Black and White Issue

 

We went to the zoo recently. It caused me to hearken back to when I was little and we didn’t have a color television.  You’d watch animal shows like Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom or a Saturday morning Tarzan movie in black and white and imagine what the animals looked like in color. Orange lions. Green frogs. Pink panthers. Eventually we all got color TV’s. What a disappointment when we saw the zebras; they were still black and white.

So yeah, it’s my theory that the zebra was far more popular with animal lovers prior to the advent of color TV’s. People have lost interest in them. Disney’s never made a movie about a zebra. And that song about a horse in striped pajamas? Nope. You never hear it anymore. There’s no zebra book. And sometimes football referees are called zebras and nobody likes those guys.

I bet the zebras are the “throw ins” on zoo trades. “You want the panda? Okay, you can have him but you’re gonna have to take 4 zebras off my hands.”