PlowKing
Corporal
- Joined
- Jan 28, 2010
- Location
- Reading, PA
I'm sure that someone probably posted this before, so I apologize, but it's just too funny, and made me appreciate the cartoons of my youth!
My theory is that it works as long as Sam is taken as a deliberately exaggerated bit of nonsense that happens to be a "Confederate" here. The instant one starts thinking of it as even vaguely representative of anything, it fails.
I don't think that millions of us who saw that cartoon as a child thought of it as "representative" of any broad historical or political thought. Sheesh......lighten up.
Have you ever seen Rocky and Bullwinkle do "Barbara Fritchie"? That's pretty funny too. Bullwinkle is Barbara, the flag becomes her Union Suit (red longjohns), and Boris Badenov is Jackson ("It's Stonewall Boris, hah you all" in a Russian accent).
I KNEW there was another funny Civil War one--Was this a Mr. Peabody time machine cartoon? (I know the main characters appeared in them) Wish there was a whole CD with those Mr. Peabody cartoons--I'd use them every day.