Hanker For A Hunka Cheese
I had forgotten all about this public service announcement until Colleen brought it up! Do you remember the weird looking cartoon character with long arms and long legs that would sing about cheese on Saturday mornings during the commercial breaks from your favorite cartoons? His name was Timer and he was the same guy who told us all how to make juice pops by putting the juice in the ice trays and sticking toothpicks in them.
Time for Timer was an educational short cartoon that was played in between cartoons. The purpose of the cartoon was to teach kids about health and nutrition (of course they weren’t getting any exercise sitting around watching cartoons all morning).
If you do a search on YouTube on “Time for Timer” you find some of the old cartoons. Here is the cheese one:
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Hmm…now I’m hankering
March 19th, 2007 at 9:26 amBefore the video started playing, I was going to say I don’t remember these. But once it started… whoa!!! Flashbacks!!! Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.
March 19th, 2007 at 9:27 amThat makes me wish I could figure out why my speakers aren’t working! lol I love watching those sorts of things
March 19th, 2007 at 10:09 amAh, the things I missed out on growing up in the UK
March 19th, 2007 at 10:21 amI used to love these!!!
March 19th, 2007 at 10:59 amThey tried to get kids to eat better, it was weird but kinda cool.
Colleen and I are the same age. Why don’t I remember this?
March 19th, 2007 at 11:10 amOh my gosh!!! I remember him! Makes me think of School House Rock too!
March 19th, 2007 at 2:06 pmI don’t remember that. hmmm Was it when you were little or when your kids were little?
March 19th, 2007 at 2:54 pmOMG, I’m with Amy on this one: I totally didn’t know what you were talking about until I played the vid. Then, TOTAL flashbacks!! Thanks for the post!
March 19th, 2007 at 4:18 pmOMG,me too - just like Amy!! I thought I didn’t remember it and then I watched it!
How funny - thanks so much for the memory!!!!
March 19th, 2007 at 4:33 pmMy 13 yr old, looking over my shoulder, says, “Oh, is that from the olden days?”
*smack*
March 19th, 2007 at 4:33 pmI remember that!
March 19th, 2007 at 9:08 pmOh the memories! lol
March 20th, 2007 at 12:36 pmHahhaha, it’s very cute. I’ve never seen this on TV (I was born in the 80s, and I don’t think Malaysian TV played these cartoons either) but it reminds me of the cartoons I used to watch when I was small, you know, Tom & Jerry, Donald Duck and the likes
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:24 pm