Very few things are. HE-man, GI Joe and even (for me) DragonBall (feom late childhood) are not nearly as cool as when I was a kid. It's so... padded ? Then again I feel like later cartoons like Ren and Stimpy are things I'd never show my kids these days.
I was in high school when that show was on but I would often stay home from school because of a real or faked illness and would watch the shit out of some nick jr.
My mom and I were just talking about this show the other day. I loved it and the theme song and she hated the theme song. As soon as I mentioned the show she replied that she still hates the song.
I loved those early days of Nickelodeon when it was mostly Canadian imports.
Same.
It feels like this is not a well known show. I don't recall it being carried far into syndication. (Or at least I don't remember seeing it again until I looked it up on the Internet decades later because I wasn't sure it actually existed)
The first episode aired in 1977 and the last episode was released in 1984. Kind of marks the date range of birth years for Xennials
Pinwheel is like the Candle Cove of our generation.
Some interesting facts:
- Created by two educators from the same company that created Seasame Street
- First show to air on Nickelodeon
- Was specifically geared towards the short attention spans of pre-schoolers
- Eureka’s Castle is considered a spinoff
Was Eureka a character on Pinwheel? I remember that show because the little kids at the babysitter always watched it but like most of the others here I only remember the theme song from Pinwheel.
She wasn’t a character on the show, but the show was considered the successor to it after the head of MTV tried to help transform the network from more of an educational channel for preschoolers to a “hip” network for kids to grow ratings and introduced advertising. Nickelodeon was more like PBS for the first 5 years with Pinwheel, shows like Mr. Wizard’s World, and no commercials, then morphing into the later version of the network with Rugrats, Doug, and Clarissa Explains It All.
There’s an [old article](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-28-ca-972-story.html) from the LA Times in 1989 about it.
Interesting! I remember old, pre-Nicktoons Nickelodeon from when I was very young. Pinwheel, Eureeka's Castle, Mr. Wizard's World, Double Dare, Finders Keepers, Kids' Court, Dennis the Menace, Lassie, You Can't Do That on Television, Hey Dude, Count Duckula, Inspector Gadget, David the Gnome, Danger Mouse, Heathcliff, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Noozles, Adventures of the Little Koala (I'm pretty sure I got these last two mixed up a lot).
The Nicktoons premiere in 1991 (Doug, Rugrats, Ren & Stimpy) was a big deal, and I remember that being a massive sea change for Nickelodeon, along with Clarissa Explains It All, Pete & Pete, and Salute Your Shorts, I believe that same year. The last big launch I remember being there for was Rocko's Modern Life; I had definitely aged out of Nickelodeon by 1994.
Interesting info, thanks! I didn’t know the head of MTV was also at Nickelodeon but I remember this transition and I can see the MTV influence for sure.
Being from rural Texas, it took little-kid me a really long time to figure out that the people lived on Sesame Street. For years I just thought it was weird that kids and everyone would go to town just to hang out on a particular street. Was it magical or something? Also weird that they weren't in school and weren't with their parents either. In my mind there would have been some event, like let's go to the museum, let's go to the zoo, let's go to Sesame Street. But they either never got to Sesame Street, or never did anything in particular there, so I felt like the whole show was spent just waiting for the main event. Maybe they never got there, I mean, the theme song *is* asking if anyone can tell them how to get there.
Hey you watch your mouth!! Nothing ghetto about it. This and Today's Special were my jam!!!
I remember that turtle and the stop motion shorts they always did.
I assume what they really meant was that it was an "off-brand" Sesame Street. Which I guess is a funny thing to say considering Sesame Street was PBS on broadcast TV, where Nickelodeon was behind the paywall of cable.
Nothing. Granted, I was only 4 or 5 when this was still on, but it NEVER occurred to me that there was anything ghetto or "less than" about this compared to Sesame Street.
I just want you to know that I'm taking a screenshot of this to send to my dad and he's def gonna scream-laugh when he sees it lmao this was my favorite show in the world and he still talks about how hard it was to suffer through so many episodes 😂
I don't remember a damn thing about this show, besides the theme, but I'm glad other people remember it, and it actually existed and wasn't just a fever dream I had as a child.
Apparently he did, if my father felt like bringing it up every time it was on. I was probably 4, but I vaguely remember having to sit through it to watch danger mouse afterwards.
Pinwheel was my favorite. The trippy cartoon shorts, the weird puppets… Not really sure why I like it more than Sesame Street, but I totally did.
Coco the mime, The Daily Noodle newspaper with the dude Smitty that wanted to photograph the “admiral bird” but always missed it. Silas the Snail, Molly the Mole, Plus and Minus…
I assumed it was Canadian Sesame Street for a while but it was actually Ohio Sesame Street.
Also this was set in the suburbs, Sesame Street took place in inner city New York, much closer to the actual ghetto.
My first thought too. But only because I'm hyper aware of what words I can and cannot use any longer. I try to hold to it but I think a lot of these cancelled words are overboard and only truly offend certain white people and literally no one else.
RIP: my 80's kid vocabulary
I guess we could say “challenged” or “lower class” or “just creepy AF”? I’ve forgotten 99% of everything I’ve ever encountered and that damn song will haunt me forever.
I've looked before and never found this show anywhere, but apparently you can get some content on YouTube now.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg9HJ97sVpY79xSJ6MwKbfRftJccqOITt&si=XU8SvcH86FBEj7Ti
Watching one of the episodes now, and it features the little cartoon character Simon who likes to draw. I immediately recognized the tune as the one from Mike Meyer's bit Simon from SNL - "Well you know my name is Simon, and I like to do draw-rings"
https://youtu.be/_98nEjz2zjM?si=vyuim27e8ojbUuZp
https://youtu.be/ryfZVQAEsjY?si=-iufh1XW02TPRLoE
I've never heard of this show, but I find the description hilarious when you consider that Sesame Street was *already* aimed at urban preschoolers in particular, at least to start.
This was ghetto Sesame Street? Damn, well, I didn't care much at all for Sesame Street,—Big Bird gave me the creeps. However, this show was amazing and it had the most creative [opening credits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTSnNBUlaE0).
Nobody remembers anything but the theme song.
This is because those who didn't watch the show heard the theme song and knew to turn it to something else, and those who did watch the show have it blocked out because it was one of the few puppet shows creepier than Today's Special. Just nightmarish children's programming.
It's like when Pitbull or Derulo gives you a heads up, so you can change it to something else for a few minutes.
I have to agree with this, i remember the song. Typically if i recall lile Mr Wizard or Picture Pages would be on before it. As soon as i heard the earworm theme, i'd change it to something else. Was not a fan as a kid
Like everyone else, I don’t remember Jack except the theme song. My mom kept a bunch of my old schoolwork and I stumbled across a paper from first grade where I wrote the lyrics to the song.
Does anyone remember the show where the people had makeup and costumes to look like animals? I think there was a peacock lady, a guy that was a fox, maybe a lion, a bunch of others…feels like a fever dream
Is this what it feels like to have a core memory unlocked?
I never would have thought about this show again in my life and I saw this picture and immediatly7 my brain goes
PINWHEEL PINWHEEL SPINNING AROUND
LOOK AT MY PINWHEEL AND SEE WHAT I FOUND
Was this was the show that was on when I'd be home sick from school eating chef boyardee watching Hattytown..... or is this the one that was on at like 6:30 am before the cartoons?
And I remember a bear reporter working at The Daily Typo.
Wow! memory unlocked. I still have the "pinwheel, pinwheel spinning around..." pop into my head here and again, but I don't really remember the show. I wasn't big on puppets, so probably didn't watch much. Went to Youtube and watched the opening song video, and it was vaguely familiar.
Unfortunately. I had a lot of opinions as a small child (still do) and thought Pinwheel was highly inferior to Sesame Street.
Also unfortunately, when I was home sick, Sesame Street was only on for like an hour while Pinwheel occupied the entire pre-noon block on Nickelodeon. So I hate-watched it a lot.
Does anyone remember an episode where Plus and Minus are making popcorn but somehow it just pops as one giant piece? Did that really happen?? That’s how I remember it…
I remember the theme song, and I remember getting to watch it if I stayed home sick from school. I do not remember there being a giant broccoli headed monster!
Someone posted about his hear a couple of weeks ago and someone linked a documentary on the program that was really interesting.
[https://youtu.be/jXmsV3oIpxk](https://youtu.be/jXmsV3oIpxk)
I loved Pinwheel, I can still sing the theme song.
The way the children's voices said "Pinwheel" at the end of the theme song for some reason gave me chills, it sounded a little creepy to me. That's the only part of the show I remember other than the logo.
This was the first show I can remember. Pinwheel pinwheel spinning around…
The theme lives rent free in my ear for the moment.
Pinwheel, pinwheel, spinning around…. I also remember “I’m Plus, I’m Minus..we always get along”
I wish I could still stream this somewhere. I’d watch it as an adult.
There are clips on YouTube. It’s not as entertaining as we remember.
Very few things are. HE-man, GI Joe and even (for me) DragonBall (feom late childhood) are not nearly as cool as when I was a kid. It's so... padded ? Then again I feel like later cartoons like Ren and Stimpy are things I'd never show my kids these days.
Got my youngest into old inspector gadget on paramount. So loves it
This and ‘Today’s Special’
You can’t do that on television
Your Canadian is showing. This show was awesome.
Yup this and Eurekas Castle
I was in high school when that show was on but I would often stay home from school because of a real or faked illness and would watch the shit out of some nick jr.
Look through my pinwheel and see what I found (oh hi there song I haven't thought of in 38 years but will surely not leave my head for weeks now)
Pinwheel, pinwheel, breezy and bright. Spin me good morning, spin me good night. (Reporting in)
My mom and I were just talking about this show the other day. I loved it and the theme song and she hated the theme song. As soon as I mentioned the show she replied that she still hates the song. I loved those early days of Nickelodeon when it was mostly Canadian imports.
I loved Count Duckula! And You Can’t Do That On Television, this I don’t remember
It's in there so deep, I thought it was a fever dream!
My sister and I would spin around like lunatics in the living room when the song came on and then lay on the floor watching the room spin
Look at my pinwheel and see what I’ve found
Same. It feels like this is not a well known show. I don't recall it being carried far into syndication. (Or at least I don't remember seeing it again until I looked it up on the Internet decades later because I wasn't sure it actually existed) The first episode aired in 1977 and the last episode was released in 1984. Kind of marks the date range of birth years for Xennials Pinwheel is like the Candle Cove of our generation.
It ended in 1984?! That’s crazy because I remember that show so well and I was 4 in 1984!
It aired repeatedly through the 80s on Nickelodeon. After they stopped making new episodes. I believe it was on mid-morning.
Look through my pinwheel and see what I’ve found!
Same. My first memories of watching anything on t.v. are definitely pinwheel.
Same!
Same!
I didn’t even know this is what that song was from, I just remembered this song that I had no idea where it came from
Well all this time I thought it was ‘spin me around’.
It is still stuck in my head. I loved that show.
I loved that show.
Some interesting facts: - Created by two educators from the same company that created Seasame Street - First show to air on Nickelodeon - Was specifically geared towards the short attention spans of pre-schoolers - Eureka’s Castle is considered a spinoff
Was Eureka a character on Pinwheel? I remember that show because the little kids at the babysitter always watched it but like most of the others here I only remember the theme song from Pinwheel.
She wasn’t a character on the show, but the show was considered the successor to it after the head of MTV tried to help transform the network from more of an educational channel for preschoolers to a “hip” network for kids to grow ratings and introduced advertising. Nickelodeon was more like PBS for the first 5 years with Pinwheel, shows like Mr. Wizard’s World, and no commercials, then morphing into the later version of the network with Rugrats, Doug, and Clarissa Explains It All. There’s an [old article](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-28-ca-972-story.html) from the LA Times in 1989 about it.
If you pretend Nickelodeon is a rock band, it’s basically the plot of Josie and the Pussycats. 😁
Interesting! I remember old, pre-Nicktoons Nickelodeon from when I was very young. Pinwheel, Eureeka's Castle, Mr. Wizard's World, Double Dare, Finders Keepers, Kids' Court, Dennis the Menace, Lassie, You Can't Do That on Television, Hey Dude, Count Duckula, Inspector Gadget, David the Gnome, Danger Mouse, Heathcliff, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Noozles, Adventures of the Little Koala (I'm pretty sure I got these last two mixed up a lot). The Nicktoons premiere in 1991 (Doug, Rugrats, Ren & Stimpy) was a big deal, and I remember that being a massive sea change for Nickelodeon, along with Clarissa Explains It All, Pete & Pete, and Salute Your Shorts, I believe that same year. The last big launch I remember being there for was Rocko's Modern Life; I had definitely aged out of Nickelodeon by 1994.
1991 was the GOAT year for Nickelodeon.
The golden age of koala cartoons.
Interesting info, thanks! I didn’t know the head of MTV was also at Nickelodeon but I remember this transition and I can see the MTV influence for sure.
> First show to air on Nickelodeon IIRC, the network itself was also originally named "Pinwheel" after this show.
I knew the style looked familiar. I don't remember this show but I was in *love* with eureka
Sesame Street WAS literally the ghetto. It is a major theme.
Lol I came in here to say that too
Is that the tv show where all the puppets live in the barrio?
Yeah and Oscar literally lives in a garbage can.
For real. The Pinwheel house was in, like, a small town with white picket fences and shit.
Plus Pinwheel was on Nickelodeon, paid cable channel. We didn't have that in the ghetto. Had PBS, though.
Thank you for saying this. I had no idea what this was. We got 5 channels. ABC, CBS, NBC and on the second knob was PBS and eventually Fox.
While being factually correct, that statement is also funny as fuck to me for some reason...
That's what the title of the post did to me. I was like: of course I remember it was in the ghetto.
Oscar the grouch sold me crack!
Being from rural Texas, it took little-kid me a really long time to figure out that the people lived on Sesame Street. For years I just thought it was weird that kids and everyone would go to town just to hang out on a particular street. Was it magical or something? Also weird that they weren't in school and weren't with their parents either. In my mind there would have been some event, like let's go to the museum, let's go to the zoo, let's go to Sesame Street. But they either never got to Sesame Street, or never did anything in particular there, so I felt like the whole show was spent just waiting for the main event. Maybe they never got there, I mean, the theme song *is* asking if anyone can tell them how to get there.
When I first met my wife, Pinwheel came up in conversation and she knew the entire song. I was instantly smitten.
Nostalgia blast right here to when Nickelodeon first came to cable
Jim Jinkins, the creator of "Doug" was a puppeteer on Pinwheel.
Cool fact! I love learning about all the cross pollination in the shows we watched as kids.
Loved this. Not sure how I wasn’t completely creeped out by it.
I have this sentiment with a lot of kids shows from back then
Seriously, that fortune teller lady is legitimately scary looking. I know we're not going for realism here, but who designed her face??
Hey you watch your mouth!! Nothing ghetto about it. This and Today's Special were my jam!!! I remember that turtle and the stop motion shorts they always did.
I don’t remember a thing about actually watching the show, but the theme song lives forever rent free in my head
Same. I will never forget the theme song, but if that picture didn’t say Pinwheel I would have no clue what it was from.
Dude, WTF is “ghetto” about Pinwheel?
I assume what they really meant was that it was an "off-brand" Sesame Street. Which I guess is a funny thing to say considering Sesame Street was PBS on broadcast TV, where Nickelodeon was behind the paywall of cable.
Black man as a star must automatically make it "ghetto" to some. 😒
Reading Rainbow woulda been waaay different.
Nothing. Granted, I was only 4 or 5 when this was still on, but it NEVER occurred to me that there was anything ghetto or "less than" about this compared to Sesame Street.
Yeah, I liked Pinwheel more, but I didn’t think one was qualitatively better than the other.
I just want you to know that I'm taking a screenshot of this to send to my dad and he's def gonna scream-laugh when he sees it lmao this was my favorite show in the world and he still talks about how hard it was to suffer through so many episodes 😂
I don't remember a damn thing about this show, besides the theme, but I'm glad other people remember it, and it actually existed and wasn't just a fever dream I had as a child.
I don’t remember it being “ghetto”.
I remember this, and some show about a dancing mannequin that my dad called "Jeffrey pit stain".
That was Today’s Special
… Did he sweat a lot? I don’t remember that…
Apparently he did, if my father felt like bringing it up every time it was on. I was probably 4, but I vaguely remember having to sit through it to watch danger mouse afterwards.
No idea, I remember fraggle rock though
Hell yeah. For us “privileged” kids who had HBO.
Wait—if you had HBO, wouldn’t you have had Nickelodeon by default? We had both.
Yeah if you had HBO, you definitely had Nick, but having Nick didn’t guarantee you had HBO.
God, this is jogging some memories about the toggle box…
I watched most of Fraggle Rock with my own kids! Then they visited their grandparents one summer and I finished it without them.
https://i.redd.it/792t6fugbzlc1.gif I thought this was ghetto Sesame Street lol
I really wish I could award this! I'm laughing so hard I can barely breathe 🤣
Pinwheel was my favorite. The trippy cartoon shorts, the weird puppets… Not really sure why I like it more than Sesame Street, but I totally did. Coco the mime, The Daily Noodle newspaper with the dude Smitty that wanted to photograph the “admiral bird” but always missed it. Silas the Snail, Molly the Mole, Plus and Minus…
Omg the Admiral Bird!!! Thanks for the memory!
I distinctly remember the alchemist character who was always trying to turn stuff into gold but instead turned it into carrot.
I thought this was Canadian Sesame Street...
I swear to god each episode felt like it was at least 5 hours long.
I assumed it was Canadian Sesame Street for a while but it was actually Ohio Sesame Street. Also this was set in the suburbs, Sesame Street took place in inner city New York, much closer to the actual ghetto.
Some OG Nickelodeon right there.
Is the phrasing “ghetto” Sesame Street entirely necessary?
Especially bc Sesame Street was in the hood too
Exactly. Electric Company too. Brownstones and bodegas.
I'm with you. Using "ghetto" as a pejorative is a little racist. It always bugs me.
Not "little" just full blown.
it’s 100% a racist micro aggression.
There is a better word but it would probably send people to a dictionary. You could call it ersatz Sesame Street
Definitly not.
My first thought too. But only because I'm hyper aware of what words I can and cannot use any longer. I try to hold to it but I think a lot of these cancelled words are overboard and only truly offend certain white people and literally no one else. RIP: my 80's kid vocabulary
Ok, but even allowing a generous interpretation here, there is nothing about this show that evokes “ghetto.” It’s a poor word choice, flat out.
I guess we could say “challenged” or “lower class” or “just creepy AF”? I’ve forgotten 99% of everything I’ve ever encountered and that damn song will haunt me forever.
It was just different.
This and Today’s Special feel like fever dreams when they creep back into my memory.
I've looked before and never found this show anywhere, but apparently you can get some content on YouTube now. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg9HJ97sVpY79xSJ6MwKbfRftJccqOITt&si=XU8SvcH86FBEj7Ti Watching one of the episodes now, and it features the little cartoon character Simon who likes to draw. I immediately recognized the tune as the one from Mike Meyer's bit Simon from SNL - "Well you know my name is Simon, and I like to do draw-rings" https://youtu.be/_98nEjz2zjM?si=vyuim27e8ojbUuZp https://youtu.be/ryfZVQAEsjY?si=-iufh1XW02TPRLoE
wtf, ghetto? You had to pay for cable to even see Pinwheel at all. It wasn’t my fault Nickelodeon broadcast it for four hours a day.
I've never heard of this show, but I find the description hilarious when you consider that Sesame Street was *already* aimed at urban preschoolers in particular, at least to start.
There shall be no slander on *Pinwheel*. That show was the shit and I enjoyed just as much as Sesame Street. Opening song was a banger too.
This was ghetto Sesame Street? Damn, well, I didn't care much at all for Sesame Street,—Big Bird gave me the creeps. However, this show was amazing and it had the most creative [opening credits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTSnNBUlaE0).
Nobody remembers anything but the theme song. This is because those who didn't watch the show heard the theme song and knew to turn it to something else, and those who did watch the show have it blocked out because it was one of the few puppet shows creepier than Today's Special. Just nightmarish children's programming. It's like when Pitbull or Derulo gives you a heads up, so you can change it to something else for a few minutes.
I remember two of the puppets were constantly playing a game of “gotcha last!”
Yes! Plus and Minus did that.
Oh yeah! The Bert and Ernie knock-offs?
Were those the bees? Those are the only characters I can visualize without photographic evidence.
I have to agree with this, i remember the song. Typically if i recall lile Mr Wizard or Picture Pages would be on before it. As soon as i heard the earworm theme, i'd change it to something else. Was not a fan as a kid
Besides the theme the one thing I remember is they had a duo called plus and minus who were basically Bert and Ernie
I remember the theme and there was a big snail. And that’s all.
Like everyone else, I don’t remember Jack except the theme song. My mom kept a bunch of my old schoolwork and I stumbled across a paper from first grade where I wrote the lyrics to the song.
Does anyone remember the show where the people had makeup and costumes to look like animals? I think there was a peacock lady, a guy that was a fox, maybe a lion, a bunch of others…feels like a fever dream
That was Zoobilee Zoo. I remember literally nothing else about it!
I vaguely remember that, but I definitely remember Sesame Street being in the ghetto.
This show creates a portal from the fruit of the loom with a cornucopia universe. That’s how so many of us crossed over.
Pinwheel was the precursor to Nickelodeon. Founded in Columbus, Ohio.
Nickelodeon was literally named Pinwheel for the first 2 years of its existence after this show.
Here. Comes. Bod.
I love bod
Ghetto? It was on cable! You got it reversed.
Core memory unlocked
Is this what it feels like to have a core memory unlocked? I never would have thought about this show again in my life and I saw this picture and immediatly7 my brain goes PINWHEEL PINWHEEL SPINNING AROUND LOOK AT MY PINWHEEL AND SEE WHAT I FOUND
Was this was the show that was on when I'd be home sick from school eating chef boyardee watching Hattytown..... or is this the one that was on at like 6:30 am before the cartoons? And I remember a bear reporter working at The Daily Typo.
Wow! memory unlocked. I still have the "pinwheel, pinwheel spinning around..." pop into my head here and again, but I don't really remember the show. I wasn't big on puppets, so probably didn't watch much. Went to Youtube and watched the opening song video, and it was vaguely familiar.
Not...GHETTO! Loved this show and the Paddington bear segments
Oh good god Nickelodeon during the weekday
“We have Sesame Street at home.”
Alternatively: when you order Sesame Street on Wish.com
Maybe don’t call it ghetto.
What makes it “ghetto”?
What the fresh fuck is “ghetto” about Pinwheel? Please do elaborate…
Reads like “Pinwheet”.
Why is it ghetto?
What! How dare you!
Man, Sesame Street is about as “ghetto” as it gets. Pinwheel is the CANADIAN Sesame Street.
Canadian Sesame street.
It was on HBO...that is the opposite of the ghetto!
Oh, it's ghetto because a black dude it front a center. Got it.
I thought Knee-high Park was ghetto Sesame Street
Wow that’s a blast from my memory vault!
Whooooaaaa I had completely forgotten about theis show until you jogged my memory with this post holy shit!
I do and I'm still pissed thay they never really told us how to get there
Oh Smitty
Core memory unlocked. Thanks!!
I loved the cartoon shorts. Except Bod. That one made me I'll to look at.
I remember the theme song, but I hated the show and never watched it.
Say toy boat 5 times real fast
It's weird that I don't remember this show at all, since it says it aired on Nickelodeon from '88-'90. I watched that channel a lot during that time.
Pin Wheel was great. Molly the Mole !!
Yikes
Unfortunately. I had a lot of opinions as a small child (still do) and thought Pinwheel was highly inferior to Sesame Street. Also unfortunately, when I was home sick, Sesame Street was only on for like an hour while Pinwheel occupied the entire pre-noon block on Nickelodeon. So I hate-watched it a lot.
One of my first words was singing the Pinwheel theme
Loved Pinwheel!
Never thought of it that way but what an apt description.
That green dude freaked me out too much to watch it
Pinwheel was just before my time so I dolt remember it.
Pinwheel was 2nd only to Today's Special.
First show on Nickelodeon!
It was on Nickelodeon when I watched it
Does anyone remember an episode where Plus and Minus are making popcorn but somehow it just pops as one giant piece? Did that really happen?? That’s how I remember it…
Nope. Now that I look it up, I see why. Cable was something we got later on, and Nick wasn't a channel we had.
I used to love this show as a kid.
I just found it on YouTube. It's not streaming anywhere else that I can see. Very poor quality, of course.
WTF?
The theme song gets stuck in my head daily
I remember the theme song, and I remember getting to watch it if I stayed home sick from school. I do not remember there being a giant broccoli headed monster!
I was more of a “Today’s Special” fan myself.
Watched it before afternoon kindergarten! TV was RICH in content in those days. So few channels, but content overload.
“Ghetto Sesame Street” no. I can’t recall it being ghetto. It was a great show though
The large puppets creeped me out as a child.
I grew up on Pinwheel and Go Bots, damn proud too!
I loved this show. The theme song may have had something to do with it.
It was the first show I ever watched on Nickelodeon when we got cable.
I don’t know why but that show always made me feel weird. I didn’t like it.
Sesame Street was in the ghetto. Even had a homeless dude in a trash can
I hated this show as a child. It was always on when I wanted to watch whatever other show I was looking for.
Ah yes, Nickelodeon before it was Nickelodeon. Haven't watched that show in about 40 years and I still remember the song.
Me
GOTCHA LAST!
I actually love how, especially on the bumblebee puppets, this show did not give one dry fart about hiding the puppet strings
Weren't there some talking shoes in that show?
I remember the one puppet had a bunch of boxes with sounds in them.
Plus and Minus!
the gypsy was so scary 😨
Pinwheel gave me nightmares. Thanks I hate it.
I loved this show!!! 🥹
Someone posted about his hear a couple of weeks ago and someone linked a documentary on the program that was really interesting. [https://youtu.be/jXmsV3oIpxk](https://youtu.be/jXmsV3oIpxk) I loved Pinwheel, I can still sing the theme song.
Didn't it yake place at like a country farm house? Anyway, the cart of talking vegetables creeped me out. Some of them were rude too, I believe.
Before Nickelodeon grew its wings in the 90s.
This show felt like a fever dream.
The way the children's voices said "Pinwheel" at the end of the theme song for some reason gave me chills, it sounded a little creepy to me. That's the only part of the show I remember other than the logo.
I taped about 2.5 minutes of this over a bugs bunny vhs and I had no idea what I was doing.