Okay, when I was younger there was this freaky cartoon sketch show.

Now, I used to call it the 'Ungy Bungy Bow Show', although it probably wasn't called that, at all. It would have turned up on my Google searches by now, if that was it.

It was either from the U.S. or Canada. It sort of had the look of the animated segments on Sesame Street. It was years ago... I'm talking like 1976/1977.

There was a character whom looked a bit like Mr. Mackey from South Park but wore a black beret.

The most memorable character was a goldfish in a bowl. It held onto stilts with its fins and on the end of the stilts were boots. It was in a goldfish bowl but it walked about by moving the stilts. I seem to remember that the goldfish had sort of a jive-talking voice.

Somebody out there must know what this show was - it's been bugging me for years!

I haven't a bloody clue what it is...

But I gotta see it.....

(does a google on "stilt walking Goldfish")

never heard of it...I am racking my brain. Nothing sounds even remotely familiar and I am a buff on that stuff. Have you tried looking for sites solely dedicated to Kids TV form the 70's. There's a lot of them out there.

superspaceboy said:

Believe me, I've posted this information to countless forums. Nobody ever knows what I'm talking about.

Summer 1978. Midnite

"I see jive talkin' goldfish in a walking bowl"




"Darling, I'm starting to worry about little Justin's visions"

BinaryJustin said:

perhaps a bad dream?

madartista said:

Or momma slipped him somethin in the wylers

Now I am curious as to what show this is...

you MUST have a twin somewhere's...from the Big Cartoon Forum http://forum.bcdb.com/

Subject....Goldfish in bowl on stilts. Sunday morning uk tv show.

Answer...A fish with stilts? None other than The Tomfoolery Show (1970), co-produced by the U.S.A.'s Rankin-Bass Productions and Britain's Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films.

Fastidious Fish was one of the many creatures in this 17-episode series, devoted to the nonsense poems of Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Gelett Burgess and Ogden Nash, as well as Laugh-In-style sight gags. This was the first time that Rankin-Bass employed Halas and Batchelor Animation for a show. (The program also aired on NBC in the United States.)

Of course the fish on stilts could walk -- the stilts had shoes on them!


P.S.: For those of us who aren't Brits, a "compere" is a host or MC.

http://www.bcdb.com/carto...index.html




Merry Christmas

superspaceboy said:

OMG!

It's the fish-on-stilts!!!

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

If there's anything you need, drop me an Org Note and I'll try to help.

This was one fucking freaky show!

Oh! One of the characters was called "Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò". I thought it was "Ungy Bungy Bow" all those years.

Edward Lear's Table and The Chair were characters too! How odd. You know, as in: "Said the table to the chair, you can hardly be aware"... etc.

It was true

OK. If you receive a parcel from Spain in the next days, DON'T OPEN IT!!!

BinaryJustin said:

Yer welcome.

Cheers