...
[shrugs again]

And bald.

Now, that's the last clue you're going to get.

I wish I knew!

Okay. Both were part of famous groups with three-word names, the first word of which is "The."

Of course! The Abstruse Brothers!

No. But there was a cartoon about both groups, and they both later helped Scooby Doo and the gang solve a mystery.

Sigh.

X Howard: a white man
X Neal: a black man

I'm with you, Anton.

John?

Wait a second....Curly? As in Curly Howard, Stooge, and Curly Neal, the Globetrotter, both of whom helped Scoob and his friends?

Curly is a common first name?

Curly is....your name???