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Rather than fuzzy-wuzzy sentimentalism, that liminal space between objective reality and the netherworld is presented as a natural, if exceedingly rare, fact of life.

So did satin power jacket/plissé gown hybrids; Crayola-toned skinny jeans with matching jean jackets; simple white T-shirts with serious shoulder pads; suspenders; and a Big Bird fuzzy-wuzzy onesie covered in bright yellow tubular beads.

The filmmaker's taken care to ensure all the favorite story bits are there — the jungle, the marmalade, the hat, the adorable English-speaking fuzzy-wuzzy turning up in London with a "Please look after this bear" tag around his neck.

It’s all played for minimum dramatic tension and maximum aestheticized wish fulfillment, heightened by Cutler’s tendency to film everything slightly out of focus and Cross’s to write fuzzy-wuzzy dialogue like “Adam, that song was great.”

These books are all harvested from EC’s gory glory years, 1950-1955, when it mutated from Educational Comics to Entertaining Comics, stopped printing fuzzy-wuzzy titles like Saddle Romances and Tiny Tot, and shifted to mags like Tales From the Crypt, Shock SuspenStories and Two-Fisted Tales.