Bear's Belly Laugh

     I haven’t laughed so hard in a long home. Last night Wubs came home and we started discussing something. He concluded one of his sentences with a deep belly laugh. I mentioned how much I loved that unique gut giggle and at that point he immediately changed it to a high pitch snicker. He gets a little shy when you compliment him. He then gave another half snicker and went deep into the recesses of his brain to pull out a treasure. He apparently had some childhood memory about a bear laughing in a cartoon and how he always loved it. I laughed and said, “Really? Now I have to find this bear. What cartoon was it on?” He replied, “I think it was little red riding hood.”

Me: “Ummm…little red riding hood revolves around the big bad wolf not a bear.”

Wubs: “I’m pretty sure it was little red riding hood. I think it was a looney tunes cartoon or something.”

Me: “Ok I’m gonna google it.”

     Eventually I googled “pics of bears in old cartoons laughing.”

     It pulled up a screen of pictures and I turned the monitor towards Wubs so he could identify his memory for me. He picked out this one and exclaimed, “That’s him!”

I did some more google-ing and found the whole cartoon here.

     Just after the narrator says, “And the papa bear says…” I lost it. The bear’s face, laugh and expression…all of it was like watching my husband.

     “Oh my gosh. It’s you, in 1940, as a cartoon bear…”

     Then Wubs starts his belly laugh again and I was rolling…I couldn’t stop…

     Wubs was all red in the face like he just discovered something new about himself he subconsciously had an idea about until his wife spelled it out in black in white by doing some computer sleuthing.

I.LOVE. THIS. MAN.

Today I learned something new about him...