Tag Archives: Princess Pinky

Don’t Look in the Back Seat!

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um…you know when you watch those scary movies, and there is a malevolent force in the back seat, as the hero/heroine drive blithely and unconcernedly around the dark country side. And the camera cuts to a shot of the evil one starting to rise up in the back seat, and you jump up and yell at the screen:

Don’t turn around!!!!!!! Don’t look in the backseat!

Well, think of that as you start to read this cartoon.

Warning: do not read with food or drink in your mouth.  #YouHaveBeenWarned

Cue the menacing music...

Cue the menacing music…

Meanwhile back on the National Zoo panda front, Xiao Mei Tian (not his official name, just a crib name, as he won’t get either his real name or his panda satire name till he is a hundred days old) has survived his fist week. He is starting to develop his panda markings and is getting nice and round. Huzzah!

I think we can deduce from this cartoon that Pinky is not quite ready to give up her presidential aspirations.

I will have to think of something to distract her….
Be the Bear
Bob T Panda

Mr. Bun Has a Question

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The Cubbycake Chronicles Continues

It has been a highly emotional week for panda fans around the US and around the world. Panda Research centers in China continue to have success raising not only single cubs, but also twins, and last year, the first instance of surviving triplets occurred. In the US, however, we have only had one pair of surviving twins at Zoo Atlanta, known here affectionately as Bert and Ernie, or the Meihem twins.

Last Saturday’s birth of twins to Mei Xiang at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC caused great celebrations, not only among the panda faithful. In a world that seems to be going nuts with new random shootings every week, and natural disasters like the out of control wildfires in my home state of Washington, two new baby pandas seemed like just the thing to cheer ourselves up.

It was not to be. One of the cubs was too small and too weak to survive, and he died on Wednesday. My heart and sympathies go out to all the panda house staff at the SNZ. They have been working around the clock since the start of Mei Xiang’s labor. They are exhausted as well as heartbroken and they deserve our support. If this cub could have been saved, they would have done so.

The surviving cub is doing well. Mama Mei continues to prove herself an excellent mother. This is the first time we will have two cubs in residence at the same time at the SNZ. I can’t wait to visit and see the new cub, which will remain with Mei Xiang for about 18 months.

But that is the real world, and THIS is panda satire. So we take a moment to wipe our tears and blow our collective noses and get on with the show. I wanted to do a cartoon that commemorates the loss of this cub, without getting excessively maudlin. I hope you agree that this fills the bill.

And of course, it stars Pinky.

Mr Bun has a question, daddee.

Mr. Bun has a question daddee.

Be the Bear,

Bob T. Panda

Huzzah! Huzzah!

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Things are hopping in Pandyland, AKA the National Zoo in Washington DC. On Saturday, August 22nd, Mama Mei Xiang gave birth to not one, but TWO cubs. We are still on pins and needles, because panda cubs are really, really, really little, not to mention fragile. So, they are a little too small to appear in cartoons often, but I couldn’t resist letting one of them make a brief appearance with her big sister, Princess Pinky Bao Bao.

Huzzah!

PP: um, dis is not going to interrupt my presidential campaign, is it?

PP: um, dis is not going to interrupt my presidential campaign, is it?

How will having twin siblings affect the ever more attitudinal Princess Pinky, as she vies for the Cake Party nomination in next years presidential race?

Well, we just don’t know, Dude.

Huzzah!

Be the bear…
Bob T Panda

Intervention for Pinky

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NEWS FLASH!!!!! If you haven’t heard already, out in the real world Pinky has not one, but two new siblings. So far everyone is doing okay. They have started swapping out the twins so each can have some time with Mama Mei. What will Pinky have to say about this? Um…. I don’t know yet, but you can be sure that it will be all about Pinky Pinky Pinky! We will continue to monitor the situation closely, both for sibling rivalry as well as sibling exploitation. (Do you think that Pinky won’t turn this to her own advantage?)

Congratulations  Mei Xiang, the Panda staff, the Smithsonian National Zoo, and of course, the panda faithful who visit the pandas …um…a lot. HUZZAH!!!!!

Enough is enough! Pinky is out of control and Mommee and Daddee must do something about it. So, instead of Pinky’s expected birthday party, they stage an intervention for Pinky.

Do they really think this is going to work?

And this hacking into my title imagery has got to stop!

And this hacking into my title copy has got to stop!

Does Mei Xiang have any kind of chance to control Pinky, when Pinky so clearly has Daddee wrapped around her little paw? How do you ground a panda when said panda has a magical wand? And how did she change my title copy again? This must stop!

Stay tuned, faithful Panda fans!

Be the Bear,
Bob T. Panda

Mommee Knows Best

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Does Mommee know best? Probably not always, but Princess Pinky has frayed Mommee’s last nerve, and what with Mama Mei Xiang about to potentially bring another bundle (or two!) of joy into the world, it is no wonder she is getting tired of Pinky’s Presidential Shenanigans.

Mei puts her paw down...

Mei puts her paw down…

And wouldn’t you know! Pinky has managed to hack into my computer again. I’m not sure that confining her to her room is going to make her behave. Mei is going to have to take her computer away as well.

I’m sure I never behaved this badly, did I? Don’t answer that.

Is there anything cuter than an outraged Pinky?

Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda

Mehitabel TONITE! Part 2

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And we are BACK on the Mehitabel Tonite! Show, with her special guest, Princess Pinky, challenger for the nomination in the Cake Party primary.

Take it away, Mehitabel!

Oh dear....

Oh dear….

Uh oh, indeed.
Will Pinky and her minions get away with this? 
Will mama Mei put her paw down, before she gets distracted with a possible addition to the family?
Will Mehitabel ever invite pandas back onto her show?
Will Bob’s campaign finally go viral?
Can The Donald manage to get any more offensive than he already is? (Oops! Debate reference alert!)

Tune in again, for the answers for these questions as well as many others!

Be the bear!
Bob T. Panda

 

Pinky Hits the Talk Shows!

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These days, it’s not just news programs and debates where candidates try to get as much air time as they can! Yep, they all strive to get on as many talk shows as possible, so that voters see their “real people” (or is that “panda?”) sides.

And what better talk show is there, than Mehitabel Tonite!?

And what better talk show is there, than Mehitabel Tonite!?

Mehitabel knows how to get to the heart of the matter with her guests, don’t you think?

Be the Bear,
Bob T. Panda

Pinky’s White House Selfie

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Unnamed sources have hacked into princess Pinky’s twidder and insta-pand accounts to steal her personal photos and um…we have uh… “obtained” them and share them here. Is Pinky jumping the gun by taking her photograph HERE????!!!???

You might remember this shocking photo from last week’s post:

I'm sorry, but this seems like Pinky is taking liberties...again!!!

I’m sorry, but this seems like Pinky is taking liberties…again!!!

I know you can now take your own White House selfie, but do they let pandidates pose in the White House so they can look more presidential? This seems like an unfair advantage. They might ban selfies with the Pres himself, so does this disqualify Pinky? Hmmm?

Mei should not be getting all excited like this in her condition!

Mei should not be getting all excited like this in her condition!

Stay tuned! Pinky is on a roll!

Be the Bear,
Bob T. Panda

Fabulous Furry Friday!

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It’s Friday! and it is Fabulous and Furry!

I had mixed feelings about making any kind of commentary about the death murder of Cecil the lion. I have friends and acquaintances who hunt for food, but killing a living creature just to put his head on the wall seems so very wrong in so many ways. I couldn’t find anything to make a lighthearted cartoon about, because, as John Stewart  accurately said after the murder of 9 people in a South Carolina church  recently. “There’s just nothing funny about this.” But the pandas all gathered around me, and reminded me of this important concept, and so I did a drawing in tribute to the endangered among us, on two feet as well as four.

We R All Endangered.

073 we r all endangered 100r copy

And now, on with our regularly scheduled pandas….News from the panda front in San Diego is a little sad, but not totally unexpected. Bai Yun is 24 years old and they decided to give her one more chance to have another cub, as hormonally she was…um…ready. The SDZ folks announced today that Bai Yun is not Pregnant.

I’m sure in some ways, both she and Mr Wu are relieved. The Wu self gets to remain her baby boy forever, and given his attitude about cute cub proliferation, he is probably especially relieved.

Please refer any questions to Mr Wu's legal team.

Please refer any questions to Mr Wu’s legal team.

Are you now, or have you ever been a panda?

Are you now, or have you ever been a panda?

it's a wonderful life

Thank goodness Bee the Bear still has her magical wand from the last adventure.

Mr Wu tries to take charge

Uh oh. All is not well in Pandyland!

Hope you are having a wonderful summer, and not burning in a raging brush or forest fire. Or experiencing earthquakes or tsunamis. Or anything bad. Just saying.

Be the Bear,
Bob T Panda

PS: notice how I didn’t say anything about the #GOPdebate last night.

Pinky is Where??????

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This. Is. Really. Too. Much.

Pinky is WHERE??????????

Oh…well, they did say it was okay now to take selfies in the White House.

The parents of daughters never have a really easy time of it, do they?

The parents of daughters never have a really easy time of it, do they?

And one of Pinky’s fan’s who wanted to remain anonymous, sent us this photo that they obtained by following Pinky herself, as Pinky toured the White House with her minions.   Measuring for curtains, perhaps? Check with Pinky’s proposed Secretary of Interior Decorating.

Perhaps POTUS is on the phone to Mei Xiang, even as we watch.

065 Pinky in the Oval Office

Oh Dear… What has Pinky Done now? Are you allowed in there, honey? Where’s your mommee?
“Dis room would look so much bedder in pink”

Where, indeed.

Be the Bear,
Bob T. Panda

Editor’s Note: We would like to say in advance, that if there are any technical difficulties in tomorrow night’s Republican Debates, that neither Pinky, nor the Panda Kindergarten had anything to do with them. Or the minions. Just saying.