The Laws of Cartoon Motion

The Laws of Cartoon Motion

Adapted from Mark O’Donnell

“I know this defies the law of gravity, but, you see, I never studied Law!”
-Bugs Bunny

1.) Any body suspended in space will remain suspended in space until made aware of its situation.

2.) Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly.

3.) Any body passing though solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter (also called the silhouette of passage.)

4.) The time required for and object to fall 20 stories is greater than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to spiral down 20 flights of stairs to attempt to capture it unbroken.

5.) All principles of gravity are negated by fear.

6.) As speed increases, objects can be in several places at once.

7.) Certain bodies can pass through a solid wall painted to resemble a tunnel entrance; others cannot.

8.) Necessity plus Will provokes spontaneous generation.

9.) Any violent rearrangement of feline matter is impermanent.

10.) For every vengeance there is an equal and opposite revengeance.