A striking resemblance!

Practically the same, except that one of these fellows couldn't act his way out of a paper bag.





... and the meeple isn't so great either.

Since the meeples come from renaissance France they clearly predate Saturday Night Fever. John Travolta is imitating the meeples and not the other way 'round! We should be grateful to Mr. Travolta for bringing Carcassonne to the masses!

One of these is incredibly wooden...

and the other's a big meeple!

As long as the Meeple doesn't start crying when I play the game...