If you’re on the way to the middle of nowhere and drive a little out of your way, you’ll hit Mosca, CO.
In Mosca, you’ll find the Colorado Gators, home of over 400 gators, including Colorado celebrity Morris the Alligator.
You probably know Morris without even realizing it. He is the star of, amongst others, Happy Gilmour, Eraser, Blues Brothers 2000, and Interview with a Vampire. However, more importantly, a tour guide will tell you that he also destroyed a set on the TV show Coach. For those who don’t remember Coach, it was basically a 90’s sitcom about Craig T. Nelson, Jerry Stiller’s brother, and a dumb blonde man named Dauber. The three of them would hatch schemes for various purposes, often ending in an office full of soap suds, cream pies, or, well, alligators. The Coach appearance is conspicuously absent from Morris’ filmography on the Colorado Gators web site.
I recommend taking this chance to see Morris. He is now retired, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t still one of Colorado’s shining stars, and maybe you’ll get to say you met him before he owned several automobile outlets around the state like certain quarterbacks who will go unnamed. Plus, the Colorado Gator Farm gives an unparalleled opportunity to walk around a habitat that showcases large, hyperactive turtles trying to escape at every chance, white cats napping in what would appear to be the worst habitats for cats of all time, and the chance to hold a small gator, an experience which still seems unsafe when the handler quickly sets down the camera to take a baby alligator out of your hands and whack it on the top of the head.
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Road Trip: Famous Colorado Residents – Morris the Alligator
If you’re on the way to the middle of nowhere and drive a little out of your way, you’ll hit Mosca, CO.
In Mosca, you’ll find the Colorado Gators, home of over 400 gators, including Colorado celebrity Morris the Alligator.
You probably know Morris without even realizing it. He is the star of, amongst others, Happy Gilmour, Eraser, Blues Brothers 2000, and Interview with a Vampire. However, more importantly, a tour guide will tell you that he also destroyed a set on the TV show Coach. For those who don’t remember Coach, it was basically a 90’s sitcom about Craig T. Nelson, Jerry Stiller’s brother, and a dumb blonde man named Dauber. The three of them would hatch schemes for various purposes, often ending in an office full of soap suds, cream pies, or, well, alligators. The Coach appearance is conspicuously absent from Morris’ filmography on the Colorado Gators web site.
I recommend taking this chance to see Morris. He is now retired, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t still one of Colorado’s shining stars, and maybe you’ll get to say you met him before he owned several automobile outlets around the state like certain quarterbacks who will go unnamed. Plus, the Colorado Gator Farm gives an unparalleled opportunity to walk around a habitat that showcases large, hyperactive turtles trying to escape at every chance, white cats napping in what would appear to be the worst habitats for cats of all time, and the chance to hold a small gator, an experience which still seems unsafe when the handler quickly sets down the camera to take a baby alligator out of your hands and whack it on the top of the head.