Dave and Ping Pong are identical twin common loon brothers (Similar to Chip and Skip, the dung beetle twins), and bean scouts from Camp Kidney. They are Samson's cabinmates in Fava Cabin. Dave and Ping Pong are a couple of the secondary characters in the series. Unlike any other Bean Scout, they can fly as shown in Friendward. The only way to tell the two apart is Ping Pong's longer neck. In general, they are intellectually mature and articulate, and tend to be bookish and cynical. Together, they run the camp newspaper, The Bean!, formerly The Weekly Bean until Lazlo helped them rebrand it to increase circulation. Their catchphrases are "Sounds logical," when discussing something among themselves, or deriding something they find fault with as "highly illogical." They are fond of synchronized swimming, first alluded to in It's No Picnic when Dave laments the loss of the Mud Puddle to the Squirrel Scouts. They are then shown to do so together in Living La Vida Lumpus.
Despite them having the same sarcastic wit, Dave is a bit more sensitive, naive, and easily impressionable than his brother. He used to write letters to his grandma every day, as seen in Boxing Edward, but Edward tricked him out of it in order to get stamps to mail himself out of camp. Dave then decided to come along with Edward to try and mail himself to his grandma, which caused more problems for Edward. In 7 Deadly Sandwiches, he chose to suspend himself from a rope around his waist above the stage for "dramatic effect" as he played the Poisonous Hemlock Berry Sandwich. This first backfired when Scoutmaster Lumpus tried to pull on the rope from a corner of the stage to make an outfit for himself, causing poor Dave to go flying back and forth and the stage setting to collapse. Later in said episode, Dave is shown once again being suspended from a rope while playing the Poisonous Hemlock Berry Sandwich but this time, it was a success. He is shown on multiple occasions to cry or faint, and be comforted by his twin brother. Ping Pong has also been shown fainting once in It's No Picnic. In Beans & Weenies, Dave & Ping Pong are both shown fainting out of disgust and nearly vomiting when Chef McMuesli tries to feed them and the other beans scouts his homeopathic garden weenies. Similar is shown in Parasitic Pal when they’re frightened and revolted by the bloodsucking sea lamprey on Lazlo’s head. In The Weakest Link, Ping Pong begins to hallucinate out of starvation while he, Dave, Samson, Edward, Chip, Skip, and the Lemmings are stranded in the bushes when they were lost in the wilderness.
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Edward Platypus[]
They are very condescending towards Edward. They got revenge on him for insulting their originating from eggs in Ed's Benedict by sneaking an egg into his bed as a prank, and tricking him into thinking he laid it. Edward suddenly became very motherly and retreated to a birdnest atop a cabin, where they chased him down to admit to their prank and apologize. In 7 Deadly Sandwiches, while playing the Poisonous Worm Sandwich, Ping Pong gets a kick out of repeatedly referring to Edward, cast as the Poisonous Tree Sap Sandwich, as a "sap." Dave also quips that it was the role Edward was "born to play." In Being Edward, when a camper asks what Edward is supposed to be while the latter is wearing a cloak and paper crown for Edward Day, Ping Pong simply replies "a loser."
Samson Clogmeyer[]
Both are close friends with cabinmate, Samson, though their relationship is rocky at times. In Camp Samson, it's revealed they forget daily that Samson is their roommate and who he is. As the other scouts do in the same episode, they tend to be literally blind to his presence. Occasionally, the Loons tend to mock Samson, such as in Samson's Mail Fraud. In Dirt Nappers, they joke that Samson received a feather duster from his mother as a birthday present. (Samson isn't too offended as that was his gift the year before.) Usually though, they're shown to get along with him like most other scouts and have even genuinely shown to care for him: in Bad Luck Be a Camper Tonight, they accompany him while he's bedridden due to suddenly becoming allergic to paper, and then volunteer to help him around in a wheelbarrow after he's reduced to a gelatinous form by an alien's weapon.
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- The fact they are twins is likely because loons lay two eggs.
- Despite being aquatic birds, they only made it to Sea Cow level, and not Sharks, for their swim test in Swimming Buddy.
- Despite being loons, Dave and Ping Pong don't look anything like their species. In reality, common loons are mostly black with white spots (on their outer wings), solid white bellies, and red eyes. Real Loons’ beaks are also black but they’re spear shaped. Dave and Ping Pong have Amber Yellow feathers and Light Yellow beaks that are more smooth and rounded at the tips.
- Ping Pong wears a retainer, as revealed in The Big Weigh In.
- They get a bag of "indigenous" pretzels from their "homeland" each year, as seen in Friendward.
- An early press kit characterizes them as "eating many bugs," but they've never been shown to do so in the series, so it can be assumed that this was dropped.
- Dave is awarded as Lazlo's Favorite Camper in Award to the Wise, while Ping Pong is awarded as the Best Camper.
- Per The List, Lazlo tells Dave he loves him daily as part of his list of self-imposed tasks to complete on a daily basis.
- In Snake Eyes, Dave reveals that he loves licorice ropes while he, Ping Pong, and Edward are having a picnic.
- Dave and Ping Pong are implied to be in the middle of puberty due to their voices cracking every time they speak and the bumps in the middle of their necks are implied to be Adam’s apples.