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Animated Physics
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Here are some that Blackstar and I compiled a while back:
1) When a cartoon villian tries to do in a cartoon hero, and the death trap backfires and affects the villian, the villian need not worry, much. He/she will be hurt, but they will not die. This has happened numerous times on Inspector Gadget. The MAD agent would set a trap intended to kill Gadget, Gadget would escape without reciving a scratch, the villian would get caught in the trap and simply be injured, but never killed.
2) Toon animals and other non-humans who run around naked during the day are still reqiured to wear pajamas when they go to sleep and bathing suits when they go to the beach.
3) If a cartoon character has a speech impediment or otherwise speaks incomprehensively, they need not worry; there will inevitably be one person who understands them and will act as their translator.
4) Evil geniuses never use the same plan twice, even if they come extremely close to world domination.
5) If a cartoon character gets caught in an explosion, they need not worry. They will be black and sooty at first, but one only has to look away for a moment and they will back to normal seconds later.
6) Babies and young children lead rich, active social active social lives that their parents are completely unaware of.
7) Cartoon birds keep their feathers numbered in case of emergencies.
8) Cartoon dogs' houses are lavishly furnished mansions that are much larger on the inside than they look on the outside.
9) Cartoon characters can have relatives who suddenly turn up out of nowhere, with no previous mention of their existance, to further the plot.
10) Many cartoon characters have rich uncles from Texas named "Tex".
11) Cartoon owls are required by cartoon law to wear graduation hats.
12) If animals could talk, they'd be just like you and me.
13) When cartoon character sneaks around on tiptoe, they will invariably be accompanied by pizzicato violin music.
14) Cartoon characters with no siblings can still somehow manage to have nieces and nephews.
15) If you're a cartoon superhero, and you don't want anyone to recognize you, just put on a pair of glasses.
16) Cartoon rock bands regularly get involved in all sorts of wacky adventures involving spies, aliens, hillbillies, etc. while they're touring, but they still manage to make their gigs on time.
17) Obscenely rich cartoon kids, despite coming from families that have more money than the mint, attend public school.
18) Cartoon moms are inherently smarter and more in control of things than cartoon dads. Similarly, slim, smart, attractive toon women are naturally attracted to big, fat goofy cartoon guys.
19) Cartoon space aliens always have cool magic powers.
20) Despite the vastness of space, evil cartoon aliens always want to invade or destroy Earth.
21) Any person, group of people. establishment (school or company), or place (town, country or planet) has a nearly exact twin or nemesis, and they will at one point meet. If it is a person, there will only rarely be any blood relation.
Their will be only one major difference between the original and his/her twin, and the twin will have one or a combination of the following...
a: reversed morals.
b: opposite personality.
c: Is better in one aspect. For instance, a competition. And for a person, it could be being a better parent or friend (but not truer), is cooler, friendlier, more impressive.
d: Wears same clothes with different color scheme.
e: Wears different clothes with same color scheme.
f: Is running from the law.
g: Is a caveman or caveman like
h: Is far more advanced (and possibly from the future)
i: Is an angel or guardian angel.
22) Having identical ancestors, as far back as 1000 years ago in lineage, is really, really common.
23) Arson and sabotage simply don't work on Scooby Doo, and should never be considered. If you want to get people off of your land, or obtain a piece of property, the only sure way to get it is to dress up like a ghost or a monster.
24) If you're soldier enlisted on the G.I. Joe team, you need not worry about suffering injuries in battle. Cobra agents can fire dozens of red laser beams at you and miss every time, but a Joe soldier need only fire one blue laser to hit an entire squadron of Cobras.
25) Accidental exposure to toxic waste, unstable chemicals or radiation will not result in your death or receiving a fatal illness, but rather, you will gain incredible superpowers.
26) One's superpowers usually always reflect one's personality: Big dumb or athletic guys are always superstrong, small, hyper guys are always superfast, brainy people possess mental powers etc.
27) A toon parent abusing their child is morally wrong, but a toon child abusing their parent is hilariously funny.
28) Cartoon characters' plans never work if they explain them out loud. If they announce what's supposed to happen before it happens, it will fail. The plan will only work if the character whispers it to his/her friends while in a huddle.
29) Teenage girls' character traits can easily be identified just by looking at their hair colors; "Nice" girls will either be blonde or have red hair. Mean teenage rival girls will have black/dark hair and may wear tons of eye makeup.
30) If a nice teenage girl falls for a nice teenage boy, there will inevetably be a mean stuck-up girl who's also vying for his attention.
31) Nice teen girls never have best friends who are as pretty or as smart as they are. A nice pretty girl's best friend will invariably be a less attractive goofball. Only mean teen girls have cliques.
32) Kid geniuses always have dumb best friends.
33) Cartoon families rarely have 2 competent parents. Usually, one parent will be so unbelievably inept and clueless that it almost appears to be a single parent run household. Unless the child is a supergenius, in which case, both parents can be blithering idiots.
(This one mainly applies to anime)
34) Cartoon children are usually either luminously intelligent beyond their years, or are rotten brats. Sometimes both.
35) Cartoon little brothers and sisters are the among most evil creatures walking the planet.
36) People who hate children will inevitably have to spend one day of his/her life babysitting a set of them.
37) At cartoon schools, one's level of social popularity is directly proportionate to one's moral fiber. The popular kids are invariably mean-spirited, nefarious and backstabbing (and are often rich), while the nice, upstanding children with good, wholesome values are either hideously unpopular or are virtually unnoticed by their peers.
38) Every single cartoon classroom has a genius, a rich kid, an extremely popular and pretty girl and a bully. And at some point there will invariably be a new kid who arrives at the school and becomes intriniscally entangled with all of them.
39) Like metal drawn to a magnet, every cartoon child has an antagonist of the same sex, who will be inevitably drawn to them. (They usually ferret out the 'nice' kid on their first day of school.) Which kind it is depends on the 'good' kid's gender; boys always have thier own personal bully, while girls always have their own mean, stuck-up rival.
40) If you name your child "Dexter" or "Eugene", they will inevitably grow into a nerd.
41) Every cartoon school, regardless of whether it's an elementary, middle, junior or senior high school, has one Goth girl in it. And said Goth girl always possesses a razor-sharp, acerbic with worthy of the greatest insult comics.
The Laws of Cartoons
1) When a cartoon villian tries to do in a cartoon hero, and the death trap backfires and affects the villian, the villian need not worry, much. He/she will be hurt, but they will not die. This has happened numerous times on Inspector Gadget. The MAD agent would set a trap intended to kill Gadget, Gadget would escape without reciving a scratch, the villian would get caught in the trap and simply be injured, but never killed.
2) Toon animals and other non-humans who run around naked during the day are still reqiured to wear pajamas when they go to sleep and bathing suits when they go to the beach.
3) If a cartoon character has a speech impediment or otherwise speaks incomprehensively, they need not worry; there will inevitably be one person who understands them and will act as their translator.
4) Evil geniuses never use the same plan twice, even if they come extremely close to world domination.
5) If a cartoon character gets caught in an explosion, they need not worry. They will be black and sooty at first, but one only has to look away for a moment and they will back to normal seconds later.
6) Babies and young children lead rich, active social active social lives that their parents are completely unaware of.
7) Cartoon birds keep their feathers numbered in case of emergencies.
8) Cartoon dogs' houses are lavishly furnished mansions that are much larger on the inside than they look on the outside.
9) Cartoon characters can have relatives who suddenly turn up out of nowhere, with no previous mention of their existance, to further the plot.
10) Many cartoon characters have rich uncles from Texas named "Tex".
11) Cartoon owls are required by cartoon law to wear graduation hats.
12) If animals could talk, they'd be just like you and me.
13) When cartoon character sneaks around on tiptoe, they will invariably be accompanied by pizzicato violin music.
14) Cartoon characters with no siblings can still somehow manage to have nieces and nephews.
15) If you're a cartoon superhero, and you don't want anyone to recognize you, just put on a pair of glasses.
16) Cartoon rock bands regularly get involved in all sorts of wacky adventures involving spies, aliens, hillbillies, etc. while they're touring, but they still manage to make their gigs on time.
17) Obscenely rich cartoon kids, despite coming from families that have more money than the mint, attend public school.
18) Cartoon moms are inherently smarter and more in control of things than cartoon dads. Similarly, slim, smart, attractive toon women are naturally attracted to big, fat goofy cartoon guys.
19) Cartoon space aliens always have cool magic powers.
20) Despite the vastness of space, evil cartoon aliens always want to invade or destroy Earth.
21) Any person, group of people. establishment (school or company), or place (town, country or planet) has a nearly exact twin or nemesis, and they will at one point meet. If it is a person, there will only rarely be any blood relation.
Their will be only one major difference between the original and his/her twin, and the twin will have one or a combination of the following...
a: reversed morals.
b: opposite personality.
c: Is better in one aspect. For instance, a competition. And for a person, it could be being a better parent or friend (but not truer), is cooler, friendlier, more impressive.
d: Wears same clothes with different color scheme.
e: Wears different clothes with same color scheme.
f: Is running from the law.
g: Is a caveman or caveman like
h: Is far more advanced (and possibly from the future)
i: Is an angel or guardian angel.
22) Having identical ancestors, as far back as 1000 years ago in lineage, is really, really common.
23) Arson and sabotage simply don't work on Scooby Doo, and should never be considered. If you want to get people off of your land, or obtain a piece of property, the only sure way to get it is to dress up like a ghost or a monster.
24) If you're soldier enlisted on the G.I. Joe team, you need not worry about suffering injuries in battle. Cobra agents can fire dozens of red laser beams at you and miss every time, but a Joe soldier need only fire one blue laser to hit an entire squadron of Cobras.
25) Accidental exposure to toxic waste, unstable chemicals or radiation will not result in your death or receiving a fatal illness, but rather, you will gain incredible superpowers.
26) One's superpowers usually always reflect one's personality: Big dumb or athletic guys are always superstrong, small, hyper guys are always superfast, brainy people possess mental powers etc.
27) A toon parent abusing their child is morally wrong, but a toon child abusing their parent is hilariously funny.
28) Cartoon characters' plans never work if they explain them out loud. If they announce what's supposed to happen before it happens, it will fail. The plan will only work if the character whispers it to his/her friends while in a huddle.
29) Teenage girls' character traits can easily be identified just by looking at their hair colors; "Nice" girls will either be blonde or have red hair. Mean teenage rival girls will have black/dark hair and may wear tons of eye makeup.
30) If a nice teenage girl falls for a nice teenage boy, there will inevetably be a mean stuck-up girl who's also vying for his attention.
31) Nice teen girls never have best friends who are as pretty or as smart as they are. A nice pretty girl's best friend will invariably be a less attractive goofball. Only mean teen girls have cliques.
32) Kid geniuses always have dumb best friends.
33) Cartoon families rarely have 2 competent parents. Usually, one parent will be so unbelievably inept and clueless that it almost appears to be a single parent run household. Unless the child is a supergenius, in which case, both parents can be blithering idiots.
(This one mainly applies to anime)
34) Cartoon children are usually either luminously intelligent beyond their years, or are rotten brats. Sometimes both.
35) Cartoon little brothers and sisters are the among most evil creatures walking the planet.
36) People who hate children will inevitably have to spend one day of his/her life babysitting a set of them.
37) At cartoon schools, one's level of social popularity is directly proportionate to one's moral fiber. The popular kids are invariably mean-spirited, nefarious and backstabbing (and are often rich), while the nice, upstanding children with good, wholesome values are either hideously unpopular or are virtually unnoticed by their peers.
38) Every single cartoon classroom has a genius, a rich kid, an extremely popular and pretty girl and a bully. And at some point there will invariably be a new kid who arrives at the school and becomes intriniscally entangled with all of them.
39) Like metal drawn to a magnet, every cartoon child has an antagonist of the same sex, who will be inevitably drawn to them. (They usually ferret out the 'nice' kid on their first day of school.) Which kind it is depends on the 'good' kid's gender; boys always have thier own personal bully, while girls always have their own mean, stuck-up rival.
40) If you name your child "Dexter" or "Eugene", they will inevitably grow into a nerd.
41) Every cartoon school, regardless of whether it's an elementary, middle, junior or senior high school, has one Goth girl in it. And said Goth girl always possesses a razor-sharp, acerbic with worthy of the greatest insult comics.
no one loves me
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From anime: You can survive in outer space for a brief period of time with no space suit if you hold your breath and cover your ears. Of course, this totally ignores the fact of sub-zero temperatures in space.
Sub-zero temperature in space is overrated. When in the vicinity of the sun you are actually bombarded with far more solar radiation than on Earth, where the atmosphere shields you. In effect it can get warmer in space... the thing is that since there is nothing to retain heat, shadows become deadly cold.
Miss smiles alot (:
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I hadn't noticed that, but I do think it's there pending furthur watching. :anime:
Forget the cold, think of sudden exposure to a vacuum as every bit of your blood turning to foam, it would be like turning off a light switch. Even high altitude pilots learn they only have about a second and a half of useful consciousness, and airline pilots have quick donning O2 masks. But even 2001- Space Odyssey got that wrong, and so many more SciFi shows think brief space exposure is possible. Vacuum physiology and gravitational/orbital dynamics are left to "this would be sO cool" science, who will know anyway? :anime:
Forget the cold, think of sudden exposure to a vacuum as every bit of your blood turning to foam, it would be like turning off a light switch. Even high altitude pilots learn they only have about a second and a half of useful consciousness, and airline pilots have quick donning O2 masks. But even 2001- Space Odyssey got that wrong, and so many more SciFi shows think brief space exposure is possible. Vacuum physiology and gravitational/orbital dynamics are left to "this would be sO cool" science, who will know anyway? :anime:
tonyayo121
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That's a pretty nice list, Silverstar. Don't forget that if a cartoon character has only two upper teeth in their mouth, a good distance apart, it means they're dumb as bricks.
Both of these happen on non-cartoon shows as well.
Both of these happen on non-cartoon shows as well.
Unknowingly Creative
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I've never liked the Shonen anime law that if a guy is a dumb, arrogant, pissed off jerk, he will somehow come across great power, and, having little or no experience with this power, somehow manages to beat every challenge that presents itself, even those that have up until now been impossible to beat.
jennifer_goble
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That rule applies to 99.99% of cartoons.
crazy ninja pirate
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The effectiveness of gravity is directly proportional to your awareness of it. If you run off the edge of a cliff, you will not fall until you realize you are standing in mid-air. Helpful advice: when pursuing your nemesis, never look down until you get where you are going.
In any group of multi-ethnic friends, the white male is the one who will be wrong about everything.
Cartoons villians, when planning the deaths of their enemies, will never resort to anything as simple and effective as a bullet in the head. Said villians will always devise some absurdly convoluted, multi-layered, tech-heavy, and invariably bug-ridden deathtrap that can usually be escaped with the aid of any random piece of junk the hero finds lying around.
Wealthy people, unless they are a blood relative of the show's hero, invariably obtained their wealth through underhanded means, have let their wealth go to their heads and -- horror of horrors! -- they're not eco-friendly!
In contrast, poor people are always morally superior to rich ones, and never use the despair of poverty as an excuse to commit crimes.
90% of all teenage girls in the cartoon multiverse have a little brother. And all of them are brats.
In any group of multi-ethnic friends, the white male is the one who will be wrong about everything.
Cartoons villians, when planning the deaths of their enemies, will never resort to anything as simple and effective as a bullet in the head. Said villians will always devise some absurdly convoluted, multi-layered, tech-heavy, and invariably bug-ridden deathtrap that can usually be escaped with the aid of any random piece of junk the hero finds lying around.
Wealthy people, unless they are a blood relative of the show's hero, invariably obtained their wealth through underhanded means, have let their wealth go to their heads and -- horror of horrors! -- they're not eco-friendly!
In contrast, poor people are always morally superior to rich ones, and never use the despair of poverty as an excuse to commit crimes.
90% of all teenage girls in the cartoon multiverse have a little brother. And all of them are brats.