grew up with Marlon Perkins as the face of Wild Kingdom ( a TV show about animals long before that Australian guy jumped on the stingray- for you younger folk) Marlon would talk about, say, alligators. And then he would proudly say stuff like “And now Jim will jump onto the alligator and bring it over here!” or something equally as appalling. Poor ol’ Jim would do it, too!
Jim survived and carried on, going on late night talk shows with animals that would poop on or bite every famous comedian/host there has been.
I don’t think ‘Ranger DeMarcus’ will stick with it that long.
But that’s just a guess.
Must have been one of the raccoons. Or, maybe the drunk “cute” bear.
Wukular?
wukilar
It’s hard spelling right on a cell phone in the middle of the night.
or someone touched the “equipment” of beer team. hehe
Hmmmm, wasn’t me. It could have been those trash pandas, but I think it was one or more of the other competitors. Not naming names here.
I used to watch Marlon Perkins on Wild Kingdom too. It was a great show. I don’t remember Jim ever getting clawed up like that.
I’m betting the Wukilar and Ranger DeMarkus had a few rounds. Maybe the Wukilar is a were-creature and Ranger DeMarkus will change out and freak out Dusty?
[Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom… we used to wish just once they’d trade places and Marlon would have to do the wrangling and Jim could smile and read the cue-cards… just once.]
Now that you mention the show’s full name, I do vaguely our family watching it… but I don’t remember much, as I was still in elementary school, and therefore had not yet learned English…
(I’m French Canadian, for anyone who is curious… And my approximate likeness can be found here, in this very comic: http://hubriscomics.com/comic/hubris-caddy-wacked/ )
oh, I am “sure” it has nothing with the food she launched the first day into the swamp that got some POOR ANIMAL STARVING…right?
will the poor ranger SURVIVE to show up again!!!!
I remember a wildlife expert on the Red Green show who was totally terrified of whatever he brought (all we ever saw was a crate with air holes). Maybe he had an experience similar to Ranger Demarcus’ in his past.
Oh heck yeah.
i remember that! good gracious that was centuries ago.
i, in all honesty, thought DeMarcus was sort of more like the poor soul from the Red Green show… i can’t remember the poor fellow’s name off the top of my head. i just remember Red always putting the poor guy on the spot because, well, it was funny. to everybody Else. ^^;;
Ed Frid played by Jerry Schaefer. He was the animal control officer. Very funny watching him panic over every critter he brought in.
*Grabs Greg’s unicycle and learns how to use it in record time*
I’m outta here suckas!
Does the Stanky Creek Outdoor Fest have an insurance company for a sponsor, like Wild Kingdom did?
‘Cuz they seem to need it.
The insurance for the ‘Fest is part of the storyline from the first ‘Fest. Rick Mittleif wrote the contract, and mostly just so he could compete.
That particular strip is one of my favourites. I can TOTALLY imagine doing something that stupid so that I could join a team.