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Firestone, always dependable since 1900. From Booksmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.
I'm John McWhorter, and you know something I really enjoy for some reason?
The...
Famous Studios cartoons.
That's Famous with a capital F.
It is the cartoons that we grew up seeing called Harvey Tunes on TV.
And so, you know, Casper and Herman and Catnip and Little Audrey and those characters.
And frankly, all of them kind of sucked, but I'm really into animation history.
And the cartoons were wonderful artistically.
They had interesting voice work and the music was good.
So there's this new Blu-ray disc of a grab bag selection of some of those cartoons.
And when I think of those cartoons, Believe it or not,
it gets me thinking about things like the verb to be in Black English.
Follow me.
This is the opening theme song to the cartoons of this era in the studio's history that weren't Casper.