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DirtyJersey

10-04-2006, 04:49 PM

Does anyone remember an old cartoon that was featured on the nickelodeon show "Pinwheel" (I think), or it could have been on Sesame Street. There was this little animal with huge ears and he lived on top of a building in the city, and he would wrap himself up in his ears and slide down a drain pipe on the roof. He would also look through a telescope at stuff. I remember it looking like it was drawn in the 70s but I watched it in the early 80s.

MadMatt

10-04-2006, 05:04 PM

Are you possibly talking about Cheburashka?  It was huge in Russia and Japan.<img height="175" src="http://pokupka.narod.co.il/news/20-03-2005_cheburashka.jpg" width="200" border="0" />

mikeyboy

10-04-2006, 05:07 PM

DirtyJersey wrote: Does anyone remember an old cartoon that was featured on the nickelodeon show "Pinwheel" (I think), or it could have been on Sesame Street. There was this little animal with huge ears and he lived on top of a building in the city, and he would wrap himself up in his ears and slide down a drain pipe on the roof. He would also look through a telescope at stuff. I remember it looking like it was drawn in the 70s but I watched it in the early 80s. I remember it, but not much about it specifically, other than the fact that my little sister used to watch it.

johnniewalker

10-04-2006, 05:28 PM

Not really, but the show theme music was brilliant.  Pinwheel pinwheel spinning around....

narc

10-05-2006, 08:56 AM

I watched Nick a lot during that period. I was fucking obsessed with Pinwheel. I liked it way better than Sesame Street after awhile - I guess it was marketed at a slightly older demographic. I just remember those puppets that would play tag and just keep tagging each other back and forth...."Tag you're it!"Pinwheel was actually a Canadian show, I think. For some reason, a lot of the kids shows that Nickelodeon showed back then were Canadian - including Today's Special, Fred Penner's Place, and of course, You Can't Do That on Television (with the immortal Les Lye) - and they were all fantastic.

Bill From Yorktown

10-06-2006, 11:22 AM

MadMatt wrote: Are you possibly talking about Cheburashka?  It was huge in Russia and Japan.<img height="175" src="http://pokupka.narod.co.il/news/20-03-2005_cheburashka.jpg" width="200" border="0" />huh?  Chupa Cabra?<img height="443" src="http://www.joebrower.com/PHILE_PILE/PIX/EVIL_PEOPLE/Reno_Janet/Chupacabra.gif" width="340" border="0" />

trig

10-17-2006, 11:36 AM

Pinwheel ruled, but Mr. Wizard owned all.  Loved that show. <img width="300" height="248" border="0" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l155/zduvall/wizard1.jpg" alt="Mr. Wizard" title="Mr. Wizard" />

Death Metal Moe

10-17-2006, 11:39 AM

trig wrote: Pinwheel ruled, but Mr. Wizard owned all.  Loved that show.<img title="Mr. Wizard" height="248" alt="Mr. Wizard" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l155/zduvall/wizard1.jpg" width="300" border="0" />   Quoted for truth.  Don Herbert owns your asses.  You sons of cocks!  Don's balls are slappin' you ass bitches!

Tall_James

10-17-2006, 11:49 AM

<img height="248" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l155/zduvall/wizard1.jpg" width="300" border="0" />"Gosh Mr. Wizard - what is this thing?""Well Becky, its a suicide machine I created in my basement.""How does it work?""Just put your hand over this injection plate and gravity should do the rest."

narc

10-17-2006, 12:32 PM

Death Metal Moe wrote: trig wrote: Pinwheel ruled, but Mr. Wizard owned all. Loved that show.<img width="300" height="248" border="0" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l155/zduvall/wizard1.jpg" alt="Mr. Wizard" title="Mr. Wizard" /> Quoted for truth. Don Herbert owns your asses. You sons of cocks! Don's balls are slappin' you ass bitches!  Quoted for uncomfortable truth. Even when I was young and shouldn't have known any better, I always got a real kid toucherous vibe from Mr. Wizard. I also always got the impression when the kids screwed up he was going to punish them with more molesting. It sounds like one of those press reports of child molesters:"Police today announced the arrest of an elderly Pittsburgh man in conjunction with several brutal child rapes that occurred in the area.Police say that 57-year-old Don Herbert lured young prepubescent children of both sexes to his home with talk of having them perform "science experiments." He also had the children refer to him by the moniker "Mr. Wizard." From the information police have culled from initial interviews with the children, these so-called experiments included frequent fellatio, viewing of animal porn, and placing a hotdog in the microwave and cooking it until it exploded."  I don't know. There was just something really creepy about an old guy who loved hanging around with kids one-on-one and teaching them science. And tell me that heating up the hotdog thing until it expanded to an unbelievable length and exploded wasn't a metaphor for his coming.

SinA

10-17-2006, 02:19 PM

Death Metal Moe wrote: trig wrote: Pinwheel ruled, but Mr. Wizard owned all.  Loved that show.<img title="Mr. Wizard" height="248" alt="Mr. Wizard" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l155/zduvall/wizard1.jpg" width="300" border="0" />   Quoted for truth.  Don Herbert owns your asses.  You sons of cocks!  Don's balls are slappin' you ass bitches!Quoted for mod quote.

Death Metal Moe

10-17-2006, 02:21 PM

If it does make it into my Mod Quote, please fix the "you" with "yo" which is what I meant to put, so it made it sound like I was speaking like a 1700's sharecropper.

BenInArkansas

11-09-2006, 06:53 PM

My brother and I used to watch it all the time. Early 80's, cable tv was new to Tulsa, and we were the first on the block to get it. Cool show. 