"Everything's upside down these days"
Mr Squiggle, the man from the moooooon!
I'm not sure which co-host he is in the photo with, but that hair has 1980's written all over it. You've got to love the 80's! I did. Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, wore the leg warmers, burnt all the photos...
That puppet is a legend, as were the other puppets on the show. Unfortunately I can't find photos of them to post in here, so if you're not Australian you'll have to trust me that they were awesome. Bill Steamshovel, Gus the snail, Rocket, and good old Blackboard! He would've kicked Oscar the Grouch's ass right out of Sesame Street. If he could be bothered. We need more clinically depressed characters on children's television...
The show started on TV the year my mother was born. Mr Squiggle, Barbie and the great mother of Skvid. 1959 - what a year!
posted by Skvid @ 4:03 pm
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Aw, sorry for any mental anguish I may have caused! It must be a little strange to see him for the first time as an adult. He’s been around for my entire life, so I found the hairstyle in that photo more disturbing than the pencil nose thing.
Mr Squiggle often went walking up into the sky saying “it’s space walk time!” He could have easily escaped from the evil clutches of big bird, only to return in a surprise attack from above…
Aw. Poor Mr Squiggle. No-one understands...
He's a puppet that could draw pictures out of "squiggles" that kids sent in to him. He could turn a random doodle of a straight line, a wavy line and a circle, into something cool like a puppy playing with a yo-yo.
Come to think of it, almost every drawing had a yo-yo in it...
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