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
Before 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.
That makes me wish I could figure out why my speakers aren’t working! lol I love watching those sorts of things
Ah, the things I missed out on growing up in the UK
I used to love these!!!
They 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?
Oh my gosh!!! I remember him! Makes me think of School House Rock too!
I don’t remember that. hmmm Was it when you were little or when your kids were little?
OMG, 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!
OMG,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!!!!
My 13 yr old, looking over my shoulder, says, “Oh, is that from the olden days?”
*smack*
I remember that!
Oh the memories! lol
Hahhaha, 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