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
Down by the River (novel) old weapons were sharp and effective; perhaps she comes too late to this particular fight." Though "Kirkus Reviews" praised the novel as "one of the most ferocious indictments of Gaelic life and culture since "The Playboy of the Western World,"" it describes the novel as not entirely satisfying with a "propagandistic tone and two-dimensional characterizations." Down by the River (novel) Down by the River is a 1997 novel by Irish novelist Edna O'Brien. The novel depicts the response of a local community the a girl, Mary, abuse by her father being exposed to their local community when she tries to