I hadn't thought of that. The joke that spawned this was more the other way around (that and placing odd characters in the role of recipiants of the Rockford Files opening credits gag is a long-running injoke in the studio, at least between Gryph and I. This time just happened to be different in that Gryph said, "Dude, micro-story!" right after I made it.)

Contextually, I'd like to think this is one of the many items done using the Scott Bernard legend in popular culture during the Golden Age.

>t.
>wonders how many really cool original characters started as in-jokes.

I can think of a couple, one of which exists in UF as sort of a trans-meta joke. Chad's Selkath friend Tramm, seen in one or two minor bits of the Symphony is based off an amusing transient character from the Teen Titans cartoon, Aqualad's little fish-man friend who'd good at fixing things.

*That* Tramm is named for Tramm Wigzell, one of the development guys at CN, Partially responsible for Titans and more or less wholly responsible for the current hit over there, Ben10. He's also one of my best friends from film school. ;)

	Chad Collier Smirking Kilrathi The Captain of the Gravy Train

I figure it's one of several gag opening credits sequences that were done for episodes in various seasons of The Bernard Files - kind of like that one Dirty Pair calendar Sunrise made back in the '80s that featured illustrations of Kei and Yuri in various popular movies of the era (Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop, and Rambo: First Blood Part II come to mind).

--G.
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