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#27 - Additional Sidekicks, Auxiliary Mascots, and Breakout Characters (Part 2)


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Welcome back to The Penny Men, where we’re still lost in the Cousin Oliver Zone and the exits are blocked by secondary mascots!


In Part 2 of our deep dive, we move past the classics and start unearthing the weird ones — the tagalongs, tone-shifters, and “Who asked for this?” additions that history forgot!


We’re talking:

  • Orbity, the Jetsons’ moon-puppy who brought “season three” energy to a season one show
  • Mork from Ork, beaming into Happy Days just to beam out again into his own sitcom
  • Bubsy, the video game mascot who thought he could be Sonic
  • Seven, Married… with Children’s mystery child who disappeared
  • The inexplicable Baby Sinclair from Dinosaurs, who became a catchphrase machine

And we’re not done!


We go into:

  • That one weird season where Diff’rent Strokes decided it needed a second kid
  • Cousin Skeeter, because why wouldn’t a Nickelodeon sitcom need a talking puppet?
  • Scrappy-Dum — yes, Scrappy-Doo had his own country cousin
  • The Animaniacs’ Rita and Runt, and the strange spin-off energy they brought

We also somehow end up discussing:

  • Disney’s mid-90s push for “cute alien mascots” that nobody remembers
  • Cartoons where the new character just… replaced the old one without explanation
  • Shows that added babies purely for the merch sales
  • Why the “second mascot” is almost always the most unhinged

It’s Part 2, so the nostalgia’s deeper, the lists are stranger, and the zingers are flying like t-shirt cannons!


By the end, you’ll be thinking: If I show up now, do I get my own theme song?

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