By day, he was Penrod Pooch, a mild-mannered janitor at the local police station. A quick jump into a filing cabinet, and he shot out of a trash chute into the dumpster, where the Phooeymobile was parked. Hong Kong Phooey and Spot, his police cat sidekick, emerged to fight crime in the city.

Hong Kong Phooey only lasted one season on Saturday cartoons — yes, back when cartoons were only aired on Saturdays — and he had a few disappointuing cameos in the Laugh-a-Lympics. It was years until I would hear about HKP again, when a good friend of mine announced that he was going to get a Hong Kong Phooey tattoo. He never went through with it, by the way.

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