You have entered
The Treacherous Pits!
Don't stay too long, or Murky Dismal may capture you and
take away your color!
Remember, Rainbow Brite's Color Belt doesn't work here!
Murky is a nasty little being who lives in The Pits, his dark and dreary section of Rainbowland. Just as Rainbow Brite represents Brightness and happiness, Murky Dismal represents glumness and dreariness. Smiles and bright colors send him into fits of frenzy because such things are just too cheerful for words. In his Pits Laboratory, he sneakily concocts vaporous clouds of gloom which can be sent over people's heads whenever he wants to "gloom them down." His chief aim in life is to capture Rainbow Brite's Color Belt in order to disrupt the constructive activities in Rainbowland so that everyone will be as miserable as he is. When Murk Dismal is not plotting mischief at The Pits, he is traveling in his gray and gloomy vehicle, The Grunge Buggy, casting shadows on Rainbowland landscape and polluting the air and all living things with nasty fumes.
*from Golden's "Who's Who" Coloring Book *
~Murky Dismal, "Mighty Monstromurk Menace"
"But, I'll have to go to Rainbowland to get those, and I HATE going to Rainbowland!"
~Murky Dismal, "Murky's Comet"
Lurky is Murky Dismal's awkward, bumbling assistant. He is much larger than Murky, is usually found hovering over him, and is always getting in the way. Lurky does a good job at being bad, but somehow it just isn't in him. He dutifully helps his boss with all sorts of dastardly doings because he doesn't know any better. Murky Dismal tries to keep a little gray cloud over Lurky's head to keep him unhappy. But sometimes, when Lurky moves too fast (which isn't very often), the cloud can't keep up with him, and he becomes vulnerable. He finds himself fascinated by Rainbow Brite's colors or getting caught up in the Sprites' cheerful attitudes. But soon Murky Dismal finds him or the gray cloud catches up with him, and then he is once again transformed into the (almost lovable) gloomy gus that seems to be his lot in life.
*from Golden's "Who's Who" Coloring Book *
~Lurky, "Beginning of Rainbowland"
"I don't get it Murky..."
~Lurky, "Mighty Monstromurk Menace"
"I love flowers!"
~Lurky, "Murky's Comet"
"Here, Murky-Ducky! Here, Murky-Ducky!"
~Lurky, "Murky's Comet"
"I love hor-seys!"
~Lurky, "Horse of a Different Color"
"I like crowns!"
~Lurky, "Queen of the Sprites"
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