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Sweet Pickles is a series of 40 children’s books by Ruth Lerner Perle, Jacquelyn Reinach, and Richard Hefter (who also created Stickybear and the Strawberry Library). The books are set in the fictional town of Sweet Pickles and are about anthropomorphic animals with different personalities and behavior. There are 26 animals—one for each letter of the alphabet. The books were published in 1977 and went out of print in the mid-1990s. The series’ name is a pun; in each book, the main character gets into a “pickle” (a difficult situation) because of an all-too human personality trait. The front endpapers of the books portrayed the 26 characters, and the back endpapers portrayed a map of the town.

The books were advertised with TV commercials and a catchy jingle. There also existed a similar series, The Alphapets, on which Ruth Lerner Perle collaborated in the early 1990s. In the future a similar series will come out, called the Eurps which will feature not animals, but anthropomorphic letters of the alphabet.

The Sweet Pickles books were read in various episodes of the CBS television series Captain Kangaroo.

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In the late 1980s, Energizer rolled out an advertising campaign featuring Mark ‘Jacko’ Jackson and his pitch line “Energizer! It’ll surprise you! Oi!”

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Tales of the Riverbank, sometimes called Hammy Hamster, is a Canadian children’s television show starring Hammy Hamster and other animals. The series was created by David Ellison and Paul Sutherland, CBC film editors, in 1959.

The program had human voices in sync to the actions of the live animals thereby giving the impression that the creatures were going about on purposeful, intelligent activities. The voices were selected to reflect personalities of the animals; for instance, the fidgety mouse was given an urgent sounding voice whereas the turtle had a slow, sleepy voice. They lived on a place called The Riverbank. The animals operated various artifacts including toy sailboats, cars, and even a diving bell. (Eventually in the UK edition the riverbank was set in the woodlands of Galston, East Ayrshire in Scotland).

Each episode ended with the narrator alluding to an event involving the characters, but refusing to elaborate, saying “But that is another story.”

The original black and white Tales of the Riverbank series began in 1959. A second series filmed in colour, retitled Hammy Hamster (full title: Hammy Hamster’s Adventures On the Riverbank) launched in 1972. A third series, from 1995 to 1998, was produced for YTV; 65 episodes of that series were made.

The series was also shown in the UK, where all the voices were provided by Johnny Morris. It is ranked 79th in the UK Channel 4’s 2001 poll of the 100 Greatest Kids’ TV shows.

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The Pyraminx is a tetrahedron-shaped puzzle similar to the Rubik’s Cube. It was invented and patented by Uwe Meffert, and introduced by Tomy Toys of Japan (then the 3rd largest toy company in the world) in 1981. Meffert continues to sell it in his toy shop, Meffert’s.

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Rizzo the Rat is a Muppet, performed by Steve Whitmire. Rizzo first appeared in episode 418 of The Muppet Show, as one of a group of rats following Christopher Reeve around backstage. He can be seen mugging and reacting to practically every line of dialogue. He remained a scene-stealing background figure through the final season, occasionally performing with Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.

After that he appeared in The Great Muppet Caper as a bellboy in a fleabag London hotel. He has appeared in most later Muppet projects, including The Muppets Take Manhattan and Muppets Tonight. In The Muppet Christmas Carol, he developed a popular double act with Gonzo, which was continued in Muppet Treasure Island and in Muppets from Space.

Rizzo is a streetwise rat with a New Jersey accent and a self-proclaimed acrophobic (“There are only two things… I hate: heights, and jumping from them”). His name was inspired by the similar (human) character of Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo in the film Midnight Cowboy.

In Muppets From Space, as the spaceship lands, he panics to himself that he’s “always obeyed his mother and that he never carried the plague, not even once!”