# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**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, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/61 "2006-08-22T19:52:57Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] 😕 [/QUOTE] Sorry, maybe that was too clever. It always bugged me that the characters on “Speed Racer” always wore monograms that didn’t match their names. Speed had a “G” on his shirt, and Trixie had an “M”. For some reason, Sparky got it right. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/62 "2006-08-22T21:20:48Z")
Taking two hand guns and firing into the ground rapidly at your sides will raise you off the ground. The quickest way to disquise yourself if you are a male is a wig, fake eyelashes, and lipstick. You can walk off the edge of a cliff and continue walking indefinately. When and only when you look directly into the camera and wave bye-bye will you fall. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Eboshi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@Lady\_Eboshi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Eboshi)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/63 "2006-08-22T22:44:13Z")
[QUOTE=h.sapiens] Sorry, maybe that was too clever. It always bugged me that the characters on “Speed Racer” always wore monograms that didn’t match their names. Speed had a “G” on his shirt, and Trixie had an “M”. For some reason, Sparky got it right. [/QUOTE] Your questions answered: [The original Speed Racer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_Racer) ---
**Author:** ![Agonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@Agonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agonist)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/64 "2006-08-22T22:52:22Z")
[QUOTE=BMalion] Rossini, _William Tell Overture_, 2nd movement. I used to always play that for my friends on my boombox when we went camping! [/QUOTE] I love it! I have to download this now for my next camping trip! ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/65 "2006-08-22T23:16:19Z")
[QUOTE=Agonist] > [@](#): > > **Originally Posted by BMalion** > Rossini, William Tell Overture, 2nd movement. I used to always play that for my friends on my boombox when we went camping! I love it! I have to download this now for my next camping trip! [/quote] Now I want to plan a camping trip just so I can do it. (and I haven’t been camping in 20 years or so - these days camping is not having a coffee pot in the hotel room :D) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/66 "2006-08-23T15:33:25Z")
Actually, the “morning” music from the _William Tell Overture_ is the _third_ movement. The first movement doesn’t really evoke anything to me, the second is “the storm” (at least according to the Mickey Mouse cartoon _The Band Concert_), and the fourth movement is the Lone Ranger theme. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/67 "2006-08-23T17:59:03Z")
[QUOTE=Agonist] I love it! I have to download this now for my next camping trip! [/QUOTE] be sure to whistle like a little bird in a cartoon too, that always gets a laugh. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/68 "2006-08-23T18:00:09Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Actually, the “morning” music from the _William Tell Overture_ is the _third_ movement. The first movement doesn’t really evoke anything to me, the second is “the storm” (at least according to the Mickey Mouse cartoon _The Band Concert_), and the fourth movement is the Lone Ranger theme. [/QUOTE] Oops, right. The 3rd, not the 2nd. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408/69 "2006-08-23T23:22:30Z")
In a cartoon, any time a character finds himself on railroad tracks a train will _always_ appear at that exact moment. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-ahppen-all-the-time-in-animation-that-doesnt-irl/369408.md?page=3)