This is an ABC podcast, big questions, bite-sized, short and curly bites, big questions,

small serving size, oh no oh no I can't watch another second of this violent movie you

put on Mully it is so violent and depressing oh the horror I'm sorry Carl do you

want to watch something else please here I'll change it oh gosh my eyes simply

horrible ah here we go this will be great

oh man this is awesome the track just exploded Carl is serious this is just as violent as

the movie I put on but now you're laughing yeah because it's a cartoon

cartoon violence is different to real violence it's funny it's still people

getting punched and hurt and stuff blowing up I don't really understand what

the difference he got squashed under that big rock okay so you find it funny

today's short and curly bite size question why is cartoon violence so funny I

remember when I was a kid there was this cartoon about a road runner it was

like a kind of emu ostrich thing and it could run really fast and there was

this coyote who kept trying to catch it well actually the coyote kept

trying to kill the road runner the coyote bought missiles axes dynamite

through giant rocks at the road runner but he always ended up hurting himself

instead he fell off cliffs he blew himself up it was so funny yeah I remember

that old wily coyote and all of his acne missiles that is a classic I know

but it's only a classic because the violence doesn't actually mean anything

the coyote never actually dies the road runner never gets caught it all just

feels like a big silly game but it's still violent and I bet Carl wouldn't be

okay with it if it wasn't a cartoon well let's test that imagine a cartoon

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