Magoo recently told me that he wants to be Batman when he grows up. I can only assume he means Lego Batman because that’s the only version of the super hero he’s really been exposed to. He was real coy and shy about it. He said he wants to save people.
“When Bad Guys go into their houses at night, I’ll just go in there and say, ‘Wake up Bad Guys! I’m gonna take yeh to jail.’”
So, I guess the Bad Guys just go into people’s houses at night to find a place to sleep but since they are BGs and also trespassers, that earns them a trip to the joint.
I decided to use a teaching moment and explain that what I like about Batman is the fact that he doesn’t hurt good people and he doesn’t even kill bad people most of the time. He wants to help so he just ties the bad guys up and lets the police deal with them.
“Yeah,” Magoo replied looking thoughtful, “But I don’t even have a hat yet.”
Lesson learned.
We were sitting in the Safeway food court the other afternoon slamming some corn dogs when Magoo noticed some slightly-swarthy farmer-types sitting at a table next to us. He eyed them suspiciously.
“Are there any bad guys in Our City?” he asked, never taking his eyes off the farmers.
“Yeah,” I replied honestly, “There probably are.”
“No,” he said simply, “Bad Guys are only in Bad Guy Town.”
I might add that they are also made of Lego.