Everyone knows the caricature of the querulous old man. Shaky and twitchy, easily surprised or frightened; in the old cartoons he usually had a cane, one foot wrapped up in bandages, and a long white beard. He often had an ear trumpet and his tag line was usually,”Eh? Whatcha say, sonny?”

Contemporary to the time the cartoons were made, in the 1930s that old man would probably have been a Civil War veteran, and the kids who laughed at that cartoon are now elderly themselves.