bolted back up and did not run, but walked, backwards, faster than any flesh-and-blood boy could walk backwards, back into the kitchen, to the trash can beside the dishwasher, and a Pepsi can flew up, out of the trash can, into the cartoon boy's hand, and the cartoon boy rushed, backwards, back into the living room, and handed the can to the cartoon moose and sat back down and the cartoon moose lifted the can to his lips and spat Pepsi into the can and lowered it and lifted it again and again faster and faster and the cartoon boy bolted up and backstepped over the cartoon moose's legs and rushed into his bedroom so swiftly he was a blur, and the whole screen was a blur, a shapeless, throbbing, glowing, sometimes red, now blue, now yellow, now green, now blue again, blur.

Bullwinkle tapped STOP, then PLAY. Now the cartoon boy