"Now, to take the ferry cost a nickle, and in those days, nickles had pictures of bumblebees on em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now, where was I...oh yeah. The important thing is that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time..."
It's weird how much they focus on him that one time, only to never mention him again. You'd think they're setting up for some kind of side arc, or recurring gag, or something...