The cartoon boy, in the living room of his father's house, sat on the couch, beside his father. His father was not an enormous cartoon moose; he was bald and pot-bellied, and was only as tall as the cartoon boy.

They must have been watching TV. I couldn't see the TV, of course, but I could hear Bullwinkle -- the cartoon Bullwinkle, not the one sleeping near me -- say, "Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!"

And his little pal Rocky, the flying squirrel, moaned, "Again?!"

"Nothin' up my sleeve," declared Bullwinkle.

But it wasn't a rabbit that Bullwinkle pulled out of his hat. The next thing I heard was a lion's roar.

And even though it probably wasn't the first time they had seen this -- the lion out of the hat gag, or its variation, the rhinocerous out of the hat gag, appeared in every single episode -- the cartoon boy and his father laughed anyway.

I pressed STOP, then FASTFORWARD, then PLAY.