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Topic	What's something from a cartoon that you later found out was true?
rjsilverthorn 07/25/21 8:41:58 PM #4:	ParanoidObsessive posted... There's a TON of stuff in old Looney Tunes (and Merrie Melodies) that kids today (or kids back in the 80s) never really realized was based on real stuff. This might actually be the absolute peak of it, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOFG_qmoH8I How many kids can name even some of those people? Even as an adult in my 40s with a passing knowledge of old Hollywood, I can't tell who more than half those people are. And it's not because the impressions are bad (they're phenomenal), I just don't know the people being parodied. I was going to say this, there are a ton of real people/places/things mentioned in the original Looney Tunes that I didn't recognize until I was older. <cite>rjsilverthorn posted [p:956459231] in What's som... [t:79582923]...</cite> <quote>ParanoidObsessive posted... </cite> <quote>There's a TON of stuff in old Looney Tunes (and Merrie Melodies) that kids today (or kids back in the 80s) never really realized was based on real stuff. This might actually be the absolute peak of it, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOFG_qmoH8I How many kids can name even some of those people? Even as an adult in my 40s with a passing knowledge of old Hollywood, I can't tell who more than half those people are. And it's not because the impressions are bad (they're phenomenal), I just don't know the people being parodied.</quote>I was going to say this, there are a ton of real people/places/things mentioned in the original Looney Tunes that I didn't recognize until I was older. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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