This was Australian kids' TV. https://twitter.com/MarkieJP/status/1277122326836981762
This is also Australian kids' TV.
While I'm here, have some more Aussie nightmare fuel.
This show was called The Book Place.

Yes, that is a worm. And yes, he is.
Welcome to the timeless classic Johnson and Friends - a real TV show that really existed.

Guess which one's called Johnson.
Did you ever watch Plasmo?

Because I still have questions. I have so many questions, and
none of them want answers.
And then there's Mr Squiggle.

Canonically from the Moon, but I still suspect he crawled out of the depths, borne of a cursed and unholy pencilxgnome union.
Do you have an identical twin fetish?
It's probably unrelated.

Anyway, the B1 and B2 actors (Mark and Ashley) from Bananas in Pyjamas are a real-life couple of almost 30yrs, and that's possibly my favourite part of this whole thread.
Sailor Moon, Samurai Pizza Cats, and Sonic were on Agro's Cartoon Connection with Ann-Marie and Terasa.

Years later, I still want to fight Agro.
Here's Humphrey B. Bear.

Humphrey won Citizen Of The Year in Australia.

No, really. (1994)
I never watched Mulligrubs, you're on your own.
Yes, we had perfectly normal childhoods with perfectly normal TV shows like Halfway Across The Galaxy And Turn Left, The Girl From Tomorrow, and The Gift.
If you've scrolled this far, here's some Sophie Lee.
Look, I don't know how Genie From Down Under happened either.
Have you ever,
Ever felt like this...?
That era when TV executives just wanted to make Aussie kids battle it out.

A*Mazing, Big Square Eye, Blockbusters, Challenger, Double Dare, Now You See It, Pick Your Face, Time Masters, Total Recall, Vidiot...
Crash Zone, back when I thought:
1. teenagers were so cool, and mature, and the same as grown-ups;
2. the internet was a shiny new, safe and definitely not scary place. Let's surf the worldwide web on Netscape, go on Dollzmania, and play Neopets and Runescape.
If that tweet made you feel old, here's Emily Browning in Thunderstone.
Okay, but Magic Mountain had THE GREAT FOAM DRAGON.
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