Sars,

Okay, I have a lost TV show from my youth that has been driving me bonkers for years:

It was a Saturday-morning show, I think.Live action.It followed the lives of a bunch of bugs (who were people dressed up in bug costumes).They lived in some magical forest or something.

The villain was either Carol Channing, or some woman who was remarkably similar to Carol Channing, and had a long fake Pinocchio-like nose. Sometimes she interacted with the protagonists, but mostly I remember a large image of her head hovering over them and yelling things.I remember a lot of glitter and/or sequins being involved.

My mom does not remember this show and thinks that I am crazy, but I’m not, I swear it!

I was born in 1978, so this would have been the early to mid-’80s.

Thanks so much,

Kerry

Dear Kerry,

Well, I kind of hope the readers can’t find it, because that sounds goddamn terrifying.It also sounds kind of like the detestable Pinwheel, the parts where those infernal marionette bugs tortured Ebenezer (and the viewers marooned in front of the show with strep throat, praying for a soap, ANY soap, to come on and save them from freakin’ “Hattytown”).

…Wow, I seem to have really loathed Pinwheel.Okay then.   And I don’t think it’s even that show; nor do I think it’s Magic Garden, the only other possibility that comes to mind, because the forest isn’t so much “magical” as “cardboard,” and I don’t recall any live-action bugs, just hippie ladies singing songs and having pretty hair.

Anyway: readers?Bugs?Sequins?Carol Channing?Psilocybin?   Some decaf for your friend Sars?

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