First thing that comes to your head

Ratbert is a character (a rat) in the Dilbert comic strips; Pearls Before Swine features a character called "Rat" who is a rat. Hence that's what popped into my head.

 

Popped a balloon.

 

Burst

(Glad to see another cartoon intellectual here. )

 

(It's a cute name for a rat(I'd do a little better with Marvel/DC Comics))

Explode

 

Dynamite

 

Dyna Girl (from the seventies)

 

Dino the Green Sinclair Dinosaur

 

Dino the dinosaur.

 

Yabadabbadoo

 

Fred

 

Bam-bam

 

Stoney Curtis

 

Yogi Bear

 

Boo-boo the fool

 

Crusader Rabbit

 

Jessica Rabbit

(what a bunch of intellectuals we are!)

 

Roger Rabbit

 

Hallucinogens

 

Gracie Slick

 

eighty-three

(it cannot be possible for her to be that old...)

 

42

 

Summer of

 

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