Things in cartoons tend to look like things in other cartoons rather than the things themselves*. In UK comics teachers still walk around in mortar board and cloak, testing their canes or suppleness. Burglars still wear half face masks and hooped jumpers, toting sacks with 'SWAG' written on them on their backs. Telephones still look like old wall-mounted telephones and it's only recently that televisions have developed flat screens. Mashed potatoes will always be depicted in billowy mounds heaped onto plates and with sausages sticking out of the top. And cheese will always be a yellow prism with woodworm.
*This sounds like a theme for Cubie'n'Bouncy.
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