I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.
Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons...
Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public...
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab in the Renaissance though researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.