Seafaring ghost stories may be as old and as common as The Flying Dutchman, but add a little bit of comic relief and apparently you are stepping on Ron Gilbert’s toes. If peg legs even have feet with toes. They probably do on Monkey Island, which he invented after watching WLVI one of the five thousand afternoons they ran The Flintstones back-to-back with the “Go Away Ghost Ship” episode of Scooby-Doo (pictured).

But you don’t see Hanna or Barbera blogging about that. Probably because one of them is dead and the other one receives a daily comeuppance from the incarnated spirit of Justice in return for pushing Scrappy Doo. But even if they weren’t inanimate or having their liver gnawed out every day only to have it grow back every night, they’d be able to admit that Ron did his own thing, and did it very, very well.

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