Having grown up watching Looney Tunes my whole life, there are just some gags that I just take for granted. For example, animals can disguise themselves as chickens simply by putting a red rubber glove on their heads.
I had forgotten this, and had even forgotten there being a time when the difference between a character and that character with a glove on his head was somehow different.
When one of my daughters was about 18 months old, the first cartoon she sat through was the Wallace & Gromit classic The Wrong Trousers. The villain in the story is a penguin named Feathers McGraw, who disguises himself as a chicken using the aforementioned technique.
At one point in the story, Feathers has just completed a robbery. He then reaches up and pulls off the glove, revealing his true form.
My shocked daughter yells excitedly, “IT’S THE PENGUIN!”
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