Notes: Someone once told me that there is a character named "Polly Sweetcakes" in a Grateful Dead song ... but I STILL have no idea what he's talking about. In any case, if such a reference DOES exist, it has nothing to do with this cartoon. Polly was supposed to be ... well ... just what she seems: the kid at school who you knew from the first day of 1st grade was going to grow up to be class president and get a full tuition to an Ivy League school.

It's easy to make a character like that mean and nasty ... but I wanted Polly to be really, genuinely, annoyingly nice. She definitely would have been back in the strip time and time again.