Beth Abdallah

Fetching it to me with full hands.

How could I answer the child?

My theory about the cartoons is that they kept these in their back pocket for when they didn't time the length of the episode, right?

Like, if they made it too short.

Because the Joby ones were always real short, like maybe a minute.

And they were just Joby's weird dreams.

They'd draw him lying in his bed and you'd see him sleeping.

And then he flies off into dreamland.

Still no legs.

Just kind of flapping his arms.

And then you'd just see him in dreamland or whatever.

In fields and barns and puppies and all the usual stuff.

But they couldn't even do that non-creepy for some reason.

I mean, the whole cartoon in black and white, like, what kid wants to watch a totally silent cartoon in black and white about a spooky f***ing puppet that nobody liked?

Or maybe there was music over it, I don't know.

I can't remember.

No, the guy who made them was just one of the production assistants.

He was listed in the credits of the show, apparently, but those original show tapes were all wiped out.

They actually used to do that.

After they took it off the air, he went and got a job at some company that did educational seminars or something like that, some office job.