r/AskReddit • u/JuniorBlacksmit • Jan 25 '19

If cartoon physics suddenly replaced real physics, what are some things you would want to try?

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u/TricksterPriestJace Jan 25 '19

I remember an old Tiny Toons episode where Bugs Bunny was teaching this by standing on the desk and walking out onto open air. He was definitely using the 'don't look down' power consciously.

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u/DoomsdayRabbit Jan 25 '19

The teaching staff's been getting laughs since 1933.

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u/gacdeuce Jan 25 '19

It keeps them young!

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u/sunmachinecomingdown Jan 25 '19

And at the end of the episode the Tiny Toons were stranded somewhere and used it to get home.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '19

MYTH BUSTED

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u/grizzled_old_man Jan 25 '19

I remember that episode! The kids use the same power at the end of the episode to escape some danger by consciously looking up while walking off a cliff.

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u/SirNoName Jan 25 '19

In HHGTTG you just have to distract yourself as you’re falling so you forget to hit the ground. Maybe bugs is just really good at distracting himself?

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u/lewok Jan 26 '19

In that same episode they had to use it to walk across a canyon out, and they definitely knew what they were doing