Several years ago, I remember seeing some Thirties WB cartoon that was basically nothing but a big party attended by caricatures of then-current celebrities, who said their trademark catchphrases. I could only identify about a third of them. I remember thinking that that whole style of cartoon was extinct and then realizing that a lot of "Animaniacs" segments from the 1990s were really in about the same vein.
I believe I've seen that one Bogey - Peter Lorre, etc? I remember (or I remember that I remember) getting all of the personalities; which is sad because the only way to do that is to be familiar with the old movies. And if the only way to do that is to specifically order them through netflix or some other service . . .
Of course, most people today can't decipher the iconography of religously-themed paintings from hundreds of years ago. I'd wager that few feel that lack. Any more than my daughter feels the lack of not knowing the details of really great bands like Talking Heads :-)
The original Flintstones cartoons are like that as well. Hum Along With Herman, Stony Curtis, "Bug Music," J. Bondrock spy movies amd on and on. Some is more subtle, like a couple of episodes that have more general parodies of hard boiled private detectives and so on.
Yakko packs away the snacks, while the Clinton plays the sax, it's Animaniacs!
Dot: [referring to David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Steven Spielberg] Who are those guys? Yakko: The stuff that DreamWorks are made of!
Dot: I found Prince! [She is carrying Prince, the pop musician] Yakko: No, no, no. Fingerprints! Dot: [Considers a moment] I don't think so. [She throws Prince out of the window]
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Of course, most people today can't decipher the iconography of religously-themed paintings from hundreds of years ago. I'd wager that few feel that lack. Any more than my daughter feels the lack of not knowing the details of really great bands like Talking Heads :-)
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Dot: [referring to David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Steven Spielberg] Who are those guys?
Yakko: The stuff that DreamWorks are made of!
Dot: I found Prince! [She is carrying Prince, the pop musician]
Yakko: No, no, no. Fingerprints!
Dot: [Considers a moment] I don't think so. [She throws Prince out of the window]