
Mr. Toad
"The clever men at Oxford / Know all that there is to be knowed. / But they none of them know one half as much / As intelligent Mr. Toad!"
Analyzing the evolving meaning of animals in 20th-century pop culture…
"The clever men at Oxford / Know all that there is to be knowed. / But they none of them know one half as much / As intelligent Mr. Toad!"
Reduced to being the butt of jokes.
Heroic beavers — a running joke.
Naughty jokes.
In touch with nature, literally.
Eager Beaver service.
"Amazing how people fool themselves."
"Brusha, brusha, brusha."
"Do you realize every second, 70 centimeters of water is wasted over that spillway?"
“Junior is now an eager beaver."
An emergent trope unseats a dominant one.
"One can never be truly happy who does no work."
"He had a right to enjoy his dinner."
"Shaggycoat did not like this lazy manner of living."