Hi Ho Hi Ho, Its Off To Jail We Go!

Matt over at My Side of The Story has been featuring Saturday morning cartoons and sugary bowls of cereal. These cartoons demonstrate the obvious genius of the animating storytellers.

Surely, Walt Disney was one of those.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, made in 1937, was the first full length animated feature to be produced by Walt Disney, and the first American animated feature film in movie history.

It's a little known fact that it was based on a true story familiar to many employed in the pharmaceutical business.

The actual, true to life story, is about Beige White, a nurse who tended shut-ins and invalids, primarily and notably, the Seven Orange Cones. The Seven Cones, I'm sure you are all familiar with and know their names:

There was Doc, who with the aid of a stolen prescription pad, wrote out orders for himself and the rest of the cones. He, of course was later the inspiration for the Fox Networks TV series, House.

Sneezy, poor little cone, was always getting antihistamines, like Allegra, Clarinex, and Zyrtec D.

Sleepy, was always strung out on massive doses of Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata, and Rozerem in varying combinations.

Dopey, was really dopey! He guzzled NyQuil PM around the clock, even in the AM!

Happy, was the result of a modern medical miracle along with large amounts of Prozac and Zoloft, with some Lamisil to treat the main problem of having frequently wet feet, thrown in for good measure.

Bashful, needed copious amounts of Levitra and Viagra for things... to work.

Grumpy was the guy that drove the other six cones to work every day and the traffic and bad drivers made him grumpy - well that, and always getting the leftover medications that the other cones didn't want - mostly epidural spinal injections.

One day, while Beige White was cleaning the filthy mess the Seven Cones had made of their home - she saw this:


Picture supplied by Photojournalist Marmite Toasty (who should be in no way blamed for this entry)

She heard the Seven Cones singing lustily, feeling no pain after having been just arrested for a night of hooliganism, their favorite song:

Hi Ho Hi Ho, Its Off To Jail We Go!!
We pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop
All our Meds the whole day through
To pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop
Its what we like to do
It ain't no trick
To knick some tricks
If ya pop pop pop
With a shovel or a spoon

--inaudible--

There's a million tablets
'N they're miiinnnneee!
We pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop
From early mornin' til' night
We pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop
Up everything in sight

Don't you agree? Wasn't Walt Disney a genius? I'm sure the screenwriter had to some really heavy-duty editing.