Peaceful and slightly melancholic, a good gondola indeed.
Gondola is a subform of spurdo spärde, with a simplified (arguably cuter) spurdo face on a short body without any limbs except two shapely, long legs. Contrary to spurdo who usually is lowest possible quality on purpose the (best) joke about Gondola is usually that his ridiculous base design is put into deeply self-reflective landscape shots.
But, where the first little Gondola came from, I can't tell.
Looks like this guy has a lot of self-reflection going.
Also, I really dont know the origin of gondolas.
Nice! Thanks for the fun trivia. Made me a bit less confused, will read about them online.