The Love Bug (1997 film) installment of the "Herbie" franchise, this film is part remake and part sequel, in that the events of the original 1968 film are repeated while the storyline plots to follow 1980's "Herbie Goes Bananas". It can also be thought a prototype of "" (2005), in that both show a later racer finding Herbie in a junkyard and restoring him. The film also marks the first new appearance of Herbie in 15 years, following the Bug's lone television series "Herbie, the Love Bug", which had ended after five episodes. The narrator, Jim Douglas (Dean Jones), unfolds the story of Herbie the
Bucky Bug wife), Bo Bug (a hobo and Bucky's best friend), the Mayor (June's father), Grandpa Bootle Beetle (Bucky's adopted grandfather), and others. American Bucky stories almost always had the characters speaking in rhyme. Bucky's regular monthly feature ended in 1950, but he still makes frequent appearances in Dutch stories up to the present time. Bucky is the first Disney character to make his first appearance in a comic strip outside The Mickey Mouse Universe. He made a very brief cameo early in the 1988 Touchstone Pictures/Amblin Entertainment film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". His first story is "Bucky Makes His Name", published