And I believe the abominable snowman character (aka the big wooley bear) in Monsters, Inc was an homage to the one in "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer". And Bryster, he doesn't smile much either, now. His teeth were pulled out by Hermie the misfit elf (dentist).

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy