January 7, 2005

Six Degrees of Snapper Carr

by Greg

I arbitrarily designate Snapper Carr to be the Kevin Bacon of comic books. You can play the Six Degrees game in comics by linking a character via a chain of acquaintanceship to Snapper Carr.

  • Scrooge McDuck is Donald Duck's uncle. (Many, many Disney duck stories.)
  • Donald Duck was a partner with Daffy Duck in an entertainment act (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)
  • Daffy Duck has met Batman (Superman v. Bugs Bunny miniseries)
  • Batman knows Snapper Carr.

Batman provides a lot of critical out-crosses for connecting to Snapper. Inch-High Private Eye has a Snapper Carr number of only four:

  • Inch-High Private Eye was a client of Harvey Birdman (Episode "Trio's Company").
  • Harvey Birdman also represented Scooby-Doo (Episode "Shaggy Busted").
  • Scooby-Doo has met Batman (Episode "The Caped Crusader Caper" et al.).
  • Batman knows Snapper Carr.

In fact, the Scooby-Batman channel provides one-step connection to virtually all of Hanna-Barbera, as well as providing a major gateway into all of Hollywood via "The New Scooby-Doo Movies". For example, Kevin Bacon's Snapper Carr number is only five:

  • Kevin Bacon was in Sleepers with Pat McNamara.
  • Pat McNamara was in Airplane II: The Sequel with Sonny Bono.
  • Sonny Bono has met Scooby-Doo (Episode "The Secret of Shark Island").
  • Scooby-Doo has met Batman (Episode "The Caped Crusader Caper").
  • Batman knows Snapper Carr.

Countless Marvel/DC crossovers mean that even trivial characters are a few steps away from Snapper:

  • U-Go Girl has fought Graviton (Thunderbolts #57).
  • Graviton has fought Thor (various Avengers issues).
  • Thor has met Superman (e.g. Avengers v. JLA).
  • Superman knows Snapper Carr.

So you're going to have go distant or isolated to really get a high Snapper Carr number. Do Dynamo and the rest of the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents have an out-cross that can get them to Snapper? How about Herbie the Fat Fury? The Green Lama? The Three Mouseketeers? Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley? The highest number I could get to was only five. Everybody play along!

Posted by Greg at January 7, 2005 6:23 PM