Distant Relatives - Hostess and Just for Laughs

I know Hostess chips aren't really that big anymore - at least not with anyone I know, but as Dave and I were filling the car up with gas this past weekend, I saw an advertisement for them on the pit stop store window. I sat there looking at the little Munchies (the cartoon characters used for their ads) and thought that they looked a little like the Just for Laughs cartoon character. And now that I am writing this post and have their images here on the same screen, I realize that the Hostess Munchies are red, yellow and orange - there is no green Munchie. Perhaps these four guys are related somehow in cartoon-world! The Hostess Munchies are probably brothers and as the Just For Laughs guy has a pointy nose rather than a bulbous one, he is likely a cousin or something along those lines, but related nonetheless.
I know I am crazy - but you have to admit they look pretty similar.
(images found through Google)