Welcome back to The Penny Men, where we’re still lost in the Cousin Oliver Zone and the exits are blocked by secondary mascots!
In Part 2 of our deep dive, we move past the classics and start unearthing the weird ones — the tagalongs, tone-shifters, and “Who asked for this?” additions that history forgot!
We’re talking:
- Orbity, the Jetsons’ moon-puppy who brought “season three” energy to a season one show
- Mork from Ork, beaming into Happy Days just to beam out again into his own sitcom
- Bubsy, the video game mascot who thought he could be Sonic
- Seven, Married… with Children’s mystery child who disappeared
- The inexplicable Baby Sinclair from Dinosaurs, who became a catchphrase machine
And we’re not done!
We go into:
- That one weird season where Diff’rent Strokes decided it needed a second kid
- Cousin Skeeter, because why wouldn’t a Nickelodeon sitcom need a talking puppet?
- Scrappy-Dum — yes, Scrappy-Doo had his own country cousin
- The Animaniacs’ Rita and Runt, and the strange spin-off energy they brought
We also somehow end up discussing:
- Disney’s mid-90s push for “cute alien mascots” that nobody remembers
- Cartoons where the new character just… replaced the old one without explanation
- Shows that added babies purely for the merch sales
- Why the “second mascot” is almost always the most unhinged
It’s Part 2, so the nostalgia’s deeper, the lists are stranger, and the zingers are flying like t-shirt cannons!
By the end, you’ll be thinking: If I show up now, do I get my own theme song?
