This trope appears often enough in cartoons from the 1950s and 1960s, so it was obviously part of the cultural zeitgeist by then, but when does it first appear, and how did it gain the cultural valence that it did?
This trope appears often enough in cartoons from the 1950s and 1960s, so it was obviously part of the cultural zeitgeist by then, but when does it first appear, and how did it gain the cultural valence that it did?
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