The Truth Revealed!

In an interview back when the show was still airing, Johnny Bravo creator Van Partible revealed that Johnny actually lays mad pipe, but only offscreen, as a show depicting his successes wouldn’t be funny.

“Ya always wondered, no ya know! HEH-HAH-HUH!”

Learning this only makes his getting this show on the air in the first place all that more miraculous.

Someone give this man a medal; he deserves it.

Disney Wishin’

OK, just a little hypothetical fun. If we, Twin Images, were somehow put in charge of the Disney conglomerate (what a bureaucratic cock-up that would be!) and could do, make, command or change anything we wanted, here’s what we’d do:

Bring the classic theatrical shorts back to the Disney Channel, or else create a separate channel or sub-channel for the shorts.

Make an all-ages animated series starring the Sensational Six for Disney+; something along the lines of Mickey Mouse Works: shorts, skits, blackout gags and musical numbers starring Mickey and the Gang.

While we’re on the subject…

Add Mickey Mouse Works and House of Mouse to Disney+.
Create a Pete costume for walkarounds and meet-and-greets at the Disney parks. Pete is such an integral part of the Mickey gang mythos, it’s weird he has no costumed representation. 
 If they make costumed mascot for Treasure Planet characters, they should make one for Pete.
Make Mickey Mouse a funny character again. To be fair, Disney has already started to do this, but I mean have Mickey doing wacky antics, verbal humor and slapstick outside of the Paul Rudish shorts.
Bring Quicksilver back to the MCU. For real this time, not the WandaVision fakeout.
“That dude’s name was Bohner! Huh-hu-uh-huh!” “Yeah! Heh-heh-heh! Bohner!”
Bring Iron Man back to the MCU. If Robert Downey Jr. doesn’t want to play him anymore, fine, but the MCU needs an Iron Man. They have the Multiverse now, just bring in a younger Tony Stark from another universe.
“Hi! I’m Max Isotope from Universe 23 1/2. I’ll be your Iron Man from now on! Now where’s my Avengers badge?”
Make some shorts starring the silly versions of the Disney Princesses from Ralph Breaks the Internet.
“Dude, where’s my tiara?”
Bring back Dreamfinder. Seriously. It’s great that Figment is finally getting some attention, but you can’t have Figment without the guy who created him. Figment is literally a figment of Dreamfinder’s imagination. Figment without Dreamfinder is like Muttley without Dick Dastardly.
Give Donald Duck a somewhat more comprehensible voice for the more dialogue driven shows such as DuckTales and Legend of the Three Cabelleros so that he can be better understood. But not to the point where it’s not recognizable as Donald’s voice.
“DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORDS THAT ARE COMIN’ OUT OF MY BEAK?!!?
Have a “Play All” buttons for the shorts on Disney+. I mean, seriously!

How Comezit? Why is There No Banana Soda?

It’s a question that has boggled the minds of humankind for years:

Why is there no banana soda??

“It’s a PLOT, I tells ya! A CON-spiracy concocted by ‘The Man’ to keep us primates down! ‘They’ want to keep the formula for banana soda under wraps just to keep my species from taking our rightful place as the true rulers of Earth! THE BANANAS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM!!”

“Ah, no, actually. The reason is very simple: the reason that you don’t see banana flavored sodas and juices in wide circulation is simply because a banana doesn’t contain enough liquid to be made into a beverage. Any banana flavored beverage would/will have to be artificially flavored.”

There are, in fact, some banana flavored beverages, all artificially flavored, of course. Among the most notable being Filbert’s Old-Timey Banana Soda…

…And Banana Wave, a soy-based, plant-based banana drink which combines artificial banana flavor with other tantalizing flavors.

Such as Mango, Strawberry and Chocolate.
“Gotta try ’em all!”

There is (or was at one time) even a banana flavored Fanta!

Hope that clears things up.

-Say, while we’ve got you here, Professor, maybe you could fill us in on something semi-related: why is it you never see grape flavored ice cream?

“GRAPE APE! GRAPE APE! That had no relevance to anything, I just didn’t want to be left out of the discussion!”

Oh, that’s a good one. Well, the common belief running around on the internet is that the absence of grape ice cream can be blamed on the Food and Drug Administration, which banned the flavor because of pet-related hazards.

The legend goes that Ben & Jerry’s created a delectable grape ice cream which was then served to a lucky customer who loved it so much that they fed a bit of it to their beloved dog, who immediately died of anthocyanin poisoning. (Anthocyanin is a chemical found in grape skins, and it’s poisonous to dogs and cats.)

After the incident, the FDA ruled that no ice cream manufacturer may sell grape flavored ice cream.

However….

The FDA would never intervene on grape ice cream. After all, chocolate is also poisonous to pets, and you can still buy it practically anywhere.

The actual reason is that when making ice cream at home, you can get fruit like grapes pretty close to a puree, but when you are using fruit as a base on a large scale, that’s when you run into problems. Basically, grapes have high water content, and when manufactured on a large scale, will leave you with unappetizing ice chunks in your ice cream.

It’s also simple supply and demand: there is simply not a huge demand for grape ice cream like there is for, say, chocolate or strawberry or vanilla or even cookie dough.

-So there you have it. Some literal food for thought. That was very informative.

“Say, if you’re interested, I also know a way that Mac Davis’ ‘Baby, Don’t Get Hooked on Me’ can be broken down into an equational algorithm which when applied correctly can control peoples’ minds!”

-Uh, stick a pin in that. Maybe next time.