>>Bad news: you are in a US cartoon, so your only way out is to run in a straight line and be run over. Jumping on the side, behind a corner, lamppost office, fence, traffic signature, anything - does not exist in your universe. Run and wait for the wheels.
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>Are European cartoons different?

Check Zagreb school - for instance, the "Magic forest" (I think that one was imported here, being a feature length). Their Profesor Baltazar was a really cute kiddie toon with zero violence but lots of wit and funny creatures. Also the Polish Lolek and Bolek [maybe with slashed ells, don't remember the exact spelling] series, which would explain a lot about today's economy (two kids with a magic pencil, whatever they draw becomes a thing... so they'd have a boat, a plane, a flying carpet, if only they knew how to draw them... just like the money is made nowadays).

There were a few Russian ones, I think. And, ah, yes, the Italian "la Linea" - excellent, a must-see. The French Calimero and le Piaf (first about a chicken which never sheds the half-shell off its head, the other about a sparrow pianist, IIRC). That's what I remember. There's probably more - the whole Czechoslovakian school of claymation and other trickery - [unspellable] Trnka with his feature long tales, and I think some animation of Verne's novels totally in the style of the illustrations of the time, i.e. you got the impression that those carved images are now moving. And then there's stuff I never saw :).

And let's not forget Asterix and the Smurfs - though the latter have been done by Hanna-Barbera. I remember reading Smurfs in 1961, and there weren't any of Smurfette or Gargamel. I'm not sure, but they sound like something added for the cartoon.