Heck

Were some of my previous entries not sufficiently clear on this matter, I watch a lot of cartoons.

This past week, for example, I took in a ton of Tex Avery’s MGM shorts.

One starts to notice things. That, for instance, Millionaire Droopy (1956) is identical to Wags to Riches (1949), except that it is in CinemaScope—and that its backgrounds have been updated to match the nineteen-fifties. Hence—

—gives way to—

—and so on.

One notices, too, the credits. The names that repeat, reappear. Tex. Fred. Bob.

And, my favorite—Heck. As in Heck Allen, as in Henry Wilson Allen, also known as Will Henry and Clay Fisher.

Heck! Add it, I insist, to your list of diminutives of Henry.