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->'''[[TheHeart Pogo]]:''' Considerin' that ever'body is got two left feet, us critturs don't do bad. I figgers, Porky, that every man's heart is ''eventual'' in the ''right place.''\\
'''[[SourSupporter Porky Pine]]:''' An' ''I'' figgers, Pogo, that if a man's gonna be ''wrong'' 'bout somethin', ''that'' is the ''best'' wrong thing to keep bein' wrong about til forever.

A [[PrintLongRunners long-running]] (1948–75, plus a 1989–93 revival) daily NewspaperComic that starred Pogo Possum, Albert Alligator, Churchy La Femme, Howland Owl, Porky Pine, Beauregard Bugleboy, Miz Mam'selle Hepzibah, Miz Beaver, and sundry other {{talking animal}}s residing in UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|USA}}'s Okeefenokee Swamp.

Early versions of Pogo and Albert (alongside a quickly-phased-out human protagonist named Bumbazine) were regulars in [[Creator/DellComics Dell's]] ''Animal Comics'' starting with its first published issue in 1942, but within a few years the characters had moved to the newspapers, and ''Pogo'' soon established itself as one of the all-time comic strip classics. Creator Walt Kelly (1913–1973), a former Creator/{{Disney}} animator, filled his strip with dozens -- actually, ''hundreds'' -- of characters, all of them with distinct personalities, motivations and goals that would frequently collide. Kelly's ear for dialect and language, in addition to his skill with nonsense poetry, has been compared to that of Creator/MarkTwain and Creator/OgdenNash.

While superficially a silly comic strip about {{funny animal}}s, it was also a satire -- subtle and, well, not -- about modern times, and frequently delved into politics -- so much so that ''Pogo'' often found itself the target of criticism and censorship. In such cases, Kelly often responded in kind; for instance, by placing a paper bag over the head of a controversial character (based on Senator UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy) when a newspaper said that they would drop the strip if his face ever appeared again. Later, he would create "fluffy bunny" versions of his daily strips, featuring rabbit characters engaged in harmless gags, whose real purpose was to inform readers that their local newspaper was censoring its comics page.

Charming, clever, occasionally subversive, and surprisingly warm-hearted even at its most vicious, ''Pogo'' was ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'' of its day... if ''The Office'' had a much larger cast, the writers of ''Series/TheColbertReport'', the trenchant wit of Creator/HLMencken, and the idealism of [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]]. Its influence on modern cartooning cannot be overestimated. Bill Watterson (''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''), Berkeley Breathed (''ComicStrip/BloomCounty''), Creator/JeffSmith (''ComicBook/{{Bone}}''), Garry Trudeau (''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}''), Frank Cho (''ComicStrip/LibertyMeadows''), Dana Simpson (''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie''), and Bill Holbrook (''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'') have all cited it as inspiration, as did the late Creator/JimHenson (''Series/TheMuppetShow'').

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!!This comic strip provides examples of:

* AdaptedOut: Beauregard Bugleboy is notably absent from the 1980 animated film ''I Go Pogo''.
* AlliterativeName: Pogo Possum, Albert Alligator, numerous other characters.
* AlliterativeTitle: Several of the book collections: ''Potluck Pogo'', ''Positively Pogo'', ''Pluperfect Pogo'', etc.
* AnimatedAdaptation: ''The Pogo Special Birthday Special'' (1969), animated by Creator/ChuckJones; ''We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us'' (1970), a short film animated by Kelly himself; and ''I Go Pogo'' (1980), a feature-length StopMotion film by [[Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace the Chiodo Brothers]].
* AnthropomorphicShift: Varying amounts for different characters -- Hepzibah, for instance, got a flatter face and longer legs over time.
* ArtEvolution: Again, varies by the character, but the biggest changes occurred in the strip's ''New York Star'' run prior to national syndication.
* AscendedExtra: Pogo himself. Though he is the only character apart from Albert who was present from the very start in the ''Bumbazine and Albert the Alligator'' days, he was more a secondary character at the point, like a kind of sidekick to Bumbazine. When Bumbazine was phased out of the comic, Pogo stepped up to become Albert's co-star and the comic was eventually renamed ''Albert and Pogo.'' By the time the comic strip started, Pogo was the sole titular character (even though Albert was still just as much of a main character.)
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: It's a pandemic condition in the Okeefenokee.
* AuthorTract: By the end of its run, ''Pogo'' was pretty much the liberal equivalent of ''ComicStrip/LilAbner''.
* BabyLanguage: Grundoon, the [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter ridiculously cute]] baby woodchuck, speaks only in random consonants like "GNBX" and "SVMPS."
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: P.T. Bridgeport evolved into this archetype with a full barker's suit and white spats on his paws. Other characters that apply to this include feline [[BigBad hillbilly heavy]] Wiley Catt and his cousin Simple J. Malarkey.
* TheBarnum: P. T. Bridgeport, as evidenced by his name and old-time circus poster dialogue-font.
* BlindMistake: Mole [=MacAroney=] claims to be a bird expert, but is clearly blind and keeps misidentifying everyone as a migratory bird, even the ones that aren't birds at all.
* CannotTellAJoke: Porky Pine has no sense of humor, so when someone tells him a joke, he never gets why it was funny. He then tries to retell it as best he can remember it...
-->'''Porky:''' This is a humorous anecdote. A goat lost his nose -- the first man says, "What will he smell with now?" The other replies, "As bad as ever." Haw haw haw?
--> ''(Pogo and Albert look at him indifferently)''
-->'''Porky:''' One would ''think'' that the employees of a comic strip would have a sense of humor.
* CarnivoreConfusion: The animals swing between having a fairly relaxed attitude towards carnivorism and treating it as cannibalism. In the comic's earlier days, Albert would sometimes swallow other animals by mistake (they were usually saved at the end) or be accused of eating whoever was missing at the time. The villains of the strip were more obviously carnivorous.
* CensorshipBySpelling: Pogo uses it to talk to Albert without Pup-Dog understanding. Too bad Albert can't spell either.
* CerebusRollercoaster: No matter what wacky hijinks were going on in the swamp, everybody would stop on November 11th of each year in honor of Veterans' Day.
--> '''Owl:''' [A minute of silence] seems backward - we oughter spend the ''rest'' of the year silent, thinkin' what we should say during this minute.
* CerebusSyndrome: The strip always had a satirical bent, but got a lot more political as time went on. By the end it was basically ''Doonesbury'' with talking animals.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the early days, before the strip was nationally syndicated, Pogo was the stupidest cast member and was easily taken advantage of by the other characters. He was also a lot more jerkish and could get directly mean sometimes.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
** Bumbazine, the human boy. In the earliest ''Animal Comics'' stories, titled, ''Bumbazine and Albert the Alligator'', he's ostensibly the protagonist, but he's quickly DemotedToExtra in favour of focusing on Albert and to a lesser extent Pogo, as the comic was renamed simply ''Albert the Alligator.'' After a few more stories of being a very minor character, Bumbazine simply stopped appearing, and the comic was renamed ''Albert and Pogo'' and became purely about the animals.
** The [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter ridiculously cute]] Pup-Dog disappeared from the strip without explanation in the mid-1950s.
* CigarChomper: Albert is often seen smoking a cigar.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Most of the characters have their moments of this, but none more than Churchy La Femme.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Anyone and everyone -- If anything is at all possible to misunderstand, someone in the swamp ''will'' misunderstand it.
* ContinuityDrift: Kelly tended to go with what was funny, not consistent. One specific example is exactly how well the various swamp denizens are able to read; a particular character can go from being completely illiterate to quoting the classics and back again.
* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: Parodied in an early storyline when the Pup-Dog disappears and Albert is accused of eating him; he is saved only by the Pup-Dog's eventual return, and some of the old townsfolk ''still'' insist he was guilty and a great injustice has been done by letting him go free.
* CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation: One exchange goes as follows:
-->'''Albert''': I'm showing you how to become a famous cartoonist... first, you thinks of a catchy name... then you sits down an' writes half-a-dozen-jokes...
-->'''Pogo''': S'pose you can't think of any jokes?
-->'''Albert''': No drawback... you mere swipes 'em from your pals... actually, if you can't get up anything funny, then you gotta learn to draw guns and/or girls!
-->'''Pogo''': S'posin' you can't draw?
-->'''Albert''': No drawback! You makes cartoon animals that talk.
* CunningLikeAFox: Seminole Sam, generally a con-man.
* DeadpanSnarker: Porky Pine.
* DeepSouth / SweetHomeAlabama: A bit of a see-saw. The cast is poverty-stricken and ignorant; on the other hand they're also kind-hearted, generous and hospitable. (Albert's even generous with other peoples' stuff and hospitable with other peoples' houses.)
* DorkHorseCandidate: Pogo Possum, against his will, ran for president on three occasions; a write-in campaign in the real world attracted a surprising amount of support.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** The earliest appearances of Pogo were standard-issue FunnyAnimal comics, with none of the razor sharp wit or satire that the series became known for.
** In the Dell comics, Pogo himself started out looking much more like an opossum (with grey fur, no less), and he was merely Bumbazine's sidekick, and Albert was overtly (if [[HarmlessVillain harmlessly]]) villainous, usually more annoying than aggressive. Even Churchy La Femme was initally an antagonist, being introduced as a villainous pirate (even if he was as much of a HarmlessVillain as Albert).
* EqualOpportunityOffender: While Kelly leaned politically left, nobody was safe from his satire. During the 1968 presidential elections, he lampooned many of the candidates (Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, Eugene [=McCarthy=], etc) as well as the outgoing president Lyndon Johnson.
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Miss Ma'm'selle Hepzibah, the designated object-of-every-male's-affection, speaks in a heavy accent with occasional French words peppered throughout ([[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign often with no regard to what they mean]]).
* ExposedAnimalBellybutton: Mainly Pogo.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Albert once ate half a kettle of tar on the assumption that somebody had made licorice. Other characters have made odd dietary choices too.
* {{Fictionary}}: "Swamp-speak", based on U.S. Southern dialect, with many made-up words. Many, many. Kelly was a master of nonsense verse, and had absolutely no shame in using his skill at the drop of a hat.
** These included [[{{Malaproper}} malaprops]], {{spoonerism}}s, and good ol'-fashioned American gibberish. Examples include ''rhiknockwurst'' (a large gray African herbivore), ''Walla Walla''[[note]]Though this is the name of a real town in the state of Washington, not something Kelly made up[[/note]] (a place-holder for the surprisingly-frequent occasions on which the characters forget the words to the song they're rehearsing), ''rackety coon'' (local swamp residents who have black masks and banded tails) and ''rowrbazzle'' (an exclamation of disbelief and/or disdain.)
* ForeignLookingFont: A job- rather than country-specific variation, for P.T. Bridgeport and Deacon Muskrat.
* FunetikAksent: The bits that weren't made up. The 'per-loo' they made out of everything (including squirrels--inside adding to the flavour) is in some areas spelled 'pilaf'.
** There are even characters whose ''names'' are FunetikAksent examples – Churchy La Femme being the foremost.
* FunnyAnimal: All characters qualified, with varying degrees of anthropomorphism.
* {{Gonk}}: If it wasn't clear what Kelly's politics were, Simple J. Malarkey is by far the ''ugliest'' character in the strip-- not that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy#/media/File:Joseph_McCarthy_adjusted.jpg his model]] was exactly a come-hither ravishing beauty to begin with.
* GreenAesop: ''Pogo'' was one of the first environmentally aware strips. But then again, they do all live in wetlands.
--> '''Pogo:''' We have met the enemy, and he is us.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Pogo with his signature striped shirt, Barnstable Bear with his checkered hat and slacks, and Deacon Mushrat with his country preacher outfit, among others. Ma'm'selle Hepzibah is a borderline case, wearing a skirt that qualifies as more of an accessory.
* TheHeart: Pogo, as you might guess from the fact that the strip is named after him. He is a kind, uncomplicated character, less foolish and not as easily distracted as his neighbors. [[NotSoAboveItAll Generally.]]
* HumanlikeFootAnatomy: For most of the cast (Owl, Miz Hepzibah and Houn' Dog being the foremost exceptions).
* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: The 1989–93 revival strip was called ''Walt Kelly's Pogo'', although Kelly himself (who'd died in 1973, even before the original strip ended its run) had nothing at all to do with it.[[note]]However, his son and daughter, Pete and Carolyn, did take over the strip in March of 1992.[[/note]]
* InformedSpecies: Pogo looks more like a monkey than a possum.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Par for the course. For example, when Albert is on trial for eating Pup-Dog, Seminole Sam notes that Pup-Dog was fond of water, "jus' like a fish," and produces a fish skeleton that he claims is Pup-Dog's. Porky refutes him by noting that it's a ''cat''fish skeleton.
--> '''Seminole Sam:''' Well, is you ever seen the Pup-dog's skeleton when he was alive?
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: PlayedWith in the case of Porky Pine. He is capable of acts of kindness, but he does so in a pretty taciturn manner.
-->'''Porkypine:''' I dislikes most folks. But I dislikes ''you'' less than I dislikes folks what dislikes you ''less'' than they dislikes gossip. So I'll go alongside of you.
** Albert can get ''really'' jerkish and is ''really'' soft-hearted.
* KnightOfCerebus: Simple J. Malarkey, both in the sense that he's an antagonist who lacks any of the silliness of previous villains and has seemingly no compunction about attempting to kill the protagonists, and in the sense that his identity as an {{expy}} of Joseph [=McCarthy=] signaled the movement of the strip into addressing much more controversial political subject matters.
* LargeHam: P.T. Bridgeport (the P.T. Barnum {{expy}}) is such an example of this that his word balloons are even lettered in old-school circus advertising type.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Creator/AlanMoore had space aliens that bore a striking resemblance appear in an issue of ''Comicbook/SwampThing''.
* LighterAndSofter: Kelly would occasionally produce alternate strips (which he called the "fluffy bunny strips") with "safer" gags that more timid newspaper editors could run when the regular strips got too political.
** Although the 'bunny strips' increased his already-formidable daily workload, he was willing to pay that price to express himself. The First Amendment prevented him from getting sued, but he had a lot of very [[ObstructiveBureaucrat nervous newspaper editors]] to pacify.
** Because more children tended to read the Sunday color comics, Kelly usually made them less satirical and more kid-friendly than the daily strips.
* TheMagicPokerEquation: Parodied with the three bats. Six aces tended to be a losing hand.
* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: Subverted. It looks like Porkypine's reflection is talking back to him, but it's actually a bug hiding behind his mirror playing a prank on him.
* MediumAwareness:
** The characters would occasionally acknowledge that they were in a comic, either by [[FourthWallMailSlot answering mail from readers]] or otherwise making references to their status as comic book characters by (among other things) complaining that the comic wasn't funny enough or remarking that the punchline for today's strip was in the wrong panel. One famous strip even has Albert explaining to Bear how the modern comic strip works ... by [[MediumAwareness pointing to features in their own strip]].
** The same gag popped up when Porkypine was trying to break into cartooning.
--->'''Albert:''' ...And down here we have the date of the comical strip.
--->'''Porky:''' Indisputably droll.
** Albert, Churchy, and others are known to lean on or against the comic border for support -- and Albert even lights matches by striking them against the borders.
* MondegreenGag: A frequent occurance in the strip. Whenever someone sings a popular song, they ''never'' get the words right, and the result is always a nonsensical mess. Churchy is the most prone to singing these songs; he'll mangle nursery rhymes and traditional folk songs until they're completely unrecognizable.
** The most famous mangled song, and the one that appears most frequently in the strip is the mangled version of "Deck the Halls," which the characters would attempt to sing every Christmas. Though there are a few different versions of it, the one everyone knows begins "Deck us all with Boston Charlie, Walla Walla Wash., and Kalamazoo..."
** Beauregard has his own version of the song, which he insisted was the "correct" one: "Bark us all bow-wows of folly; Polly wolly cracker an' a too-da-loo!"
** Other versions of the song, that just showed up once or twice, went "Dunk us all in bowls of barley..." and "Tinkle salty boss anchovy..." but were shut down because the animals complained that those lyrics didn't make any sense.
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: A few strips had a ladybug who was tired of always being told to "fly away home."
* NeverLearnedToRead: Sometimes made the subject of a gag, with various characters trying to bluff their way through "reading" something. (Although as noted above, the actual literacy rate of the swamp varied wildly from strip to strip.)
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Albert has quite the appetite, but with a few exceptions in the [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early days]], the only times anyone ends up inside him are by accident or because someone tricked them into thinking his cavernous maw was a house.
* NiceGuy: In addition to being the OnlySaneMan of the strip, Pogo is also a genuinely good guy without many vices. Walt Kelly referred to him as the glue that held the strip together.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Simple J. Malarkey was Senator UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy as a bobcat. In this case, though, the intent was pretty obviously not "not harming" the celebrity in question; the Jack Acid Society storyline was one of the most savage indictments of a politician in comics since Creator/ThomasNast took on Tammany Hall.
* OneSteveLimit: The reason why Walt Kelly sued the band Poco, which originally had the same name as the strip.
* OnlySaneMan: Pogo and Porky Pine were frequently the only two sane characters in an environment where, e.g., a rabbit can be celebrating all known holidays at the start of the year to save time, an owl and a turtle might develop advertising slogans for dirt ("D as in dirt! I as in dirt! R as in dirt! T as in orange pekoe!") while, at the same time, an alligator is plotting to make his fortune and retire to the Sunny Bermoothies ("Land of the onion and the eel!") by ordering a million boxes of dirt with a penny-a-box discount, and then return the boxes. Sanity is very definitely an optional extra in the swamp.
* TheOwlKnowingOne: Gloriously {{subverted}} and parodied with Howland Owl, who ''thinks'' he's a genius but is repeatedly shown to be an enormous fool even by Okeefenokee standards.
* PaintingTheMedium: P.T. Bridgeport and Deacon Muskrat speak in stylized fonts. Occasionally-appearing CreepyUndertaker Sarcophagus [=MacAbre=] initially spoke in rectangular, black-bordered speech balloons, after the fashion of memorial/funeral cards.
* PoorCommunicationKills: One of the most prominent recurring themes in the comic. Nobody ever seems to quite understand what anyone else is talking about -- the villains of the comic often try (and sometimes succeed) to use all the misunderstandings to their advantage.
* PretentiousPronunciation: Of a sort-- the Mole is sometimes referred to as "Molester Mole", but it's meant to be pronounced to rhyme with "pollster" (which is a job the Mole has a few times).
* PunnyName: Oh so many. Starting with Churchy La Femme.
* ReformedButNotTamed: Albert in the ''Animal Comics'' series. In the early stories, he was the [[PredatorsAreMean carnivorous villain]] of the swamp -- in the very first story, "Albert Takes the Cake" he first steals Pogo's birthday cake and then tries to eat both Pogo and Bumbazine. He soon became far less of a menace, stopped trying to eat the others and got on fairly good terms with the rest of the swamp critters, referring to himself as "reformed." He still remained a selfish and temperamental pest, and his carnivore instincts weren't completely suppressed... as is shown when he and Pogo try to console a crying Missus Rackedy Coon about her missing son.
--> '''Missus Rackedy Coon:''' He wus so young and tender!\\
'''Albert:''' Yes, ma'am! He sho' wuz -- many a time he make ma mouth water jes' by passin' by -- ''(Pogo nudges him)'' ..oop-umph!\\
'''Pogo:''' Hey, psst! You is ''ree-formed,'' Albert!\\
'''Albert:''' Of co'se I nevah even took so much as a bite of him myse'f.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: And how! Even the bugs are adorable in this strip. He very quickly became less of a threat and more of
* SatireParodyPastiche: ''Pogo'' is the very ''definition'' of satire.
* SceneryPorn: The comic had some ''beautiful'' backgrounds at times, particularly in the Sunday strips.
* SelfDeprecation: On one strip, Albert is reading the comics and thinks "this dog bone thing called ''Poggo'' is jes about incompreehensibule."
* ShipTease: Pogo and Hepzibah show mutual attraction.
* SignatureLine: "We have met the enemy, and he is us."
* SinisterMinister: Deacon Muskrat, the only character among the main cast [[WordOfGod Kelly described]] as genuinely evil.
* SmellySkunk: Averted. Hepzibah is never shown using her spray; the one time she resorts to long-distance discouragement, it's the more traditional rock salt shotgun round.
* SpeciesSurname: Almost all the animals have this, and quite often they're even called by their species (for example, Churchy La Femme is often simply called "Turtle" and Beauregard is called "Houn' Dog") The exceptions are Pogo and Albert, who are always called exactly that.
* SpotlightStealingSquad:
** While the strip had many characters who would routinely hog the spotlight to the point where Pogo himself often became more a supporting character in his own strip, no character is more spotlight-hogging than Albert. In the Dell comics he had star billing above Pogo, and in the comic strip itself he's got such a major role that a lot of readers will insist he's the ''real'' main character.
** Howland Owl and Churchy La Femme are ''almost'' as spotlight-stealing as Albert. Quite often the strip ends up focusing on the two arguing with each other or getting up to bizarre hijinks for weeks at a time.
* StrawmanPolitical: Dozens of short-term visitors to the swamp were thinly-veiled caricatures of politicians of the day.
* TalkingAnimal: The ones that aren't {{Funny Animal}}s.
* TarAndFeathers: Simple J. Malarkey tries to have everyone tarred and feathered so they can be classified as migratory birds and be run out of the country. Deacon Muskrat turns the tables on him.
* TerrifiedOfGerms: Mole in his first appearance is spraying disinfectant from a CartoonBugSprayer on everyone he meets, worried about "germs of every nation" polluting the country.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Most female swamp critters wear bonnets and/or aprons, and Hepzibah wears a skirt. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in an early strip in which Miz Hop Frog fools Pogo into thinking she's ''Mister'' Hop Frog simply by removing her apron.
* TooDumbToFool: The gullible, ignorant swamp folk were prone to accidental LogicBomb situations that would leave the swindler as confused as his victims.
* TheTrickster: Seminole Sam, the slick-talking fox, was always out to separate the Okeefenokee folks from their money. [[FridgeLogic (They have money?)]] Over the decades he tried just about every scam imaginable - dirt in a box ("you can't wash clothes unless you have dirt!"), magic elixir ("Made of pure H20!"), admission to invisible or impossible things [[RefugeInAudacity ("The U.S. Constitution engraved on the point of a pin!")]], and more. At one point he swapped Albert, who'd fallen asleep, to some passing church-mice for their boat, claiming Albert was a "tumbled-down church." Sometimes he got his comeuppance, [[KarmaHoudini sometimes he didn't]], and sometimes [[TakeAThirdOption he and the rest of the characters got sidetracked]] by a fresh face, the resurfacing of an old plot, or [[ItMakesSenseInContext the World Series.]]
* TrueCompanions: The swamp critters are all one big family, especially around Christmas time.
* UnusualEuphemism: "Rowrbazzle", among others. Taking the unusual euphemisms out of the strip would probably reduce the amount of text by 90%, and the remaining would probably be articles and the occasional conjunction.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Churchy and Howland. Even though they frequently argue and annoy one another, they are almost always together.
* WorldOfHam: Almost every character loves the sound of their own voice, with the exception of a few [[TheVoiceless mute]] characters, Porky the DeadpanSnarker, and Pogo himself.
* {{Workaholic}}: Walt Kelly basically worked himself to death trying to keep up with all his self-selected projects.

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->''"Don't take life so serious, son – it ain't nohow permanent."''