Random Humorous Things - A Light-Hearted Thread

[Rev. Rye]

I recently got into the old UPA cartoons, you know, the ones from the 1950s that gained a cult following by abandoning the sort of animation that had become standard since Disney and Warner Brothers. At the moment, I'm watching a boxed set of many of their most famous shorts (pretty much everything except the Mister Magoo shorts, and there's still one on the set.

See some of these:

Remarkably, this cartoon has shockingly little in the way of animation, and it still gets praised for it:




Really, as someone on the autism spectrum who learned , do you really think a story of a kid who can't speak, but can do perfect impressions of Columbia's sound effects library wouldn't resonate with me?




And something a lot of us might find interesting:




And on the Mister Magoo shorts, it's commonly assumed that he's a simple character who exists mainly to have a cheap laugh at the expense of the blind. While the jokes behind his shorts are simple, it's not quite as simple as that. First off, he's not blind, he's nearsighted. And, furthermore, the joke isn't so much that he can't see clearly; it's that he's too stubborn to swallow his pride and wear glasses, or at least a pair that actually worked properly.



It's a joke not so much at the expense of those who can't see as those who are so stuck in their old ways that they'd rather be blind to the world around them than adapt to its changes.