bravo1102 at 4:57AM, May 16, 2024

Chuck Jones in Looney Tunes did a really good turn on this with the character of the Abominable Snowman interacting with Bugs and Daffy. Abominable was patterned closely after Lon Chaney's Lenny in the original screen version. And the whole not fulfilling the dream because "rubbing his feathers the wrong way. Hold on George rabbits don't have feathers" Just a great take on the dream and disappointment.

PaulEberhardt at 4:49AM, May 16, 2024

I like it, obviously. At the risk of getting accused of misplaced self-promotion, my currently uploading short comic is based on that very idea, so to speak. To many of its original readers it also goes beyond that, but reality always pissing on the epic moment (as a highly memorable phrase coined by Alastair Reynolds in one of his novels goes) was my starting point back when I drew it years ago, and the comic an excuse to vent not my frustration at dreams usually staying exactly what they are, but rather my annoyance at compulsive optimists who insist otherwise. I managed to gain a somewhat more positive attitude, since, it's been a few years after all and during that time following my plans with terrier-like stubbornness has generally worked out, if your definition of a plan working out leaves enough leeway.