Just the other day, we were reminiscing about some of our favorite old school cartoons. It brought back memories of being glued to the television, watching shows including Transformers, G.I. Joe, He-Man, Thundercats, and the list goes on. Then there are the timeless classics. The shows our parents watched, which were still decent enough to entertain the next generation. In that respect, things like the Flintstones, Jetsons, and Bug’s Bunny come to mind. With respect to the latter, a new exhibit has been unveiled that takes Bugs, Tweety, and the Road Runner to a gory, yet glorious new level.
The Splatter Exhibit at The Aquarium in London is a multi-media art show that focuses on “the plausible impossibility of death in the mind of cartoon characters.” Now death, blood and mayhem aren’t entirely new to the world of cartoons, it’s just that we’ve never been able to really see what it would look like if Bugs killed Daffy, or Sylvester ate Tweetee. Shows such as South Park have pushed the envelop of blood and gore beyond anything we could have imagined back in the good old days, so this attempt, albeit tame, is a tasteful example of how Warner Brothers could have incorporated such elements.
