Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

[Ninjavenom]

Each cartoon parodied an event in the movie.

Woody Woodpecker was referring to when he goes to murder the mob boss and the woodpecker lands on his rifle.

Felix had a bag of tricks, the same way Ghost Dog did.

Betty Boop was flagging down birds the same way Ghost Dog was.

Itchy and Scratchy whipping out the progressively larger guns was like the shootout at the end of the movie.

I forgot what the other I & S one was, so i couldn't tell ya what it represented.

Someone on IMDB asked if when he had his hood up, he was invisible, like how no one pays attention to him in the beginning. I'll have to watch it again to see, but that sounds like a neat theory. :O

I also liked how they used Rashomon as an interpretation point for the movie. I have the book, now i gotta read it. But it was cool because you could tell that there was a collision of stories, (Pulp Fiction style) but we only get to know about two out of the possible six involved in the movie. That rules so hard.

edit: I think the gangsters always watching cartoons could also have just been a bit of humorous irony. The toughest men in the state spend their time watching old cartoons O .o.