It's So Hanna-Barberaesque

So much for Fleegle's bow tie (as if his not wearing sunglasses wasn't good enow an aesthetic): Could you imagine said bowm tie being of the "spinner" sort?

At a Banana Splits concert in service to the Road Trip of Redemption, picture Magilla Gorilla being invited on stage at an otherwise slack point in the performance and chatting it up with Bingo, recalling in particular the former's eun-in with Bingo during a supermarket appearance for Niedermeyr's Sarsparilla in service to what turned out being an out-of-control campaign such as made the product a little TOO popular such as prevented their maintaining demand--and the comedic arm-wrestling match as ensued, with the videos thereof going viral in the bargain.

Knowing that Bingo and Snorky wear vests, could you imagine Drooper wearing a tank top on occasion of the sort reading "My Parents Went To [insert name of choice tourist-trap community here] And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" (as if his spats weren't fashion enow)?

Definitely not Subway, Jimmy John's even

How fortunate to be able to find a small-town supermarket with a deli counter with some decent smoked ham sliced rather thin and very delicious in sub rolls for some simple ham-and-cheese sandwiches one afternoon along US 63 northerly towards Lake City, Minnesota, first of three summertime stops for your fellow Funtastic community mingling as much with the crowd as among ourselves in rather close meetings and convocations that may not quite be Laff-a-Lympics, let alone be more in the vein of Meetup.

"You know, Snag," Huckleberry Hound observed along the way near the Iowa-Minnesota line, "for characters like us who were never meant to be preachy or talking down, just being who we are without overdoing it on the manufactured can't help but be interesting enow." (pause) "Especially when you're just being your own funtastic self in the company of a ham-and-cheese sandwich like we're having."

"And made ourselves, even!" added I.

"How else does it have to be?" Huck chimed in. "Besides, over at Water Ski Days, I assume some of us will want to give waterskiing a try, and in the very waters of Lake Pepin as gave it birth!"

"I presume," saith I, "this includes a certain Wally Gator."

Which, at a modest little supermarket in Spring Valley we stopped at for a few sundry items, we ran into. "And I definitely asume you're referring to the one and only such, don't you know?!"

"Oh yeah," saith I, "your opening titles ... Cypress Gardens, perhaps?"

"How exactly did you know, Snagglepiss?" (He was grinding some ultra-dark-roast espresson coffee beans to maintain his fondness for the old Cuban-stylee espresso such as he's fond of.) "THIS alligator certainly appreciates some serious, old-school espresso from a stove-top Moka pot, don't you know, in contrast to what Starbucks and Dunkin' pass off as espresso!"

How else does it have to be?

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