Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for August 21, 2011
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Transcript:
verne: All the king's horses and all the king's men, couldn't put humpty together again..." Rj: hmmm..did he fall?....or was he pushed? hammy: Gasp! verne: he's an egg! sitting on a wall! what did he think was going to happen? RJ: maybe he was forced on to that wall. hammy: he knew too much! RJ: maybe he uncovered the identity of the rhymington rotter! verne: The rhymington...? hammy: he had to be silenced! RJ: Maybe he found out who tripped jack on that hill...or who baked those poor blackbirds into a pie?! hammy: Or who popped the weasel?! verne: It's a stupid nursery rhyme!! he fell!!...end of story!! RJ: you like pie, don't you verne? hammy: J'accuse!
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Humpty Dumpty was an explicit metaphor for King Charles I, and the fall off the wall was a mataphor for Cromwell’s Puritan Revolution and the beheading of the King in 1649. Verne is not the only pedant in this picture.