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@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...

@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.

@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...

@zebratron2084

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...

@zebratron2084

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...

@zebratron2084

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...

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@JulieSqveakaroo This is all gloriously frustrating, isn't it. :D It's why I love nostalgia hunts, it's almost like a puzzle hunt...

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