Ophthalmologist Assesses the Visual Function of Cartoon Characters | Part 3

About this video

Flanary presents himself as a board-certified ophthalmologist assessing cartoon characters’ eyes in part three of the series. He takes on Tom from Tom and Jerry, whose eyes pop far out of their sockets, and explains real bilateral globe subluxation as a rare emergency, noting the optic nerve is far too short for the cartoon dangling effect and that trapped eyelids complicate putting the eye back. He then considers a droopy-series wolf with severely bulging eyes, attributing likely thyroid eye disease and possible keratoconus.

Key takeaways

• Flanary explains real globe subluxation as an emergency where the lids can trap behind the displaced eye
• He corrects the cartoon anatomy: there is not enough optic nerve length for eyes to dangle as drawn
• Forward bulging eyes in the second character are linked to thyroid eye disease in his assessment
• Keratoconus is raised as a possible progressive corneal problem for the wolf character

Episode details: published November 10, 2025 · 137.7K views · 2:49 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Everything described is Dr. Glaucomflecken’s (Will Flanary, MD) satire and commentary on the US medical system, attributed to him as satire — his sketches are comedy, not documentation, and this is not medical advice.

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