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Kangaroo, I Don’t Know What to Do

I rode a ride called the Kangaroo at Kennywood last weekend. This was installed in 1962, closed in 2021, and restored in 2022. It’s called a flying coaster, although it’s not a ROLLER coaster, but a circular ride with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Art, Cartoons, Characters, Donkey Kong, Dragon Quest, Gender, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Metroid, Monsters, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Television, Video Games, Winnie-the-Pooh, Zelda | Tagged amusement parks, apes, apple panic, atari, bayeux tapestry, bionic commando, birds, cereal, condors, crazy climber, crazy kong, demon lords, demons, dragon quest iv, ernest shepard, forest of gugu, fuddlecumjig, harold lloyd, henry mancini, joey kangaroo, kanga, kangaroo, kangaroos, katy kangaroo, kenny kangaroo, kennywood, king kong, lode runner, monkeys, oracle of ages, oracle of seasons, piglet, psaro, rabbit, ricky the kangaroo, roo, safety last, saturday supercade, scott joplin, shoes, space panic, sunsoft, the emerald city of oz, the magic of oz, tony the tiger |

Willy-Nilly Silly Old Bear

Winnie the Pooh – Looking at the list, I think I might have gotten the order a bit mixed up. I thought for sure this came out before Tangled, but I guess not. Oh, well. The Bear of Very Little … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Music, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged a.a. milne, backson, bears, christopher robin, craig ferguson, eeyore, huell howser, john cleese, owl, piglet, roo, winnie the pooh (2011), zooey deschanel |

The House at Mario Corner

Archetypes being what they are, it’s pretty much possible to link any group of fictional characters with any other, if you stretch a bit. It’s a largely futile exercise, but sometimes fun. Recently, I was thinking (think, think, think) about … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Mario, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged a.a. milne, bees, eeyore, honey, kanga, luigi, oogtar, owl, piglet, princess peach toadstool, rabbit, roo, tigger, toad, wooster, yoshi |