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When the Parody Becomes Bigger Than the Source Material - Neatorama

Remember when you found out that Foghorn Leghorn was a parody of a human radio character that would have been familiar to the original audiences of the 1940s? That was just one of many pop culture references in Warner Bros. cartoons that eventually lost connection with its source material because those cartoons still hold up almost 100 years later. The one comedy impression that was used more than any other, however, came from a classic novel. So many students read Of Mice and Men in high schoo.