Pssst...
@zebratron2084 ...
Wanna join in on this? I've been nudging old children's TV shows on birbhell, and I'm about to get into Pennywise and palabra jot territories...
@JulieSqveakaroo Those are two I'm actually not familiar with, though I have heard "Palabra Jot" as a phrase...
@JulieSqveakaroo Wait, are you thinking of Outerscope?
@JulieSqveakaroo Intriguingly, while every Google source I'm finding for Outerscope refers to it airing on "Vegetable Soup"... I found someone on a forum reminiscing about a very similar-sounding show that had a character named "Pennywise." So that might have been a Vegetable Soup character, or Outerscope might have been packaged into another kids' TV show? I'm still digging...
Well now I can't remember what show it was on.
The main human host for Pennywise was a black female, and I know there was a reoccuring puppet segment, that fits the Outerscope theme, but I don't believe it was Outerscope... and now I need to find it...
It was not Outerscope... different puppet kids.
I remember a specific episode involving the puppet kids interacting with a world of opposite speech patterns ("bad night" meaning "good day", etc...) and one of the main character puppets somewhat menacingly attempting to take apart one of the xenopuppets with a screwdriver to see how they worked... the xenopuppets were distinctly non human...
@JulieSqveakaroo This is TORTUROUSLY familiar, roo. <3 I'll keep researching!
I KNOW... but for the life of me, it was NOT from VegetableSoup... and I don't think it was Mulligan'sStew... I could have sworn it was Pennywise, but I cannot find a single clip of it.
Sadly, mental memory of the theme song is not good for web trawling searches...
@JulieSqveakaroo This is all gloriously frustrating, isn't it. :D It's why I love nostalgia hunts, it's almost like a puzzle hunt...
@JulieSqveakaroo Huh Digging further... it looks like there was an Outerscope 1 and Outerscope 2. Just theorizing, but is it possible they had separate characters, kinda like Infinity Train? I'm digging for episodes from each season to check...
OH... I did not know there were different seasons... ok, that might be a thing...
@zx3 @JulieSqveakaroo *dresses up like Westley and delivers an extended monologue about living quite comfortably in the Media Swamp for some time* <3
@zx3 (but this is an EXCELLENT suggestion and I hadn't thought of using this to track Julie's show down! <3 <3 <3 )
Ooooh... I had all but forgotten about this... last I used this site was to cement the memory rumor of a televised adult variant of Nick studios where the set and rooms of "FunHouse" was also being used as a very shortly-lived game show called "CollegeMadHouse"!!
reminiscing
@JulieSqveakaroo @zx3 Oh. My. God. That brings back a huge memory: the Burly Bear network.
So apparently there was an indie music/comedy cable startup that was sharing space with one of the community access channels in Somerville, MA.
And I don't have great memories of them or what they showed, but it was all WEIRD and they had one of the last really GOOD video blocks I saw after the demise of MTV's soul.
I'll be grateful to them for the rest of my life for introducing me to the late Trish Keenan's Broadcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ZJ-N750Bk [CW: flashing lights]
@JulieSqveakaroo Could you toss me a link to the Birdsite conversation, hun?
@zebratron2084
Huh... it is literally impossible to do a search on Pennywise and not end up at murderclown...
It had a reoccurring puppet segment that was a sci-fi serial of a bunch of puppet kids that kept ending up on different worlds/ships who were lost and trying to find their parents.