Actually, people at the time already believed the story about lemmings, and had for generations. The Disney people did force the lemmings that they were filming to go over a (fake) cliff, but they thought that something—they didn’t know what—was spooking the lemmings, stopping them from doing what they would normally do, and they obviously needed the shot.
But when the Pied Piper wanted dough for his jam / He was told by the Mayor to blow. / Said the Piper / “You’re a viper,” / But the Mayor / didn’t care. / “Better forget it, / You’ll never get it.”—Bunny Kerrigan
Spider, spider, on the wall / Ain’t you no sense at all? / Don’t you know that wall’s been plastered? / Get off that wall! you silly…spider.—Every 10-year-old boy I knew in the 50s
The last panel puts me in mind of Caitlin Basset, the first female US combat veteran (honorably discharged as SSG) to become a star screen actress (on Quantum Leap(2022–present)).
Rope beds are real, but the suggestion that “sleep tight” has anything to do with them is a re-enactors’ myth.