* If ... on the Guardian ’ s " Comment is free " site ( the red-and-grey bar below the cartoon is a scroll bar allowing access to a few older cartoons )

A Cartoon Network mini-story featured a " sidekicks bar " which had various cartoon sidekicks such as Robin the Boy Wonder discussing how important a sidekick is to the story, giving an example of how Porky Pig's career actually became better as a sidekick.

Conjuring up images of an Eliot Ness-style raid on an illegal bar during Prohibition, the television spots have featured the cartoon bugs plotting some silly scheme like invading a kitchen, only to be foiled by the magical appearance of the product which swiftly dispatched the bugs to various giddily horrible deaths.

All music was original and composed by Rick Hicaro, except for " Oh Suzanna " ( old west bar, traditional American folk song ), " Buffalo Gals " ( traditional American folk song ) heard in the barroom scenes when the cartoon gals danced in the background, and the Budweiser theme heard in the bonus round.

On 20 May 2010, the M & G had won an eleventh-hour court bid by the Council of Muslim Theologians to bar the publication of the cartoon.

The cartoon opens with a bar of " Merrily We Roll Along ", followed by a segment of the " lively " portion of Wagner's Siegfried funeral march, as Bugs walks onstage to applause and prepares to play the grand piano.

Drazen described this scream as being one which " tears at the listener and raises the bar for cartoon voices ".

It consists of a chocolate cartoon shaped koala ( named " George " in certain advertising material ) with a caramel center, similar to that of a Freddo, albeit a fully chocolate bar.

In his book Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality, Jonathan Gray analyses a scene from the episode in which it is announced that Kidz News has been replaced by the children's cartoon The Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Chocobot Hour ( a reference to the Mattel toys and the Mars chocolate bar ).

Torvalds was named after Linus Pauling, the Nobel Prize-winning American chemist, although in the book Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, Torvalds is quoted as saying, " I think I was named equally for Linus the Peanuts cartoon character ", noting that this makes him half " Nobel-prize-winning chemist " and half " blanket-carrying cartoon character ".

On November 3, 1929, Robert Ripley drew a panel in his syndicated cartoon, Ripley's Believe it or Not !, saying " Believe It or Not, America has no national anthem ".

In the same year, the Swiss edition of Indymedia was sued for anti-Semitism by Aktion Kinder des Holocaust for publishing a Carlos Latuff cartoon of a Jewish boy in the Warsaw Ghetto saying " I am Palestinian ".

Punch ( magazine ) | Punch cartoon, 1877, portraying Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty | First Lord of the Admiralty William Henry Smith ( 1825 – 1891 ) | W. H. Smith as a Glossary of nautical terms # L | land-lubber, saying: " I think I'll now go below.

For nine years, Porky ended a cartoon by bursting through a bass drum, saying " Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-That's all, folks!

" Jeff Miller of the Houston Chronicle panned Mr. Magoo, a live action remake of the 1950s cartoon, by saying, " I'm supposed to suggest how the film might be better but I can't think of anything to say other than to make the film again.

Tex Avery, for whom Clampett worked as an animator in the mid-1930s, borrowed strongly from this cartoon for his 1948 MGM cartoons Half-Pint Pygmy ( in which the characters, George and Junior, travel to Africa in search of the world's smallest pygmy, only to discover that he has an uncle who's even smaller ) and The Cat That Hated People ( where the cat travels to the moon and encounters an array of characters similar to those in Clampett's Wackyland, e. g., a pair of gloves and lips that keep saying " Mammy, mammy ", just like the Al Jolson duck in Porky in Wackyland ).

After Kobayashi saves the day by eating a lot of hot dogs, a cartoon William Perry makes an appearance saying " Damn!

A November 6, 1971, cartoon in The New Yorker by Whitney Darrow, Jr. shows a cleaning lady on her hands and knees scrubbing an office floor while saying to another one: " I'd like to see George Plimpton do this sometime.

Aislin published a famous political cartoon depicting a pregnant Drapeau on the phone, saying "' Ello, Morgentaler?

Larson later apologized, saying " When I drew the above cartoon, I had not actually seen Ishtar.

Other comic strips are often the butt of punchlines, and several cartoon characters from outside Pearls have appeared, most frequently the main cast of The Family Circus, and even in one circumstance, Stewie from Family Guy appeared in the strip on April 20th of 2008, holding a candy cane, for a reference to the saying, " It's like taking candy from a baby.

The station subsequently relaunched with a vastly more mainstream format, and a new advert featuring a friendly cartoon radio saying " Don't be afraid!

In 2002 the Swiss-based Holocaust survivors organization Aktion Kinder des Holocaust sued the Indymedia of Switzerland on the charge of anti-Semitism for publishing Latuff's cartoon titled We are all Palestinians series in their website, which depicted a Jewish boy in Warsaw Ghetto saying: " I am Palestinian.

Famously, a cartoon appeared in the British newspaper the Daily Mail, which had the director of Coronation Street ripping up the script and saying " Forget the script-just keep talking about your private life.

* 1954: Herbert Lawrence Block ( Herblock ), Washington Post and Times-Herald, " for a cartoon depicting the robed figure of Death saying to Stalin after he died, ' You Were Always A Great Friend of Mine, Joseph.

West said in an interview that when Kricfalusi asked him to voice Stimpy, West replied by saying that he did not wish to voice Stimpy in this cartoon.

The following week, Zapiro published a cartoon of himself on a psychologists couch off-loading about the difficult week prior, and also saying, " The issue is depicting the prophet ... it's that simple ", and, " That's for adherents of Islam!

Henery Hawk ( who is called " Junior " in this cartoon ) wants a chicken for dinner, saying that he is a chicken hawk.

Suomalainen published a cartoon of himself weeping at Kekkonen's portrait, saying he " felt like a man who has just lost a gold mine ".

And because Itchy & Scratchy was now on the Gabbo Show, they had to replace it with an Eastern European cartoon that wasn't translated to English and thus made no sense whatsoever, leaving Krusty saying " What the hell was that !?

There are even cases of special Easter eggs ; on the sixth playthrough on stage 18 ( block 6-3 ), a cartoon image of Simon will appear in a set of mirrors smoking a cigarette accompanied by Japanese text in one of the background areas saying " Here's Fake Simon!

The cartoon series Drawn Together features a character named " Foxxy Love ", and in the Drawn Together movie, when the characters are revealed that they are knock offs of other characters, Foxxy Love is quoted as saying " You mean I'm not really Foxy Brown?

Highlights of the strip's final decades include " Boomchik " ( 1961 ), in which America's international prestige is saved by Mammy Yokum, " Daisy Mae Steps Out " ( 1966 ), a female-empowering tale of Daisy's brazenly audacious “ homewrecker gland ," " The Lips of Marcia Perkins " ( 1967 ), a satirical, thinly-veiled commentary on venereal disease and public health warnings, " Ignoble Savages " ( 1968 ), in which the Mob takes over Harvard, and " Corporal Crock " ( 1973 ), in which Bullmoose reveals his reactionary cartoon role model, in a tale of obsession and the fanatical world of comic book collecting.

Venetia Burney ( later Venetia Phair ), who as an eleven-year-old schoolgirl had suggested the name Pluto for the planet, remarked in 2006: “ The name had nothing to do with the Disney cartoon.

The twins have also generated a degree of controversy-a Saturday morning cartoon and an MTV show were criticized for being “ too sexy ” or “ too controversial ".

Magazines and tabloids called them everything from " the sexiest twins alive ” and " the best selling calendar models of the world ” ( Cosmopolitan UK ) to referring to them as both “ bizarre and bulimic ” and “ sexual icons and America ’ s cartoon sweethearts ” ( Entertainment Weekly ) The London Sun said that the Barbi Twins “ took the glamour world by storm ”.

The gopher mascot is a tradition as old as the state which was tabbed the “ Gopher State ” in 1857 after a political cartoon ridiculing the US $ 5-million railroad loan which helped open up the West.

He preferred action drawing and his first published illustration was a cartoon of a “ bandaged football player ” for the student newspaper Yale Courant.

For example, Saturday morning cartoon “ play ” violence is in combination with a murder on Law and Order.

Shortly hefore his death he was at work upon a large cartoon of “ The Deluge ;” and he had finished his “ St.

Minnesota was tabbed the “ Gopher State ” in 1857 after a satirizing cartoon, depicting nine Gophers with the heads of local politicians pulling a locomotive, was published.

Liberal Republican “ conspirators ” in a political cartoon from Harper's Weekly of March 16, 1872.

She started her newspaper career drawing a daily cartoon, “ Bear ”, for The Sun in 1969.

Popski ’ s nickname referred to a Daily Mirror cartoon character, and was given to him by Captain Bill Kennedy Shaw, the LRDG ’ s Intelligence Officer, because his signallers had problems with “ Peniakoff ”.

He initially appeared in a cartoon strip called “ Der Globi ”, and later appeared in a cartoon picture-book form called “ Globi's World Voyage ” in 1935.

The episodes that contain Scooby-Doo cartoon segments that are repeats from earlier episodes are noted in the following list with “ rr ” used to indicate where a previously aired cartoon was rerun.

* While she impressed audiences with her elegant and “ weeping ” role in The 101st Proposal, her enactment of the popular cartoon character Sazae-san on TV ( CX, 1992 – 1996 ) showcased her talent for comedy.