THE GIGGLESNORT HOTEL: Vol. 1 (1975/USA) We accept the children’s entertainment we think we deserve, and in Canada in the early 1990s that usually meant the truly bizarre kids shows aired on our all-youth station YTV. Sure, one could have stuck with the relative safety of Mr. Dressup or Under The Umbrella Tree over on the CBC, but the good (read: weird) stuff was on our Nickelodeon analogue, which seemed to desperately pull programming from all over the world to fill up its daytime programming hours. Many a child will remember being semi-traumatized by episodes of THE HILARIOUS
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