Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2008 September 20

= September 20 =

Cartoon movie with a snake and his adventures through the world...
Last night I was at the First Avenue in Minneapolis (Ratatat concert) and before each concert they play random movies on the screens as people wait. There was this movie that seemed oddly familiar... this green snake eats some apples and offers this forbidden fruit to adam and eve and eventually he's watching a bunch of TVs and they offer him sex and drugs and whatever and he gets all dizzy and overwhelmed... it was quite trippy. Dunno where I've seen it either. Also completely unrelated, what's that album where the cover art is a black & white photo taken underwater of a girl in a dress who is mostly submerged except for her face? Thanks a lot, media wizards! NIRVANA2764 (talk) 19:10, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Concerns about Loony Tunes cartoons as food?
Did anyone, at the time they were made, find it a little gross that characters like Bugs Bunny could be chased down to become food on occasion, while exhibiting human characteristics of talking, walking, etc.? I'll admit, maybe it's me, but I always found it rather grotesque to have Bugs in a pot cracking jokes with Wile E. Coyote ("I'd stay for lunch, but I'm kind of tied up right now.") I mean, he's still...hmmm, anthropomorphic I guess. I know I wouldn't dream of cooking and eating something that was talking to me! (And it never seems to bother people trying to get Daffy Duck.) Or, didn't anyone ever have probmes with the concept? Maybe most people who are neurotypical can see the cartoons and never bat an eye; I guess it's the talking and walking like people aspect that makes me turn away. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.244.187.155 (talk) 23:40, 20 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm sure numerous people had or have a problem with it -- you can pick just about anything and be fairly certain that someone is going to have a problem with it -- but beyond that, I doubt you're going to get meaningful answers to a question like this. -- Captain Disdain (talk) 23:49, 20 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Yep, there were people who found the concept of Pokemon evolution grossly offensive at the time. Go figure... --Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 23:54, 20 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Um...it was a cartoon with comical situations. None of the characters actually get eaten. --mboverload @  00:05, 21 September 2008 (UTC)


 * http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CarnivoreConfusion Avnas Ishtaroth drop me a line  05:47, 21 September 2008 (UTC)


 * A particularly odd bit is in Paying the Piper (1949): the Pied Piper (Porky Pig) is taunted by a cat with "Your sister smokes corn silks!" to which he replies, "No, she works in a butcher shop and smokes hams." She's presumably a pig .... —Tamfang (talk) 07:09, 21 September 2008 (UTC)