What happens if you cross a Smurf with a hippie? You get an odd French made cartoon that used to be on TV about ten years ago, called The Smoggies. The Smoggies were actually three pollution causing humans living on a run-down ship anchored off-shore of a tropical paradise somewhere. The island itself was populated by foot tall people who lived in perfect environmental balance, who somehow never had to give up any of their creature comforts. Air conditioners without destroying the ozone layer? Throw together some coconut shells, a palm front, some naturally occuring elastic vines, and a wind vane on the roof, and voila! They never seemed to have the same problem with elementary physics that we do. Their pedal powered cars and boats were easy to ride around it, even if anything *we* make would exhaust an Olympic champion in under two minutes, just to go 6 mph. Be that as it may, I kind of got into all these little punkin' heads running around in skimpy clothes. There weren't anywhere enough girls, though. Most were rather matronly. The major exception was Princess Leela, (or something like that).

I invented a Suntot character of my own who was anything but matronly, and called her Snowball. As you can probably infer, her main activity is hanging around the beach.