DefunctTV: The History of the Big Comfy Couch
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In this episode of DefunctTV, Kevin deep dives into the Canadian television staple, the clown-tastic children's show, The Big Comfy Couch.
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Cool!
Yes yes yes yes yassssssss I used to love this show when I was a kid on Nick Jr.
Could you do a video on Blues Clues?
@Julian Negron Thomas and Friends is still airing.
on netflix
Everyone who’s watched this show must’ve attempted to do the Clock Stretch at least once or twice in their life 😂
Attempted... committed to every time it came on.. same difference
Yes!!!
The clock stretch was mesmerizing and I couldn't understand why until I got older.
I did it all the damn time lol
I did lmao
S/ O to all of us kids who watched this because we didn't have a cable.
I saw Alyson (Loonette) just a few weeks ago. She was directing an episode of a TV show that is filming in the studio I manage. I saw her every day for 2 weeks and I didn’t even recognize her thanks to her COVID mask.
@@antoniomanaserian7828 omg. That's like a dream of mines. She literally was my childhood.
This show was aired on PBS stations.
We had cable and still watched it every day.
@@antoniomanaserian7828 y did u copy/paste another comment??
Lunette's actor reprising her role in 2016 to scare the shit out of people is INCREDIBLE
(giggles) "Everyone diiiies!!" (Revs chainsaw, runs at the camera with a manic look in her eyes)
(screams and falls out of chair)
yep thats the woman that raised me 🫡
It was amazing, “this hour has 22 minutes” is based Canadian television, and her showing up was absolutely crazy, and how even with the years that passed and the make up, she looked exactly how we all remembered her.
The family dealing with mysterious sounds being named "Foley" is underappreciated
I blew my boyfriend's mind when I told him they were named Foley because the stories were all sound effects.
Oh my god
I'm gonna go nuts, why is the fact that they're named Foley clever??
@@NecoLumi "Foley Effects" is the term for sounds used for everyday noises in movies. Like when someone gets thrown through a window, its not an actual glass window, so they need to record the sound of glass breaking and play it over the scene to make it more realistic.
@@NecoLumithe person who creates sound effects for movies and TV is valued a foley artist, and the Foley family segments rely on sound effects
I can’t express how happy I am that no one from the cast was revealed to be an axe murderer in this video.
@Anzu Wyliei XD
@Anzu Wyliei Word!
😂😭
🤣
Maybe if you ignore the part @ 25:07, I guess. :P
"our show is about what it's like to be a human being on this planet" Those were the best kind of shows growing up
I did like how they said they weren't going to teach a letter of the alphabet each show, and then literally taught a letter per show
So being a poor Chinese Citizen...
Or rather, what it's like to be a clown in a terrifying alternate universe in which everyone and everything is a clown
Pretty fucked up is what it is.
Then maybe they should have done child molestation rape murder divorce job loss possible nuclear Wars and violence and so forth cuz this shows nothing what it's like to be human
This whole show was also the reason why I really enjoyed clowns and didn’t see them as scary as I got older, in fact, I always felt turning clowns into a scary/horror medium was completely against why clowns/jesters where created.
Such fun colourful people secretly being deranged killers IS the point. The contrast is supposed to be scary
Shout out to PBS network for introducing this show to me in the 90s and early 2000s
👏👏
It stopped on May 24, 2009 and I remember seeing it then, right before Sesame Street.
@@nostalgiamostalgia0319for some reason, i remember watching it on PBS kids around 2013 - 2015
currently watching a video about the Big Comfy Couch while sitting in my Small Painful Chair
Oh, the irony!
Small Painful Chair only lasted 1 season and was not quite as popular as the former show, Big Comfy Couch
HEY KID, WANNA SIT IN MY CHAIR?!!!
@@jamestheawsome100 Is it a musical one?
I'm sitting on a cold hard toilet
"We had a broken down red volvo, 100 lbs. of brown rice, a dog and a cat, a case of tuna, a case of ketchup and $100."
Ah, living the dream, I see.
“We’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.”
@@Maniac536 “HIT IT!”
"We've got a broken down red Volvo, 100 pounds of brown rice, a dog, a cat, a case of tuna, a case of ketchup, $100, it's 103 miles to Chicago, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."
"Hit it."
nah m8 that’s living in modern day
I didn’t realize this was an almost exclusively Canadian show. I’m American born ‘97 and I had several VHS tapes I watched and seeing this popped up in my feed was such a blast from the past
Edit: Got to the part where he said it aired on PBS, now I’m sure that’s where I saw it
I was born in '93 but grew up with it in the US and loved re-runs of that show. I legit figured it was because I was in Michigan and we sometimes got Canadian shows there that that's why I saw it XD Until he said it then came to the US and I was like "ah nevermind" - I always loved Loonette. She was like a big sister on TV
I thought it was a Spanish show
We got this on long island, prob around 96. I remember my toddler son born in 94, standing in front of the tv rocking back & forth to the song...
this is me too! american born the same year, i had one vhs tape id watch over and over again 🥹
I am 26 and I STILL call my daily chores 10 Second Tidy. Also I have had not one but 2 orange cats named Snigglefritz. This show has stuck with me so much ♥️
Snigglefritz was great! And I use/used the 10 second tidy for my kids and daycare kids!
2:57
2:58 3: 3:22
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"Secret Circus" is a top-tier ridiculous euphemism for sex.
I suppose you do try really hard to make the other person happy so it's kinda not far off
@Dottoman Delite didnt she say "make each other laugh?" I hope so, otherwise that's a kinda messed up analogy lol
lol
In both you pitch a tent
yea I read that as a big ol clown orgy where someone gets knocked up but they all raise the kid
“too old at 37” “grandma clown” oof
37 is still young
too old to play a kid :P but yeah 37's still mad young
Alyson Court was 43 when she reprised Loonette for that 2016 comedy sketch show lmao
To a kid that might as well be a billion years old
sorry but 37 is really old though, like it’s the age of getting things ready for retirement, your 401k, your kids’ savings for college, plus 37 people are getting fat and going bald, you know?
I remember how shocked I was when I found out that "Loonette" was also the VA for Claire Redfield from the Resident Evil horror series. 😅 When I just happened to catch a quick glimpse of the show on TV, I *knew* she sounded so familiar...
I grew up with this on PBS as a kid.
Really glad to hear they kept it going with no scandals or issues. A seemingly rare feat in that particular industry!
Thanks for the nostalgia blast!
Life upon the wicked stage ain't ever what a girl supposes...
Honestly non-horror clowns are seriously underrated. We need more cute clowns.
I agree with you
BIG agree!!!
@@daffodille Pun intended.
Several Pokemon, Lola Pop from Arms, a few SpongeBob episodes...
You got that right.
Apparently when I was a toddler, I would create a huge mess with my toys and then proclaim, standing on the couch, “WHO MADE THIS BIG MESS? Well...I made it...so I’ve gotta clean it up.” I’d then clean up the mess I just made. Then make another one and repeat the process. My mother thought it was such strange behavior until she noticed I was imitating this show.
That’s honestly adorable!
At least you were repeating a responsible thing to do, lol.
I feel like being a parent is just like trying to build a sandcastle where when you go to get a soda you come back to find stuff you never added. Kids can be weird yo
My cousins and I also did this as kids lmao
My mom always had us do a 10 Second Tidy to clean our rooms when I was little! She would count really slowly to make it seem like we actually did it in 10 seconds! 😂
lmao...so cute
Alison Court was amazing for this nostalgic show and she will always be the original voice of Claire Redfield for the resident evil franchise
Thank you Canada for bringing the Big Comfy Couch to America! This was my favorite show growing up and I loved doing the clock stretch and dancing bits. Been wanting to share this show with my kids and now I will!
I didn’t know it was Canadian! Then again I was a kid so….
This show is probably why I'm NOT afraid of clowns, like almost everyone else seems to be.
Same! Now I just get angry at them after living with one during college. They would practice in the living room while I tried studying for classes. Pure rage flows through me when I hear that music now.
same!
Now see i love this show but i was terrified of IT
Same here, at least one other friend in my life remembers this show.
I fear no clowns. Clowns fear me.
Oh my god, this woman was 6 months pregnant and was doing this show for season 6?! Oh my god thats commitment and incredible
It’s crazy going back and watching that season because first of all you can’t even tell unless you’re aware of her pregnancy and you’re looking for it and also the fact that they used Alyson and the other cast and crew as background characters in stories so she was playing Loonette plus additional side characters in all the episodes of season six. Very impressive
It’s odd how a children’s tv show could have such an impact but this show truly was so impactful for me as a young child.
It was such an integral part of my childhood and it would spark deep creativity for me when I’d watch it. I’m thankful for this show
There needs to be more good child friendly shoes like this. Too often they are made fun of. It’s for innocent kids, no shame in making kid shows with no adults content in there
Made for multilingual homes? Must be why I was addicted to this show. I grew up in a English and sign language speaking home since my parents are deaf
Not really surprising since Canada has both English and French-speaking families.
I actually think this show was why I never had a fear of clowns at all.
I always wondered why people hated clowns. I hate It from IT for reasons other than it being a clown.
*laughs in Art the Clown*
I've never been afraid of clowns either, and I grew up watching this show as well. Interesting...
@@jameshamaker9321 if I saw that movie as a child instead of the big comfy couch, then I probably would have a whole different perspective on it. Somehow, I managed to avoid most scary ass things as a child. Probably didn't help that most jumpscare movies terrify me as an adult though 🤷🏿♀️
I’ve found from personal experience that ppl I know who are afraid of clowns were scarred by Pennywise before they got to this wholesome show. I LOVE clowns because of this show.
Bro, me and my sister loved this show as little kids.
Did we have the same childhood? Same with me and my sister!!
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Wow I haven't seen the show in a long time my man
I used to watch it a little too much when I was little and I still despise clowns to this day
Also hey Offhand Disney I love watching your content especially when it’s about creepy stuff
Also also I’m a subscriber to yours and Defunctland’s channels
Hey off hand cool to c u on here lol
Major Bedhead was always my favorite tv personality on tv and I think a lot of my fun loving personality I gleaned from him. What a gem of a show!
I’m honestly surprised this wasn’t just a fever dream and that other people are nostalgic for this show, too. I still have a mini plush somewhere in my basement of the (big) comfy couch. That theme song is forever burned into my mind, lol
I'd hate to be the person who had to get that duck into that tutu.
Bro same
I want to see their resume. “Duck Dresser”.
Coulda been worse. Imagine if they'd tried to use a goose.
@@stevethepocket 😨
@@stevethepocket That's where taxidermy comes in.
"oh god, he's doing a old show from my childhood"
*proceeds to get hit by a barrage of other old shows in the leadup*
"Under the Umbrella Tree"...
I *DIDN'T* imagine it after all!😱
@@Jangobadass No you didn't. Go watch. czcams.com/play/PLXssjYeUyJVG8TaEVZKwSIp9bxS9hPvMa.html
Y’all don’t even understand how much this segment means to me!!! To this day if it was on Netflix I’d watch it every single morning before work like I did as a kid before school! This show was my life as a kid!!! I was crushed when I was a kid and I couldn’t afford to buy all the merch and stuffed animals at Zaney Brainey!!!
It’s on Tubi.
Omg...zainy brainy. I liked that store too
Awww❤
Oh my God Zainy Brainy was my favorite store as a little kid. I got many a beanie baby from there back then
I can confirm I loved this show as a kid. It's one of the few shows I watched as a young kid that I actually remember.
I really thought this he was going to ruin my childhood and talk about some Big Comfy Couch scandal but instead he took me down nostalgia lane and now i'm sitting at my desk at work sobbing because I miss being a child
Me too, I remember laying on the floor watching this as my mom got ready for work. I’d do anything to go back 💕
Omg me toooo.. why did I ever want to grow up 😩
Yess. Same!
Hey no need to cry for what was lost. Live for what can be. Life's what you make it in a way, sure there's circumstance, but it's never too late to be a child everywhere except visage ^.^
ikr I was ready for him to be like "Molly is now a stripper and suffers from chronic heroine addiction".
Canadian TV is a special thing. Glad Americans got to see it.
True.
Hope you Canadians got to see Mr. Rogers
We also made amazing early slasher horror movies like Black Christmas 1974 and My Bloody Valentine 1981. It's also ironic how the original 1990 IT movie was filmed in Vancouver. With the newer movies being filmed in parts of Ontario and Toronto with a few scenes in Vancouver
Canadian TV is some of my favorite TV.
@@MM-ej2wn and in an interesting coincidence in Ernie Coombs actually did work on Mr.Rogers original series
I grew up in Colombia and I was fortunate enough to have seen many episodes of the comfy couch while still living there as a very young child. My grandmother and I loved it, she even bought me a Molly doll! Molly is now 22 years old and had an always will remain one of my most prized loves❤ what a wonderful show that has given so many beautiful memories to all of us!
I absolutely adored this when I was tiny, I was however banned from watching it when I tried storing my toys in the couch during the cleanup parts lol
Deserved now face the wall
@@ErrorError-km7ibhilarious
Never realized 'Lazy Town' and 'Big Comfy Couch' have similar concepts, at least when it comes to encouraging activity in kids and ironic titles
Jeez when I was a kid everyone wanted to be like sportacus it certainly got the message across
Yeah, now that you mention it they did have similar concepts and style as well, I used to love both
@@lemmythebulldog8812 I didn't, but then again I'm the type that sits back and hopes the villain wins.
@@Logan-zp8bi I’ll give you that, Robbie Rotten definitely made me laugh a lot as a kid, it’s really sad he passed away from cancer
@@shmyules8711 Some things are just better left not knowing.
In 2020, I am a 26 year old American who now does “10 minute tidys” to my house because of this show.
And here I was thinking I was the only one 🤣
Haha😂 that's so cute.
27 year old Canadian and I do the same thing lol
Yes!!! Same!! Whatta legacy
I did not know how much of my colloquium came from a Canadian children's show about clowns.
Got to finally meet Alyson Court herself recently. Easily one of the kindest, sweetest, most gracious human beings I’ve ever met in my life!!
I'm 34 and still think about this show from time to time. It was nice to come across a video about it. Although I'm TERRIFIED of clowns, so idk how that works 🤷🏻♀️
Well, the clowns don't really look too much like clowns, people think the fear of them comes from the excessive face paint causing your brain to become iffy cause it's having a hard time registering the face under all that paint, which is why you get creeped.
I think, that's just what I've heard.
In any case, the clowns in the show don't really have much makeup which helps.
@@poppythedogofwonders When I was in probably 1st grade, my parents dressed me as a clown for Halloween. I saw myself in the mirror, screamed, went and hid under my bed and cried. Even just last Halloween I went on a hayride, saw a clown (it was literally a person wearing a cheap plastic mask), took off running and had a panic attack. I have lots of stories, but I basically have always had an irrational fear of them. And I don't really have a good reason why. So maybe your theory is correct
@@poppythedogofwonders One thing I notice is that this show's clowns have a much more traditional, old-timey approach with their costumes and makeup, which is especially evident with Granny. We get some light circus clown elements in there with Major Bedhead, but even then, as you mentioned, he has minimal makeup and his face as a result would look mostly ordinary and approachable to anyone. Even in that gag segment aired during the clown invasion, there's such a stark contrast between how the creepy clowns looked vs Loonette that really illustrates what made this show so helpful in making more kids of my generation okay with clowns.
Oddly enough though, I never had any issue with more heavily done-up, over-the-top clowns as a kid either.
My mom actually wrote a letter to this show because I used to stuff everything in the couch instead of putting things back where they belonged. Throwback.
Did they write back to your mom?
Back when people thought letters actually had power. XD
That is so funny!
How is that the shows issue?
@@kissit012 It's not ._.
"Everybody dies!" didn't expect that lol
Quite frankly, we should've seen it coming...
I had no clue what that comment meant, and then I saw it. I...I don't know if I love it or I'm that more terrified.
😂
Ayyy... Prototype profile pic
Well,she's not wrong.. But damn,somebody let loonette into the pixie sticks again..
Where was Molly in all this?
I can’t express how much I loved and adored Molly and Lunette (the original) Watching this I can almost feel what I was feeling as a child. The big comfy couch was always comforting and genuine. After seeing this and knowing everyone turned out to be unproblematic I know it actually was genuine. Damn they don’t make children’s shows like they used to, made with love.
I was raised in foster care and they had a program called dreams take flight that sent kids to Disney land for a day pass and i was 11yrs old and had no parents with me so i was terrified and she performed on flight and ended up sitting with me keeping me calm from Toronto to Florida :) she fed me fuzzy peaches to keep my ears from popping! Unmatched kindness amazing heart a moment ill never forget
bruh ur so lucky!
Oh, okay. This show wasn't just some fever dream I had as a kid.
I know, right? Every once in a while, I'd kind of remember it, but couldn't remember the name of the show or characters, or many details. Then this popped into my recommended.
I remembered because of the molly doll I had and the clock stretching. Didn't remember the name until I google it in my teens. I blame PBS for not showing it as often as they did sesame Street on it's other block like noggin or nick jr. or sprout.
@@Gittykitty Right! But in their defense, it is a primarily canadian tv show. So they probably wanted to show more native television than foreign.
😹same
Same here!
“Alison had to cut off her hair after a friend set fire to it with a butane lighter”
are we just going to gloss over that?
They were dabbing, guaranteed. It’s canada
Are we going to also talk about that she was pregnant while doing the show at one point?
@@chaoflaka8132 she engaged in a secret circus.
@@Logan-zp8bi 😂😂😂
@@Logan-zp8bi XD
I’m 35 years young now. and I STILL vividly remember Big Comfy Couch.
I was no more than 5 when i used to sit in front of the TV cross legged and watch this show.
I’ll never forget the boy-crush I had on the girl from the couch. Still to this day, she could get it.
She was gorgeous. This was an amazing show.
this is one of the most nostalgic series maybe ever. I hadn't remembered it until i saw the thumbnail. what a lovely chill series. Lunette is that little kid in all of us.
"This is gonna be a fun video to watch!"
***Video starts of despair and poverty***
Is it really despair and poverty if you have a case of ketchup?
@@jlagerholm yes
@@jlagerholm Mustard gang, where you at?
I think what really sells this show is that the clowns aren't just actors in greasepaint but honest-to-goodness circus performers who can juggle, do acrobatics and perform just the right kind of broad, exaggerated acting. In fact, this is the last piece of mainstream media I can think of where clowns are just... clowns and not ironic or creepy perversions of clowns (which, ngl, I understand why but it kinda bums me out).
I do remember an animated show called Jojo's Circus, and it while it wasn't live action, it did feature clown and circus characters that just made it fun to watch as a kid. I grew up with not only this show, but a lot of Jim Jenkins shows which had similar kind of energy, but for slightly older audience.
I'm sure there has been more
@@jlbeeen i remember jojo's circus and i always loved how it looked. it was a fun show.
@@jlbeeen yeah, but that’s a cartoon and actually takes place in a circus, so it makes sense that it’s not ironic. I can’t think of anything live action where clowns are just clowns.
Except Allison Court, she was just an actress.
My sisters and I absolutely loved this show. The clock, the 10 second tidy.... So nostalgic 💗 I'm going to introduce this to my toddler.
This show has sadly never aired in my country, but I'm so in love with its vibe 🥺
I think its on youtube
This brought back memories. Anyone remember Zoom? Used to rush home after school to catch that right before Cyber Chase
Come on and
Zoom and zoom and zoom
On ZOOM!!!
Yeah those were the best
E mail? Send it to zoom! Z mail... p b s kids dot org!
Zoom was my favorite show! I remember it would come on either after Arthur lol
OMG Yeeeess
Who else tried but failed to do the clock stretch as a 29 year old adult?
Being 41 I know better than to attempt it
If I couldn't at 10 I cant now. Lol
I couldn’t even do it when I was 4, but it was fun to try
I still try it.
I'm 28 and can do it but I don't know how much longer I have left before I lose the ability. If I keep doing the clock stretch every year I might be able to prolong it.
This show is so nostalgic for me. I remember the clock stretch most and the dust bunnies. I almost forgot the show existed, but that's for the reminder and the awesome video on the shows production!
I LOVED this show. I didn't know it was Canadian. Thanks Canada, for bringing we Americans this great show ❤
As an American, I never realized how much Canadian content impacted my childhood. I loved the heck out of Sagwa (an American and Canadian co-production), Franklin and Little Bear (which both aired on Nick Jr), and Timothy Goes To School (despite being short-lived) which aired on PBS Kids in the early 2000s for their "Bookworm Bunch" block before briefly returning to television on the TLC and Discovery Kids weekday morning block "Ready Set Learn" in 2006.
Between the 90s and early 2000s, Nelvana alongside the Ocean Group (Loved the English Dub of Hamtaro as a kid) was the king at making animated children's content from Canada.
Ill have to see a image of Timothy goes to school. All the other shows i remember watching. I really want to remember the show about music videos with children in them and the one eye purple human eater was like the mascots i think i remember also bear in the big blue house was great,bananas in pajamas alot of those old children shows were nice plus pretty long. The new children shows are pretty fast Oh! I even started watched some busy town episodes on CZcams even though their episode numbers are abit lost since one will say episodes 364 and am like their that many episodes wwwwhhhhaaaatttt.
Ed, Edd, 'n Eddy was also made by a Canadian.
Absolutely! So many of my favorite shows growing up turned out to be from Canadian production companies!! (Sagwa and Little Bear included😍)
What about Courage the Cowardly Dog? And don't forget Ocean Group.
@@SirBlackReeds Wait Courage was a Canadian production?
That "where do clowns come from" origin story was WILD
as an adult I kind of feel that it's not too far off from reality for some births
@@aceshighdueceslow honestly? You're not wrong. And that's coming from someone who has given birth and it was a total cluster fuck of an experience
@@ollieguy6781 this whole show kind of made me realize that they act very different to humans. Like loonette has baby stuff but no actual parents i have to assume granny took care of her, i know the clown story claimed she was taken in by alot of clowns but idk.
My younger siblings were in love with this show when we were growing up. I remember sitting down to watch it with them and I was just as entertained even though I was a bit older. The theme song randomly pops into my head from time to time.
Boomer
Omg I loved this show as a kid!! I completely forgot about the dollhouse segment! I think that and clock stretch were my favorite parts! I was terrified of the dust bunnies lol
'However, the bunnies weren't interested in learning dance moves.' I just
I can't
But also so relatable. It's just like any other child trying to teach their pet to dance. They just... aren't interested.
It wasn't until he mentioned the dust bunnies that it clicked in my brain how awesome this show was!
When he mentioned the Clock stretches, that’s when It clicked that I had indeed watched this show.
The dust bunnies were the best. They were hilarious.
Bro the clock stretched and the dust bunnies unlocked a forgotten memory of mine omggg
Yeah, Loonette actually did see them in one episode when Molly put them on her ears, but she thought they were just earmuffs.
I loved the dust bunnies them and the clock stretch were my favorite things in the series honestly
This was such a gem in my childhood. I'm 30 now, but I definitely remember this!! Lots of nostalgia.. May even share these with my own children someday.
As a kid from Michigan, I LOVED this show so much. My dad and I used to watch it all the time
I was expecting a really tragic or bad reason leading up to the end of this video, but boy am I glad that the big comfy couch had a perfectly good, successful run. it's super nostalgic--i'm glad to finally know the history behind it.
i know right? i was half prepared for D.T.V to suddenly change tone and say something like "and that all changed after the arrest for murder"
@@hunter123123123123 Don't be silly; she knows where to hide the bodies.
I was expecting him to say "They didn't show up in any more episodes because they tragically died"
@@hunter123123123123 The show was a big hit...but she couldn't keep her secret for long. She had been dealing with stage 3 cancer since the first season, and it was starting to catch up. Also around this time, the show's producer began a new hobby: using the show's funding for drugs and prostitutes. The show pressed on, but the writing was on the wall for the staff and the franchise.
I mean the only tragedy was Alyson Court being replaced
This felt like having an ancient memory dug up that I didn't even remember was there.
righttt omg
For the longest time I just thought this was some kind of fever dream of mine, lol.
Had completely forgotten about this show until I saw the thumbnail and immediately recognized the clown character thinking " hey I remember that...."
@5:01 To the joy of preschoolers, I was watching this at 10 and 11 years old. I only had basic tv channels and this was one of the shows that would come on during summer break from school. Bored and alone at home, this is one of the shows I remember watching back then. I am 38 now and still remember this show clear as day.
My mom still remembers me running around the living room every day throwing the couch cushions and pillows every where so I could clean them up 😂. And the clock stretch! ⏰ Andddd I remember getting the Lunette and Molly dolls for my birthday. Great memories, still love this show!
I embarrassedly watched this show as a kid outside the intended age bracket. I just liked the idea of the couch stuffed with an infinite supply of junk. I started stuffing random toys and junk behind my couch cushions to randomly dig through and pull out. My parents were not pleased.
Yay for outside the age bracket! When it aired, I was 10 onwards.
Me too lol
My younger siblings watched this while I was already in high school. The fact that I know the songs and sang them to my daughter when she was younger. She has no idea they came from a show she never saw. 🤣🤣🤣
SAME.
There shouldn’t even be an age bracket for TBBC! It’s incredibly enjoyable for practically anyone regardless of their age groups!
Knowing that Lunette was sixteen is breaking me. When I was four, she was just a grown-up in the same bracket as my 50-year-old kindergarten teacher. That’s wild.
that's how stephanie from lazytown was to me and she was literally 12-15 when she was on it ahahaha
@@memethyst wait she was that young?! My sister and I loved that show as kids. When I got older and learned what an actor was, I assumed she was an adult. “Because being an actor is a job, and only adults can have jobs.” I just never cared enough to look it up. But that’s insane. That means I’m only a few years younger than her lol. I thought she was like 19-20 while I was growing up.
@@bigidiotdumbstupidguy9329 the first stephanie started when she was 12 and ended when she was 15 but she did a few shorts when she was 16-17, then there was a second stephanie who did it when she was 12-13
Same! For the longest time I didn't realize that Loonette was supposed to be a child. I always thought she and Bedhead were the same age haha.
@@annal7670 when i was a kid i thought they were all adults but i still realized she was younger i just thought she was a teenager/young adult and not a child
One of my favorite shows that I used to watch with my niece when she was a toddler, it was always so fun and loved all the characters and puppets! Nothing as good as this anymore!
This show raised me. I was obsessed with it! I even have a picture of myself when I was a little kid with a Loonette doll laying in a hospital bed after getting out of surgery.
did we have the same childhood? that happened to me too!
@@Endytheenderperson 😆
i was going through old photos in my attic, and i found a picture of 3 year old me lying in a hospital bed with a Loonette doll, that is insane!
@@Endytheenderperson Wow, that is an incredible coincidence. I think I was about 4-5 years old in my picture.
i feel like it was fate that i stumbled across your comment
I had no idea big comfy couch was a Canadian show. I loved this show when I was a child.
eh
this show was one of the first times i heard a canadian accent.
That’s why it was so good
@@princesstamika Does America have one accent?
@@princesstamika No and neither does Canada
Big comfy couch, Arthur, zoom, dragontails, Clifford, lambchop (cant remember the real name) PBS did my little heart good
Dragon tails!!!!! I almost forgot that brought me back just now , pbs was awesome
PBS was huge
YASSSSSS🤗🤩
Yes that one show with the lamb!! Is that what it's called??
I think it might be Shaun the sheep lol but y’all could be talking about something completely different
I remember doing the clock stretch with Lunette every time I watched BCC as a kid! Good job Canadian TV y’all succeeded in getting me off the couch.
I remember being like 3 or 4 when this show was on tv in the 90s and having a really weird crush on the clown lady, hahaha
Same lol
same
"where the bunnies would resume their dance lessons, again with minimal enthusiasm."
The writing and dead pan delivery are top notch yall
You have no idea how much this show comforted me as a kid because I was so lonely. I was a poor immigrant child with no friends, didnt speak english well, with a single mom who had to work 12 hours a day, so I was all alone most of my days... My buddies were dollies and stuffed animals, so when I saw Loonette also having a doll friend Molly, I felt happy.
EDIT: Thank you for the sweet comments 🥺
That was so sweet :) Sorry you were lonely, but at least you had the show :)
@@isabella9853 i think back to this show happily :) part of my good childhood memories
aw lol i'm glad this show was there for you. blessings :)
Hugs to your inner child 🤗🤗🤗
did you ever watch big bear in the big blue house? ♡ hugs
The ten second tidy is still a part of my life, and it's been more years than I care to admit that I had a little kid. 😁😁
I love watching the Big Comfy Couch when they had it in the States. The big kid in me smile when I heard the theme song.
I truly feel sad kids these days doesn’t have pure shows like this… show like this was just sweet and innocent…
“However Meenie was also uninterested in learning the proper dance moves” Typical actor behavior 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Diva's,all of em.
The dust bunnies are my two braincells
In all honesty, I love this show, both growing up and even now.
Honestly same, I just now know where I got it from 😂
lol yo same here about the dust bunnies being my last two brain cells.. especially when the narrator said "and she was not sure they even existed" when referring to them
Omg right in the feels!! I remember my (4th?) bday party where my mom custom-made the big comfy couch into a perfect little cake, and papier-mâchéd a Molly piñata! She still has my Molly dolly.. time to go and visit mom I think 🤗
I had a Molly doll as a kid. Comfy couch was my favorite show. Thank you for this video it gave me such nostalgia
Fun fact: Another of Alyson Court's famous 90's roles was voicing Claire Redfield in Resident Evil 2 and Code: Veronica, and there's a funny story regarding that and the BCC.
Alyson was doing one of the live appearances mentioned in this video in New York City back in 1998, at a toy store where she did a meet-and-greet for children. During a break, she decided to get up and have a bit of a walk around and happened upon a booth showcasing the then-newly released Resident Evil 2. As was per-usual (and to a great degree, this is still a thing today), Alyson had never seen the actual game, nor had any context of her character beyond reading her lines. So what grabbed her attention was hearing her own voice coming from the booth, which prompted her to enter and see the game--and her character--in action for the first time.
So imagine, if you will, Loonette the Clown walking into a booth showing one of the most violent and gory games on the market at that time with a big awed smile on her face for reasons most people probably couldn't put together. IIRC, she mentioned that she got a _lot_ of confused and surprised stares.
That's hilarious.
She also voices Jubilee from X-men: The Animated Series.
@@bayonetta8418 And in the first Marvel Vs. Capcom game, too!
@@bayonetta8418 and lydia in the Beetlejuice cartoo
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OMG she did!!! Mind blown!
I think this show is one of my earliest memories. The clock stretch is iconic
That was the only thing I could remember. I was trying so hard to find out what the show was.
thats what got me to watch the show i would always skip it until i saw the clock stretch then got hooked to the show
i vivdly rmeber younger me doing it while the was doing it on the show😭😭
We must be from the same generation because I remember watching this at age 4!
It was so hard trying to do it along with her growing up too, but I never complained cause lil ol' me loved doing the stretches and just watching the show lol
I grew up as a child watching this. I was a first generational American-Filipino from NYC. Watching this which helped me reassess things. Very nostalgic.
oh man, I totally forgot what a huge part of my childhood this show was. I spent my early childhood in a Russian-Canadian home, and she had a couch that looked EXACTLY like Lunette's couch, complete with the stuffing coming out and the doily on top. My Baba, who I lived with, was very much like Granny Garbanzo, telling stories about the "old life" and even adding the "(sh)ka" at the end of our names. In Russian, adding that suffix is a way to endear someone, like a very close friend or a child. I think it's kind of like adding "ita" to someone's name in Spanish, but I don't know Spanish so maybe I'm wrong lol. I was Elenushka (endeared version of Elena). So cool to look back on the show as an adult and realize how and why I connected with it so much
Nostalgia just hit me like a train watching this
When they showed fixing the vacuum I was like woahhh
same fam
That clock stretch got me
Same This was on Treehouse back in my childhood
I don’t know if it’s ‘cause it’s the middle of the night or maybe since it’s close to the holidays but the nostalgia was so strong I started crying! 😳
I grew up with Big Comfy Couch, Cyber chase, Mr. Rodger's Neighborhood, Liberty's Kids, Between the Lions, Zoboomafoo, Arthur and many others. These look backs hit me right in the nostalgia. I miss shows like this nowadays. They were full of imagination, creativity, and passion while teaching. They didn't treat kids like idiots like some of these shows do nowadays. If I ever have kids, Big Comfy Couch will be one of the shows I show them
oh man you just brought it back w/ all them shows
YES x 1999 😂
Ah yes😊
The only one you listed I don’t know of is liberty kids. I miss those days
Remind me what Liberty's kids is, it rings a bell
@@VikingbikingIt’s a cartoon that takes place in the 1800’s is pretty much all I remember. It’s dialogue heavy and story driven, pretty unique for the time
I was always terrified of this show due to a very young traumatic experience involving both humanoid puppets and a very broad and tall clown at a birthday party. I'm finally able to watch this video after getting over the clown fear after 17ish years.
Born '88 and this was on my FAVORITE shows. What's great nostalgia trip, thank you 💜
When my daughter was two to four years old, this show was her favourite thing in the world. She could be doing anything, but the moment she heard the theme she would stampede to the TV room as fast as she could. She's 19 now, and away at University. I don't know why CZcams recommended this to me, but thank you.
Maybe because you miss her and CZcams wanted something to remind you with. Did you end up telling your daughter about your memory?
this comment made me cry and want to call my dad, lol. 😭💜
This is so sweet! Reminded me of when I was a child and my mom would wake me up for school by having the TV up loud so I could hear the theme song to "Adventures in Wonderland" playing. It was my favorite show and it came on at like 6/6:30 am. So many memories of rubbing my sleepy eyes as the theme played and trotting to the TV then sitting on the couch and eating cereal. 😭💖 Wholesome times..
Thank you for sharing such a sweet story 💜
I have two teenage girls that, when they were young, loved to watch Luna and Molly, a clown and her dolly.
You can really see the difference between kids entertainment then and now. Not being a boomer (I’m 26), but hell, people were so passionate in creating a well-curated show for kids that were both educational and fun. Now we have dumb toy reviews on YT and have kids exploited for views and sponsorship. I hate when my nephew watches channels like Vlad and Nikita, they are absolutely uneducational, materialistic and hold no value at all. But yet these are the channels who earn millions.
Yeah, I usually liked the educational shows more, except for spongebob and when we got Nickelodeon channel at 11 years old. Wonder pets was cool, all the treehouse shows, PBS, telethon retro was okay too. Personally if I had children I wouldn’t let them watch CZcams unless I curated what they could watch. The toy review channels are just mind numbing. Minds absorb so much info at young ages so why not let them enjoy themselves and learn something at the same time?
I’m 34 cartoons when I was a kid were basically 30 minute toy commercials
I agree completely! I’ve actually introduced my kids to shows I watched as a kid becuase there are so many garbage shows for kids these days. I don’t understand why it all has to be just for a toy concept to make money or it’s just plain stupid with no story line and it’s huge waste a time for the viewer and the creators of it. I’ll be sure to introduce this one to my kids!
Darn these kids with dumb entertainment like Pokémon and every other merchandise based animated series... wait
Yeahhh, if I ever have kids, I wouldn’t let them watch stuff like that. 😂😂 When I do product reviews, I do them SPECIFICALLY on science kits so that people can actually learn something. 😂😂
Finding out shes also claire from Resident Evil im shocked how big of a part of my childhood this woman was 😂 Thank you for the amazing memories , always did the clock stretch before slaying zombies
I LOVED this show and it will ALWAYS have a special place in my heart! ❤
As an American born in 96, this show often feels like a fever dream because so few friends know/remember it. Still, my own Molly doll was probably my most prized possession
Mine still is but you didn’t hear it from me 👀
A fever dream is the best way to describe it lol Born in 2004 myself, my only reference to the show was through old VCR tapes my parents had passed down, due to my age it's as if NOBODY knows what I speak of (of the few times I've mentioned the show) PS: never quite nailed the clock stretch - hopefully someday I'll get there :D
I was born in 96 too, I loved this show I had a Molly too, I took her everywhere I went even to church lol 😂
@@quantumleap1491 omfg I love quantum leap!
@** and? Trying to relate to something and ACTUALLY relating to something are two very different things. You can't fake true relation lol, you really think I would sit through 26 minutes and 23 seconds of Lunette and her couch if I was really trying to "take over" everyone's 90's nostalgia through my relationship with the show? Definitely not haha! Being that I was born in 2004 shouldn't make a difference. If anything, it's even MORE liberating to connect with others (older or not) through a show many around me don't remember. The fact that you feel the NEED to tell me what I MYSELF watched as a six-year-old is just silly and immature :) The facts are: I like the show. I appreciate that there are others who also have fond memories of it. And I'm happy to have found the video. I don't understand why this is upsetting to you (also, saying "no offense" doesn't magically make what you say non-offensive). I'm personally not offended, but I do believe that there's a time and place for telling others what they should relate to - and telling someone younger than yourself that they shouldn't be able to express their love in a show simply because you spent an extra few years on earth longer than them, is stupid. AND yes...we have our "own stuff" as you mentioned. Us gen z's were the first to grow up among smartphones and more tech than ever. If you TRULY want the decades and generations to "stay in their lanes", then you wouldn't be using a smartphone. But I bet you still are. And that's okay lol. And I bet no 17 year old has ever walked up to you and said "you can't use a phone - that's crushing on our generation!", now have they? I don't think they have lol And guess what? Someone younger than you also likes the same show! :D w0W h0w amAzINg If you can't share "your show" (which it's not) with others, then please find help. Thank you for your time - and consider your time saved. I could write paragraphs among paragraphs (with legitimately good insults) surrounding your stupidity, but I think I'll save my breath. I hope you have a fantastic day my friend, and may you never fully complete the clock stretch :)))) Sorry you feel the need to tell me what I should remember as a child.
"Long ago, before Last Thursday..."
What a FANTASTIC line! So whimsical and charming! I may have to steal that...
Same energy as that one post that was like "Julius Caesar has been dead for well over seventy years." Like you're technically correct but wHAT o_O
@@mimisashimi5006 not gonna lie, this quote has some discordian energy to it.
"In the not too distant future, next Sunday AD..."
@@LuriTV wdym
I am so blown away by the history of this. Thank you so much for putting this together.