Better Pause Now

Rupert’s a publisher now isn’t he? Successful? Maybe he can give me a job!

A black cat was spotted atop the stones at Stonehenge during the Winter Solstice celebrations. This is considered be a good omen for the coming year.

Because it depicted depression and existential dread which, according to the FBI, are anti-American concepts. That showing a depressed person was “subtle attempt to magnify the problems of the so-called ‘common man’ in society.”

Depicting a man in quintessential small town America being anything but happy was communist propaganda.

What's worse, according to the FBI, it depicts a pro-American image of a greedy angry banker salivating at foreclosing on half the town as if that were a bad thing. At the time the very idea of a community bank was considered communist and so having one be the hero of the story was "clearly propaganda."

The FBI handed over the results of its investigation to Hover for the McCarthyist Hollywood witch hunts. However, in this case, they chose not to call in the film's writers and director and the film continued to be shown unimpeded.