Sometimes, inspiration comes from the weirdest places. I was on the subway a few weeks back and there was some overly inquisitive kid bugging the crap out of his parents with questions about all sorts of things probably best discussed at home or at least not in a train car packed with people. Anyway, after about the sixth question, the kid’s mom is trying to hand off the next question to the father, but he just does a facepalm and mutters “Ask Mister Owl” under his breath. Of course, the kid didn’t get the joke at all (look it up if you’re younger than oh, 40 and don’t know your TV commercials or candy history) and yes, asked “Who’s Mister Owl?”  Which pretty much cracked anyone sitting nearby (including me) up.

The idea for the MS Paint art above came to me just the other day based on that subway trip, so now you know where I get most of my inspiration. Well sometimes…