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And yet cartoon characters' heads are even bigger, especially in TV shows for preschoolers. The super-deformed proportions seen in cartoons like ''[[Bob the Builder]]'', ''[[Dora the Explorer]]'', and ''[[Handy Manny]]'' are just anatomically impossible unless newborn babies in cartoon world are the size of newborn kangaroos.
"The [[Delivery Stork|stork]] brings babies. Therefore, solved." In a universe with [[Funny Animal]]s, a stork obstetrician would run into the same problem. Even in universes that interpret storks as adoption agents, where children are produced ''somehow'' without the mother's pregnancy, newborns have to be small enough for something smaller than a [[Giant Flyer]] to carry. This means that in a chibiverse, the head would have to grow even more than it does in real life. And this is why cartoon parents have [[Pint
On the other hand, they could use the kiwi method: an [http://www.cracked.com/article_19694_7-species-that-got-screwed-over-by-mother-nature_p2.html egg half as long as the creature], which squeezes the stomach so much that the mother can't even eat toward the end of the pregnancy. But that might be too much [[Body Horror]] for a work [[Animation Age Ghetto|targeted at single-digit-year-olds]], and any [[deconstruction]] or other [[Cerebus Syndrome|dramedic treatment]] of chibi gestation would need to tread very carefully in order not to [[Audience-Alienating Premise|alienate the audience]].
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