Prime Time

Remember cartoons? With real heroes? A real hero could sustain being crushed by a boulder, impaled on a tree trunk, fast-fried by a flame thrower, run over by a train, and that all-time cartoon buzz, goosed by a little dynamite. Whereupon he’d emerge in the next frame unscathed except for a bandaid affixed to his tail (all cartoon heroes have tails) and smiling.