My favorite recurring cartoon gag of all time is the one Sarah calls "There's Always a Little One." It's the gag where you see a whole bunch of identical creatures or things running across the screen and out of the shot, and then, after a slight pause, a smaller version of those creatures or things runs across the screen and out of the shot.
Examples that come to mind are mostly from Warner Brothers cartoons: the end of "Scaredy Cat" (a bunch of identical mice, followed by a much smaller mouse); the end of "Ready... Set... Zoom!" where the Coyote, disguised as a Road Runner, is pursued by a bunch of identical coyotes followed by a little Coyote; "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves", with six dwarves in jeeps followed by the Dopey takeoff in a smaller jeep marked "Peep," and "Bugs Bunny Rides Again" (a bunch of bullets followed by a lone bullet). There's also an episode of "The Simpsons," "Itchy and Scratchy Land," where a violent cartoon-themed amusement park features a parade of axes followed by "a cute little baby ax."
There must be others, though. Anybody else remember this gag, and can anybody name some other cartoons that use it?
Sunday, October 02, 2005
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Spongebob did a variation on this gag in an episode where a bunch of people fled out of a theatre in a panic and after they all left a single solitary speck fled. Quite hilarious.
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