Time for the Saturday-morning cartoon-time sugar rush. (Boy, what would I have thought when I was eight, if someone had told me I would live to see a day when I could watch cartoons all day long? …Then there’s the flip side, possibly slightly depressing in retrospect: how would I have felt if someone had told me when I was eight that, when I was forty, I would be writing cartoons all day long? [Sometimes, anyway.] …Of course, to the kid I was then, I suspect it would have looked like heaven. I can just hear myself. “Wow, people write those? People pay you to write those? Yay, I can’t wait to grow up!!”)
Where was I? Oh, yeah, the sugar rush. Try Topher’s Breakfast Cereal Character Guide.
…A random thought as I wander through this site. Some of you will probably have seen the “Powerpuff Girls” episode in which the girls decide that their 
present personae aren’t cool enough. (I particularly love Buttercup’s dark enthusiasm about an antihero who looks suspiciously like Spawn: “He has scabs that never heal!“) …Anyway, Bubbles reinvents herself as a manga-originated, Hello-Kittyish knockoff called “Harmony Bunny”…who, when called upon to function, suddenly comes out with a declaration that sounds very, very, very much like the General Mills-sponsored Underdog’s old one: “When X is in danger, I am not slow: for it’s [in Harmony’s case] hop, hop, hop and away I go!”
Which leaves me wondering who on Genndy Tartakovsky’s staff put him onto this stuff. His bio says he was born in Moscow in 1970 and didn’t come to the US until 1977, at which point Underdog was long gone.
That’s enough mystery for one morning. Time for some cereal.
