The Giant Purple Snorklewacker was an odd-looking monster and the leader of the monsters who lived in Binkley's closet of anxieties. At night he would make Binkley's nightmares, including such diverse characters as Jesse Helms and Milton Friedman, come alive. Binkley's anxieties were once confused with Ronald Reagan's, causing Yuri Andropov and Fidel Castro to show up in his closet, while the Giant Purple Snorklewacker ended up in the White House.
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