Sketch: August 1994
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Background: Okay, the next few strips are based on a continuing inside joke between the same friends as the ALF strips.
If you visit the World Showcase at Epcot in Disneyworld, you'll notice that most of the workers at each pavilion are actually from the country they represent. Usually, their hometown is pressed onto their nametag. One of my friends noted, though, that Morocco seemed to have several employees who looked the part but lacked the hometown on the nametag.
So an idea was born. Disney was so desperate for people to work there that they recruited some goofball surfer from the beach, gave him a Morocco-sounding name, and stuck him in the park. Completely untrue, but the phrase "Welcome to Morocco, duuude, woodja lahk to bahy a souveneihr?" spoken like a surfer became a running gag for a couple of years. (A couple of years? We still riff on it.) Somehow, I felt it deserved to become a cartoon.
The original gag:
Surfer Guy: "Welcome to Morocco, duuude, woodja lahk to bahy a souveneihr?"
Surfer Guy: "No, wait... I screwehd up the ahccent. Let me try that agaihn."
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Surfer Guy: "Welcome to Morocco, duuude, woodja lahk to bahy a souveneihr?"