Still in the low 30s here but I think this is a reference to the cartoon Grape Ape. I caught a few episodes in reruns when I was a kid but don’t remember it well.
@AndyW: Actually, according to Wikipedia (which is 100% accurate because the internet is never wrong;), The Great Grape Ape did air on the BBC in 1977-78 along with some piece of crap called Bailey’s Comets, which was about a rollerskating team? Because, you know, those were really common back in the late ’70s. Just rollerskating teams racing around the globe as far as the eye could see…
@Jeremy Archibald: Strangely, I never liked that cartoon. I think it had something to do with the way Speed Buggy talked; that weird sort of ratcheting sound. So, big purple apes, yes – talking dunebuggies, not so much. π
Swirling space time vortexes. Let me know if you see a blue police box in them.
I’m only thirty five, but I get it! π
I just about woke my month old niece on reading that last panel, Rob! Too funny!!!!!
mind explaining for those of us still shy of two decades?
“Grape Ape, Grape Ape…but I don’t get it Beegly Beagly, they were elves, not clowns, why did they taste so funny?”
@Jeremy Archibald: LOL!!! π
Still in the low 30s here but I think this is a reference to the cartoon Grape Ape. I caught a few episodes in reruns when I was a kid but don’t remember it well.
Heh, 49 here and I never heard of it. I don’t think it ever really registered in the UK.
@AndyW: Actually, according to Wikipedia (which is 100% accurate because the internet is never wrong;), The Great Grape Ape did air on the BBC in 1977-78 along with some piece of crap called Bailey’s Comets, which was about a rollerskating team? Because, you know, those were really common back in the late ’70s. Just rollerskating teams racing around the globe as far as the eye could see…
I see sand dunes, any chance of seeing Speed Buggy tracks in the immediate future? π
@Jeremy Archibald: Strangely, I never liked that cartoon. I think it had something to do with the way Speed Buggy talked; that weird sort of ratcheting sound. So, big purple apes, yes – talking dunebuggies, not so much. π