Cool!

Yes yes yes yes yassssssss I used to love this show when I was a kid on Nick Jr.

Could you do a video on Blues Clues?

@Julian Negron Thomas and Friends is still airing.

on netflix

Attempted... committed to every time it came on.. same difference

Yes!!!

The clock stretch was mesmerizing and I couldn't understand why until I got older.

I did it all the damn time lol

I did lmao

I saw Alyson (Loonette) just a few weeks ago. She was directing an episode of a TV show that is filming in the studio I manage. I saw her every day for 2 weeks and I didn’t even recognize her thanks to her COVID mask.

@@antoniomanaserian7828 omg. That's like a dream of mines. She literally was my childhood.

This show was aired on PBS stations.

We had cable and still watched it every day.

@@antoniomanaserian7828 y did u copy/paste another comment??

(giggles) "Everyone diiiies!!" (Revs chainsaw, runs at the camera with a manic look in her eyes)

(screams and falls out of chair)

yep thats the woman that raised me 🫡

It was amazing, “this hour has 22 minutes” is based Canadian television, and her showing up was absolutely crazy, and how even with the years that passed and the make up, she looked exactly how we all remembered her.

I blew my boyfriend's mind when I told him they were named Foley because the stories were all sound effects.

Oh my god

I'm gonna go nuts, why is the fact that they're named Foley clever??

@@NecoLumi "Foley Effects" is the term for sounds used for everyday noises in movies. Like when someone gets thrown through a window, its not an actual glass window, so they need to record the sound of glass breaking and play it over the scene to make it more realistic.

​@@NecoLumithe person who creates sound effects for movies and TV is valued a foley artist, and the Foley family segments rely on sound effects

@Anzu Wyliei XD

@Anzu Wyliei Word!

😂😭

🤣

Maybe if you ignore the part @ 25:07, I guess. :P

I did like how they said they weren't going to teach a letter of the alphabet each show, and then literally taught a letter per show

So being a poor Chinese Citizen...

Or rather, what it's like to be a clown in a terrifying alternate universe in which everyone and everything is a clown

Pretty fucked up is what it is.

Then maybe they should have done child molestation rape murder divorce job loss possible nuclear Wars and violence and so forth cuz this shows nothing what it's like to be human

👏👏

It stopped on May 24, 2009 and I remember seeing it then, right before Sesame Street.

@@nostalgiamostalgia0319for some reason, i remember watching it on PBS kids around 2013 - 2015

Such fun colourful people secretly being deranged killers IS the point. The contrast is supposed to be scary

I agree with you

BIG agree!!!

@@daffodille Pun intended.

Several Pokemon, Lola Pop from Arms, a few SpongeBob episodes...

You got that right.

That’s honestly adorable! At least you were repeating a responsible thing to do, lol.

I feel like being a parent is just like trying to build a sandcastle where when you go to get a soda you come back to find stuff you never added. Kids can be weird yo

My cousins and I also did this as kids lmao

My mom always had us do a 10 Second Tidy to clean our rooms when I was little! She would count really slowly to make it seem like we actually did it in 10 seconds! 😂

lmao...so cute

I was born in '93 but grew up with it in the US and loved re-runs of that show. I legit figured it was because I was in Michigan and we sometimes got Canadian shows there that that's why I saw it XD Until he said it then came to the US and I was like "ah nevermind" - I always loved Loonette. She was like a big sister on TV

I thought it was a Spanish show

We got this on long island, prob around 96. I remember my toddler son born in 94, standing in front of the tv rocking back & forth to the song...

this is me too! american born the same year, i had one vhs tape id watch over and over again 🥹

Snigglefritz was great! And I use/used the 10 second tidy for my kids and daycare kids!

2:57

2:58 3: 3:22

3:37 3:42

3:49

“We’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.”

@@Maniac536 “HIT IT!”

"We've got a broken down red Volvo, 100 pounds of brown rice, a dog, a cat, a case of tuna, a case of ketchup, $100, it's 103 miles to Chicago, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." "Hit it."

nah m8 that’s living in modern day

I suppose you do try really hard to make the other person happy so it's kinda not far off

@Dottoman Delite didnt she say "make each other laugh?" I hope so, otherwise that's a kinda messed up analogy lol

lol

In both you pitch a tent

yea I read that as a big ol clown orgy where someone gets knocked up but they all raise the kid

Life upon the wicked stage ain't ever what a girl supposes...

Oh, the irony!

Small Painful Chair only lasted 1 season and was not quite as popular as the former show, Big Comfy Couch

HEY KID, WANNA SIT IN MY CHAIR?!!!

@@jamestheawsome100 Is it a musical one?

I'm sitting on a cold hard toilet

Same! Now I just get angry at them after living with one during college. They would practice in the living room while I tried studying for classes. Pure rage flows through me when I hear that music now.

same!

Now see i love this show but i was terrified of IT

Same here, at least one other friend in my life remembers this show.

I fear no clowns. Clowns fear me.

I didn’t know it was Canadian! Then again I was a kid so….

37 is still young

too old to play a kid :P but yeah 37's still mad young

Alyson Court was 43 when she reprised Loonette for that 2016 comedy sketch show lmao

To a kid that might as well be a billion years old

sorry but 37 is really old though, like it’s the age of getting things ready for retirement, your 401k, your kids’ savings for college, plus 37 people are getting fat and going bald, you know?

I always wondered why people hated clowns. I hate It from IT for reasons other than it being a clown.

*laughs in Art the Clown*

I've never been afraid of clowns either, and I grew up watching this show as well. Interesting...

@@jameshamaker9321 if I saw that movie as a child instead of the big comfy couch, then I probably would have a whole different perspective on it. Somehow, I managed to avoid most scary ass things as a child. Probably didn't help that most jumpscare movies terrify me as an adult though 🤷🏿‍♀️

I’ve found from personal experience that ppl I know who are afraid of clowns were scarred by Pennywise before they got to this wholesome show. I LOVE clowns because of this show.

There needs to be more good child friendly shoes like this. Too often they are made fun of. It’s for innocent kids, no shame in making kid shows with no adults content in there

Not really surprising since Canada has both English and French-speaking families.

Me too, I remember laying on the floor watching this as my mom got ready for work. I’d do anything to go back 💕

Omg me toooo.. why did I ever want to grow up 😩

Yess. Same!

Hey no need to cry for what was lost. Live for what can be. Life's what you make it in a way, sure there's circumstance, but it's never too late to be a child everywhere except visage ^.^

ikr I was ready for him to be like "Molly is now a stripper and suffers from chronic heroine addiction".

It’s crazy going back and watching that season because first of all you can’t even tell unless you’re aware of her pregnancy and you’re looking for it and also the fact that they used Alyson and the other cast and crew as background characters in stories so she was playing Loonette plus additional side characters in all the episodes of season six. Very impressive

It’s on Tubi.

Omg...zainy brainy. I liked that store too

Awww❤

Oh my God Zainy Brainy was my favorite store as a little kid. I got many a beanie baby from there back then

I do remember an animated show called Jojo's Circus, and it while it wasn't live action, it did feature clown and circus characters that just made it fun to watch as a kid. I grew up with not only this show, but a lot of Jim Jenkins shows which had similar kind of energy, but for slightly older audience.

I'm sure there has been more

@@jlbeeen i remember jojo's circus and i always loved how it looked. it was a fun show.

@@jlbeeen yeah, but that’s a cartoon and actually takes place in a circus, so it makes sense that it’s not ironic. I can’t think of anything live action where clowns are just clowns.

Except Allison Court, she was just an actress.

Did they write back to your mom?

Back when people thought letters actually had power. XD

That is so funny!

How is that the shows issue?

@@kissit012 It's not ._.

Quite frankly, we should've seen it coming...

I had no clue what that comment meant, and then I saw it. I...I don't know if I love it or I'm that more terrified.

😂

Ayyy... Prototype profile pic

Well,she's not wrong.. But damn,somebody let loonette into the pixie sticks again.. Where was Molly in all this?

Did we have the same childhood? Same with me and my sister!!

NO! NO! NO! Many people say I am sick in the head. NOOOO!!!! I don't believe them. But there are so many people commenting this stuff on my videos, that I have 1% doubt. So I have to ask you right now: Do you think I am sick in the head? Thanks for helping, my dear ogh

Wow I haven't seen the show in a long time my man

I used to watch it a little too much when I was little and I still despise clowns to this day Also hey Offhand Disney I love watching your content especially when it’s about creepy stuff Also also I’m a subscriber to yours and Defunctland’s channels

Hey off hand cool to c u on here lol

Come on and Zoom and zoom and zoom On ZOOM!!!

Yeah those were the best

E mail? Send it to zoom! Z mail... p b s kids dot org!

Zoom was my favorite show! I remember it would come on either after Arthur lol

OMG Yeeeess

Bro same

I want to see their resume. “Duck Dresser”.

Coulda been worse. Imagine if they'd tried to use a goose.

@@stevethepocket 😨

@@stevethepocket That's where taxidermy comes in.

Well, the clowns don't really look too much like clowns, people think the fear of them comes from the excessive face paint causing your brain to become iffy cause it's having a hard time registering the face under all that paint, which is why you get creeped. I think, that's just what I've heard. In any case, the clowns in the show don't really have much makeup which helps.

@@poppythedogofwonders When I was in probably 1st grade, my parents dressed me as a clown for Halloween. I saw myself in the mirror, screamed, went and hid under my bed and cried. Even just last Halloween I went on a hayride, saw a clown (it was literally a person wearing a cheap plastic mask), took off running and had a panic attack. I have lots of stories, but I basically have always had an irrational fear of them. And I don't really have a good reason why. So maybe your theory is correct

@@poppythedogofwonders One thing I notice is that this show's clowns have a much more traditional, old-timey approach with their costumes and makeup, which is especially evident with Granny. We get some light circus clown elements in there with Major Bedhead, but even then, as you mentioned, he has minimal makeup and his face as a result would look mostly ordinary and approachable to anyone. Even in that gag segment aired during the clown invasion, there's such a stark contrast between how the creepy clowns looked vs Loonette that really illustrates what made this show so helpful in making more kids of my generation okay with clowns. Oddly enough though, I never had any issue with more heavily done-up, over-the-top clowns as a kid either.

Deserved now face the wall

​@@ErrorError-km7ibhilarious

They were dabbing, guaranteed. It’s canada

Are we going to also talk about that she was pregnant while doing the show at one point?

@@chaoflaka8132 she engaged in a secret circus.

@@Logan-zp8bi 😂😂😂

@@Logan-zp8bi XD

True.

Hope you Canadians got to see Mr. Rogers

We also made amazing early slasher horror movies like Black Christmas 1974 and My Bloody Valentine 1981. It's also ironic how the original 1990 IT movie was filmed in Vancouver. With the newer movies being filmed in parts of Ontario and Toronto with a few scenes in Vancouver

Canadian TV is some of my favorite TV.

@@MM-ej2wn and in an interesting coincidence in Ernie Coombs actually did work on Mr.Rogers original series

Jeez when I was a kid everyone wanted to be like sportacus it certainly got the message across

Yeah, now that you mention it they did have similar concepts and style as well, I used to love both

@@lemmythebulldog8812 I didn't, but then again I'm the type that sits back and hopes the villain wins.

@@Logan-zp8bi I’ll give you that, Robbie Rotten definitely made me laugh a lot as a kid, it’s really sad he passed away from cancer

@@shmyules8711 Some things are just better left not knowing.

Yay for outside the age bracket! When it aired, I was 10 onwards.

Me too lol

My younger siblings watched this while I was already in high school. The fact that I know the songs and sang them to my daughter when she was younger. She has no idea they came from a show she never saw. 🤣🤣🤣

SAME.

There shouldn’t even be an age bracket for TBBC! It’s incredibly enjoyable for practically anyone regardless of their age groups!

bruh ur so lucky!

i know right? i was half prepared for D.T.V to suddenly change tone and say something like "and that all changed after the arrest for murder"

@@hunter123123123123 Don't be silly; she knows where to hide the bodies.

I was expecting him to say "They didn't show up in any more episodes because they tragically died"

@@hunter123123123123 The show was a big hit...but she couldn't keep her secret for long. She had been dealing with stage 3 cancer since the first season, and it was starting to catch up. Also around this time, the show's producer began a new hobby: using the show's funding for drugs and prostitutes. The show pressed on, but the writing was on the wall for the staff and the franchise.

I mean the only tragedy was Alyson Court being replaced

Ill have to see a image of Timothy goes to school. All the other shows i remember watching. I really want to remember the show about music videos with children in them and the one eye purple human eater was like the mascots i think i remember also bear in the big blue house was great,bananas in pajamas alot of those old children shows were nice plus pretty long. The new children shows are pretty fast Oh! I even started watched some busy town episodes on KZfaq even though their episode numbers are abit lost since one will say episodes 364 and am like their that many episodes wwwwhhhhaaaatttt.

Ed, Edd, 'n Eddy was also made by a Canadian.

Absolutely! So many of my favorite shows growing up turned out to be from Canadian production companies!! (Sagwa and Little Bear included😍)

What about Courage the Cowardly Dog? And don't forget Ocean Group.

@@SirBlackReeds Wait Courage was a Canadian production?

And here I was thinking I was the only one 🤣

Haha😂 that's so cute.

27 year old Canadian and I do the same thing lol

Yes!!! Same!! Whatta legacy

I did not know how much of my colloquium came from a Canadian children's show about clowns.

Dragon tails!!!!! I almost forgot that brought me back just now , pbs was awesome

PBS was huge

YASSSSSS🤗🤩

Yes that one show with the lamb!! Is that what it's called??

I think it might be Shaun the sheep lol but y’all could be talking about something completely different

Boomer

that's how stephanie from lazytown was to me and she was literally 12-15 when she was on it ahahaha

@@memethyst wait she was that young?! My sister and I loved that show as kids. When I got older and learned what an actor was, I assumed she was an adult. “Because being an actor is a job, and only adults can have jobs.” I just never cared enough to look it up. But that’s insane. That means I’m only a few years younger than her lol. I thought she was like 19-20 while I was growing up.

@@bigidiotdumbstupidguy9329 the first stephanie started when she was 12 and ended when she was 15 but she did a few shorts when she was 16-17, then there was a second stephanie who did it when she was 12-13

Same! For the longest time I didn't realize that Loonette was supposed to be a child. I always thought she and Bedhead were the same age haha.

@@annal7670 when i was a kid i thought they were all adults but i still realized she was younger i just thought she was a teenager/young adult and not a child

I know, right? Every once in a while, I'd kind of remember it, but couldn't remember the name of the show or characters, or many details. Then this popped into my recommended.

I remembered because of the molly doll I had and the clock stretching. Didn't remember the name until I google it in my teens. I blame PBS for not showing it as often as they did sesame Street on it's other block like noggin or nick jr. or sprout.

@@Gittykitty Right! But in their defense, it is a primarily canadian tv show. So they probably wanted to show more native television than foreign.

😹same

Same here!

Being 41 I know better than to attempt it

If I couldn't at 10 I cant now. Lol

I couldn’t even do it when I was 4, but it was fun to try

I still try it.

I'm 28 and can do it but I don't know how much longer I have left before I lose the ability. If I keep doing the clock stretch every year I might be able to prolong it.

oh man you just brought it back w/ all them shows

YES x 1999 😂

Ah yes😊 The only one you listed I don’t know of is liberty kids. I miss those days

Remind me what Liberty's kids is, it rings a bell

@@VikingbikingIt’s a cartoon that takes place in the 1800’s is pretty much all I remember. It’s dialogue heavy and story driven, pretty unique for the time

I think its on youtube

That's hilarious.

She also voices Jubilee from X-men: The Animated Series.

@@bayonetta8418 And in the first Marvel Vs. Capcom game, too!

@@bayonetta8418 and lydia in the Beetlejuice cartoo

Shut up!!! ... ... ... OMG she did!!! Mind blown!

Mine still is but you didn’t hear it from me 👀

A fever dream is the best way to describe it lol Born in 2004 myself, my only reference to the show was through old VCR tapes my parents had passed down, due to my age it's as if NOBODY knows what I speak of (of the few times I've mentioned the show) PS: never quite nailed the clock stretch - hopefully someday I'll get there :D

I was born in 96 too, I loved this show I had a Molly too, I took her everywhere I went even to church lol 😂

@@quantumleap1491 omfg I love quantum leap!

@** and? Trying to relate to something and ACTUALLY relating to something are two very different things. You can't fake true relation lol, you really think I would sit through 26 minutes and 23 seconds of Lunette and her couch if I was really trying to "take over" everyone's 90's nostalgia through my relationship with the show? Definitely not haha! Being that I was born in 2004 shouldn't make a difference. If anything, it's even MORE liberating to connect with others (older or not) through a show many around me don't remember. The fact that you feel the NEED to tell me what I MYSELF watched as a six-year-old is just silly and immature :) The facts are: I like the show. I appreciate that there are others who also have fond memories of it. And I'm happy to have found the video. I don't understand why this is upsetting to you (also, saying "no offense" doesn't magically make what you say non-offensive). I'm personally not offended, but I do believe that there's a time and place for telling others what they should relate to - and telling someone younger than yourself that they shouldn't be able to express their love in a show simply because you spent an extra few years on earth longer than them, is stupid. AND yes...we have our "own stuff" as you mentioned. Us gen z's were the first to grow up among smartphones and more tech than ever. If you TRULY want the decades and generations to "stay in their lanes", then you wouldn't be using a smartphone. But I bet you still are. And that's okay lol. And I bet no 17 year old has ever walked up to you and said "you can't use a phone - that's crushing on our generation!", now have they? I don't think they have lol And guess what? Someone younger than you also likes the same show! :D w0W h0w amAzINg If you can't share "your show" (which it's not) with others, then please find help. Thank you for your time - and consider your time saved. I could write paragraphs among paragraphs (with legitimately good insults) surrounding your stupidity, but I think I'll save my breath. I hope you have a fantastic day my friend, and may you never fully complete the clock stretch :)))) Sorry you feel the need to tell me what I should remember as a child.

did we have the same childhood? that happened to me too!

@@Endytheenderperson 😆

i was going through old photos in my attic, and i found a picture of 3 year old me lying in a hospital bed with a Loonette doll, that is insane!

@@Endytheenderperson Wow, that is an incredible coincidence. I think I was about 4-5 years old in my picture.

i feel like it was fate that i stumbled across your comment

Is it really despair and poverty if you have a case of ketchup?

@@jlagerholm yes

@@jlagerholm Mustard gang, where you at?

Diva's,all of em.

"Under the Umbrella Tree"... I *DIDN'T* imagine it after all!😱

@@Jangobadass No you didn't. Go watch. kzfaq.info/sun/PLXssjYeUyJVG8TaEVZKwSIp9bxS9hPvMa

Maybe because you miss her and KZfaq wanted something to remind you with. Did you end up telling your daughter about your memory?

this comment made me cry and want to call my dad, lol. 😭💜

This is so sweet! Reminded me of when I was a child and my mom would wake me up for school by having the TV up loud so I could hear the theme song to "Adventures in Wonderland" playing. It was my favorite show and it came on at like 6/6:30 am. So many memories of rubbing my sleepy eyes as the theme played and trotting to the TV then sitting on the couch and eating cereal. 😭💖 Wholesome times..

Thank you for sharing such a sweet story 💜

I have two teenage girls that, when they were young, loved to watch Luna and Molly, a clown and her dolly.

"Things" aren't always fair.

More people need to be taught this in childhood.

you should see him in "Dead Man." He costared with Jonny Depp, he should have gotten top billing.

@@thetisdeamon777 Oh, I’ve seen that movie a few times now. Hell, I’m planning on watching it again today because it’s the colonialism holiday.

@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick I hear you brother.. I'm Canadian and we've always worked hand in hand with our First Nation brothers and sisters... that is when they show up for work. lol

eh

this show was one of the first times i heard a canadian accent.

That’s why it was so good

@@princesstamika Does America have one accent?

@@princesstamika No and neither does Canada

Honestly same, I just now know where I got it from 😂

lol yo same here about the dust bunnies being my last two brain cells.. especially when the narrator said "and she was not sure they even existed" when referring to them

But also so relatable. It's just like any other child trying to teach their pet to dance. They just... aren't interested.

righttt omg

For the longest time I just thought this was some kind of fever dream of mine, lol.

Had completely forgotten about this show until I saw the thumbnail and immediately recognized the clown character thinking " hey I remember that...."

🤗

I still sleep with my doll molly every night for past 23 years

Same lol

same

as an adult I kind of feel that it's not too far off from reality for some births

@@aceshighdueceslow honestly? You're not wrong. And that's coming from someone who has given birth and it was a total cluster fuck of an experience

@@ollieguy6781 this whole show kind of made me realize that they act very different to humans. Like loonette has baby stuff but no actual parents i have to assume granny took care of her, i know the clown story claimed she was taken in by alot of clowns but idk.

A whole flood of memories i didn't even know I had came through when it showed the intro

@@bentramer682 *S E R I O U S L Y!* instant at my cousins house in the morning waiting for the school bus in elementary school memories lol

When he mentioned the Clock stretches, that’s when It clicked that I had indeed watched this show.

The dust bunnies were the best. They were hilarious.

Bro the clock stretched and the dust bunnies unlocked a forgotten memory of mine omggg

Yeah, Loonette actually did see them in one episode when Molly put them on her ears, but she thought they were just earmuffs.

I loved the dust bunnies them and the clock stretch were my favorite things in the series honestly

When they showed fixing the vacuum I was like woahhh

same fam

That clock stretch got me

Same This was on Treehouse back in my childhood

I don’t know if it’s ‘cause it’s the middle of the night or maybe since it’s close to the holidays but the nostalgia was so strong I started crying! 😳

That was the only thing I could remember. I was trying so hard to find out what the show was.

thats what got me to watch the show i would always skip it until i saw the clock stretch then got hooked to the show

i vivdly rmeber younger me doing it while the was doing it on the show😭😭

We must be from the same generation because I remember watching this at age 4!

It was so hard trying to do it along with her growing up too, but I never complained cause lil ol' me loved doing the stretches and just watching the show lol

They are creepy lol