Tex Avery has any number of masterworks to his name, of course, but the one linked above holds a special place in my heart.
It’s not only Funny (yup, with a capital F) in its own right, it’s also, by now, testament to the speed at which language changes – watch it and count all the expressions that have fallen out of use since 1951, even when they were sparklin’ new and ‘edgy’ back then.
I think it’s high time to have an updated version of this for today’s idiom – in fact, I almost wonder that I couldn’t yet find anything of that sort on YouTube.
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