History on Instagram: "1940s–1950s: Old cartoons loved dark humor, and few ideas captured it better than vultures casually cooking themselves so they could be eaten. These scenes played out with cheerful music and exaggerated smiles, as the vultures seasoned themselves, hopped into pots, or volunteered for the meal with complete acceptance. What should’ve been disturbing was instead treated as playful absurdity. The joke worked because of the era’s cartoon logic, where consequences didn’t exist