So the Easter Bunny is in the vintage Pixar car business now. For months, my four year-old nephew's been after me to acquire a hood for Mater, the junkyard pickup from the movie Cars.→[More:]

I was on the phone with him today, and after he told me all about King's run-ins with Chick Hicks, and how dirty King got and how his wheels wouldn't work right, he said, "You'll never guess what I got for Easter."

"Oh no?"

"Have you found a hood for Mater yet?" he asked me.

"No, but you know, it's tough to find specific parts for old cars like that."

"Well, the Easter Bunny brought me a blue Mater, because he was blue when he was young, and guess what? He has a hood. So now I have two Maters, one with a hood and one without one."

"That's terrific," I said. "What do you think happened to his hood between when he was young and when he got old?"

"I don't know, maybe when cars get old, sometimes their hoods just fall off. Like hair."

Like hair.