hook came out christmas 1991, but rufio’s coolness lasted well into the summer. summer camp seemed a lot more like neverland that year, and the cool kids all seemed more like rufio. as an adult, i can forgive that he turned beautiful neverland into some sort of basketball skate park and introduced the unnecessary catch-all term “bangerang.” i can forgive the red, frosted triple mohawk and the fact that he was kind of a dick. i can forgive that he brazenly and stupidly tried to take on captain hook on his own and that his dying words were pretty sappy. why, you may ask?

he was fucking ru-fi-oooooooo!