goes something like this.
Cat chases mouse, mouse pushes a bowling ball off the edge of a legde. Hits cat on the head. Cat gets knocked silly. Viewers laugh.
Amazing isn't it? They way kids can derive such pleasure from the pain of dear Tom? And what the heck happened to those SPCA cruelty to animals campaigns?? This show obviously proves it's utter failure!
Cartoons are also a rather fustrated bunch of people. Take popeye for instance (sailor man, in case you people forgot). He is one heck of a sexually deprived individual, not to mention mentally stunted as well. His girlfriend(olive) of.. a few decades at my last count remains at that. His girlfriend. Futhermore, they don't even frigging KISS each other! I mean, after SOO long, and their relationship hasn't even passed first base.. (of course, I do not know what goes on off screen, but as this is all imaginary in the first place, I'll leave it as that; imagination)
And god knows what popeye puts in his spinach. It's spiked. With what I do not know, but it's hellishly effective. For all we know he might be the originator of those illegal steroids which certain dubious atheletes seem to enjoy using! And by looking at it's potency, it might just rival the ones German atheles were using back in the 1930s.
For the record, the chemicals they swallowed then were so powerful, it effectively turned girls into guys.
Other than this, there are a number of oddities amongst the toon population. For example, powerpuff girls. I watched one episode when I was 10 and never again. But the show was bloody burned in my retinas. Not because of the show itself, but because of the lack of logic.
It was all okay till the show started professing that those 3 lil' powerhouses were made up of "sugar, spice and everything nice" plus a generous dosage of chemical X, whatever that thing might be. So, what does this make these.. things out to be? Organic pinyatas? I mean, that's what they're made of? Right?
Ah well, dear dear me. Fragile, handle with care is an understatement in this case.
Anyway, certain characteristics of cartoon characters also are rather endearing at times. For example, they are ardent believers in "what you don't know can't hurt you"
Really. If one walks off a cliff without realising it, he won't fall till, well, he realises it.
I'm throwing my physics textbook out of the window as I type.
Other than this, Cartoon characters also seem to be first cousins to the western hero(refer to earlier post in september). Both get power boosts out of thin air, and both are quite indestructible. I'll use tom and jerry as example again. After being squashed, hit, frozen, bitten, bashed up, thrown into a lake, run over by miscellaneous vehicles, burnt, sent to hell(yes, tom went there in one episode) they are STILL alive and well.
*shakes head*
Amazing things.
well, here we go with cartoon characters.
Many a time, I feel that cartoon characters live in a world of their own...
*slaps self*
OF COURSE THEY LIVE IN A WORLD OF THEIR OWN!!!
ah well, let me try again. Cartoon characters, how do I start? It's such a large range, from anime, to those comic strips.
Amazing isn't it? But almost everyone of them has some oddity which makes them even more endearing to their audiences.
One example, typical looney tunes characters. Toons like bugs bunny are an obvious impossibility. Why? Other than the fact that animals DON'T TALK, bunnies NEVER sit around chewing carrots, passing smartass remarks (yeah yeah i know, they can't talk in the first place) because most of the time their running and hiding from danger.
Oh well, I don't really like the looney tunes, so I'm moving on. Ah yes, other characters aren't as innocent as they seem to be. Remember Tom and Jerry? That is by far the most sadistic, twisted cartoon ever created in the history of cartoons. It goes something like this.
Cat chases mouse, mouse pushes a bowling ball off the edge of a legde. Hits cat on the head. Cat gets knocked silly. Viewers laugh.
Amazing isn't it? They way kids can derive such pleasure from the pain of dear Tom? And what the heck happened to those SPCA cruelty to animals campaigns?? This show obviously proves it's utter failure!
Cartoons are also a rather fustrated bunch of people. Take popeye for instance (sailor man, in case you people forgot). He is one heck of a sexually deprived individual, not to mention mentally stunted as well. His girlfriend(olive) of.. a few decades at my last count remains at that. His girlfriend. Futhermore, they don't even frigging KISS each other! I mean, after SOO long, and their relationship hasn't even passed first base.. (of course, I do not know what goes on off screen, but as this is all imaginary in the first place, I'll leave it as that; imagination)
And god knows what popeye puts in his spinach. It's spiked. With what I do not know, but it's hellishly effective. For all we know he might be the originator of those illegal steroids which certain dubious atheletes seem to enjoy using! And by looking at it's potency, it might just rival the ones German atheles were using back in the 1930s.
For the record, the chemicals they swallowed then were so powerful, it effectively turned girls into guys.
Other than this, there are a number of oddities amongst the toon population. For example, powerpuff girls. I watched one episode when I was 10 and never again. But the show was bloody burned in my retinas. Not because of the show itself, but because of the lack of logic.
It was all okay till the show started professing that those 3 lil' powerhouses were made up of "sugar, spice and everything nice" plus a generous dosage of chemical X, whatever that thing might be. So, what does this make these.. things out to be? Organic pinyatas? I mean, that's what they're made of? Right?
Ah well, dear dear me. Fragile, handle with care is an understatement in this case.
Anyway, certain characteristics of cartoon characters also are rather endearing at times. For example, they are ardent believers in "what you don't know can't hurt you"
Really. If one walks off a cliff without realising it, he won't fall till, well, he realises it.
I'm throwing my physics textbook out of the window as I type.
Other than this, Cartoon characters also seem to be first cousins to the western hero(refer to earlier post in september). Both get power boosts out of thin air, and both are quite indestructible. I'll use tom and jerry as example again. After being squashed, hit, frozen, bitten, bashed up, thrown into a lake, run over by miscellaneous vehicles, burnt, sent to hell(yes, tom went there in one episode) they are STILL alive and well.
*shakes head*
Amazing things.
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