I confess to watching "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" and they had a very funny episode where the massively 
muscle-bound senior citizen & fitness empire owner known as "Mighty Moe" has discovered a loophole in dealing with 
Grim (the Grim Reaper).  Whenever Grim appears to let him know it's his time to die, Mighty Moe whips out his fitness 
log showing how all the exercise and healthy eating he has done in fact accrues to extra bonus years for his life!  
His simple argument is that if the experts say "one push-up equals five more minutes of life" or "eating two servings 
of broccoli gives you one extra hour," well then if he keeps track of what he does than Death has no other option but 
to grant him that as extra lifespan!

The straw that breaks the camel's back is when Grim finds out Mighty Moe is about to publish a Kurzweilian tome 
entitled, "You Can Live Forever with Bonus Years."  Now millions and millions of people can cheat Grim!  In what can 
only be cartoon logic, Grim has himself grow to gigantic proportions and he throws Mighty Moe and his truck full of 
books straight into the Sun.  

But Mighty Moe is still running on bonus years so the heat does not kill him.  Instead we see him hawking his book to 
fiery "Sun People" who are so frustrated because when they touch the book it turns to ashes.  "I'll never learn to 
live forever by adding bonus years to my health!" dispairs a young citizen of the Sun.

I tend to wonder if Ray Kurzweil was the inspiration for the writer.  lol  I kept on thinking of his book, "The Baby 
Boomer's Guide to Living Forever" which if anything is an even more over the top title than, "You Can Live Forever 
with Bonus Years." :  )  It's nice to know we may be subjects of parody in the pop culture cartoon media.  I take it 
as a compliment.    

Best wishes,

John Grigg







