Blinky
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Blinky is a fictional character featured in a 1990 episode of the American animated television program The Simpsons, called Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish.
Blinky is a three-eyed fish caught by Bart Simpson. Mr. Burns defends the fish saying that it's the next step in evolution, rather than having been mutated by toxic waste pouring out of the sewers and into the river from the nuclear plant. Mr. Burns later goes to the Simpsons' house for a meal to help his race for governor. Marge serves Blinky for dinner. Mr. Burns spits the fish out and loses the election to Mary Bailey.
Blinky (or rather, some other non-eaten member of his species) has made a variety of other cameo appearances since then.
Blinky is also a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Dandy, about a boy with large, thick glasses and the chaos he always causes, as what he sees through his glasses is a galaxy different to the rest of the world. His trusty sidekick, Yellow Dog, always seems to get caught up in Blinky's adventures.
When Blinky first appeared in The Beezer and Topper in 1990, the design of the character seemed to be a younger version of an earlier Beezer comic strip called Colonel Blink. However, when the strip moved to The Dandy in 1993 after The Beezer and Topper folded, and Nick Brennan began drawing the strip, Blinky took on a new look that was now quite unlike Colonel Blink. The design was altered further over the next few years.
Blinky is also the red ghost featured in Pac-Man. [[1] (http://img159.echo.cx/img159/7318/blinky4zm.gif)]
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