Gummi Bears... Bouncing Here and There and Everywhere!

Does anyone remember what the Gummi Bears actually did? Besides being "dashing and daring, courageous and caring" and drinking amphetamine laced gummi-berry juice?

Sunni Gummi: Someone in the cartoon biz sure had a hard-on for Sandy Duncan because there are several doppelgangers of this perma-perkster floating around the 80s Saturday morning lineup. 

Grammi Gummi:  "Want a gummy bear? They've been in my pocket all day. They're real warm and soft..." Remember the devoted and totally spastic secretary from Ferris Bueller's Day Off? Well, Edie McClurg also played the devoted and totally spastic next-door-neighbour (alongside Miss Sandy Ducnan) in Valerie's Family. She is also the poor man's Mrs. Garrett. 

Little People with Mouse Faces Unite!

Remember The Littles? A cartoon about half-mouse/half-human Little People that made elevators out of old milk cartons? Naturally, I was a gigantic (ha!) fan and if they ever do a live-action remake, here are my casting pics...

(1) The perky matriarch of the family, Helen Little, will be played by every-mom and professional perkster, Sandy "Glass Eye" Duncan. 

(2) The role of Papa Little will be awarded to one half of the smooth-crooning duo Hall & Oates, John Oates. 

(3) And the role of cantankerous Grandpa Little goes to... Ron Howard's weird looking brother, Clint!* 

(*Clint actually looks more like "Grandpa Little" in the movie, Far and Away, but there are zero stills of him playing the lecherous AND cantankerous foreman of the chicken factory where Nicole Kidman works).