Sunday, March 8, 2009

Where my Foofur people at?

About once a year, Foofur comes up in conversation between myself and my wife. She claims to have never heard of the big blue dog, while I not only plead his existence, but also sing the annoying theme song from his cartoon.

This leads to the question: Do any of you remember Foofur, or was I the sole watcher of this (admittedly poor) Hanna-Barbera offering from the late '80s?

Here's the opening credits, to jog a few memories:

 

A funny related story, found on the Foofur Wikipedia page:
Foofur played a role in the case Nationwide Insurance v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, 116 F.3d 1154 (7th Cir., 1997). The case dealt with an insurer's duty to defend an insured party in light of the insured's intentional acts of property damage. The insured, a drunken college student, tried to spell out "Foofur" on the football field with lighter fluid, and then burn it permanently into the astroturf. Although he did not manage to spell out more than "Foo", he did succeed in causing $600,000 damage to the astroturf. The court held that such an act was not within the insurance policy's liability coverage.
Guess this means at least one person remembers him.

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