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Thursday, November 06, 2008
The Big Comfy Couch
This is one of those weird children's shows on PBS that I'm not quite sure how we got started watching. It's from Canada and made in the mid-nineties, but what I find most disturbing is that there have been two Loonette the Clown. Unlike in soap operas where they'll replace an actor with someone who only vaguely (or for that matter not at all) looks like the original actor, on The Big Comfy Couch they got a girl who (when in costume) really looks like the first girl, but she doesn't speak quite the same, so she tries to "pretend" to be the original Loonette. The first Loonette was much more natural, while the second Loonette has to truly try and "act" like the original Loonette. Needless to say we prefer original Loonette, but between her, Granny Garbanzo and Major Bedhead the whole thing is a bit kooky (including the "clock stretch" that is on every episode.)
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OMG. WK *loves* this show. She is completely obsessed with Molly. And while I can't exactly complain about it (other than the overt clown situation), it just kind of creeps me out. Particularly the episode where Molly eats a bunch of donuts. She's a puppet! How is she eating all the donuts????
I was creeped out by the episode that dealt with "death and dying"--- did you see that one? Loonette found a caterpiller in Granny's garden and when she went to put it into a little cage that Auntie Mcasser sent, the caterpiller was dead! Then Granny sang a song about it!
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