User blog comment:Dianecat98/The Whole It's Just a Cartoon Excuse/@comment-31022739-20170818214943/@comment-32202721-20170818221506

This may sound like splitting hairs, but I don't think "it's just a cartoon" is the right phrase to use in this context, since cartoons differ in the way they employ negative continuity and toon physics - if at all.

You can drop an anvil on Buster Bunny from "Tiny Toon Adventures" or throw him off a 200 foot cliff, and he'll be totally fine in the next scene. If you do the same thing to Buster Baxter from "Arthur", he will die. Horribly.

There are some cartoons that can get away with over-the-top antics and others that can't. Homer Simpson strangling Bart? Funny. Grandpa Phil strangling Arnold? Disturbing (or at least it would be if that ever happened).