Things That Made Your Day

[jekylljuice]

Originally Posted by koosie

Cool! Is it die-cast? I've got a die-cast cat with a spring neck that'd like your rat! Actually it reminds me a little of Fingermouse, which used to pass for entertainment on TV in a more innocent age:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9QOXK0oxW4

Thanks, Koosie! And you know, you're the first person I've encountered in ages who actually remembers Fingermouse too. That also goes some way toward making my day! I loved Fingermouse as a nipper, and he has no trouble passing for entertainment for me even today - in the late 80s, I even sent off for one of those instruction sheets which told you how to make your own.

It wasn't until many years later that I discovered that Fingermouse, as I used to watch it, had actually been a spin-off of an earlier show called Fingerbobs. There are some pretty nasty rumours regarding the final episode of that show, which claim that presenter Rick Jones went slightly mad and started destroying the beloved puppets while the camera was still rolling...if so, then I highly doubt that any of that footage was ever aired, despite what popular legend might dictate. That Fingermouse got a spin-off obviously proves that he survived Jones's alleged attempts to murder him by drowning him in a cup of coffee.