Soda Pop is an episodic cartoon adventure, and an amalgamation of cartoon influences and styles spanning many decades from old school Disney animation to Hanna-Barbera era cartoons. The premises began as a comical, kid-friendly bar stand-in in the world of The Cartoon Express. For example, the animated movie Rango features a bar with cactus juice as the equivalent of alcoholic beverages, and analogously, The Cartoon Express features “candy bars”, (bar as in like a café or lounge) with “heavy soda” as an alcoholic equivalent, and pops (lollipops) as a stand-in for cigarettes. I eventually developed this concept enough and spun off The Zany Adventures of Soda Pop as its own story. A portion of The Cartoon Express still features its own Soda Pop story, however.