My bad ... in the preload image he kind of looked like he was wearing a Black Vulcan style costume with a bathing suit and boots. Also, I was half asleep and my eyes were bleary. Also, shut up.
IIRC the original S.R. verb cartoon was called "A World Without Verbs", about a world where everything is frozen in place and nothing can happen because there are no verbs. They decided it was too grim and depressing; it wasn't aired and they made this as a replacement.