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 showMork from Ork, beaming into Happy Days just to beam out again into his own sitcomBubsy, the video game mascot who thought he could be SonicSeven, Married… with Children’s mystery child who disappearedThe inexplicable Baby Sinclair from Dinosaurs, who became a catchphrase machineAnd we’re not done!We go into:That one weird season where Diff’rent Strokes decided it needed a second kidCousin Skeeter, because why wouldn’t a Nickelodeon sitcom need a talking puppet?Scrappy-Dum — yes, Scrappy-Doo had his own country cousinThe Animaniacs’ Rita and Runt, and the strange spin-off energy they broughtWe also somehow end up discussing:Disney’s mid-90s push for “cute alien mascots” that nobody remembersCartoons where the new character just… replaced the old one without explanationShows that added babies purely for the merch salesWhy the “second mascot” is almost always the most unhingedIt’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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