We all know about the Laws of Physics and how they invariably govern the way the various bodies of the universe interact with one another. These laws are considered unbreakable until proven otherwise.But are they really?
Thanks to the meticulous recordings of Warner Brothers ® characters such as Buggs Bunny,
Pepe Le Pew, and Wile E. Coyote, newer laws have been under careful review and examination.
The Cartoon Laws of Pysics
Law I) Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation.
Law II) Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly, stopping the body completely.
Law III) Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter. The threat of skunks or matrimony often catalyzes this reaction.
Law IV) The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken.
Law V) All principles of gravity are negated by fear.
Law VI) As speed increases, objects can be in several places at once.
This is particularly true of tooth-and-claw fights, in which a character's head may be glimpsed emerging from the cloud of altercation at several places simultaneously. This effect is common as well among bodies that are spinning or being throttled.
Law VII) Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble tunnel entrances; others cannot.
Law VIII) Any violent rearrangement of feline matter is impermanent. They can be decimated, spliced, splayed, accordion-pleated, spindled, or disassembled, but they cannot be destroyed.
Provide an example of the above laws that you have personally witnessed.
(I'm talking about what you've seen on TV, not in real life...)
With Law I, in the cartoon with roadrunner and the coyote, whenever he is chasing the roadrunner, he always ends up over a cliff. For a moment he is hovering in mid air then he notices he is over the cliff he falls.
ReplyDeleteWith Tom and Jerry they are always fighting so Law VII is in use because Tom always gets injured (injuries that would kill someone) but never dies.
I think that the laws should include when a cartoon character starts running, they run in place to gather momentum then they shoot off in full speed. Really common in cartoons like Scooby-Doo.
Law IV) The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken.
ReplyDeleteThis one sounds cool, so Ill post about it. I grew up watching westerns instead of watching cartoons so dont harp on me too bad.
It seems that this is also common on like Space Jam where they catch the cartoon dunking and what not. I think Tom and Jerry did this too on their work site.
-Jason
Law X when a cartoon like in who framed Rodger Rabit gets run over with a steam roller and they blow on there thumb and it re inflates them. Where did all the mass go?
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