The Bash Street Kids with Smiffy's stupidity. He has on one occasion fainted from seeing his own reflection (after polishing the handles of Teacher's bicycle), and considers himself the most handsome boy in Beanotown. Plug had his own comic from 1977 to 1979 featuring him and his two pets (Pug from Pup Parade and Chunkee the Monkey), and was the first Beano with a spin-off. "Plug" was later incorporated into "The Beezer". He has two sisters, Plugella and Plugena, who closely resemble him. However, in earlier strips his father was shown to be quite handsome (to the confusion of the other kids) and Plug
Kids on the Street peak in 1996, "Kids on the Street" wound up becoming the Daddies' then most successful album. Distributed through noted indie label Caroline Records, the album sold 25,000 in its first week, charting on "The Rocket's" Retail Sales Top Twenty for over seven months and eventually making its way onto "Rolling Stone's" Alternative Chart. Several of the album's songs appeared on numerous mid-1990s ska compilations, helping spread the Daddies' name further outside of their Northwest-centered fanbase. Two contemporary reviews in Eugene's "The Register-Guard" both gave "Kids on the Street" a positive reception. One reviewer called the album a "great CD" that