Name: Thousand Smile Check-Up
Genre: Animation, Short
Released: 1960-04-24
Duration: 5 min
Rating: 5.6
Cast: Roy Halee

Heckle and Jeckle have the last gas station on the highway before you hit the desert. Or they did, until Clancy the Bulldog plopped his prefabricated station across the road, and a few feet nearer.

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