Pop culture entropy keeps most from dwelling on what happened to their once iconic favorites. These characters fade away from the spot light. Some make the transition to the mundane with grace and dignity, heading up legitimate corporate ventures, or lending their name to upscale doggy biscuits, and other consumer goods. Still others, like Skeeter Valentine have great difficultly creating a normal life post-stardom.
Skeeter Valentine, so enamored by Hollywood, foolishly sunk all his assets and earnings from his cartoon successes into the sequel to Doug's first movie; "Skeeter Valentine's: Macbeth and The Ghost of Klotzenstein". Plagued by weather, on-set turmoil, and several re-writes, Skeeter's movie came out 16 months later then expected on a very limited 'straight to DVD' release. His showbiz career has never recovered.
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