Penelope Pitsnot...I mean.. Pitstop

If you've read the blog below you know I've "discovered" the Boomerang channel. This morning at 7:30 the kids and I watched "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop." Now, this cartoon was a favorite of my younger sister back in the day. I absolutely HATED the cartoon, although I don't remember why. I just know I loathed it with every fiber of my being. Just to irritate my younger sister, my older sister and I would call her Penelope Pitsnot. I had not even thought about this cartoon until we found Boomerang.

We were watching the cartoon this morning and I counted at least 7 times Penelope got in trouble with the "Hooded Claw". But of course her gang, whatever their names were, always saved her. They kinda reminded me of the seven dwarfs, because they had all of the characteristics of them and there were seven.

But as I sat there watching the cartoon, I found myself chuckling at "The Hooded Claws" dastardly plan to do away with Penelope and get her inheritance. It always consisted of at least 12 steps, which cracked me up because it always gave "the gang" enough time to rescue her. But I also had to laugh as I watched the following scene unfold before me:

Jack: "Why doesn't the Hooded Claw just do away with Penelope quick?"
Caroline: "Jack! How can you say that!"
Caroline: "OH NO!!!! Penelope fell off that cliff!"
Mom thinking: "Yeah, because it's really hard to just fall off a unicycle when you see you're about to go off a cliff."
Caroline: "Thank goodness her friends were there. MOM STOP LAUGHING!!!"
Jack: "Oh yeah, that's realistic! You can't saw through rock."
Caroline: "JACK!!!! The Hooded Claw can."
Jack: "What country is Penelope from. She talks funny."
Mom: "She's from the South Jack. It's a southern accent. She's probably from Mississippi or something."
Jack: "Oh. She sure is stupid."
Caroline: "SHE IS NOT!!!! THE HOODED CLAW TRICKS HER."
Jack: "Yeah she is. She's been captured like a million times. Wouldn't she know the bad guy's going to try and get her? Oh that's real. No one can talk underwater."
Caroline: "Penelope can."

Finally, Jack left the room because he couldn't stand it anymore. Caroline loves Penelope Pitstop, but this time I have to keep my mouth shut. I'll just laugh on the inside.