How about Mario the Italian plumber travels back in time for some reason and there he's got a heartbreaking decision to make about whether his best friend lives ... or dies.
His best friend is a talking pie.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’







