links for 2005-06-17

I’ll start. Third grade talent show. I must have been eight. Me, in a blonde wig and white dress that I found on the bottom of a neighbor’s closet, looking like I mixed up the instructions by brushing the dress and ironing the wig.

The DangerMouse episodes we have all come to know and love first aired in 1981. Since then it has built an audience over 6 Million strong! And for 2 years beginning in June of 1984, he started entertaining millions more in the US on the Nickelodeon channel in the afternoons where almost overnight he shot into their highest ratings.

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