Since Filmation employed the same writers for most of their comedy programs, it stands to figure that plots would be recycled from one show to another.
Evidence of this would be in this episode of The Brady Kids. The siblings enter Marlon, Mop Top, and Ping & Pong, the twin pandas, in a pet show. Mop Top (a sub for Tiger, the sibs' pet on Brady Bunch) falls for a poodle, and she looks like she was related to a similar dog from The Archie Show. You'll recall that Sabrina had entered her familiar, Salem, in a pet show a couple of years earlier, and Jughead had done the same with Hot Dog prior to that.
Closing the show is a cover of "Me & You & a Dog Named Boo", but for some reason, the producers shortened the title, thinking no one would recognize Lobo's biggest hit record.
Rating: B.
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Not only was Mop Top's design just the same one used for The Archie's Hot Dog only painted brown, but Ping and Pong's incomprehensible mock Chinese dialogue was later re-used for Wiki the robot in Jason of Star Command. You've got to give it to Filmation; those guys were recycling before it was fashionable!
If but to save money.
Believe it or else, Jane Webb was credited with performing (?) Ping & Pong's voices. Larry Storch was Mop Top, in addition to Marlon.
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