On at least one occasion, a character exited the topper and dropped down into the main strip. This happened on April 17, 1938, when an absent-minded character in the "Rosie's Beau" topper realized he was in the wrong place and climbed down into the first panel of "Bringing Up Father", arriving in the living room of Maggie and Jiggs. During the 1940s, "Snookums" ran as the topper above "Bringing Up Father". In the final episode of HBO's "The Pacific" (2010), Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale) is seen reading "Snookums".