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Have you seen this cartoon short?
I saw these shorts in 2003 when I lived in England (I was seven).
It might have been on Boomerang, which was the only channel besides Nickelodeon, Fox Kids, Discovery Kids, and Discovery Science that I watched (not in that order), or Cartoon Network, which I used to watch but now only watched it when my elder sister changed the channel and I couldn’t change it back because I couldn’t get the remote from her (when I couldn’t get the remote from her, it was nearly all the time).
It showed a man and a teenage boy named Billy who looked like the stereotypical, to use the vulgar American slang term, “nerd”, or like Archie with glasses, drawn in an old comic-book-like style or in the style of Archie comics, and they started with the man asking a boy a question about something, Billy answered with the correct answer, with the background being a demonstration, and the man said “Ha-ha, wrong you are Billy!”, followed immediately by “The truth is” or “The answer is” and offering a ridiculous explanation, also demonstrated by the background being a demonstration, followed by Billy saying in a confused or surprised voice, “What?”
In one short (the only one I remember) the man asks Billy about how an elevator works, and Billy answers correctly – it is the lever pulling the box upward, combined with demonstration as usual, with a man and woman in the elevator.
The man laughs his characteristic laugh and says that the elevator is not moving, but a friendly giant is pushing down the building, thus sending the man and woman to the correct floor.
I can’t remember whether or not I believed this, since I knew then, from my copy of The Usborne Book of Inventions, how elevators worked.
Can please you tell me what this cartoon short was?
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