Fannee Doolee

Fannee Doolee is a fictitious girl acted in the playhouse by the ZOOMers on ZOOM. During the play, Fannee Doolee does not face the audience and she does not speak; instead, Fannee Doolee's unheard dialog is exposed when the person she was seen talking to turns to talk with others. The play is a comedy and the repeating gag is that Fannee Doolee likes and dislikes things that are similar and the people around her are perplexed by this inconsistency. For example, she likes stools but not chairs; she likes coffee but not drinks; she likes rolls but not bread; she likes cheese but not dairy. The 1970s series used this play format more than the 1999-2005 version. In the second series a ZOOMer would pop up on screen and say Fannee Doolee likes _____, but doesn't like_______. There was also a theme song for Fannee Doolee that spells her name. It almost gives away the joke. It went "F-A-double N-double E D-double O-L-double E. (repeat). Fannee Doolee!!"

The gag is a lexical syntax puzzle. Fannee Doolee likes words that have double letters; hence, she likes sweets but not candy. This is a variation on a game commonly known as The Green Glass Door