Things you've learned from watching cartoons

Bombs are black spheres with a burning fuse. If you pinch the fuse, it will go out – but immediately relight.

When people aren’t looking, inanimate objects come to life.

Everything falls faster than an anvil.

Until whatever (ok, whoever) it is lands, at which point the anvil suddenly accelerates so that it lands immediately after they do.

Any animal, robot, or ticking time bomb in a dress is indistinguishable from a real and irresistible female of whatever species is desired.

The inner workings of a piano are territorial and will toss and smack around any intruders without missing a note of the classical music being played on it.

There is always an anvil within arm’s reach.

No anvil is ever secured to the ground.

All anvils fall small-side first.

If a person or animal is standing on the ground and the anvil falls on their head, the anvil will either a) shatter into little pieces or b) shove them into the ground. There is no other possible outcome.

Anvils are usually very heavy, unless they are resting on a head bump. If the head bump rises, the anvil is easily moved.

Anvils are only used for one thing: dropping. If something actually needs to be smithied, it’s ordered from the ACME company.

When you hear the phrase, “Of course you know, this means war,” you’re screwed.

Beware of pronoun trouble.

Time travelers love bad puns.

If you don’t want to wait for them to thaw, you can just whack them with a baseball bat and the ice will shatter into thousands of tiny pieces.

At which point the victim’s skin (or fur for that matter) will be blue but will quickly fade back to its normal color.

All magnets are red, U-shaped, and are powerful enough to attract heavy metal objects (such as anvils) from miles away.

Every tree has a big mallet hidden behind it.

If you dump a bunch of concrete in a pile, within a couple of seconds it will change into the shape of a cube and solidify.

Kangaroos look like big mice.

It isn’t?
Let’s see…Getting shot just makes water spill out of the holes when you drink it. You’re fine otherwise.

For any pair of friends, one will be the tall and/or large dumb one, the other is the short and/or small smart one.

All babies can talk but only other babies and animals can hear them.

Losing your glasses is the equivalent of being blindfolded.

I’ve always thought that was odd, because really you could conceivably believe a kangaroo is a big rabbit.

Give it up, Brain. He is never pondering what you’re pondering. Because he’s insane.

Then when you finally do take off, you’ll leave a cloud-shaped version of you standing there for a few seconds.

OH YEA!!!

A group of animal friends can contain no more than one of any species.

Some animals can talk and some can’t. That’s just the way it is and nobody questions it.

If you find yourself standing on the very tip of a cliff, and then make the mistake of looking either (a) down, or (b) at the camera, the tip of the cliff will break off and plummet, taking you with it.

If, however, you attempt to subvert this natural law by stepping back from the tip of the cliff just before the crack appears, the entire cliff will now plummet, taking you with it but leaving the tip on which you were previously standing hovering in mid air.

Related to this is the phenomenon of sawing a circular hole in a platform/floor/ice around another character. The piece of ground on which the bad guy is standing will always fall, regardless of whether it is the small circular piece or the large area surrounding it.

No, it’s that the original experiment that increased their intelligence made Pinky just smart enough to be stupid.

The talking animals always wear a small piece of token clothing, such as a hat, tie, gloves or a short vest, to signify that they’re sapient.

If one jumps up in the air and spin rapidly along a vertical axis, when they land they will instantly tunnel to a depth that will remove them from danger. Presumably this new tunnel will also connect with an existing matrix of other tunnels.

Being struck by lightning, or indeed being subjected to any powerful electrical charge, will cause a person’s bones to become visible through the skin, while the skin itself will become a white outline emitting smaller lightning bolts. Following the incident, the person will be largely unharmed, other than being smudged with soot and smoldering slightly.

Cartoon characters can produce any object they happen to need at the time, no matter what size the object is, either out of mid-air, from behind their backs, or from their inside coat pocket.