Mr String

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Doris: Welcome to the World Heavy Weightlifting Contest, where weightlifters lift great weights, and make it look easy! Here comes our first lifter, Plush. (He blows a bubblegum bubble and it pops) Lifting great weights is hard to do. (He spits on his paws) And this is one hard weight to lift! Running Gag: In the segment "Lift Me Up", Little Cup wants to be lifted up to get a better view at stuff. Whenever he gets lifted up, some juice falls onto Mr. String. Mr. Shoe: We're still young, at heart! (Spins Mrs. Shoe around) Long, long, short short short. Step, step, and cha cha cha. Mr. String: That's because I'm jumpy! Jumpy, jumpy, jumpy! Positively, absolutely, definitely, and completely, I'm happy to be jumpy! I stood up and went to the window. When I got close to her she looked down at her watering can. "Mrs. Fox," I said. "You're a horror today." To which she replied, "Why don't you write a book about it?'"

Considering that I’m still not really sure exactly what was going on, writing this summary shall be a challenge. Let’s see … as best as I can tell, the story is about a writer (Mr. Fox) who is married to a woman named Daphne but is having an affair of sorts with his muse (Mary Foxe), who is slowly taking corporeal form in the real world. But when I tell you that this story is not told in a straightforward way, trust me on that Strong Handshakes, Silence, Rudimentary Car Mechanics, How to Mow the Lawn, Explosive Displays of Authority, Sport and Nutrition Against Impotence”. Bob (off-screen): Starring... Mop, Mr. String, The Shoe Family, Doris the Door, Little Cup, Plush, Pad and Pencil, and me, Bob the Ball! Today, we're a little curious about.. Long, Short, and Roll!This episode's title card is different from all the others, as its topics are all blue, instead of being green, then blue, then green, like the rest of Season 1. Bob (singing): There may be something that's hard for me, but for you, it's so easy. Then something else is for easy for me, but for you may be hard to do. It's different... everybody is different...

Tales of foxes are repeated and repeated, but they’re not repetitive, and they’re illustrative of different permutations and outcomes. At first I wasn’t sure what was going on with Mary Foxe and St John Fox, the names so similar but the two seemingly unknown to each other. It didn’t take long to get my bearings and eventually discover who is creating whom, and why; how such creations can follow you through your life like an imaginary friend, sustaining you through dark times, including—appropriately enough—in a foxhole. When the creation becomes more real than the person one lives with, the story shows the characters buying into the other's fabrication and resolving the created distance.The premise, if you haven't read it: St. John Fox, the Mr. Fox of the title, is a writer who can't stop killing women in his stories. He always comes up with an excuse, of course, but the attentive reader will notice parallels between his interactions with Daphne and the deaths of these fictional women, so maaaaaybe he's got some unspoken issues with women. Mary Foxe, his fictional muse whom he eventually wills into the real world, takes objection to this, and the two chase each other through St. John Fox's fictional universes, Mary trying to get St. John to realize the consequences of his actions, St. John trying to defend himself. And when Daphne finds out about Mary, all hell breaks loose. In fact, this book is hard to pigeonhole. Certainly, it is imaginative. It is also timeless: the tales amply leverage the romance and violence that are part and parcel of the best of our historic fairy tales. Mr. Fox, for example, bridges the gap with legendary foxes such as the seductive Reynardine and in one unforgettable story, becomes a fox of folklore, trying to escape his fox-like nature. Pencil: But now my dear, you must agree, I never lose my point, not me! (Hops into electric sharpener)