Say Kids, What Time is It?

As you already know if you’ve spent any time at all on this website, Scrappy appeared on an incredible array of merchandise in the 1930s. Which makes it all the more surprising that they never bothered to put out a Scrappy watch. (Or at least I’m pretty confident they didn’t—if I’m wrong, it would be a delightful surprise.)

It’s never too late to right a wrong, and I’m happy to say that I figured out how to turn my new Apple Watch into a Scrappy Watch. Here it is—I’m a southpaw, so this is also the first left-handed Scrappy Watch:

Now, the Apple Watch is rather notorious for the fact that Apple doesn’t really trust anyone to design watch faces except itself. So I wasn’t positive that I could create a Scrappy Watch deserving of the name. But I figured it out using an iPhone app called Clockology, which lets you hack Apple’s “Portraits” watch face to layer a drawing (such as Scrappy) on top of the current time. That’s what I did with it, anyhow. Getting it all working properly required a fair amount of experimentation, but the results are more than worth it.

From the very start, Apple did offer an excellent Mickey Mouse watch face, with classic moving hands, available in color or black and white. It later gave us Minnie and, with the new WatchOS 10, has added an extremely ambitious Snoopy face. So the company isn’t opposed to faces based on some of the Truly Great Cartoon Characters of All Time. Realistically, though, Scrappy is probably relatively low on its priority list. I’m guessing they’d get around to it by 2062 or thereabouts, and I just couldn’t wait that long.

If you’d like to be the first person to put Margy, Oopy, or Yippy on a watch face, there’s still time. But act fast: I probably won’t be able to resist the temptation to continue Mintzing out my timepiece.