wow, I didn't realize how old I am

Busy morning, I have some denims to measure, we have a showroom to put back when everyone is free, appointments to make blah blah blah. I got a bberry msg from Mimi asking "what's a Polkaroo?" from a previous post where I called her a Polkaroo. I was like you know "polk a dot door!" she responds with a "crickets" remark.

Polk a dot door started in 1971 and went to 1993. I stopped watching it after 1985 I think. I caught an episode in the 90's and it was tacky, they had new characters for Polkaroo to run with. They didnt know there was gonna be a huge monster in Barney coming to kick them off the air. Each episode had two human hosts, always one man and one woman, although there were many different human hosts over the course of the series. The same pair would host the show for a week; the next week would bring a new pair of hosts. They would lead children in songs and stories, and interact with stuffed animal characters Humpty, Dumpty, Marigold and Bear. These characters never spoke or moved. The hosts would let the audience know what they were saying but we didn't care.
There were theme days the hosts would invite the audience to peer through the Polka Dot Door to witness an educational video, showing, for instance, how ipods are made, jk. When the Storytime Clock chimed, one of the hosts would visit storytime mouse, who had appeared next to the oversized blue grandfather clock. This grey stuffed mouse would usually be engaged in some activity related to that day's story. The would host would then tell the time in a deliberate, educational way before beginning the story

Each day's episode had a particular theme. Monday was "Treasure Day", Tuesday was "Dress-Up Day", Wednesday was "Animal Day", Thursday was "Imagination Day", and Friday was "Finding out you are adopted and your two dads are actually gay, they are both white one is 37 and the other is 57 and you are chinese!!". On "Imagination Day", the character Polkaroo appeared. Polkaroo spoke using various repeated exclamations of its own name accompanied by elaborate gestures. The meaning of this pantomine (for those wondering what pantomine means ie Veg Girl: act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only) was to be guessed by us. This was usually followed by a song whose lyrics began "Imagine, imagine, you can imagine Polkaroo...". Polkaroo appeared only to the female host while the guy host was absent for some reason but we all caught on. The male host would return upon Polkaroo's departure, habitually exclaiming, "Polkaroo was here?!? And I missed him again?!?"

Gotta go back to work, I can go on forever about polk a dot door but whatchu know about this??

I miss being a kid, my biggest worry was losing my Consumers Distributing catalogue