LAUGHING AT CARTOONS
This Chum Bucket owner has one goal: "To misappropriate the formulary for the preparation of affordable comestibles!"
Plankton
It's how many Spartans died fighting the Persian army at Thermopylae, at least according to the title of a 2006 film
300
It's the weight of the Liberty Bell...
if it lost 80 pounds
a ton
Michael Jackson used this "get lost" phrase as the title of a song about avoiding violence at all costs
beat it
This lovable hippie was known for dulcet musings like "Isn't that a nice little tree? & he lives right here in this brush"
Bob Ross
This kid took on a Dog the Bounty Hunter persona as bear spray-toting Hall Monitor; he also has opinions about Kyle's mom
Cartman
It's 2 numbers, actually, & together they mean "message received" in radio-speak
10-4
In a nursery rhyme, it's what the fourth little piggy had
none
Drop the last 3 letters of a way to cook eggs to get this word meaning "depart quickly"
scram
For decades he ended shows by reminding viewers, "Help control the pet population. Have your pet spayed or neutered"
Bob Barker
At his longtime nuclear power plant job, this TV character "turned a potential Chernobyl into a mere Three Mile Island"
Homer Simpson
In a Proclaimers hit it's the total miles the singer would walk just to be the man who had fallen down at a door after walking that far
1,000 miles
In "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", the economics teacher says "Bueller?" 4 times and this 6-letter word 14 times
"Anyone?"
If puns are your thing, instead of saying "Get lost", you might opt for "Make like a tree &" do this
leave
Name-checking one of his biggest roles, this late comic once tweeted, "I spend my day cleaning... I have become Danny Tanner"
Bob Saget
A game show on this "equine" 'toon was "Hollywoo Stars and Celebrities: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things?? Let's Find Out!"
BoJack Horseman
It's been in use by Heinz since 1896, despite never referring to an actual quantity of anything
57
A warrior who didn't try hard in the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains might be told by Attila, "You call yourself" this?!
hun
The OED says this word is used to "drive away poultry, birds, or other intruders"; presumably that includes flies
shoo
Without the music of this guy, Tom Cruise in "Risky Business" would have been just a guy without pants dancing to nothing
Bob Seger
On this show, "Who wants to watch a mad scientist use...sci-fi tools to take out...alien guards when we can sit here...at Shoney's?"
Rick and Morty
Come on, Christmas wasn't that long ago; this number comes right before "geese a-laying"
6
Metaphysical poet who wrote, "Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies"
Jone Donne
Expressing relief that something's gone, this phrase shows up in both Shakespeare (1609) & Green Day (a few years later)
"Good Riddance"
This designer is famous for decades of eye-catching collabs with Cher, including the infamous 1974 "naked dress"
Bob Mackie