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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.

Cartoons used to have more highbrow elements, but that's true of a lot of things. There was a gradual, probably unintentional shift from that (although, to some extent, even the stuff then had pop culture references as noted)

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