One serial comic artist said to the other looking over his shoulder, "A family of a cat, a
dog, and a mouse?"
"Oh come on! You know people are gonna LOVE the whole irony of the situation! Not
only is the unspoken illogic of it all wonderfully silly, but the family value and message
of what family really is is bound to win over people."
"So it's basically Family Circus with a slapstick quality and animals instead of people?"
"You say that if it was a bad thing."
"Okay, granted. So you're going to keep it as one-shot gag for now?"
"All strung together of course. I think I'll stick with that for now before moving onto
more deep story lines and people have had time to get used to and become
emotionally collected to the characters."
"Should be interesting."
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Lisa the pink house cat, Joe the blue Wiener Dog, and Tommy the purple mouse, down
desert with barely tasting their food. Of course they all ended up with ice cream
headaches, and of course then took a couple family photos of themselves with heads
that were ice-cream cones before it wore off.
In the real world, names vanishes from government records, people vanished from
photos, and memories faded, and were replaced with new members. As the family went
deeper and deeper into their roles.
Lisa saw her son rush over to the soda machines for a refill leaping onto other toons
heads as he did so causing a few mishaps along the way, but felt no need to
reprimand him. It was funny, therefore, it couldn't be wrong.
A rhino and hippo couple greeted them politely on the way out of the eating
establishment. None of the family thought about the need to pay. They all weren't
wearing anything anyway. And unless the dish washing gag was thought of, paying the
dinner bill wasn't all that interesting and thus wasn't really worth thinking about.
Joe waved a taxi down, and got flattened. Lisa rolled him off the pavement and with a
rug cleaning flap got him to full size. None of them thought about how the humans
they had seen when starting their vacation had vanished into thin air.
"Where to mac?" Asked a bullfrog cab driver.
"THE BEACH!" Tommy declared jumping up and down.
The cab driver looked at the two foot high adults and six inches high mouse boy and
said, "Sure, hope on."
Without hesitation or giving it a second thought the family jumped onto the top of the
taxi the driver not giving the slightest complain and simply began to drive in the
direction desired.
Tommy thought if his friends at school could see him like this, but found he couldn't
remember their faces, but he shrugged it off as not important.