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Nanalie:My mom's favorite part of cartoon town was Mother Plumtree's recipes.  Are they still available? I'm especially interested in ooney nooney nougat.

My mom says they were kind of like rice crispy bars with
cheerios and chocolate chips, but she doesn't have the recipe anymore.

 

B. J.:  "Ooney-Nooney Nougats?"  Who thought up these crazy names?  Oh, yeah, I did.

  And the recipe is:

                                Melt 3 tablespoons butter and 1/2 lb. marshmellows

                                together.  Mix in 4 cups Cheerios, 1/2 cup nuts,

                                1/2 cup coconut' and 1/2 teaspoon of salt.

                                Press into buttered pan.  Pour 4 oz. melted sweet

                                chocolate over the top.  Chill until set.  Cut into bars.

The idea was for moms or dads to make Mother Plum's recipes with the kids.

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Dave:  My name is Dave Garrison and I was one of those kids who grew up watching you on WLWI in Indianapolis.    I've spent the last 45 years accidentally, or in some cases, on purpose, imitating your life. If you are ready for a weird story, here goes.

I sat in the audience of the  Bill Jackson Show at WLWI in Indianapolis in 1962 ...  I decided that your job was the coolest in the world and that one day I would get one like it ... I studied puppetry and ventriloquism.  Leap forward to 1976 and I was hired at WTHR (the old WLWI) to do puppets on a kids show.  I worked in your studio.

  

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The Bill Jackson Show, Ch. 13, Indianapolis

  ...  I met you again about that time.  You let me come up to WLS where you were doing "The Gigglesnort Hotel."  Now, again, I said, "that is the coolest job in the world." 

I was hired by KGO/ABC in San Francisco  (sister to WLS) in 1978 to create a companion show to yours.  I did five and half years of "Dudley's Diner" for the Bay Area.  We won several EMMYS.                                                                                                                                 

I was hired by KGO/ABC in San Francisco  (sister to WLS) in 1978 to create a companion show to yours.  I did five and half years of "Dudley's Diner" for the Bay Area.  We won several EMMYS.

I did produce and write one more series as an on-air talent.  "The M.A.D. Scientists"  for KCET in Los Angeles...I have done some stuff for "Nickelodeon" but mostly have provided programing for outlets like "The History Channel," " A&E" and "Animal Planet."

Now, here's the weird part.  This year [09], at the age of 50, I've semi-retired from television to teach at The Arts Institute of Los Angeles.  Again, I'm your doppleganger, just with a 20 year late start.
 

 

(Dave is the human on the left.  Congratulations, Dave, on your great career.)

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Eric :   I would like to purchase volume 1 of the Gigglesnort Hotel DVD.  If you are still selling them, please let me know how to do so.

CJ: Is there anyway possible that I can get all of your available volumes plus volumes 1 -4 and volume 8?  I grew up watching the show and would like the opportunity to share them with my children.  I just wish we could all go back in a time machine. 

  

B.J.:  I am happy to announce that Gigglesnort Volume 1, featuring The Shusher in The Beauty of Silence, will be re-issued this summer.  Who knows what  yackity-yack lurks in the hearts of blabbermouths?  The Shusher knows!

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Jim: ( Re: Watching Cartoon Town in the hinterlands) To bring in snowy images, we would tilt the rabbit ears just so and hope for clear skies between there and Chicago.  We were dedicated.

B. J.  Thank you for tilting your rabbit's ears.  I needed every viewer I could get.

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Tom:  (Re: Cartoon Town)... I recently was helping my parents clean out their basement and came across a few mementos of this time of my life, including a copy of the book of 'Blast Off to Mars' and a set of wooden figures that I had made of some of your characters which somehow survived the years. 

Thomas: If I remember correctly, they are, left to right, Weird, Wally, Frankenweird, Frankenwally and Wolfwally.  At one time, Frankenweird had more hair but it seems to have been lost over the years.

B.J.: Thomas got carried away on the "Frankens;" there was no FrankenWally, but one can never have too many monsters.  As to FrankenWeird's hair loss, well, he and I have a lot in common.  

 

Thanks for writing!

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