I'm So Happy That Ice Age's Scrat Finally Nutted
Scrat is one of the most endearing characters in the entire Ice Age series. While he rarely has any interaction with the rest of the cast (and has no lines), he is the thing we most often think of when we think of Ice Age. The luckless squirrel who just wants to keep his acorn safe, Scrat goes through peril to keep hold of the precious nut, only to cause disaster after disaster as his attempts to safeguard his precious nutty pal leads to avalanches and ice sheet breakages galore. Now, 20 years later, my boy finally got to nut. Unfortunately though, Scrat will never nut again.
Did I write this whole thing just so I could make a headline about how Scrat finally nutted? To be honest, that’s only about 40 percent of it. Okay, 50. 60. 75 percent, tops. But while it’s undeniably hilarious (do you get it? See, it’s because ‘nutted’ means something else too. Funny, right?), there is a real point to be made here. Disney recently bought up Blue Sky Studios - the company behind Ice Age, and therefore behind Scrat - but to be more accurate, it bought up Fox, and as a result came into possession of Blue Sky Studios. It's essentially the same as buying a Beverly Hills mansion and suddenly owning the carpet lint, the pebbles that have blown into the pool.
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This is no disrespect to Blue Sky Studios, it's more how it appears Disney sees it. In fact, a lot of things Disney bought in the Fox acquisition seem to have been abandoned. Nightmare Alley, a Fox Searchlight picture already fully formed when the takeover was complete, was essentially sent out to die up against Spider-Man: No Way Home during an upward spike of the pandemic. See How They Run, Searchlight's
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