Independence Day/Canada Day episodes/specials?

**Carol S** · 07-03-2011, 06:17 PM

As the United States and Canada celebrate their respective patriotic holidays (Independence Day and Canada Day respectively) next week, I thought it might make for a holiday-relevant thread: what examples of either holiday (or any other nations' patriotic-themed holidays) have we seen in cartoons?

To start:
- I recall some Tom and Jerry short focusing on the Fourth of July (Jerry teaching Nibbles how to celebrate the holiday "safe and sane").

- A Tiny Toon Adventures episode had Sweetie being raised by a bald eagle, who teaches her the finer points of Independence Day. I found this one hiliarious, including seeing his answer to what holiday we celebrate next (after the fireworks blow him to bits)... :-p

-B.

**Ziggy Stardust** · 07-04-2011, 10:17 AM

Tomorrow starting at 6 am, YTV's having all Canadian produced shows for 18 hours.

**Ut a melior locus** · 07-05-2011, 03:38 AM

First of all, just want to say Happy Canada Day! to our fellow forum members up north.

Here's a few animated cartoons that commemorated patriotic-themed holidays:

In the 'Teen Titans' episode: 'Revolution.' the Mad Mod achieved temporary success in thwarting the July 4th celebrations for the protagonists, when all hope was seemingly lost, it was a moving speech by Starfire praising the Declaration of Independence that motivated her fellow Titans to restore order and bring an end to Mad Mod's chaos.

The historic animated series 'Liberty's Kids' episode, the aptly named 'The First 4th of July' featured the main characters witnessing history in the making of America's first Birthday.

**Ink addicted** · 07-05-2011, 07:07 PM

Speaking of "Liberty's Kids", odd thing about that show was that the kids never aged during the whole series, despite the years changing---the early episodes had the kids at early events predating/starting the American Revolution (the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere's ride), but later episodes show them still the same age at the end of the war (and some time after--- at George Washington's inauguration in the last episode IIRC)... weird...