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* The Creator/JimHenson specials open with black & white comedic skits with two puppets, named Boss & Codey, in homage to Henson. Their funny antics revolve around promoting the products of one of them via building a website and other means.

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* The Creator/JimHenson specials open with black & white comedic skits with two puppets, named Boss & Codey, in homage to Henson. Their funny antics revolve around promoting the products of one of them via building a website and other means.
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* The Creator/JimHenson specials open with black & white comedic skits with two puppets in homage to Henson. Their funny antics revolve around promoting the products of one of them via building a website and other means.

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* The Creator/JimHenson specials open with black & white comedic skits with two puppets puppets, named Boss & Codey, in homage to Henson. Their funny antics revolve around promoting the products of one of them via building a website and other means.
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** During the episode on ''Series/FraggleRock'', Kevin relays Jim's mission statement for the show:"I want to do a children's television show that will stop war."
--->'''Kevin:''' Sounds simple enough.
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** Then there's the number one Forgotten Attraction: The Wizard of Bras. No, really. Kevin's narration does not help.
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*In "The Fair that Changed America", while talking about one of the key figures behind the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, he drifts briefly into speculation before jutting back into reality:
--> "The cause of his death was unclear, as it could have either been from his colitis, his diabetes, his infected foot, or a recent food poisoning. It's possible that the loss of one of his best friends, and one of his final connections to his fair, caused him to die from pure grief. [[CaptainObvious But it was probably either the colitis, the diabetes, the infected foot, the food poisoning, or a combination of those four things.]]
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--> The man's name was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington George Washington]]…[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Gale Gale]]…[[https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ferris-2159 Ferris]]…[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Gale_Ferris_Jr Junior]][[note]]Each the picture he displays changes each time he adds a name[[/note]].

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--> The man's name was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington George Washington]]…[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Gale Gale]]…[[https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ferris-2159 Ferris]]…[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Gale_Ferris_Jr Junior]][[note]]Each the Junior]][[note]]The picture he displays changes each time he adds a name[[/note]].
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--> The man's name was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington George Washington]]…[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Gale Gale]]…[[https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ferris-2159 Ferris]]…[[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Gale_Ferris_Jr Junior]][[note]]Each the picture he displays changes each time he adds a name[[/note]].

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--> The man's name was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington George Washington]]…[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Gale Gale]]…[[https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ferris-2159 Ferris]]…[[[https://en.Ferris]]…[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Gale_Ferris_Jr Junior]][[note]]Each the picture he displays changes each time he adds a name[[/note]].
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--> The man's name was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington George Washington]]…[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Gale Gale]]…[[https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ferris-2159 Ferris]]…[[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Gale_Ferris_Jr. Junior]][[note]]Each the picture he displays changes each time he adds a name[[/note]].

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--> The man's name was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington George Washington]]…[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Gale Gale]]…[[https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ferris-2159 Ferris]]…[[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Gale_Ferris_Jr. org/wiki/George_Washington_Gale_Ferris_Jr Junior]][[note]]Each the picture he displays changes each time he adds a name[[/note]].
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** On the inventor of the Ferris Wheel:
--> The man's name was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington George Washington]]…[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Gale Gale]]…[[https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ferris-2159 Ferris]]…[[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Gale_Ferris_Jr. Junior]][[note]]Each the picture he displays changes each time he adds a name[[/note]].
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** Several comments on other World Fairs:
-->"After the 1853 Fair, World Fairs were a dime-a-dozen, or around three dollars a dozen when adjusted for inflation"\\
"The Centennial Exposition drew in over ten million visitors, which makes sense, because the fair [[InsaneTrollLogic had the largest fork and knife in the world]], but it was not enough to make a profit, which means that someone [[InsaneTrollLogic wasn't charging enough to see the largest fork and knife in the world]]."
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-->'''Kevin''': [On] May 11th, 1906, on May 11th 1906, after stripping it of its valuable parts, Ferris' creation was destroyed [[BlatantLies in the most graceful, respectful, and safe way that a wheel of its size could be]]. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill It was blown to bits]] [[StuffBlowingUp by 300 pounds of dynamite]].

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-->'''Kevin''': [On] May 11th, 1906, on May 11th 1906, after stripping it of its valuable parts, Ferris' creation was destroyed [[BlatantLies in the most graceful, respectful, and safe way that a wheel of its size could be]]. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill It was blown to bits]] [[StuffBlowingUp by 300 pounds of dynamite]].
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* In "A Roundabout History of the Ferris Wheel", after spending over 20 minutes discussing the history of the very first Ferris Wheel and how it came to be, Kevin comes to how it eventually came to an end in the most tactful way he can:
-->'''Kevin''': [On] May 11th, 1906, on May 11th 1906, after stripping it of its valuable parts, Ferris' creation was destroyed [[BlatantLies in the most graceful, respectful, and safe way that a wheel of its size could be]]. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill It was blown to bits]] [[StuffBlowingUp by 300 pounds of dynamite]].
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* Kevin mentions in "The History of Cedar Fair's Berenstain Bear Country" how one of Cedar Fair's dark rides concerned [[DarkerAndEdgier the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which had killed thousands of people-]]
-->'''Kevin''': [[MoodWhiplash (energetically reads from a caption)]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice Told in spectacular color and action!]]
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* The Creator/JimHenson specials open with black & white comedic skits with two puppets in homage to Henson. Their funny antics revolve around promoting the products of one of them via building a website and other means.
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* In the ''Series/{{Zoboomafoo}}'' video, Kevin briefly goes over ''WesternAnimation/WildKratts'' and mistakes the animated Martin Kratt for [[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Ron Stoppable]].
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* While the coverage for Action Park is generally fairly grim, Kevin tries to add a bit of levity via some written text on the B-Roll. When he gets to a water slide that's rather... uniquely designed that's been conceptualized for the new Action Park;
--> '''Kevin''': The Sky Caliber was another attempt at a 360-degree, vertically-looping waterslide, although it used technology to enhance safety.
--> '''Kevin's Subtitles''': "They also cut out the middleman by placing you directly in a coffin!"
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* "The Demise of Australia's Biggest Theme Park, Wonderland Sydney" is mostly a nostalgic, bittersweet episode, but Kevin manages to inject levity in Wonderland Sydney's tale by [[FramingDevice framing it around the ongoing status of Maniac]]... [[BlackComedy who just so happens to be a homicidal crocodile]].

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* "The Demise of Australia's Biggest Theme Park, Wonderland Sydney" is mostly a nostalgic, bittersweet episode, but Kevin manages to inject levity in Wonderland Sydney's tale by [[FramingDevice framing it around the ongoing status of Maniac]]... Maniac]], [[BlackComedy who just so happens to be a homicidal crocodile]].

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Changed it to the more scathing line, as "Move into the malls, growing the brand" is pretty much a compliment.


** The opening as well, were the pair argue whether or not doing a crossover ''and'' a top 5 list is clickbaity, with Kevin telling [[BlatantLies Dan that they're fine]]. Cue the intro, which dubs the video ''Kevin And Disney Dan's Selling Out, Clickbait-palooza 2017''.
** Then for their "Top 10 Forgotten Disneyland Attractions" crossover, they heavily lampshade the fact that the episode is sponsored by [=SwagIQ=], and have an intro depicting them in suits, with money everywhere, a rap song for the theme, and the title of ''Kevin And Disney Dan's Selling Out Clickbait Patwooza 2018''.



--> ''"Moving to the malls, growing the brand! Cancel all your plans, it's Defunctland!"''

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--> ''"Moving to the malls, growing the brand! Cancel ''"Cash in all your plans, stock, as quick as you can! Close some more rides, it's Defunctland!"''
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* The ending of the "Extinct Walk-Around Characters" episode. Disney Dan catches onto one of Kevin's seeming obsessions with talking about a court case involving a Tigger actor that was accused of harassing a teenager and says he is not going to make a video detailing the various Tigger costumes ''just'' so Kevin can cover it. Of course, that ended up being [[GilliganCut exactly what Disney Dan did.]]

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* The ending of the "Extinct Walk-Around Characters" episode. Disney Dan catches onto one of Kevin's seeming obsessions with talking about a court case involving a Tigger actor that was accused of harassing a teenager and says he is not going to make a video detailing the various Tigger costumes ''just'' so Kevin can cover it. [[GilliganCut Of course, course,]] that ended up being [[GilliganCut [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW6wufL51BI exactly what Disney Dan did.]]
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--->"What, {{too soon}}?"

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--->"What, -->What, {{too soon}}?"soon}}?
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* The ending of the "Extinct Walk-Around Characters" episode. Disney Dan catches onto one of Kevin's seeming obsessions with talking about a court case involving a Tigger actor that was accused of harassing a teenager and says he is not going to make a video detailing the various Tigger costumes JUST so Kevin can cover it. Of course, that ended up being [[GilliganCut exactly what Disney Dan did.]]

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* The ending of the "Extinct Walk-Around Characters" episode. Disney Dan catches onto one of Kevin's seeming obsessions with talking about a court case involving a Tigger actor that was accused of harassing a teenager and says he is not going to make a video detailing the various Tigger costumes JUST ''just'' so Kevin can cover it. Of course, that ended up being [[GilliganCut exactly what Disney Dan did.]]



* In his "Club Disney" episode, Kevin compared Blockbuster Video investing in Discovery Zone to Radio Shack investing in Toys R Us, [[DudeNotFunny which makes the audience boo]].
--->"What, TooSoon?"

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* In his "Club Disney" episode, Kevin compared Blockbuster Video investing in Discovery Zone to Radio Shack investing in Toys R "R" Us, [[DudeNotFunny which makes the audience boo]].
--->"What, TooSoon?"{{too soon}}?"



--> ''"Move into the malls, ruin the brand! Cancel all your plans, it's Defunctland!"''
* The entirety of the Nick @ Nite honeymoon suite portion of the "Nick Hotel" video, considering it's in a hotel meant for kids and families.
** From the same video, Nate Begle as the French narrator from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''. Also, while listing characters who acted as meet-n-greets, Kevin noticeably slows down when he reaches more obscure, less beloved characters or just ones he flat out doesn't know, like WesternAnimation/TeamUmizoomi, [[WesternAnimation/WonderPets Ming-Ming Duckling]], WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum, [[WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol Chase and Marshall]][[note]]Kevin's lack of familiarity to the series, or perhaps just bad info, causes him to refer to Chase as "Jake".[[/note]], and the WesternAnimation/BubbleGuppies, whose sheer obscurity confuses Kevin so much he almost completely derails his train of thought right there. What's probably the funniest is that he calmly finishes it by naming WesternAnimation/LittleBill.

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--> ''"Move into ''"Moving to the malls, ruin growing the brand! Cancel all your plans, it's Defunctland!"''
* The entirety of the Nick @ Nite Nick@Nite honeymoon suite portion of the "Nick Hotel" video, considering it's in a hotel meant for kids and families.
** From the same video, Nate Begle as the French narrator from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''.''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''. Also, while listing characters who acted as meet-n-greets, Kevin noticeably slows down when he reaches more obscure, less beloved characters or just ones he flat out doesn't know, like WesternAnimation/TeamUmizoomi, [[WesternAnimation/WonderPets Ming-Ming Duckling]], WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum, [[WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol Chase and Marshall]][[note]]Kevin's lack of familiarity to the series, or perhaps just bad info, causes him to refer to Chase as "Jake".[[/note]], and the WesternAnimation/BubbleGuppies, whose sheer obscurity confuses Kevin so much he almost completely derails his train of thought right there. What's probably the funniest is that he calmly finishes it by naming WesternAnimation/LittleBill.
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--> ''"Move into the malls, ruin the brand! Cancel all your plans, it's Defunctland!"

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--> ''"Move into the malls, ruin the brand! Cancel all your plans, it's Defunctland!"Defunctland!"''
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** The introduction sequence for the episode is a hokey sitcom intro complete with a scathing commentary of Michael Eisner's business decisions, particularly his answer to Euro Disneyland sucking up so many resources being to dump even ''more'' resources into a side venture meant to compete with Chuck E. Cheese and Discovery Zone.
--> ''"Move into the malls, ruin the brand! Cancel all your plans, it's Defunctland!"

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%%* The ending of the "Extinct Walk-Around Characters" episode.

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%%* * The ending of the "Extinct Walk-Around Characters" episode.episode. Disney Dan catches onto one of Kevin's seeming obsessions with talking about a court case involving a Tigger actor that was accused of harassing a teenager and says he is not going to make a video detailing the various Tigger costumes JUST so Kevin can cover it. Of course, that ended up being [[GilliganCut exactly what Disney Dan did.]]
-->'''Kevin:''' ''I WILL FIND A PLATFORM TO TALK ABOUT THAT COURT CASE SO HELP ME GO-[SmashCut to credits]''

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* The ending of the ''Extinct Walk-Around Characters'' episode.
* In his Club Disney episode, Kevin compared Blockbuster Video investing in Discovery Zone to Radio Shack investing in Toys R Us, [[DudeNotFunny which makes the audience boo]].

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* %%* The ending of the ''Extinct "Extinct Walk-Around Characters'' Characters" episode.
* In his Club Disney "Club Disney" episode, Kevin compared Blockbuster Video investing in Discovery Zone to Radio Shack investing in Toys R Us, [[DudeNotFunny which makes the audience boo]].



* The entirety of the Nick @ Nite honeymoon suite portion of the Nick Hotel video, considering it's in a hotel meant for kids and families.

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* The entirety of the Nick @ Nite honeymoon suite portion of the Nick Hotel "Nick Hotel" video, considering it's in a hotel meant for kids and families.



* In the Worlds of Fun video, Kevin's description of his hometown in Kansas is in equal parts nostalgic and exasperated.

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* In the Worlds "Worlds of Fun Fun" video, Kevin's description of his hometown in Kansas is in equal parts nostalgic and exasperated.


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* "The Demise of Australia's Biggest Theme Park, Wonderland Sydney" is mostly a nostalgic, bittersweet episode, but Kevin manages to inject levity in Wonderland Sydney's tale by [[FramingDevice framing it around the ongoing status of Maniac]]... [[BlackComedy who just so happens to be a homicidal crocodile]].
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** When discussing the rise of Discovery Zone and other indoor playgrounds, he lists various aspects to them, including some less then memorable ones including socks with holes in them, tube nets you get your foot stuck in, [[{{Squick}} vomit, disinfectant, vomit, disinfectant]], unnecessary open slides when the tube slides are right there and rug burns, so many rug burns.

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** When discussing the rise of Discovery Zone and other indoor playgrounds, he lists various aspects to them, including some less then memorable ones including socks with holes in them, tube nets net bridges you get your foot stuck in, [[{{Squick}} vomit, disinfectant, vomit, disinfectant]], unnecessary open slides when the tube slides are right there and rug burns, so many rug burns.
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** When discussing the rise of Discovery Zone and other indoor playgrounds, he lists various aspects to them, including some less then memorable ones including socks with holes in them, tube nets you get your foot stuck in, [[{{Squick}} vomit, disinfectant, vomit, disinfectant]], unnecessary open slides when the tube slides are right there and rug burns, so many rug burns.
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* In the Worlds of Fun video, Kevin's description of his hometown in Kansas is in equal parts nostalgic and exasperated.
-->''You've seen the first twenty minutes of'' Film/TheWizardOfOz''. It's pretty much that.''
** And then, he gets into Kansas' only theme park, Worlds of Fun... which isn't in Kansas.
-->'''Kevin:''' It's on the Missouri side of Kansas City. Not the Kansas side. ''Nothing is in Kansas''.
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** From the same video, Nate Begle as the French narrator from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''. Also, while listing characters who acted as meet-n-greets, Kevin noticeably slows down when he reaches more obscure, less beloved characters or just ones he flat out doesn't know, like WesternAnimation/TeamUmizoomi, [[WesternAnimation/WonderPets Ming-Ming Duckling]], WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum, [[WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol Chase and Marshall]][[labelnote:*]]Kevin's lack of familiarity to the series, or perhaps just bad info, causes him to refer to Chase as "Jake"[[/labelnote]], and the WesternAnimation/BubbleGuppies, whose sheer obscurity confuses Kevin so much he almost completely derails his train of thought right there. What's probably the funniest is that he calmly finishes it by naming WesternAnimation/LittleBill.

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** From the same video, Nate Begle as the French narrator from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''. Also, while listing characters who acted as meet-n-greets, Kevin noticeably slows down when he reaches more obscure, less beloved characters or just ones he flat out doesn't know, like WesternAnimation/TeamUmizoomi, [[WesternAnimation/WonderPets Ming-Ming Duckling]], WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum, [[WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol Chase and Marshall]][[labelnote:*]]Kevin's Marshall]][[note]]Kevin's lack of familiarity to the series, or perhaps just bad info, causes him to refer to Chase as "Jake"[[/labelnote]], "Jake".[[/note]], and the WesternAnimation/BubbleGuppies, whose sheer obscurity confuses Kevin so much he almost completely derails his train of thought right there. What's probably the funniest is that he calmly finishes it by naming WesternAnimation/LittleBill.
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* The ending of the ''Extinct Walk-Around Characters'' episode.
* In his Club Disney episode, Kevin compared Blockbuster Video investing in Discovery Zone to Radio Shack investing in Toys R Us, [[DudeNotFunny which makes the audience boo]].
--->"What, TooSoon?"
* The entirety of the Nick @ Nite honeymoon suite portion of the Nick Hotel video, considering it's in a hotel meant for kids and families.
** From the same video, Nate Begle as the French narrator from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''. Also, while listing characters who acted as meet-n-greets, Kevin noticeably slows down when he reaches more obscure, less beloved characters or just ones he flat out doesn't know, like WesternAnimation/TeamUmizoomi, [[WesternAnimation/WonderPets Ming-Ming Duckling]], WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum, [[WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol Chase and Marshall]][[labelnote:*]]Kevin's lack of familiarity to the series, or perhaps just bad info, causes him to refer to Chase as "Jake"[[/labelnote]], and the WesternAnimation/BubbleGuppies, whose sheer obscurity confuses Kevin so much he almost completely derails his train of thought right there. What's probably the funniest is that he calmly finishes it by naming WesternAnimation/LittleBill.
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