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Published: 2021-07-07 06:01:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 1158; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 0
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- This story was inspired by a one-paragraph summary at the Family Guy wiki page about a then-upcoming episode, and production began weeks before the actual show aired.
- The Time Couch was put out of commission by the heavy damage it took in way back in " Once Upon A Time Warp" (Jan 2007 ).
- This marks one of Bear and Mooch's rare appearances together without Beethoven/Buxton, whose role is filled here by Helmut von Rabid. The reason is twofold: editor Jonathan M. Sweet hadn't yet made up his mind if he wanted to continue using the character after the real-life Beethoven's death the previous year, and because "Beethoven never would have gone after a cat that way. He was raised by two male cats. He even exhibited cat mannerisms. He loved and respected cats too much to ever chase or try to eat one."
- For lack of space, much of the dialogue and several gags were shortened or cut in their entirety:
- A number of archival scenes from the first issue were trimmed. The new text of Punkin talking to himself and making meta-humor comments throughout critiquing the artwork, which was comparatively crude in the series' first year, was also excised.
- The scene with Punkin in the Stone Age ran a bit longer, with The Fat Broad scared away by the sudden appearance of a hungry dinosaur (the T-Rex from " Paleozoic Error").
- A second attempt at time-travels sends Punkin into Civil War times, where he turns up in the parlor of a fancy house just outside Washington D.C., in the summer of 1862. Union General Joseph Hooker enters and strikes up a conversation with the home's owner, wishing to procure some "evening entertainment" for his men. (It becomes obvious here that it's a brothel, and she's the madame.) A second gentleman, dressed in Confederate grey, enters, also wishing for women to come entertain his troops, and offers nearly twice as much. The house madame is intrigued until she learns the Rebel general's name is "A. Grosse Drippenbottom". She (wisely) decides to sell her girls to Hooker for the night. The scene cuts to a bespectacled historian, in a dusty library archive, who tells the readers, "And that is how prostitutes came to be known as 'hookers'." [ 1] This gag, nixed early in the story's concept stage, doesn't appear in the original handwritten script.
- After Punkin falls from the treehouse, the gang (their lower halves obscured by in a cloud of dust to avoid "animating" their running feet) tramples over him as they leave. Angela stops to give him first aid. (This is why "old" Punkin appears bandaged up at the end, and retroactively explains why she wasn't in the third part of the story at all, save for suddenly appearing to laugh at the joke in the final panel--helping Punkin made her late to the battle.)
