cartoons/animation

July 10, 2005 6:21 PM

I am looking for old cartoon images or animation footage of characters "digging a hole to china"? Year made, studio, and episode titles would be great but any info will help.
posted by iwouldificould to media & arts (8 comments total)

Felix Misses the Cue 1926 (April 18): Would-be goldfish thief Felix hides in a laundry basket. Pursued by Chinese laundrymen, the cat tunnels through the earth and ends up in China itself. Felix steals a basket of food and tries to escape with a skyrocket, then with vehicles made of coolies' hats and umbrellas.
posted by tellurian at 6:36 PM on July 10, 2005

There was a pretty lame Simpsons episode a season or two ago that opened with Bart digging a hole in the backyard -- and IIRC, there was at least one reference (by Homer?) about Bart digging said hole to China.
posted by davidmsc at 8:12 PM on July 10, 2005

Screen grabs for that episode davidmsc.
posted by tellurian at 9:24 PM on July 10, 2005

Bugs Bunny definitely did too, at least once (i can't find a specific episode tho)
posted by amberglow at 9:30 PM on July 10, 2005

Don Martin did a cartoon for Mad in the 70's (which was printed in "Don Martin Steps Out" or "Don Martin Digs Deeper") that included a fellow who sneezed strongly enough to blow him through the eart to China.
posted by plinth at 6:13 AM on July 11, 2005

Adam@Home had a digging-to-China this weekend.
posted by five fresh fish at 1:06 PM on July 11, 2005

An old teacher of mine used to do a spot-on impression of Yosemite Sam saying
"Great hor-nee toads! He must'a dug clean straight through to Chi-nee!"
so I included Yosemite Sam in my Google search which gave me this:

"...Yosemite Sam believes that he has dug through the Earth to China in "14 Carrot Rabbit", and Wile E. Coyote accidentally tunnels to the Orient by means of a rocket in "War and Pieces"."
posted by blueberry at 8:11 AM on July 12, 2005

Wow -- tellurian, that's a great resource -- much obliged.
posted by davidmsc at 9:13 AM on July 23, 2005