Question: During Saturday-morning cartoons in the mid-1970s, there was a fat, yellow guy who had stick legs and danced with a hat and cane. He sang about eating "Saturdays" (instead of Sundays) . I am the only person who remembers this.... Please tell me I am not crazy. What was his name? Thanks.
Answer: Well, OK, even though to claim that you are the only person who remembers this denies me my own humanity. But, hey, I'm feeling generous these days.
It was the helpful, musical Timer who told us all about things like making "Sunshine on a Stick" — frozen-orange-juice treats — by filling an ice tray with orange juice, covering it with plastic wrap, sticking toothpicks in through the plastic and freezing the whole thing. (Though he never told you what to do when your parents flew into a rage because you used up all the trays and they had no ice or toothpicks for cocktail hour — dance to that, Suggestion Boy — but maybe th
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