It's So Hanna-Barberaesque

So The Banana Splits are spending an otherwise predictable afternoon walking along the Pacific somewhere near Malibu when the scene is as follows:

For you fans of Scooby-Doo, Scrappy-Doo and Goober in particular.

I can hardly bear the thought of Top Cat and clowder reducing themselves thus:

Peter Potamus, you lucky hippo …

So how could you imagine the look of Honey and Sis’ motorhome-cum-travelling surprise shortwave…

Can you imagine this as the sort of dock where the several components of the Hanna-Barbera Dive Club…

Could you imagine The Mystery Machine in this sort of scenario?!

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Nor would Scooby-Doo, for that matter. Or even Goober.

Imagine how the camping gear would have to be handled where Square Bear’s Invisible Motorcycle comes…

Just imagine this warning being given visitors entering Jellystone Park, over and above the usual such against feeding bears

Might this also include your favourite Hanna-Barbera characters of your Wasted and Dissolute Youth?

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During as unlikely a moment as it could get down in Hog Waller vis-a-vis Punkin’ Puss and Tennessee Tabby

Meanwhile, how would you respond if it were Peter Potamus inviting you to join his Good Time Divers…

Banana Splits headcannon

Just be thankful that the Hair Bear Bunch prefers foldable chairs such as can be easily set in the…

Imagine this scenario with Huckleberry Hound:

Somehow, Touché Turtle needed to get out of his shell for once–seriously.

But then again, imagine–

“Listen to the sound of music in the air–”...

MAGILLA GORILLA, after sampling a banana-flavoured fruit ice of the Latin American helote stylee: To…

“We picked a cat and a mouse because when you see a cat and a mouse, you don’t have to worry about…

From remarks given by Peter Potamus at a symposium during a Hanna-Barbera Character Convocation

Now imagine this done in a Hanna-Barberian manner.

How bizarre does it have to get …

Meanwhile, somewhere in Troll County

Cattanooga Cheese Explosion of Pedigreed Bull, fresh as the moment when the pod went pop (usual Appy Polly Loggies)

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Is it just me …

During a lull in the fan mail segment of a Banana Splits concert

When you’re Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole, tools such as these are doubtless indispensible in…

One for Goober and the Ghost Chasers to investigate:

HAIR BEAR, at a morning after breakfast following an interesting orgy and sunrise dive session as…

Meanwhile …

Now imagine a few of these at Cattanooga Klatsche for the sake of effect and atmospherics!

Imagine this scenario with Peter Potamus in the company of nephews and/or nieces in Polynesia Uncharted

Now imagine this in a Troll County context:

VELMA DINKLEY, sitting on a toilet with an awful case of diarrhoea aggravated by a…

During an idle moment with Top Cat’s clowder on Catalina Island

BABALOOIE, taking stock of another chili supper being prepared by the legendary Quick Draw McGraw,…

Would you rather–

Imagine Yogi Bear pulling off a marathon root beer guzzling session such as this, all scored to “The National Emblem March” for maximum effect (and hoping Ranger Smith isn’t catching wind of it):

Meanwhile, fellow Hanna-Barberians …

Thus Loopy de Loop (with the Three Wolves) and Emmy Lou are camping in close proximity when the scene is as follows–

WAVERLY WALRUS, following quite the marathon lovemaking session with no less than five female…

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Now if the likes of The Banana Splits and/or the Cattanooga Cats did some diaries of a typical…

On the other hand, fellow Hanna-Barberians, which among Hanna-Barbera’s characters could you imagine…

Not the sort of signage Cattanooga Klatsche would love deploying to promote the Pumpkin Spice Life:

Kwicky Koala headcannon

How often is it that Honey and Sis’ QSL reports make note...

Might it be too much imagining Scooba-Doo, that dive-happy cousin of Scooby-Doo, being fond of…

Meanwhile–

Try telling as much to the “meddling-kids-and-dog” confraternity.

With Peter Potamus and his nephews on a journey of discovery somewhere in Polynesia Uncharted

Lead-in to another surprise shortwave worldcast per Honey and Sis

And hilarity is doubtless present in many of the cartoonish sort of cats coming from the…

So what does Muttley know that Dick Dastardly doesn’t exactly?

In conversation vis-a-vis The King and Clyde the Gorilla over quesadillas

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“Stay tuned for Phil Spitooli and his All-Ghoul Orchestra!”

Could you imagine, say, Sheena the Lioness striking a pose such as this in charging to the water…

Imagine the scene being that of Hair Bear, driving the madcap trio’s Volkswagen Campervan in transit…

Which among Hanna-Barbera’s Funtastics could you imagine having this among their beverage choices, especially when mixed with club soda, seltzer or tonic water?

“Admire as much as you can; most prople don’t admire enough.”

Headcannon relative to Quick Draw McGraw and Snuffles

To the Hair Bear Bunch, “real masculinity” involves an annual road trip into Bear Country during the…

If you’re lucky enow, look up some of Peter Potamus’ volumes For Private Circulation about Polynesia…

Now who recalls watching their Saturday-morning flicktoons in the Luscious Glory of Polatron?

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Wait’ll you hear what Emmy Lou and Jenny Lee have to say about learning sexuality from Nature ……

A “brother/sister” conversation between Floral (Hillbilly Bears) Rugg and her younger brother Shag…

I understand the Hair Bear Bunch has plenty of interesting information about sexual attraction and…

Peter Potamus, for his part, prefers things naked when he’s in Polynesia Uncharted … and is…

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Imagine Top Cat pulling this off on Officer Dibble.

Now imagine giving Punkin’ Puss this “whisky cure” to the point of being too distracted to chase…

I understand where Cattanooga Klatsche sells some rather strong iced coffee having its share of…

Just picture the following with Dastardly and Muttley:

Tell me this isn’t Peter Potamus’ kind of beach somewhere in Polynesia Uncharted:

Now picture this as an ideal houseboat for The Three Wolves and companions in certain diving-type…

(On the other hand, we’d settle for the prospect of a dream date with some choice Hanna-Barbera…

Another Banana Splits headcannon

(Or so critics of a certain overly protective mindset thought about Saturday-morning programming,…

RANGER SMITH, rather frustrated about that “Endorsed By Bears” slogan for Bear Naked Granola…

Imagine Scooby-Doo and crew investigating a case in the vein of–

Now if we could just get Snagglepuss’ Theatrical Institute to do a revival of this esoteric farce in a summer-theater setting:

(Especially if it’s a hot-spring soak, and dependent in particular on the milieu–be it Bedrock,…

Would you rather–

In whose Detective and Mystery Fiction section could be imagined a certain Velma Dinkley on a…

To which a Troll would disagree, instead insisting that such rapport that Trolls have unto Nature is…

Flintstones headcannon

Meanwhile, back in Jellystone Park, Yogi and Boo-Boo can’t help but continue annoying the tourists,…

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What would Wally Gator make of this:

During an unlikely conversation with no less than Captain Caveman

What your atypical(?) diving video from the Three Wolves with the Divin’ Wolf Pups could be imagined featuring

Perchance give this one to Super Snooper and Blabbermouse or Undercover Elephant rather than the…

On as unlikely an afternoon as it could get with Wally Gator and some Cuban-stylee espresso, with rain falling outside

Meanwhile, alonsgide the Hair Bear Bunch and Emmy Lou and Jenny Lee, who else could you picture…

During a recording session of opening narration for a “new improved” treatment of Magilla Gorilla

Worth understanding about Troll culture and folkways

We can only imagine the likes of …

Imagine a sound truck for the Hanna-Barberataqua outdoing such a truck as this with choice…

“As long as it takes, Shelley–as long as it takes,” saith Jabberjaw in explaining the Matter to Hand.

“Play some Cattanooga Cats for me and my stuffed bear, as long as you’re at it, hoomin!”

The last sort of place you could picture Norville “Shaggy” Rogers and Scooby-Doo satisfying their need for the old munchies:

Some thoughts from Squiddly Diddly about love with a mermaid

Meanwhile, at a supermarket specialist in British groceries as seem to attract the gravitas of the Hanna-Barbera pantheon

The Great Grape Ape, for his part, enjoys being 40 feet tall.

In conversation between Yogi and Cindy after the latter chose to take up the sexpert role in Jellystone Park

The acme of summer hill station trollaxation:

But then again, the Hair Bear Bunch can get to be rather wild and crazy themselves–even if it’s…

A chance meeting vis-a-vis Loopy De Loop and Emmy Lou during a diving vacation with both

Does this also extend to the spats that Drooper wears?

DROOP-ALONG COYOTE, ruminating over the chili mac that Ricochet Rabbit is preparing for lunch from…

Postcards from Snagglepuss

Can you imagine yourself in the company of–

Is it, methinks, too much to picture this as a weekend cabin for Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy?

Not the sort of sign you’d want to see at Cattanooga Klatsche:

As Wet Nurse Wilma is filling in for Maw Rugg so she can replenish her breast milk requirements

During a chance break in a diving vacation among The Three Wolves and the Divin’ Wolf Pups

Talk about “a run for your money”!

Another moment of shortwave-driven fun with Honey and Sis from their surprise shortwave worldcasts

Meet Flooky: One diving drawg extrolldinaire

As Peter Potamus would imagine it, What fascination awaits in the love department with no-nonsense…

YAHOOEY, of The Goofy Guards, after perhaps his fourth ham sandwich of the day: As if having to get…

Would you rather–

Magilla Gorilla headcannon

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Lippy the Lion headcannon (Tora-San variant)

Imagine how many of The Hanna-Barbera Dive Club, or its several constituent bodies, have this as…

“Would You Rather–” RETURNS!

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Can it get any more Hanna-Barberian than here?

In close conversation vis-a-vis Hair Bear and Bubi Bear during one of those “morning after” breakfasts during the mating season road trip

Dear Drooper:

Now imagine if the video showed Huckleberry Hound bringing the Hair Bear Bunch over to your house…

Young love down Troll County way

Come to think of it, could you imagine Yogi Bear or the Hair Bear Bunch in like circumstances,…

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Headcannon for Scooba-Doo (original character of mine imagined as a cousin of Scooby-Doo)

We can just imagine this cutaway

But then again, when the Hair Bears are on their mating season road trip, is it not too much to…

On a diving pontoon off the Florida Keys with no less than Wally Gator

Imagine the ultimate bartender of the future–one that actually comes to YOUR booth or table!

“Either I should start blowing up balloons faster or falling slower!”

MILDEW WOLF, coming out of a morning dive somewhere among the Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota…

...this is groundbreaking.

During that segment of your atypical Banana Splits concert where the bandmembers explain themselves

The sort of epitaph Hardy Har Har secretly imagines for his final resting spot:

Now, from Peter Potamus, an interesting insight into Polynesia Uncharted

On the other hand, imagine the campfires the Hair Bear Bunch are bound to have ahead of their mating…

At any rate …

DOGGIE DADDY, at the stove fixing some homemade marmalade with the help of some Ma Made Prepared…

(Obviously while Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm were in their pre-adolescence ‘tweens)

Imagine this were a hot-spring pool of the sort that Top Cat and clowder can’t resist from time to…