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Classic gag. I wouldn't be surprised if this doesn't have its own trope, though, you're right. For a name, maybe someone cleverer than I am could come up with a pun based on the pushme-pullyou?
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^ "pushme-pullyou" would probaly get mixed up with A Head at Each End
Right, but a pun based on that, not actually that, for specifically that reason.
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This sort of thing isn't just limited to neck and tail either, I remember one cartoon where a character remarked that their ear hair connected to their toe, and pulled on it to demonstrate. I'd say, extend it to any two body parts reacting if they were on one string together. String Anatomy Theory.
Ye who would Tope Meaninglessness. Ye who ignore All We Have. I say to you You Shall Not Pass!
This is a form of Art Major Biology.
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Do you think we'd be able to create enough examples for a page, even if it's on the Forgotten Trope index? Time for YKTTW (are we using TLP for Trope Launch Pad?)?
Related to the Squash and Stretch Part of The Twelve Principles of Animation. It'd be filed under the Zany Cartoon tropes if we had something specific for it, but not seeing anything. Rubber-Hose Limbs is related as well.
^ also: YKTTW forever.
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I can't find this at the Western Animation Trope index, but it's not a surprise, this thing is a Forgotten Trope by now.
- In this Mickey Mouse cartoon
Mickey throws a lasso at Pete who is riding Horace Horsecollar. The lasso snags Horace's tail and pulls it, which makes Horace's neck shorter, as the "slack" has been transferred to the tail.
- In a Mickey Mouse comic Mickey is in a horse-drawn carriage. The horse's tail is flipping back and forth, slapping Mickey. Tying the tail to various things doesn't help, so Mickey goes around front and pulls out the horse's neck to shorten the tail.
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