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For a while on Tuesday night, in a series opener against the perpetually rebuilding Pittsburgh Pirates, the Dodgers showed fight.

On most animated sitcoms, characters are trapped in time: perpetually the same age, usually wearing the same clothes, rarely even getting a haircut — no matter how many holiday episodes they get through the years.

The chain's mascot, a perpetually smiling bee with a red jacket, is a nod to Filipinos' hardworking nature.

Hank is proudly set in his ways, but also profoundly honorable, a decent man perpetually out of step with the times.

But Mitchell, whose bushy beard and joking personality complement a perpetually smiling visage, turned serious when explaining the end of his career.