The Big Comfy Couch
Format	Children's television series/Educational
Created by	Cheryl Wagner
Starring	Alyson Court (1993–2006) Ramona Darling (2006–present) Bob Stutt Fred Stinson Grindl Kuchuka Edward Knuckles Robert Mills Taborah Johnson
Country of origin	Canada
No. of episodes	100
Production
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	25 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	YTV Treehouse TV PBS
Original run	March 2, 1993 – present
External links
Official website

The Big Comfy Couch is a Canadian children's television series about Loonette the Clown and her friends, produced by Cheryl Wagner and Robert Mills and directed by Wayne Moss and Mills. It premiered on March 2, 1993 in Canada and in 1994 in the USA on PBS stations across the country. Childrens television series are television programmes designed for and marketed to children, normally aired during the morning and afternoon hours, mainly before and after school. ... Alyson Court (born November 9, 1973) is a Canadian actress who first appeared in the 1985 childrens film Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird, and played summer camper Dawn in the animated film The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation the following year. ... Ramona Gilmour-Darling (b. ... Iggy Iguana, a character puppeteered by Stutt on Under the Umbrella Tree (1986) Bob Stutt is a male Canadian puppeteer/ writer, who has starred in various childrens television programs throughout his career. ... Taborah Johnson, also known as Tabby Johnson, is a Canadian singer and actor. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... This article is about the Canadian television network. ... Treehouse TV is a Canadian cable television specialty channel with programming targeted towards preschoolers that launched on November 1, 1997. ... Not to be confused with Public Broadcasting Services in Malta. ... is the 61st day of the year (62nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Childrens television series are television programmes designed for and marketed to children, normally aired during the morning and afternoon hours, mainly before and after school. ... Loonette the Clown is the lead character on the Canadian childrens program The Big Comfy Couch. ... A television director is usually responsible for directing the actors and other taped aspects of a television production. ... is the 61st day of the year (62nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... Not to be confused with Public Broadcasting Services in Malta. ...

The shows format revolves around Loonette the Clown, a child clown (portrayed by an adult actress) living with her dolly, Molly, on the eponymous Big Comfy Couch, an oversized green couch. She frequently reads stories to Molly, always performs a "Clock rug stretch", and likes to visit her Granny Garbanzo (played by Grindi Kuchirka) and Auntie Macassar (Taborah Johnson) who sends things from time to time to Loonette, or more recently, her Uncle Chester (Ed Knuckles) who frequently sends Loonette postcards which Major Bedhead (Fred Stinson) delivers on his unicycle (similar to Reba the Mail Lady from Pee-wee's Playhouse). Bob Stutt has the roles of Molly Dolly, Dust Bunny Wuzzy, Snicklefritz, The Cat that belongs to Granny Garbanzo. Dust Bunny Fuzzy was performed by Rob Mills.

Loonette is gifted in the art of classical dance and runs "Miss Loonette's Dance Academy". Another gift she possesses is the unusual ability to clean up just about any mess in ten seconds, which she calls the "Ten Second Tidy". In reality, the video's action was sped up during video taping of an episode; the cleaning up actually took longer than 10 seconds, in an episode where hundreds of ping pong balls invade the room, the sped up tape took around 40 seconds. (Normally, it took about 14 seconds for the whole cleaning to be done sped up.) Originally, Loonette was too young to visit Clowntown, but starting in 2006, Loonette makes frequent (adult supervised) trips to Clowntown to visit Granny Garbanzo's "Cabbage Club Cooking School" and Major Bedhead's "Clown Chi Mojo Dojo and Dancing School".

The show was originally produced by Radical Sheep Productions and Owl Television, then Canadian children's television network YTV, with a run of sixty-five episodes. In 2002, thirteen new episodes were produced with Benny Smart, an American children's television production company, Tadpole TV and Treehouse TV, a companion channel of YTV. Radical Sheep Productions is a Canadian Gemini Award-winning childrens television series production company. ... This article is about the Canadian television network. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Treehouse TV is a Canadian cable television specialty channel with programming targeted towards preschoolers that launched on November 1, 1997. ...

Radical Sheep Productions and Amity Entertainment in association with Treehouse TV and Nashville Public Television, produced twenty-two additional episodes, which debuted on American Public Television in 2006. This marked the debut of Ramona Gilmour-Darling as Loonette, replacing Alyson Court. Radical Sheep Productions is a Canadian Gemini Award-winning childrens television series production company. ... Treehouse TV is a Canadian cable television specialty channel with programming targeted towards preschoolers that launched on November 1, 1997. ... WNPT channel 8 is a PBS outlet in Nashville, Tennessee that is run by a community-funded, non-profit organization known as Nashville Public Television. ... American Public Television (APT) is a distributor and source of programming for public television stations in the United States and networks worldwide. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ramona Gilmour-Darling (b. ... Alyson Court (born November 9, 1973) is a Canadian actress who first appeared in the 1985 childrens film Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird, and played summer camper Dawn in the animated film The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation the following year. ...

Additional items for kids, like coloring pages, can be found on the Big Comfy Couch website Official Big Comfy Couch Website. Episodes also can be seen on video on demand in some cable and satellite systems on Studio 4 Kids, as well as in short-form on Studio4kids.tv.

Episodes

Season 1-1993

1.1 - Pie in the Sky

1.2 - Pinch To Grow an Inch

1.3 - All Aboard for Bed

1.4 - Knit One Twirl Two

1.5 - Upsey Downsey Day

1.6 - Flippy Floppy Fun

1.7 - Something's Fishy Around Here

1.8 - Scrub a Dub

1.9 - Red Light Green Light

1.10 - Gesundheit

1.11 - Ping Pong Polka

1.12 - Funny Faces

1.13 - Snug as a Bug

Season 2-1993

2.1 - Babs in Toyland

2.2 - 1-2-3 Dizzy-Dizzy-Me

2.3 - Wobbly

2.4 - Jump Start

2.5 - This Little Piggy

2.6 - Juggling the Jitters

2.7 - Hoopla

2.8 - Wrong Side of the Couch

2.9 - I Feel Good

2.10 - Boomerang

2.11 - Rude-i-culous

2.12 - Make It Snappy

2.13 - Feast of Fools

Season 3- 1994

3.1 - Give Yer Head a Shake

3.2 - It’s About Time

3.3 - Clownus Interuptess

3.4 - Why?

3.5 - Monkey See Monkey Do

3.6 - Sticks and Stones

3.7 - Horsing Around

3.8 - All Over and Under

3.9 - Pants on Fire

3.10 - All Fall Down

3.11 - Traveling Papers

3.12 - Hiccups

3.13 - Full of Life

Season 4-1995

4.1 - Backwards!

4.2 - Picky Eaters

4.3 - Forty Winks

4.4 - Swing-a-Ling

4.5 - Spare Some Change

4.6 - Stuck in the Muck

4.7 - Gimme Gimme Never Gets

4.8 - One Step at a Time

4.9 - Enough Already!

4.10 - Where Do Clowns Come From?

4.11 - Are You Ready for School?

4.12 - Hit Parade

4.13 - Comfy and Joy

Season 5-1996

5.1 - Bad Hair Day

5.2 - Clownvitations

5.3 - Nothing To Do

5.4 - The Big Brain Drain

5.5 - One Potato Two Potato

5.6 - Earth to Loonette

5.7 - Lettuce, Turnip, and Pea

5.8 - Time for Molly

5.9 - Gizmo Shmizmo

5.10 - Clothes Make the Clown

5.11 - Don't Tell

5.12 - You're a Gem!

5.13 - See Ya in My Dreams

Season 6- 2002

6.1 - Clowning in the Rain

6.2 - Lost and Clowned

6.3 - Button Up!

6.4 - Scaredy Cat

6.5 - It’s the Thought that Counts

6.6 - Growing Pains

6.7 - Donut let it Bring You Down

6.8 - Fancy Dancer

6.9 - The Big Bang Boom

6.10 - Between the Covers

6.11 - Going up

6.12 - Cool it!

Season 7-2006

7.1 - Apple of my Eye

7.2 - Dat’s Da Law!

7.3 - Fibberish Giberish

7.4 - Slow Down Clown

7.5 - Floppy

7.6 - Clown with a Frown

7.7 - Rub a Dub day

7.8 - Upside Down Clown

7.9 - The Clown Promise

7.10 - Lost & Found Clowns

7.11 - Phony Baloney

Cast

• Alyson Court as Loonette #1
• Ramona Gilmour-Darling as Loonette the Clown #2
• Bob Stutt as Molly the Doll/ Dust Bunny Fuzzy (voice)/ Snicklefritz (voice)
• Grindl Kuchirka as Granny Garbanzo
• Fred Stinson as Major Bedhead
• Robert Mills as Dust Bunny Wuzzy (voice)
• Jani Lauzon as Jim Foley (voice)
• Jackie Harris as Eileen Foley #1
• Suzanne Merriam as Eileen Foley #2
• Taborah Johnson as Auntie Macassar
• Ben Deutsch as Puppeteer

Alyson Court (born November 9, 1973) is a Canadian actress who first appeared in the 1985 childrens film Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird, and played summer camper Dawn in the animated film The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation the following year. ... Ramona Gilmour-Darling (b. ... Iggy Iguana, a character puppeteered by Stutt on Under the Umbrella Tree (1986) Bob Stutt is a male Canadian puppeteer/ writer, who has starred in various childrens television programs throughout his career. ... Robert Mills may mean: Robert Mills (architect) (1781-1855), an American architect Robert Mills (physicist) (1927-1999), an American physicist Robert Bob Mills, Canadian politician Robert P. Mills (1920-1986), an American crime and science fiction magazine editor Robert Lee Mills (died 2006) former president of Georgetown College Robert Mills... Jani Lauzon is a Canadian puppeteer and singer of Native heritage. ... Jackie Harris (born 1/4/1968)is a former tight end in the NFL. Harris played for 4 teams in his 12 year NFL career which lasted from 1990-2001. ... Taborah Johnson, also known as Tabby Johnson, is a Canadian singer and actor. ...

Funding

• Telefilm Canada
• Shaw Cable Fund
• Corporation For Public Broadcasting
• Paramus Park
• McDonald's
• Chuck E. Cheese's
• Viewers Like You
• Kellogg's
• Oral-B
• Wal-Mart
• Burger King
• Kimberly Clark
• Toys R Us

Telefilm Canada is a federal cultural agency dedicated primarily to the development and promotion of the Canadian film, television, and new media industries. ... The Corporation for Public Broadcasting logo, used from 1969 to 2002. ... Paramus Park is a shopping center located in Paramus, New Jersey, United States, sandwiched between Route 17 and the Garden State Parkway, a little more than two miles north of Route 4. ... McDonalds Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is the worlds largest chain of fast-food restaurants, primarily selling hamburgers, chicken, french fries, milkshakes and soft drinks. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Viewers Like You message during a broadcast of an Elmos World holiday special. ... For other things with Kellogg in the name, see Kellogg (disambiguation). ... Oral-B is a brand name of toothbrush and other dental care products (such as dental floss) manufactured by Procter and Gamble who acquired Gillette in 2005. ... Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ... Burger King (NYSE: BKC), often abbreviated to BK, is a global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants. ... Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB, BMV: Kimber) is an American corporation that produces mostly paper-based consumer products. ... Toys Я Us NYSE: TOY is a toy store chain based in the United States. ...

External link

• Official Big Comfy Couch Website
• The Big Comfy Couch at the Internet Movie Database