Anvilology is the study of physical principals of anvils, as studied at "Acme Looniversity" in Tiny Toons. Tiny Toons is basically about a new generation of toons being trained by the Looney Tunes, and at that point (the early 1990s) cartoon physics had become a pretty much standardized set of rules. Those related to anvils:

• Everything falls faster than an anvil (so that it can hit the ground first, and then be hit by the anvil)
• Anvils are readily available
• Anvils have mass, but not much weight, so that they are very hard to push around, but it is possible to jump out of a plane with an anvil instead of a parachute and not notice until you are airborne.
• Anvils can often stay in the air until noticed by a character, such that the anvil falls on the character.