Secret Squirrel, Both Classic (1965-66, Hanna Barbera) and Super Secret (1993. Hanna Barbera)

Mail call.

We got bills, second notice bills, third notice bills, final notice bills, only just noticed bills.

Oh, oh, Chrissy, the detective literature club you head up sent you a message, I, I think anyway.

This one's written in some kind of code.

Ah, geez.

The club treasurer is obsessed with secret codes and decoders.

The last one he did used the unknown Pokemon alphabet to reveal letters that correspond with backwards written messages, and it was all done just so he could ask me that he could borrow five bucks.

Isn't that, like, needlessly complicated?

Yes.

Yes, it is, and I'm sure he has some fresh hell cooked up for me to decipher for some similarly mundane request.

Ah, it's a picture of a squirrel in a trench coat with a purple hat.

Okay, trench coat.

Maybe trench warfare? Does this have something to do with World War I? And the purple hat, what do we associate with purple? Is it royalty? In Rome they used to d- pur- senators used to wear purple.

But the hat, the fedora that could belong to-

Hey, James, do we tell her this is just a cute secret squirrel reference-

...

Gothard might be an old-timey detective

... or do we just let her keep going?

Let her keep going.

Super Agent Squirrel.

Last time I interrupted one of these moments she introduced me to her replica Oddjob hat via the sharp edges of it.

Hmm.

Hmm.

Uh, Chrissy, think purple heart.

Purple heart.

[laughs] Purple heart.

Ooh, that's a good choi- that's a good idea too.

Hmm.

Goes along with the trench warfare.

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