@Austin_Dern inauthenticities?
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@Felthry Some silly nerdy nitpicking. For example, the background in the second panel is a riff on the 1930 Fleischer Cartoon 'Bimbo's Initiation', one of the era's greatest cartoons, but not silent. And silent cartoons weren't likely to use greywashed backgrounds; they tended to use black-and-white line art.

A silent cartoon would be more likely to have a word balloon appear in the scene, too, rather than use an intertitle card like the last panel, if dialogue needed to be spelled out.

@Felthry *But*, that's foolish nitpicking, not least because the joke would be harder to parse if it were more authentic. For example, a comic strip character with a word balloon doesn't look like a silent animated character; it just looks like a comic strip character talking. Same with using simple line art rather than a greywashed background. Being more true to the premise would make the joke harder to see!

@Austin_Dern What exactly does "greywashed" mean?
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@Felthry Just a description of the coloring in the second panel, where everything is shades of grey, and looks like watercolored paint or maybe blended charcoal.

@Austin_Dern what makes that different from "simple line art" exactly? because i don't think we've seen any animated things that were just line art, or at least really rarely
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