asterios kokkinos
geoffrey golden
rob asaro
adam daroff
eric larnick
jenni powell
rob morrisonfuck you, noozles, for scaring the shit out of me written by asterios on 08/29/06
here’s what people remember about the noozles: “oh, it’s that cute show with those two koalas who’d get into mischief! they were friends with a little girl, they’d get her in trouble then pretend to be stuffed! tehehehehe, i’m a total asshole!”
here’s what people don’t remember about the noozles: the father was trapped in an alien world between dimensions, where time had no meaning. he was trapped there for the entire series.
i’m dead serious. the cartoon people account most to nick jr. fluff actually had a well plotted series mythology cribbed largely from the novel, a stitch in time. those little holes in space the pink koala was opening? tecerats, or the wormholes discussed in the novel.
as a kid, i’d never know which episode i’d be getting - would this be a lighthearted adventure involving the pink koala stowing away to school and causing mischief, or would this be an episode where the father makes a desperate attempt to contact the daughter, so he could use the blue panda’s powers to make a rescue? it was too much pressure for a seven year old!
last thing that made things fucked: they wouldn’t ever show the episodes in any kind of order that made sense. remember how they’d do that in the 80s, just throw episodes in however the hell they wanted? well, because i couldn’t watch the series in order, i had no idea what was going on in the mythology episodes!
final word: nick jr, stop torturing me 17 years ago. just knock it off, all ready.
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PowerPeeCee Sep 22
I loved the noozles, And I’m trying _everything_ I can think of to get it re-released. thanks for pointing out what the series is at least loosely based on, going to read the book, A stitch in time.
The show was called “fushigi na koala blinky” or “brinky and printy” (ふしぎなコアラ ブリンキー in Japanese) and “Wonderous Koala Blinky” in the rest of the world that spoke english. It was known as “Les Koalous” in france.
See my Huge Noozles thread for more info:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/405166/thread/1142152549
and the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noozles
and the ton of screenshots and photos and stuff i’ve collected and put up on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ppc/sets/72057594090915092/
*and* ( I swear I’m not spamming, just trying to provide lotsa info about Noozles ) the Everything2 Page:
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=854284
Call Buena Vista Home Entertainment @ 1-800-477-2811 and press zero to bypass the automated menu and insist that they release this show on DVD.
Juju Jun 23
I loved Noozles when I was five!
I was little and oblivious, and I did’t remember any father, probably like the rest of the world, so it was all good to me.
geoffrey Jun 23
yeah, noozles is just a warm, fuzzy memory for me too.
welcome to overtime, juju!
llothe Jun 25
Actually, the book you’re referring to is called ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ by Madeleine L’Engle (which I also loved as a kid), and the space-time stitches are called tesseracts.
I loved the Noozles, and, perhaps because I’ve always loved somewhat morbid things, the mythology bit where the grandfather is stuck in a crystalline planet in another dimension always appealed to me.
I just wish I could watch this again; it was one of my favorites.
Jeff Jul 4
I was four when I watched this show. I remembered every detail except the title! For 20 years I have been tortured by those memories and my inability to name their source. I would describe the plot of the show and the only reaction of others was to suggest the my parents gave me LSD as a baby. No one I have ever talked to has shown the slightest recollection of the show hat I described…until tonight. I cannot tell you how it feels to have this weight lifted from my shoulders. I must find the DVD.
Dennis Jul 14
I have good memories of this series. I wish I could remember one where sandy is flying around the koalas bears world waving to other bears and stufff. Just cant remember what they are doing there. Wish they had this on a dvd collection.
Jennifer Oct 24
That is so funny that sooo many other people loved this cartoon. I could also remember this cartoon but for the life of me couldn’t remember the name of it. I used to watch it before going to kindergarten. Recently i’ve tried to talk with some of my friends who are around my age but they had no idea what i was talking about. They kept coming up with the “koala show”
kitten May 28
i’m glad someone else remembers this damn show as being scary and traumatizing. my most vivid memory of it is when they’re in the scary alien world, and all of the noozles are creepily dancing around in this robotic trance, and sandy finally sees her father but she’s warned not to move or speak or it will “break the spell.” she can’t resist and they all notice her, slowly stopping and looking with this horrifying blank look in their eyes. i had nightmares about that scene for months.