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Felix Baby Sits

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Hey, happy new year....let's get out our magic bags..! Only about tweleve two parters into 1959 with the Professor as a neccesary evil, and Jor Oriolo and co,. were making him a symphathetic uncle of the newly intro'd (third regular character), approximately 7 year old (Felix being around 15 years old here) nephew nerd Poindexter,whose name became synonym ous with the typical nerd trope. Felix sees the professor's lab and hears an explosions, so he runs to see what it possible could be. It's the professor's newly-intro'd genius nephew Poindexter. The professor, now given some growth to be a good type, trusts Felix with this little guy who first, not quite the buddy that he would be,later, shocks our cat with a vest mounted button engaged-joke shock button (like the common cartoon gag of thsoe days;Ponsy"'s button would be just as multi tasked for a while as Felix's bag), then Poinsy has to go to bed but sneaks out to his own lab, where he's acco...

THE ESSENCE OF MONEY (Season 3, 1960-1961)

 THE ESSENCE OF MONEY Felix, Sniffer the Hound, Rock Bottom the bulldog, and Professor For the first post, here's one from midway through the show. Features the very rarely used Sniffer, a dog character quite unlike Rock, and who, like Martin the Martian and Vavoom, is rarely used. One day, the Professor and Rock are again trying (a la THE LOAN BUSINESS and the later GETTNG RIDE OF SNIFFER) to 1) get money from Felix the Cat, but 2) avoiding Sniffer form deeming them, via canine sense of smell, a "bad risk". THey Professor suggests he and Rock spray themselves with "Good Risk Smell", and it does seem tow ork when they next re-enter Felix's loan business, but Felix is surprised to find Sniffer actually agreeing to let tnhe crooks borrow the mioney, so Felix has Sniffer sniff the other dog and the scientist, and the spray evaporates! Professor:"Just to let you know Felix..FELIX..YOU ARE AN INDIAN GIVER"! Rock, in his usual literal mindedness:"He...