http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2009/2009_Individual/2009_06/001961.php
"She is NOT for you, Swimmer. Not for your WAY."
(Click on panel for larger view, if you're so inclined. ;-)
However, feel free to go at it with that orca there, she's a real slut.
> Just one reason Flipper was a female... (Lassie was male... anybody
>know what "Gentle Ben" was?)
Well, according to the Wikipedia article (and we all *know* just how
accurate Wikipedia is): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentle_Ben
The bear's real name was "Bonkers". Sounds like a masculine name, so
perhaps the bear was a boar (although perhaps neutered)?
James Rau
Notice that it's mainly this Drin that seems to be all up in Arthurs
gills over it, (girlfriend's angry mother? Father? ex-boyfriend?) only
after which does the foster mother get involved. Nera, The object of his
affections, is apparently okay with the whole thing from what little we
can glean from one panel.
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The Saprophyte
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> <blink> Given that I missed the later movies... That link cites a
>"Bruno the Bear" for the series...
Bonkers is in the "Cast" listing, but I failed to notice the citation
beneath the photograph of Gentle Ben and voice actor Candy Candido.
Sure enough, it says "Bruno the Bear"
>
> Heh... And while they mention Ivan Tors being behind "Sea Hunt", as
>I recall, he was also behind Flipper...
Typecasting! :-)
James Rau
Didn't Tors produce "Daktari"? I still remember Clarence the cross-eyed
lion.
(checks IMDB)
Yep. "Ivan Tors Productions".
And so do I. :) Plus, the music I later learned was "Baby Elephant Walk".