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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!”

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Rocko’s Modern Life is an American TV animated series, the fourth of Nickelodeon’s Nicktoons, created by Joe Murray and aired for four seasons from 1993 to 1996. The show was based around the surreal, parodic adventures of an anthropomorphic wallaby named Rocko, and his life in the city of O-Town. The program was produced by Joe Murray Productions and Nickelodeon Studios, and occasionally by Games Productions. The show is laden with double entendres, sexual innuendos, and social commentary, some of which have been edited in rebroadcasts. Rocko’s Modern Life ended production in 1996.

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In 1994, Nickelodeon and Mattel first manufactured Floam, originally called “bubble-gak”, a compound composed of “microbeads” in a foam-like substance. It came in different colors.

It is now being sold again, but without Nickelodeon branding.