From: ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net   
      
   Joseph Nebus wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>       Hm.  Well, I suppose there's some relation, although there've   
   >>>>been brain-swap stories before 'Overdrawn at the Memory Bank' too.  I   
   >>>>think maybe an important point of the 'Overdrawn' gimmick is first that   
   >>>>it's essentially a 'lost luggage' story -- guy goes on vacation (in the   
   >>>>movie, a mandatory one, admittedly), loses something important, has to   
   >>>>make do until getting it back.   
   >>>   
   >>>"The Prisoner" had at least one.   
   >   
   >>As did the Avengers, and just about every Saturday morning cartoon in   
   >>recorded history, predating the Flintstones.   
   >   
   > 	One of the many things I was glad for back when Boomerang was   
   > created and was very, very good was that finally I could prove the   
   > existence of the cartoon where Yogi Bear gets his brain put into the   
   > body of a chicken.   
      
   As Bugs Bunny, of course, being Bugs, managed to escape:   
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGYXHBdQ7io   
      
   (For those who only know the boxset toons, and not the classics Warner   
   continues to ignore...)   
      
   > -Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu)   
   >   OK, how far *back* does it go?  Did Shakespeare use it much?   
      
   Only the medaled Children's-Books geek would know that the Judge   
   Reinhold "Vice Versa" was based on Thomas Anstey Guthrie's British   
   children's book.   
      
    From 1882.   
      
   Derek Janssen (beat *that*!)   
   ejanss1@verizon.net   
      
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