Bad Bart Laughs

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Originally uploaded by super rachel zana.

Mr. Slobber's hat is always falling off to the side, and it always reminds me of that Little People peg person in the yellow shirt with the red hat. There were two versions of that particular toy: Good Bart, whose hat was on straight and perpetually smiled, and Bad Bart, whose hat had slipped to the side, his mouth downturned into an eternal nasty frown. I read somewhere he was the only grumpy Little People Toy every manufactured, the one grouch in a sea of good happy people. He must have felt out of place. I'm glad they tempered their toys with at least a small dose of emotional reality.