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...pudgy young panda named Po (voiced by Jack Black) dreams of "legends full of legendary warriors whose exploits are the stuff of legends." In these Technicolor daydreams, even the legendary Furious Five are no match for a panda's bodacity. In real life, or as real as a cartoon fantasy gets, Po is a clumsy doofus, for whom rising from a supine position can take all morning. He has the doughy shape, the domineering amiability and, ultimately, the demented perseverance of an ursine Michael Moore. And Po's job is not to defeat mythical miscreants but to be a waiter...
...from then on, Caden's life is one long fall. Reading the newspaper, Caden sees a headline about a playwright. "Harold Pinter's dead," he muses aloud. "No, wait, he won the Nobel Prize." He glances at the TV and sees his own animated form as part of a cartoon show, accompanied by the sing-song lyrics: "Then he died /Maybe someone cried /But not his ex-bride...
...with reality in 1977 by calling a friend--who happened to head Nintendo--and landed Miyamoto his first job, as a staff artist for what was then a toymaker. In 1981, Miyamoto created an arcade game inspired by pairing the fictional ape King Kong with the muscular, muttering Popeye cartoon character. Expectations were so low for Donkey Kong (and by extension Miyamoto) that it was initially tested in just two bars in Seattle. Donkey Kong's surprise success turned the doodler into a dynamo as he spooled off characters such as Super Mario and Luigi to play on Nintendo...
...provided inspiration for the makers of Airplane! and the Naked Gun movies. At a publication in which bad taste was good, Elder was prized for his biting spoofs. He later took his knack for parody to Playboy, where he created and spent 25 years illustrating its Little Annie Fanny cartoon strip, which lampooned the magazine's fascination with buxom blondes. His frenetic style inspired scores of cartoonists...
...That's the caption for a cartoon of an exasperated Mohammed that ran on the cover of Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical weekly. It was the winner of a contest the magazine held in support of the Danish magazine that was threatened by Islamic fundamentalists after publishing an illustration of the Prophet with a bomb in his turban. Inside that issue of Charlie Hebdo were 12 other cartoons, including one in which four terrorist whose bodies are still smoking from a bomb blast are arriving in heaven, and Mohammed says "Wait, we've run out of virgins...