- Loonette the Clown
Loonette the Clown is the lead character on the Canadian children's program "
The Big Comfy Couch ", portrayed byAlyson Court from 1993-2003 andRamona Gilmour-Darling as of 2006. In it, she is a young clown living with her dolly, Molly, on the eponymous Big Comfy Couch, an oversized couch.She frequently reads stories to Molly, always performs a Clock Rug Stretch, and likes to visit her Granny Garbanzo. Auntie Macassar (or more recently, her Uncle Chester) frequently sends Loonette
postcard s whichMajor Bedhead delivers on hisunicycle (similar to Reba the Mail Lady from "Pee-wee's Playhouse "). Loonette is gifted in the art ofclassical dance and runs "Miss Loonette's Dance Academy". Another gift she possesses is the unusual ability to clean just about any mess up in ten seconds, which she calls the "Ten Second Tidy". (In reality, the video's action was sped up during post-production of an episode).Originally, Loonette was too young to visit Clowntown, but starting from 2006, Loonette makes frequent (adult supervised) trips to Clowntown to visit Granny Garbanzo's "Cabbage Club Cooking School" and Major Bedhead's "Clown Chi Mojo Dojo and Dancing School". The trips to this second location indicates that she practices
martial arts .
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