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Help!  It's the Hair Bear Bunch!

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King Kong Bundy

Outfit: casual dress slacks / middle-management short-sleeved work shirt / safari hat

Tagline: "Oo!  Oo!  Mr. Peevley!"

Plot summary:  A normal zoo director's assistant (if I've watched enough episodes of The Crocodile Hunter Diaries) helps out around the zoo in a variety of ways, everything from meandering financial paperwork to scooping up wallaby poopery. From time to time he may be called in to perform a special task, such as jumping onto/holding an alligator down so the overzealous zoo director does not have his body bitten off. This becomes incredibly difficult when the director coats his child in raw meat and dangles it from the end of a fishing rod. But the assistant is paid nicely and goes on with his day.

In the world of Hanna-Barbera the zoo director's assistant's job is to capture the runaway animals who are trying to escape their confines because the zoo director does not want to feed them. Hanna-Barbera authority figures are hard-asses about food. The Park Ranger at Jellystone National berated Yogi if he ate anything besides his own droppings. Mr. Peevley is no different, keeping food from the bears to the point that they have actually adapted, developed human speech, and can propel themselves through the air using an invisible motorcycle. Botch seems like a nice guy with good enough intentions, so maybe Botch was God's evolutionary plan to get bears a pool table.    (more)

User Comments:  If yokozuna Akebono and Dilbert had a child it would come out looking like Botch, complete with disheveled tie and a serious weight problem despite the fact that you rarely see Botch sitting down. He's always chasing after the bears, or jumping and grabbing, or crouching behind something while holding a big butterfly net. The gear works, I guess, but he's dressed more like a department store assistant manager than a zoo assistant. Zoo assistants have shorts and boots so they can move around and not be uncomfortable. Botch just looks like he took a cop uniform and put a safari hat on it. That's probably what he did, too, because he's voiced by the guy from "Car 54 Where Are You" and even has his catchphrase. "Oo oo!" I'm glad this show went off the air before the television violence boom hit and stayed out of syndication long enough to keep Michael Chiklis from showing up in a remake threatening to "shoot the goddamn bears."

If you are interested in learning more about Botch, he's being featured every week during the Jeff Hardy matches on NWA: TNA Impact. 

User Rating: 5.0/10 (56,445 votes)