The cartoon is is the joke I'm curious about. In the scene a gremlin replaces a "C" with a red background for an "a" with a black background. I take it it has something to do with licences or insurance but I'm not too sure.
The cartoon is is the joke I'm curious about. In the scene a gremlin replaces a "C" with a red background for an "a" with a black background. I take it it has something to do with licences or insurance but I'm not too sure.
Last edited by The Original An Gadaí; 12 Oct 2009 at 10:12 AM.
I'll have to look at this tonight, but I would guess it had to do with war time rationing. The Ration coupons were letter associated I believe.
Not a cite, but for some reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing#United_States
http://www.ameshistoricalsociety.org.../rationing.htm
A bonus from my second link:This could well be the same cartoon, as at least one time Bugs took on the Gremlin, the cartoon ended that way.Even in the popular Warner Brothers cartoons, Daffy Duck exhorts the audience to Keep it under 40! Bugs Bunny's plunging airplane halts just before impact, out of gas as a consequence of the `A' sticker on its windshield.
The joke was reused in the first related link. .
This cartoon was shown often while I was growing up. I only saw the Gremlin from the Kremlin once or twice as an adult.
The Gremlin From The Kremlin was done after Falling Hare so the reuse was in the first cartoon linked. I find cartoons from that era fascinating.