fuck 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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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. geoffrey Jun 23

    yeah, noozles is just a warm, fuzzy memory for me too.

    welcome to overtime, juju!

  4. 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.

  5. Ckzueyfw Dec 13

    Thanks!,

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