bogleech:Oh hey I remember another reason Animaniacs, Tiny Toons and the other WB 90’s cartoons bugg
bogleech:Oh hey I remember another reason Animaniacs, Tiny Toons and the other WB 90’s cartoons bugged meThey’d recycle gags from the classic cartoons they were homaging, but without any context, buildup or any concept of comedic timing. Just “here’s anvils falling on characters, that’s funny, right??”We take this for granted, but there was a time when an anvil falling out of the sky to crush some bozo was a brand new joke. Nobody really knows when that was for certain, but I imagine it must have seemed uproarious. The whole “giant heavy object falling on somebody from the sky” gag was actually a real-life hazard at one time due to wealthy people having things like pianos or giant-ass armoires lifted by rope up to their ritzy apartments. As slapstick gags, these scenes originally leaned towards city settings.So some cartoon at some point had an ANVIL drop from the sky, and the joke was simply WHO THE FUCK IS BLACKSMITHING ON THEIR 50TH FLOOR NEW YORK PENTHOUSE.The first time it subsequently happened way out in the middle of a field, out of a clear blue sky had to be fucking *hysterical* then, because it took what was already just slightly bizarre and made it outright surreal.Then it just sort of became an iconic cartoon joke and ran into the ground without any of its original context, and that was the part cartoons some 30 years later decided they needed to resurrect a hundred thousand times.I’m just using this as an example. 90′s cartoon humor was like this with everything. No grasp of what actually made things funny, but determined to pretend they were funny on their own. -- source link