My best friend in First Grade, Louie Bruno, always said that life is like a teeter totter. You go up, you go down. But what if you actually were a teeter totter? Well, Huckleberry Hound from those funny animal Hanna Barbera Cartoons from the 60’s and 70’s and 80’s had to take a job as one.
There’s not a lot of employment opportunities for out-of-work cartoon dogs. Sure, he gets some residuals from whatever airtime he still gets on Cartoon Network, but it’s just peanuts (literally — cartoons are insane — if you off them 50 bucks or 50 peanuts they’ll take the peanuts every time. Peanuts are funnier).
Look at poor Huck’s eyes. Years of upness and downness have obviously taken it’s toll on the dog — he’s a wreck. He looks more worried than Wembley from Fraggle Rock. More worried than Richard Pryor in Superman III. More worried than one of those sundaes that Tony Soprano makes for himself.
Still, he shows up to work everyday with his bow tie starched and ready to wiggle.
Louie B, was a smart kid. He got this whole life thing figured out eh’
So people care about huckleberry hound? I looked him up on the “Popular Characters of The Cartoons” list and he’s #1256, ten spots behind Jerry Mouse as the white explosive mouse which almost doesn’t count because its Jerry in white paint.