Watership Down features the music and animation in the style of the movies. In the American TV show "Robot Chicken", a parody of the book is done with the Fraggles, the main characters of the show "Fraggle Rock", in place of the rabbits. The November 1974 issue of "National Lampoon" magazine, released shortly after the resignation and pardon of President Richard Nixon, featured a satirical parody of the novel entitled "Watergate Down", in which rabbits are replaced by rats, described as animals with "the morals of a Democrat and the ethics of a Republican." Watership Down Watership Down is a survival and
Watership Down (film) rendered in a narrated simple cartoon fashion, the animation style changes to a detailed, naturalistic one. There are concessions to render the animals anthropomorphic only to suggest that they have human voices and minds, some facial expressions for emotion, and paw gestures. The animation backgrounds are watercolors. Only one of the predators, the farm cat Tab, is given a few lines, the rest remaining mute. The backgrounds and locations, especially Efrafa and the nearby railway, are based on the diagrams and maps in Richard Adams's original novel. Most of the locations in the movie either exist or were based on