“It’s Vinnie, all right. It’s his nose, his mouth, his fur … but his eyes—there’s something not quite right about his eyes.”

“Blast! Caught in another tide pool! … And here comes some damn beachcomber!”

Unknown to most historians, William Tell had an older and less fortunate son named Warren.

“Wonderful! Just wonderful! … So much for instilling them with a sense of awe.”

“Crack the whip!”

“Oh, boy, was that an ugly day. … Roy instantly took the bird in to be debeaked, all the way yelling, ‘Tit for tat! Tit for tat!’”

“Yes! Yes! That’s it! Just a little higher. … Ahhhhhhhhh …”

“That does it, Sid! … You yell ‘tarantula’ one more time and you’re gonna be wearin’ this thing!”

“Excuse me, but the others sent me up here to ask you to please not roll around so much.”

Beverly Hills of the North Pole

Iggy knew he was extremely lucky to get a room with a view.

“I knew it! I just knew it. ... ‘Shave and a Haircut’ was a lousy secret knock.”

“Take a good, long look at this. … We don’t know what it is, but it’s the only part of the buffalo we don’t use.”

“In the wild, of course, they’d be natural enemies—but they do just fine together if you get ’em as pups.”

“Wait a minute, Stan. … These are good hubcaps. If we don’t take ’em, it’s a cinch some other bears will.”

Suddenly, the whole world blows up.

Kangaroo nerds

Graffiti in hell

Centipede parking lots

March 16, 1942: The night before he leaves the Philippines, General MacArthur works on his farewell address.

“Now listen—will you please try to control yourself tonight? … I don’t want to see you goading some guy into crashing heads with you.”

“Well, why don’t you come up here and make me turn it down … or do you just talk big, fella?”

“For heaven’s sake, Lee. That spoiled rhino is going to either bellow or charge the door all night till we let him in.”

“Well, this isn’t very promising.”

“C’mon, Arlene. Just a few feet in and then we can stand.”

“A few cattle are going to stray off in the morning, and tomorrow night a stampede is planned around midnight. Look, I gotta get back. … Remember, when we reach Santa Fe, I ain’t slaughtered.”

“Shhh! Knock off that crunching noise! … Pass it on!”

“Hold it! There’s a car across the street—you sure you weren’t followed, Mary?”

“Oh, yeah? … And I suppose you got those suction marks at the meeting, too!”

“What? … You mean no one brought the buns?”

More facts of nature: All forest animals, to this very day, remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard that Bambi’s mother had been shot.

“And I’m not going to tell you again—clean up your room!”

Early settlers of Beverly Hills

The fake McCoys

“Thank God, Sylvia! We’re alive!”

Elephan Gogh

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaa! Earl! … We’ve got a poultrygeist!”

Later, Edna was forced to sell her Brussels sprout house.

“Hey c’mon! Don’t put your mouth on it!”

“And don’t you flare your nostrils at me, either!”

“Well, we must face a new reality. No more carefree days of chasing squirrels, running through the park, or howling at the moon. On the other hand, no more ‘Fetch the stick, boy, fetch the stick.’”