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I always thought the 'Hey Arnold!' football head thing was just a cartoon joke, but I saw a clip online yesterday where the creator said he based it on a real kid he knew in Seattle who had a head shaped like that. Mind blown lol.
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river1902mo ago
That's wild! Makes you wonder how many other cartoon quirks are based on real people.
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hugow302mo ago
Oh man, my buddy's uncle actually had that crazy eye twitch that pops up in old cartoons! He'd be telling a story and one eye would just slowly drift shut, then snap wide open. We were all convinced some animator must have met him at a bar. Makes you think about all the weird little habits they must have copied, right?
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henryreed1mo ago
@hugow30 your uncle's eye thing reminded me how cartoonists are basically just hyper-observant people with a weird sense of humor. They're always scanning crowds for that one guy who taps his foot weird or a lady who snorts when she laughs. I swear half the gags in old Looney Tunes are just exaggerations of stuff my grandfather did at the dinner table, like the way he'd slowly sink his whole face into a coffee mug.
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