According to animator Art Babbitt, "Animation follows the laws of physics—unless it is funnier otherwise." The idea that cartoons behave differently compared to the real world (but not randomly) is almost as old as animation itself. For example, Walt Disney already talked about this "the plausible impossible" cartoon logic in 1956. And when you think about it, the popular cartoons would lose half of their charm if their characters started acting just the same as us. Our sometimes dull reality is what we're trying to escape watching the funny cartoons, after all.
Bored Panda has collected some of the most ridiculous examples of cartoon plot holes to highlight how the world of cartoon characters differs from the real one, and it couldn't be any funnier. From the fingerless Powerpuff Girl Blossom eating with chopsticks to Tom and Jerry hanging out naked all day but wearing clothes at the beach - these characters clearly aren't governed by the laws of science or the norms of any rational plot twists. Scroll down to witness severe cases of cartoon logic that make perfect (non)sense and vote for the most facepalm-y ones!
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A Portrait Of Dear Father
Earphones Logic
Naked vs. Clothed
Christmas Before Christmas
Also before the invention of Coca-Cola which is where the red santa hat comes from.
the red santa hat comes from the Saint Nicolas, wich is a popular figure in Dutch/Belgian culture
Load More Replies...I'd say it's more like postapocalyptic cartoon. They have cars, phones and other 'modern things'.
Indeed. And predates Christ by quite a long time.
Load More Replies...Saturnalia and the winter solstice celebrations predate christianity by centuries.
Not to be mean, but how many people celebrate christmas as Santa's coming rather than the birth of Christ?
Jesus was actually born at some point in the Spring, as far as I know
Load More Replies...In fact it makes sense. Christian church stole things from other religions. http://www.crystalinks.com/xmastrees.html
Bringing tree in the house in winter and decorating it was a pagan tradition long before there was Christmas
So? It's still an older pagan custom to decorate trees, which the Bible could prohibit by Jeremiah 10:1-5.
This would be correct. The holiday later called Christmas was already being celebrated more than one thousand years before the birth of Jesus. And yes, at some point before his birth people started using a decorated tree during this celebration. His birth (although nobody knows his actual date of birth) was added to the holiday by Roman Pagans who were forced to join the official state church.
The sight of mistletoe and santa hats on their heads and a fully decorated christmas tree in their home(which also makes no sense, because humans were nomadic in paleolithic times) only makes it MORE ridiculous. THIS scene alone goes to show that you should never have a Christmas special set before the time of Christ, when Christmas did not yet exist. Shame on you, Hanna-Barbera!
Sorry to ruin the logic Actually they’re was a theory but it’s just a theory that somehow the flinstones got knocked back to the stone ages well I mean they all did the ones who lived on the ground remember that episode where the jetsons see the flinstones that means they lived in the future but in Stone Age that explains why they know cars and phones and stuff but yeah
Christmas existed a LOOOOOONG time before Christ. Except we didn't call it that then. The pinetree, the presents, the decorations, etc... same with easter. You guys should really dig into history a little !!! Christianism has just implanted their "celebrations" over those of our ancestors so we would forget what their real origin was. They succeeded with some of us apparently.
christmas has NOTHING to do with the birth of jesus. Do some research on the subject. The Romans already had a holiday season of exchanging gifts, the christians stole the idea and claimed it for their own
For the record: christmas is originally a PAGAN festival of winter solstice.
Christmas was celebrated long before the birth of Christ. It was an old pagan ritual, marking winter solstice, the shortest, and therefore darkest day of the year.
There is a theory that the Flintstones happen at the same time as the Jetsons
Ah but his birth was foretold...did anyone notice the rocket shaped ornament above Fred's nose.
That is because Christmas has nothing to do with Christ. Christmas began long before the birth of Jesus Christ. Alexander Hislop's book The Two Babylons explores many historical sources showing that the holiday precedes Christ by at least 2,000 years, as earlier mentioned (1957, pp. 97-98). A nativity celebration for pagan gods was observed near the winter solstice in both Syria and Egypt.
I think that was Christs birthday and the baby wasn't ready yet I think
Christ is a fictional character anyway so it doesn't matter that much.
WHAT DO THEY THINK THERE CELLIBRATING ! Let's also throw our teeth under our pillows and go to sleep and wait for the tooth fairy to come who has not been invented yet!
Well, Yule was celebrated long before christmas, when christians came they took the traditions and just changed the motive to why people celebrated. The christmas tree has nothing to to with Jesus.
Well, you ACTUALLY believe people didn’t celebrate Christmas before Christ? 😀😀😀 People have been celebrating winter solstice since before they created God.
What Christ? Is this website suggesting that Christianity is the only true religion?
Well, it wasn't before cigarettes because the Flintstones, Fred, and Barney used to advertise Winston cigarettes. They were instrumental in getting me addicted to nicotine. I told my friends about it and no one remembered the ads and said I was crazy. But then someone invented You Tube and I was proven correct... again.
You can't get much more hipster than that! "I celebrated this holiday before it even existed!"
Maybe they're celebrating winter solstice, and it's just translated to "Christmas" for the convenience of a post-BC audience
Flintstones are cartoon characters and about as real as Christ so I can accept the paradox.
Celebrations like this were celebrated before Christ, but not before the Stone Age.
You do realise that Christmas/Yule was already a thing in Egyptian times and before that. Celebrating the turn of the cycle... Days getting longer again. Only it was named Midwinter/Yule then, not Christmas.
Then they celebrated the winter solstice and the birth of the sun of god...
That's only if you assume they lived in the caveman era. If the Jetsons and the Flintstones actually exist in the same era of the future, the Jetsons are this humans who colonised other planets after the destruction of earth, while the Flintstones are the human survivors left behind.......in this scenario, the celebration of Christmas is kind of gloomy.
In fact, there is a theory that the Flintstones live in the future. After some kind of catastrophe, rich people (like the Jetsons) went to live in floating houses in the sky and poor people stayed on the ground working in mining ou agriculture. That is the reason people in Bedrock try to emulate all the things they have lost (car, washing machines, etc.) using the few resources they still have.
Saturnalia was celebrated before the birth of Christ. Christians used this celebration while they were being persecuted to cover up the fact they were celebrating Christ. He was actually born in the spring while shepherds watched their flocks by night. This was only done during lambing season which is March/April time. The Christmas tree is actually a pagan symbol of the return of the sun.
Christmas is just an adaptation of the pagan festival of Yuletide. It was the christians who ADAPTED the celebration of Christmas. They did not CREATE Christmas.
Christmas is a modern name we gave it, before that it was called midwinter. The christmastree is from that time, the candles, the gifts, the family, etc. Christmas as in celebrating Jesus his birth came popular much much later.
If one should follow the logic of caption, thy fellas should be naked as well. Ohh and don't forget the hair-dresser.
Wikipedia: "Tree worship was common among the pagan Europeans and survived their conversion to Christianity"
Well, christmas really has nothing to do with the birth of christ anyways...
Well, christmas doesn't really have anything to do with the birth of christ, now has it?
That is actually more correct. Christmas has nothing to do with the birth of Christ.
Finding Love
I'm familiar with this story but mine went round putting something else that's not a shoe on every girl
Different Kinds Of Dogs
Cell Bars
Suddenly Ashamed
Fear Of Mice
Nothing wrong with that, we are human, but we are afraid of some humans :)
Fingerless Hands
Cartoon Married Couples
If I dont remember wrong the Millhouse are actually relathed
The Cinderella Effect
Snow White Logic
Well, Crabs Don't Have Ears
Hair-Shaped Skull
I don't know about hair, but I know that their left legs have floating toes bones.
Preferable Accent
Forms Of Cannibalism
Who Taught Him That?
Underwater Physics
Phineas And Ferb Logic
The Rules Of Gravity
The Simpsons Logic
Stranger Danger
Dexter's Laboratory
Spongebob Squarepants Logic
We've seen dogs walking dogs...It doesn't matter who you are, you always gotta do your chores.
Stockholm Syndrome
Trident vs. Fork
Slipper Logic
Dexter's Laboratory
Show White Logic
I'd make a misoginism joke about women, but mama will make me swoop the entire house before even thinking about it.
Caught Off Guard
To be honest I still don' t want my mom barging in while I'm in the shower.... in my 40s.
Pokemon Logic
A Subtle Joke
Camouflage Fail
Cartoon Logic Fail
Dora The Explorer
I'm the same way. I'm only bilingual, but there's something that prevents me from seeing things I'm looking for. If I'm looking for something and it's next to me, I literally can't see it. I have to walk away and do something else. When I come back it will be there.
Powerpuff Girls Logic
Failed Spiderman Logic
To be fair they don't really look like their heart is in the whole "villain" thing
A Bird Pilot
Glued-On Glasses
Carved... they are actually carved into the face
Aquaman Logic
Spongebob Squarepants
Scooby Doo Logic
The Little Mermaid Challenge
Family Guy Logic
Forever Tanned
Bugs Bunny Logic
Lion King
Beauty And The Beast Logic
Pokemon Logic
Family Relations
Tom And Jerry Logic
The Louder The Better
I can scream and shout after i hit the furniture with my toe, and the pain goes away faster.
Pinocchio Logic
He didnt drown, he got unconcious. He was trashed by a whale and got into a coma.
Cartoon Horse
Portable Portals
Little Mermaid Logic
Gloves vs. Shoes
Family Guy Logic
A Mouse Walking A Dog
Mickey can walk in two legs, he can do that too. A cartoon which triggered our creativity to next level in our childhood. Yes ?
Cinderella Logic
Singing Solves Everything
Pokemon Logic
Undeniable Logic
The big question is where he's putting his cigar (and it's not his mouth!)
Safety Concerns
Funny Cartoon Logic Fails
um they have air gum remember? they chew it before going into space and under water. Well, except for the episode where carl asks jimmy how they breath in space, but you don't hear the answer cuz sheen is singing.
Funny Cartoon Logic Fails
okay, this is just like talking to little kid that knows next to nothing about world. Too young to understand and problems are just too far away to actually care about it...
Funny Cartoon Logic Fails
Babies can swim right after birth. We just forget how when we grow up Hawaian babies don't forget, they're all naturals.
Funny Cartoon Logic Fails
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Also it's part of the whole befriending a warthog and meerkat they specifically have that conversation in the movie!!
The author has obviously never spoken to a 5 year old, who could explain all of this with perfect clarity.
"Because!" isn't exactly what I'd call perfect clarity.
Load More Replies...You guys forgot about in Spongebob, they can have campfires and drink water and shower and stuff while ALREADY BEING UNDERWATER
They forgot the biggest cartoon logic fail of all: cartoon characters wear the same exact outfit every single day, the only exceptions being whenever they have a specific occasion where they are actually required to dress differently, i.e. a formal event or a change in the weather. The Simpsons, Family Guy, Jetsons, Fairly Oddparents, Scooby Doo, Futurama, etc. There is no "wardrobe department" to worry about, but 99% of the time, they don't even bother changing the color of a character's shirt, let alone give them a different outfit. It's far easier to change the clothes of a cartoon character than a real person, yet they don't bother unless they absolutely have to. I've heard the old excuse that a cartoon character's outfit is meant to help viewers identify them, but they're cartoons, for God's sake! They already look distinctive enough that you'd have to be a complete idiot not to be able to, say, tell Marge and Homer Simpson apart.
Some shows change clothing. Some characters in A:TLA/LOK wear different clothes occasionally, and Mabel switches sweaters a lot.
Load More Replies...Dr. Hibbert and his wife don't look alike. They are both black, and that is where their physical similarities begin and end. That was just racist.
The last one is stupid though. Simba is a top predator yes but he was a cub, lions in real life begin learning to hunt at 3 months but even at 6-10 months they still rely on their mother's for food. Simba would not have been able to hunt/kill prey for himself yet.
72) Bambi did learn Thumpers name... it was in the beginning. 75) Simba eats bugs bc Timon said, "if you're gonna live with us, you have to eat like us" and then he ate a grub. He was scared and alone and dying in the desert, they came along and SAVED him! Knowing that he cannot to go back home, of course he's going to try and eat like his new "guardians". There IS logic to some of these... lol
#4 isn't strange at all. "Christmas" was a Pagan winter solstice holiday LONG before the birth of Christ. Where do you think the decoration of trees comes from? Hint: Not the Bible. The Bible puts Jesus' birth closer to the summer. When Christianity started spreading to Pagan territories, they integrated Pagan rituals in order to get them interested, like moving the birth of Christ to the solstice. That's why you have things like holly and mistletoe and wassail; those are Pagan traditions, not Christian ones.
And the Flintstones is actually set in a post-nuclear future dystopia.
Load More Replies...Who cares? It made my childhood much more enjoyable and we were KIDS at that time. Do we have to overthink any single fart these days? The dark site of the internet...really.
Why should clever jokes make you face palm? Just because you don't get the joke doesn't mean they're stupid.
Yeah, really clever to take the gory remains of your father after someone ground him up into sausage and hang it on the wall.
Load More Replies...#5 makes perfect sense... How many girls are totally unrecognisable once the makeup comes off?
Christmas has NOTHING to do with the birth of jesus. Do some research on the subject. The christians stole a Roman holiday that already existed and claimed the idea for their own
51) Pearl is OBVIOUSLY not Mr. Crab's biological daughter.... and if you think that, then you need to go back and study biology! lol
32) If they didnt give a f**k about Meowth, then he wouldnt be on their team! Since Meowth CAN talk, he can voice his own opinions and make his own choices. Even Meowth doesnt really SEE himself as a pokemon, in fact, often times he will forget in the middle of a battle bc he's so used to being like a hooman, lol 33) *Bwahahahahaha* Omfg, the PPG crack me up!!!! xD
These are all pretty damn funny! xD Gotta love cartoon logic. My fav one was the PowerPuff Girl holding chopsticks! haha 27) Well... she's impressed by a fork because it's a human object and something she dosent already see everyday in the ocean. 29) Dexter DOES have loads of security systems to keep DeeDee out, she just always somehow gets passed them! As you note in the cartoon, Dexter will clearly state, "DeeDee! How did you get passed my security system!?" ;)
the pokemon one with butterfree, she aint holding, he is using his vines to hold on to her,
The celebrating Christmas before the birth of Christ is an ignorant comment. Educated people know that Christmas (or Saturnella,) with evergreen decorating, preceded the usurping of this day by religion.
#4 is b******t. Christmas is an appropriated celebration JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE IN CHRISTIANITY.
#20 Forget the shirt. What was carrying that baby and giving birth like?
Nearly 90% of this is pure humor (Disney is just interpreted fantasy stories with logic holes from the origin).
A few of these are explained in the shows so some are just nit picking. I must say it's a good blast from the past love it
I am 60 years old, and those cartoons were AWESOME!! We didn't think in the negative ,hateful ways that are now the norm.
Although these cartoons are full of baloney, I still love them to death...
Writes comments about the stupidity of others; uses the word 'disattaches' instead of 'detaches'! LOL
I have to laugh at everyone's attempts to explain the insane world of cartoons!
Disney's Cartoon are most Mutants, then normal person, just Look at the other persons in the cartoon... There's a conspirancy about Disney's World being a post apocaliptcal world where the animals overcome the human society and some of then mutate into this.... That's would explains Pluto being a Goofy's Pet
My God, we are talking about cartoons! God help us the day they start making sense..
And yet, here you are nitpicking over another person's nitpicking. Hypocrite.
Load More Replies...#37 Atheists deny the existence of God, they do believe Jesus existed
Believing that Jesus was just a regular human being and not the son of God doesn't count as believing in Jesus at all.
Load More Replies...Right! And it's the main character. That was a weird character design.
Load More Replies...THESE NOTES ARE NOT INCLUDED, THERE ARE ONLY YOUTH VICCY DRAWING FILES WHO DO NOT LOOK FOR THAT "FAILURE" THAT MUST BE HEALTHY AND DO NOT MAKE YOUR GOOD!!!
How sad and boring would be a childhood without all of this... Children don't need logic, they have imagination which the author, and grumpy old people are clearly missing. On some islands on pacific ocean 5yo do swim alone and they good at it. Hunt for shells eg., sell it to tourist to help their parents... And children definitely don't know what cancer is... how terrifying would be their lives if they knew from early age... sorry but your logic is crooked not the cartoons. Without the imagination we would raise a brainless, joyless and scared of everything zombies... did you think about that, or you just narrow minded?
Looks like the author not long ago thought it was all real and now is angry and disillusioned.
Well I can explain some: 3 sensitive ears, so HP farther away. Always thought goofy was a cow. 10 adhesive fingers just like Spidey's.
And what exactly does logic have to do with cartoons? Go to GetaLife.com
The author has obviously never spoken to a 5 year old, who could explain all of this with perfect clarity.
"Because!" isn't exactly what I'd call perfect clarity.
Load More Replies...You guys forgot about in Spongebob, they can have campfires and drink water and shower and stuff while ALREADY BEING UNDERWATER
They forgot the biggest cartoon logic fail of all: cartoon characters wear the same exact outfit every single day, the only exceptions being whenever they have a specific occasion where they are actually required to dress differently, i.e. a formal event or a change in the weather. The Simpsons, Family Guy, Jetsons, Fairly Oddparents, Scooby Doo, Futurama, etc. There is no "wardrobe department" to worry about, but 99% of the time, they don't even bother changing the color of a character's shirt, let alone give them a different outfit. It's far easier to change the clothes of a cartoon character than a real person, yet they don't bother unless they absolutely have to. I've heard the old excuse that a cartoon character's outfit is meant to help viewers identify them, but they're cartoons, for God's sake! They already look distinctive enough that you'd have to be a complete idiot not to be able to, say, tell Marge and Homer Simpson apart.
Some shows change clothing. Some characters in A:TLA/LOK wear different clothes occasionally, and Mabel switches sweaters a lot.
Load More Replies...Dr. Hibbert and his wife don't look alike. They are both black, and that is where their physical similarities begin and end. That was just racist.
The last one is stupid though. Simba is a top predator yes but he was a cub, lions in real life begin learning to hunt at 3 months but even at 6-10 months they still rely on their mother's for food. Simba would not have been able to hunt/kill prey for himself yet.
72) Bambi did learn Thumpers name... it was in the beginning. 75) Simba eats bugs bc Timon said, "if you're gonna live with us, you have to eat like us" and then he ate a grub. He was scared and alone and dying in the desert, they came along and SAVED him! Knowing that he cannot to go back home, of course he's going to try and eat like his new "guardians". There IS logic to some of these... lol
#4 isn't strange at all. "Christmas" was a Pagan winter solstice holiday LONG before the birth of Christ. Where do you think the decoration of trees comes from? Hint: Not the Bible. The Bible puts Jesus' birth closer to the summer. When Christianity started spreading to Pagan territories, they integrated Pagan rituals in order to get them interested, like moving the birth of Christ to the solstice. That's why you have things like holly and mistletoe and wassail; those are Pagan traditions, not Christian ones.
And the Flintstones is actually set in a post-nuclear future dystopia.
Load More Replies...Who cares? It made my childhood much more enjoyable and we were KIDS at that time. Do we have to overthink any single fart these days? The dark site of the internet...really.
Why should clever jokes make you face palm? Just because you don't get the joke doesn't mean they're stupid.
Yeah, really clever to take the gory remains of your father after someone ground him up into sausage and hang it on the wall.
Load More Replies...#5 makes perfect sense... How many girls are totally unrecognisable once the makeup comes off?
Christmas has NOTHING to do with the birth of jesus. Do some research on the subject. The christians stole a Roman holiday that already existed and claimed the idea for their own
51) Pearl is OBVIOUSLY not Mr. Crab's biological daughter.... and if you think that, then you need to go back and study biology! lol
32) If they didnt give a f**k about Meowth, then he wouldnt be on their team! Since Meowth CAN talk, he can voice his own opinions and make his own choices. Even Meowth doesnt really SEE himself as a pokemon, in fact, often times he will forget in the middle of a battle bc he's so used to being like a hooman, lol 33) *Bwahahahahaha* Omfg, the PPG crack me up!!!! xD
These are all pretty damn funny! xD Gotta love cartoon logic. My fav one was the PowerPuff Girl holding chopsticks! haha 27) Well... she's impressed by a fork because it's a human object and something she dosent already see everyday in the ocean. 29) Dexter DOES have loads of security systems to keep DeeDee out, she just always somehow gets passed them! As you note in the cartoon, Dexter will clearly state, "DeeDee! How did you get passed my security system!?" ;)
the pokemon one with butterfree, she aint holding, he is using his vines to hold on to her,
The celebrating Christmas before the birth of Christ is an ignorant comment. Educated people know that Christmas (or Saturnella,) with evergreen decorating, preceded the usurping of this day by religion.
#4 is b******t. Christmas is an appropriated celebration JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE IN CHRISTIANITY.
#20 Forget the shirt. What was carrying that baby and giving birth like?
Nearly 90% of this is pure humor (Disney is just interpreted fantasy stories with logic holes from the origin).
A few of these are explained in the shows so some are just nit picking. I must say it's a good blast from the past love it
I am 60 years old, and those cartoons were AWESOME!! We didn't think in the negative ,hateful ways that are now the norm.
Although these cartoons are full of baloney, I still love them to death...
Writes comments about the stupidity of others; uses the word 'disattaches' instead of 'detaches'! LOL
I have to laugh at everyone's attempts to explain the insane world of cartoons!
Disney's Cartoon are most Mutants, then normal person, just Look at the other persons in the cartoon... There's a conspirancy about Disney's World being a post apocaliptcal world where the animals overcome the human society and some of then mutate into this.... That's would explains Pluto being a Goofy's Pet
My God, we are talking about cartoons! God help us the day they start making sense..
And yet, here you are nitpicking over another person's nitpicking. Hypocrite.
Load More Replies...#37 Atheists deny the existence of God, they do believe Jesus existed
Believing that Jesus was just a regular human being and not the son of God doesn't count as believing in Jesus at all.
Load More Replies...Right! And it's the main character. That was a weird character design.
Load More Replies...THESE NOTES ARE NOT INCLUDED, THERE ARE ONLY YOUTH VICCY DRAWING FILES WHO DO NOT LOOK FOR THAT "FAILURE" THAT MUST BE HEALTHY AND DO NOT MAKE YOUR GOOD!!!
How sad and boring would be a childhood without all of this... Children don't need logic, they have imagination which the author, and grumpy old people are clearly missing. On some islands on pacific ocean 5yo do swim alone and they good at it. Hunt for shells eg., sell it to tourist to help their parents... And children definitely don't know what cancer is... how terrifying would be their lives if they knew from early age... sorry but your logic is crooked not the cartoons. Without the imagination we would raise a brainless, joyless and scared of everything zombies... did you think about that, or you just narrow minded?
Looks like the author not long ago thought it was all real and now is angry and disillusioned.
Well I can explain some: 3 sensitive ears, so HP farther away. Always thought goofy was a cow. 10 adhesive fingers just like Spidey's.
And what exactly does logic have to do with cartoons? Go to GetaLife.com