Ssaturday Morning Cartoons

You really can milk the concept of one poor guy being sadistically inundated with insanity for comedy gold.

As you watch this cartoon, pay close attention to all the different facial expressions Pa Bear cycles through toward the end; that's pretty much what I look like while I'm reading about stuff like Obama and McCain spending an evening talking faith with Rick Warren, or Oprah extolling the dangers of "Empathy Deficit Disorder."

From 1951, here's the Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese near-masterpiece of lunacy, A Bear for Punishment.