DefunctTV: The History of the Big Comfy Couch

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2. It was my all time favorite show as a kid. I still sing no means no!

3. My childhood 😢

4. What happened at 19:24 ?

5. This show was a trip😳

6. The only negative thing I have to say is that those poor rabbits looked terrified. Rabbits hate being picked up and it's hard for them to learn how to tolerate it when their owners do it. They thrive in environments with gentle stimulation, and a studio set with singing and dancing can be too overstimulating to them.

7. i know its not the point but as a rabbit owner i feel SO bad for those buns 🙁 even the chillest buns HATE being held, let alone bounced around like that… some will be okay with being held by their owners or people they see a lot, but certianlly not after traveling to a set by a stranger… the two big brown ones had the same body language as when my bun hears a dog outside or i trim his nails 🙁 i know this wasnt uncommon and its not judment on anyone working on the show, its just sad how people see rabbits as objects and forget theyre PREY ANIMALS. they can literally have their heart stop and die if theyre too scared…

   edit: that being said- the bunnies make me sad but i do love non-horror clowns and i think its kinda sad its a bit of a dying art- so im glad they were able to make seomthing like this! i never watched this show, but there was an animated show called JoJo something or other i wacthed in the early 2000s and loved! (a few years before my time haha- born in early 2000.) and the inclusion of non verbal characters is something i know i wouldve greatly apprictaed as an autistic kid! just wish they had more consideration for such fraigile animals 🙁

8. also to add, Alyson Court was the voice of claire redfield in the original RE2

9. Loonette and Harley Quinn are why I have a clown fetish as an adult.

10. OH. MY. GOSH.
    I thought I hallucinated this show! I loved it so much – and Granny Garbanzo was one of my favorite parts!

11. not being american i have never heard about these shows but they make my heart melt and i cry at the end of each episode, so much love was put into them!

12. I loved this show as a kid and still have large Molly plush 🙂

13. I loved this show growing up. I was born in 93 and I remember loving it. I definitely did the clock stretch and tried to dance along to the dance academy. It's probably why I was never really afraid of clowns.

14. Keep strong. Dont forget that despite the evil in this world, God is full of justice, mercy and love.

    Justice said we broke His perfect law – causing the world's previous perfection to be destroyed – and therefore we deserve Hell (like a punishment in any legal system but this is eternal as His perfect law is eternal too). Don't think you fit in that category? Ever done one of these?: lying, stealing – regardless of how small the object EVER, hating others – which is murder in God's perfect law, lusting (plus God sees our entire thought life). Justice says "the soul that sins shall die" – if we break one in thought/word/deed it's as if we're guilty of all of them. Quite simply, living by the law (which is doing everything perfectly) is impossible for sinful humans

    . The law shows us that 1. We will die in Hell if we fail to follow it and 2. We cannot save ourselves BUT, 3. God's perfect, immovable law points us to Christ, who followed and fulfilled the law in thought, word and deed perfectly in our place. He did what we couldn't and did it on our behalf. He was then sentenced to death on a cross, and took our personal punishment for our sin, paying our penalty (like paying our fine) completely FOR us, and has given us freedom.

    If we turn from the sins we have committed and repent (pursue the opposite direction of love through Christ) He will, overtime, recreate us into His image through The Holy Spirit which Jesus sends to all who accept Him as their personal Lord and Savior of their life. We cannot purify ourselves, but Christ lived that perfect sinless, pure life and then allotted it to our "account".

    That's where our righteousness comes from. Not from any good, works that you or I could do.
    It is not based on the amount of good works we do. God starts the changes, He carries it on, and He completes it in those who let Him.

    It's about letting Christ in to guide and teach you and obeying Him, again, through His power and instruction).

    He is our substitute in His life, death and resurrection. He essentially rewrote history in our place so that, if you believe in Him, it will be as if YOU had never sinned if you accept Christ's death as our own in our place.

    He is in Heaven right now preparing a place for us so that He can take His faithful, believing children home with Him when He returns. He will ressurrect us from death when He returns, giving mercy to those who accept His love, forgiveness, instruction and teachings in their life, and give justice to those who refuse it.

    He doesn't want ANY of us to go to Hell and die for continuing in evil and rejecting His way to life, thats why He died FOR us. Hes giving EVERYONE a chance, He wants everyone to take the free gift of salvation from Hell. He wants us to be His and begin to follow His life of love and service through His power and abiding (staying) with Him. So long as we keep our hearts near to Christ through His strength, strive to follow His will of perfect love revealed in the Bible, and let Him lead in the midst of (very certain) pitfalls and struggles, we will, in time, win the ultimate victory over sin, pain and DEATH through Christ. Even if you are willing to be made willing, pray for Jesus to come in and He will do what we can't. Give us The Holy Spirit who will guide us in the right way.

    NOTE: You are NEVER too sinful or messed up that God cannot turn your life around through Jesus. EVER
    If you have any questions let me know x

15. The name of Auntie Mc'Caser was a pun on the name Auntie Mc'Caser?

    …what?

16. If you put a Gucci label on bedheads fit he would be a fashion icon

17. Major bedhead as some major style

18. “Again with minimal enthusiasm” 😂

19. Everybody dies!

20. I'm shocked by how many of these visuals are so familiar. it's like unlocking some weird corner of my mind.

21. i maintain to this day that this show is why i was never scared of clows (other the ones in that one episode of ben 10!)– in fact i love clowns to this day, and i look back on the reruns of this show which i watched constantly on pbs very fondly.
    edit: as well as apparently the newer episodes!! i had no clue it was revived the very year i was born– i had thought id only watched the 90's reruns!!!!!
    … although it seems i definitely remember the old reruns more, im not sure i watched the 2005 version at all quite frankly!

22. I have such fond memories of this show. It brings me back to such a nice place in my childhood. Thanks for the documentary on it! It was cool to learn more about the behind-the-scenes

23. The “Foley” family was genius.

24. Fun fact: the clown girl is the original voice of Claire Redfield

25. I LOVED this show as a kid!!! there was also a show called toy castle that had ballet dancers dressed as toys dancing on a set that looked like a castle. I loveed toy castle but everyone I talked to don't know what I'm talking about 🥺

26. Male a video on Reboot. The first fully cgi television show that came out 3 years before toy story.

27. I loved the Big Comfy Couch as a little kid. I even had a molly doll I carried around with me.

28. There’s always something strange about this show to me but I was mesmerized nonetheless. Quite genius toward child development tbh

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