I stumbled upon a film of Beanie's Drive in #2 in Long Beach CA from 1953 the other day, and found it was based on my favorite cartoon and one of my earliest memories, Beanie and Cecil. I watched an episode on youtube for the first time in 61 years and was laughing. Peter Lorre as a Fish. Bobby Darin as a fish singing "Jack the Knife", etc. Mostly adult humor, guised as a kid's cartoon. Popeye was similar, especially the 1930's episodes. Anyway, what a trip seeing characters I haven't seen since age 2 or so, and remembering what Cecil looked like. Probably why my favorite color is green.
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