Animated Physics

Minorities need not ever worry about finding companionship. If a town/school/workplace has only 1 African American male and only 1 African American female, they will met and fall deeply in love.

Groups/teams rarely (if ever) have more than one African American member.

Nice rich girls rarely fall for rich boys. They will inevitably fall in love with the poor/working class rebel.

Pets usually have a much clearer idea of what's going on than their human owners.
 
If you're a boy in an anime, do not ever, under any circumstances, rescue or help out a girl that you've never met before. Said girl will invariably turn out to be an alien, witch, demon, angel or goddess, who will interpret your act of kindness as a marriage proposal, and you'll be stuck with her for the rest of your life.

Any given environment in the cartoon universe, no matter how tame, unassuming or ordinary, can be a hotbed for spies and international intrigue. Anyone from schoolchildren to pro athletes to rock musicians to household pets can be working undercover as superspies, and high-tech global organizations devoted to protecting/dominating the world are as common as grass.

In action/anime cartoons, one's level of power tends to fluctuate; it can increase or decrease dramatically, depending on what side you're fighting on. Bad guys who are able to pwn entire squadrons of enemies with one hand while evil will experience a severe power decrease and get laid out easily by a single foe after turning over to the side of good. Similarly, a good guy who has been brainwashed or hypnotized into becoming temporarily bad will experience a sever increase of power and will be able to lay waste to all of their former fellow good guys with little to no effort.
 
Hammerspace: Characters are able to pull enormous objects from out of nowhere. In anime this mostly applies to females.

In anime, when a table or desk collides with a characters forehead, blood starts to trickle from them, but they are, nevertheless, unharmed. They don't even budge.
 
In DVD commentaries, this is actually something the writers are extremely proud of, which Groening calls "flexible reality" and brings up so often that the phrase gets stuck in my head like a song.

All day I just hear Matt Groening's voice: "Flexible reality! Flexible reality! Flexible reality! Flexible reality!"
 
Transformers physics: no matter how big the transformer is, they always have headroom inside human buildings.


The DO-DO physics: objects in the distance can be grabbed and appear small in one's hand.
 
Please explain more. I realized I do notice than the TV room is right next to the stairway, but the room of the fireplace is as well.
 
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When I read that, all I keep hearing is Zorak's "Fried now...cut away...and back to normal."



And who then disappear before the next episode, never to be seen or heard from again.



This law is not limited to human superheroes, either (see: Shoeshine Boy, Underdog)



Aforementioned rich kids must always be limited to the role of the bully or antagonist.



In that same vein, intentional exposure to toxic waste to gain superpowers will only give you lymphoma.

Other laws worth mentioning:

During a chase scene the good guy can always escape through a black hole painted into the wall or floor (or in lieu of a black hole, a painting of a tunnel or a road), but the bad guy will always run into the wall when attempting to follow.

If you need a place to hide, you can disappear completely behind a skinny tree provided you tippy-toe behind that tree.

It is possible to pull a mallet (or any object, really) out of thin air just by reaching behind your back for it.

-Kim
 
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