# Things that ahppen all the time in Animation that doesn't IRL **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 20, 2006, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408 "2006-08-20T02:24:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/41 "2006-08-20T22:10:27Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] You don’t think that would be a valid fashion choice for Kate Winslet, Keira Knightley, or Alyson Hannigan? [/QUOTE] Sadly, by the examples in cartoons, seemingly the only people who’d take advantage of that fashion choice are the ones covered with so much hair that they don’t think to wear pants—or shoes—when walking around in the snow. :eek: Now, I’m a tolerant guy, but there are some things I have to object to just on the grounds of pure aesthetics. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/42 "2006-08-20T22:26:34Z")
[QUOTE=Miss Mapp] Ah, but remember what happened to that guy who discovered the singing frog? 🙂 [/QUOTE] What singing frog? I didn’t see no singing frog. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/43 "2006-08-21T00:24:07Z")
[QUOTE=Lissa] Mouse holes are not attractive, dome shaped entries which are easily visable from any spot in the room. [/QUOTE] Nor are they filled with everyday miniature objects that are perfect for use for mice (matchbox as a bed, postage stamps as portraits, etc.) Also, rabbit holes are not lavishly decorated. But then again, maybe it’s that way in the cartoon world too and Bugs Bunny is the exception to the rule. He always struck me as a sophisticate- maybe he used the money he got from starring in cartoons to renovate his pad and every other rabbit just has a plain ol’ hole. [QUOTE=Achren] If you ignore gravity, it’ll ignore you…until you look down. [/quote] Saith the wabbit himself: “I know this violates the law of gravity- but then again, I never studied law.” ---
**Author:** ![BluePitbull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@BluePitbull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BluePitbull)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/44 "2006-08-21T00:39:45Z")
In anime, the weaker foe always find a way to defeat a stronger, faster and a more skilled foe . Too many to list. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/45 "2006-08-21T01:28:02Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] Actually, sometimes pianos _did_ fall on you, in New York and places like that at least, I guess, because wouldn’t they have to winch them up through the window? I’d imagine that’s where that comes from, isn’t it? (Anvils, no idea.) [/quote] But I’m pretty sure that if a grand piano did fall on someone, their teeth wouldn’t be replaced by the piano keys and plays notes as they loosely waggle back and forth. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/46 "2006-08-21T05:40:01Z")
[QUOTE=Unintentionally Blank] Things that happen all the time in Animation that doesn’t IRL [/QUOTE] Almost anything … I mean, surely that’s the point of animation, that you can do otherwise impossible stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/47 "2006-08-21T05:51:33Z")
I was intensely disappointed to discover that if I shouted into a paper bag and then quickly squeezed the opening shut, the sound would not come rushing back out when I opened the bag later. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/48 "2006-08-21T06:20:05Z")
In real life, if one girl falls in love with you, you won’t suddenly find yourself living with eight different beautiful women (each of different age and bust size) who all adore and fight over you. Alas. In real life, you cannot use beans as a way to propel yourself through the air (in a rather smelly manner.) Not so alas. In real life, you cannot remove your head to stand on with a cheesey grin to then reattach it with no physical harm. In real life, there are no giant robots that you can use to fist-fight with other giant robots in the middle of Tokyo. And if there were and you did, you would soon find yourself in jail or taken out by the military due to having inadvertently crushed thousands of helpless by-standers. In real life, robotic women in French maid outfits do not appear to live with you. In real life, tripping and falling on someone and then inadvertently squeezing their breast is not generally the first way one determines that someone is really a woman. In real life, you are in no danger of getting raped by an evil tentacle beast. (Yay!) In real life, there are no dragons. In real life, Tarzan would just be “thaty crazy white man” and Jane would be whoring in Nairobi.\* In real life, people have parents who appear as something beyond some random voice on the other end of the phone every once in a while. In real life, Nazis are less humorous. In… _mumble mumble on into eternity_ - Richard Pryor joke ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/49 "2006-08-21T07:03:29Z")
In real life, you can’t throw a 150+ pound object into a suborbital arc just by punching it in a fit. On the down side, this means the space program has to use expensive rockets. On the plus side, it means you can’t shell Israel by pushing a young woman in her skivvies in front of a group of bashful young suicide bombers. ---
**Author:** ![infamousmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d6d6ee/32.png) [@infamousmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infamousmom)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/50 "2006-08-21T08:03:01Z")
I don’t think there are too many skunks in real life who get the hots for black-and-white cats (or sing like a cheap imitation of Maurice Chevalier, for that matter). And I don’t think I’ll ever see a mouse wearing a serape and a sombrero. But ya never know. ---
**Author:** ![gabriela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@gabriela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gabriela)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/51 "2006-08-21T09:36:32Z")
In real life, if somebody detaches your arms, there isn’t a nice, plain, white surface where they were detached, and if you stick them back on, they don’t adhere and reattach. (The Tick) ---
**Author:** ![xnylder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/52 "2006-08-21T15:42:28Z")
Or pigtails. (Azumanga Daioh) ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/53 "2006-08-21T18:49:40Z")
Oddly, in real life bears actually are fond of the contents of pic-a-nic baskets. They don’t, however usually wear hats and neckties. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/54 "2006-08-21T20:50:02Z")
There are no Skunks in France. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/55 "2006-08-21T21:31:17Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] I am always disappointed when I wake up and that classical symphony that says “Morning” isn’t playing. (Debussy? I forget.) [/QUOTE] Rossini, _William Tell Overture_, 2nd movement. I used to always play that for my friends on my boombox when we went camping! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/56 "2006-08-22T07:14:31Z")
I prefer Grieg’s “Dawn” from the _Peer Gynt Suite_. As for the ACME Catalog, [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081185115X/sr=8-1/qid=1156230788/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-1885873-6122454?ie=UTF8) has everything. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/57 "2006-08-22T07:43:01Z")
[QUOTE=Unintentionally Blank] 5. Evil lairs. I can’t say I’ve ever enountered one in person, but they’re all over in Toonland. [/QUOTE] You’ve never been to my apartment. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/58 "2006-08-22T18:40:45Z")
[QUOTE=Cherry Garcia] And you don’t see people’s eyeballs pop out of their head and fall to the ground or their tongues roll out of their mouth and hit the ground. [/QUOTE] You’ve obviously never tasted my brother’s salsa. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/59 "2006-08-22T19:29:37Z")
If I got hit in the face with a cast-iron skillet, I don’t think my face would take on the exact shape of the pan, only to spring back to its normal shape with a vigorous shake of my head. People in real life who wear monogrammed shirts normally choose an initial that matches the first letter of either their first or last name. For example, a guy named “Velocity Chaser” would wear a shirt with a “V” or “C” on the chest, rather than a “G”. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/60 "2006-08-22T19:39:15Z")
[QUOTE=h.sapiens] If I got hit in the face with a cast-iron skillet, I don’t think my face would take on the exact shape of the pan, only to spring back to its normal shape with a vigorous shake of my head. People in real life who wear monogrammed shirts normally choose an initial that matches the first letter of either their first or last name. For example, a guy named “Velocity Chaser” would wear a shirt with a “V” or “C” on the chest, rather than a “G”. [/QUOTE] 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408.md?page=4)