Today's Special - Hospitals

[@JWH316]

This was the episode i requested....... thank you ever so much. This one is one of my favorites

[@NikkiDeJonge]

OMG!! Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you!! I have been waiting for this!! And, my 📺 TV is out..I can't get it to work!!-this is what I've been looking for!!😊 🤗 ❤ 👍 📼

[@charactertamer]

This was the only Today's Special episode I haven't seen yet! Thank you for uploading this!😸

[@DaveFisher-cq2dr]

awesome, another episode, thank you, please keep 'em coming

[@mcaducker]

I remember watching this episode years ago. Great to watch it again on here! What a great show!

[@JeremyAndrosoff]

Anyone recognize the voice of the nurse that helped Muffy? That's a very young Terri Hawkes who voiced Serena/Sailor Moon, Princess Sissi, Shreeky and baby Hugs in Carebears, and from so many other series over the years! I've had the pleasure of meeting her twice and emceeing her panels at Anime Revolution in Vancouver. :)

[@NikkiDeJonge]

You're right. Her name is in the end credits. This one of my favorite Today's Special episodes.. 👋 :)

[@afriendofbean]

@JeremyAndrosoff Yes, I can definitely see that the nurse is played by Terri Hawkes. In the beginning I thought the nurse was played by Nina Keogh who performs Muffy which explains why she's in this scene without Muffy talking too much and in the scene where Muffy is talking from 18:19-18:25 especially since Terri Hawkes looks like Nina Keogh here. I was assuming that someone else like Bob Dermer (who is Sam Crenchaw's performer) was moving Muffy's body around and it was a recording of Nina Keogh's voice from 18:19-18:25. Plus, I thought as Terri Hawkes (thinking it was Nina Keogh) was carrying Muffy from 20:08-20:16, I was assuming that was Nina Keogh carrying her puppet (that is Muffy who she performs) taking the responsibility of moving Muffy around from Bob Dermer.

[@NikkiDeJonge]

@@afriendofbean Thanks for your reply. I love, loved 💕 the Care Bears 🐻 I didn't know she was baby Hugs & Shrikee-interesting. Thanks for the info :) 😊 👋

[@afriendofbean]

@@NikkiDeJonge I didn't know that Terri Hawkes was on Care Bears.

[@muhammadrafiuddinbinmohmme6078]

​​@@afriendofbeanShe was. She's best known as Baby Hugs Bear and Shreeky, Seasons 1 and 2 only.

[@glenneager3067]

This is my favorite episode. I was in the hospital when I was a kid but it wasn’t tonsillitis. It was for something else.

[@CD-yr8tw]

I watched this show all the time when I was a kid.

[@afriendofbean]

At 26:56, why did Dr. Bennett look at Sam telling him not to talk unless it's important when she should have been saying it to Muffy?

[@MusicMan922]

Dr. Bennett is played by the late Barbara Hamilton, who would later play Ginny the Farmer on seasons 2 and 3 of "Shining Time Station".

[@afriendofbean]

This is probably the second episode where Muffy was sick except this episode was worse where she had to have an operation after having a sore throat, high temperature, and had a red and swollen throat. The first episode where Muffy was sick was the episode titled "Noses" where Muffy had a cold and she said that her doctor said to stay in bed.

[@mkaplan1383]

18:50 Same soft and caring pitch in her voice. That's Usagi-chan aka Serena from Sailor Moon. A very young and lovely Terri Hawkes. Of course when she becomes childish and screams as Usagi-chan, you can hear a hint of Shreeky in her from Care Bears.

[@tenderpawsm473]

They said that everything would be fine, but I wouldn't be as brave as Muffy was if I were having a tonsillectomy. THAT is a painful surgery.

[@AngelaWildman-ep6qu]

They anesthetize you so it shouldn’t be that bad.

[@afriendofbean]

@@AngelaWildman-ep6qu That's correct which is why Dr. Bennett told Muffy from 15:36-15:40 that she will get an injection of medicine to sleep for the operation. Even Sam talked about it from 18:28-18:32.

[@afriendofbean]

From 16:14-16:16, was Dr. Bennett trying to insult Sam? If she was, was it because he was begging her to examine Muffy even though she was a pediatrician and not a veterinarian? The look Sam gave at 16:18 to us watching was like he was saying, "I don't talk too much" and/or "that sure hurt my feelings."

[@afriendofbean]

Rest in peace Barbara Hamilton as Dr. Bennett.

[@DaveFisher-cq2dr]

yes, she died back in 1996 from breast cancer, she was 69

[@afriendofbean]

@@DaveFisher-cq2dr That's right. I saw that over the internet.

[@mkaplan1383]

And Nerene Virgin (Jan 15, 2024), and Nikki Tilroe (September 1st, 2005).

[@afriendofbean]

@@mkaplan1383 Yes, rest in peace to both of them too.

[@mkaplan1383]

@@afriendofbean I'm sure there's more from the show that passed away. We seem to live in the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking things away.

[@JenniferEnnett]

Barbara Hamilton was also on the Elephant show

[@DaveFisher-cq2dr]

Mrs. Pennypacker was performed by Cheryl Wagner who also voiced Ma Gorg on "Fraggle Rock", did anybody know that?

[@mkaplan1383]

How many people from Fraggle Rock are in this show?

[@DaveFisher-cq2dr]

@@mkaplan1383 well there's also Bob Stutt who plays Muffy's cousin Mort, on Fraggle rock he played Wander McMooch, Felix the Fearless, the Avalanche Monster and the Last of the Lily creatures

[@DakariKingMykan]

Poor Muffy... I hate Sore throats so much! Also, the Nurse is Terri Hawkes (Sailor Moon)

[@DaveFisher-cq2dr]

Terri Hawkes was just okay for the DIC dub in the 90's, but Stephanie Sheh provided a much better voice for Sailor Moon for the VIZ dub

[@mkaplan1383]

​@@DaveFisher-cq2drWell that's true, Stephanie does have that cute charm from FLCL. But let's not forget Terri Hawkes has that distinctive scream that got her the role of Shreeky from Care Bears.

[@jenselinsky6734]

Someone whom I love very much is sick. I want to believe everything will be fine.

[@jimt.626]

Of course Jeff can’t be there. Like Waldo the Magnificent said, if he were to leave the store and go outside, he turns into a mannequin for good. Unless Jodie or Sam were to call Waldo to try to reverse the spell

[@andrewbixler7104]

Besides he’d have to watch over both the store and Mrs Pennypacker

[@jimt.626]

@@andrewbixler7104 Jeff or Waldo?

[@andrewbixler7104]

Why Jeff

[@andrewbixler7104]

Because he lives there

[@NikkiDeJonge]

Do you remember/have the episode where Math Patrol do a cross over? There were 2 monsters characters singing Ugh..a Bug..Ugh. and they were dancing with a ballerina, I think she was Katerina Witt??

[@Anonymous-qg9xx]

The lady's name was Karen Kain..........rhyme!!! The episode is "Dance"....Season 2...episode 1...your welcome!

[@NikkiDeJonge]

@@Anonymous-qg9xx Thanks again..& I had a feeling I was wrong..oops. Sorry I didn't see that you replied to both questions..but, thank you :)

[@Anonymous-qg9xx]

I'm waiting for "Going Out" where Sam and Jeff and Muffy get into a huff about Jodie going to a dance with a boy named Darrel / Adam dressed up as a prince!!!

[@Anonymous-qg9xx]

Who is Diane Dubay??? She is in the credits playing herself...I see no such person throughout the episode!

[@JenniferEnnett]

Well on the Elephant show episode hospital Paul got a popsicle from Eric

[@Anonymous-qg9xx]

How does Dr Bennet know the words to "Everything Will Be Fine" and the nurse to both sing along at the end!!

[@afriendofbean]

@Anonymous-qg9xx Maybe Jodie and Sam were singing it in the beginning and then Dr. Bennett and the nurse joined in. I did wonder how Jodie and Sam knew the words because it was Jeff and Mrs. Pennypacker who started singing it themselves. Either way, these things have happened on the show where different people have joined in singing songs with Jeff, Jodie, Sam, and Muffy that don't know the lyrics. For example on the episode titled "Smiles", Jeff, Jodie, Sam, and Muffy were singing a song titled "A Smile Is A Frown Upside Down" and at the end of the episode they sang that song again where Sam's best friend named Sourpuss Sal surprisingly knew the lyrics since she wasn't in the store when Jeff, Jode, Sam, and Muffy started singing it.

[@Anonymous-qg9xx]

@@afriendofbean And of course in the Daisies episode...Greedy O Grady starts to sing the "Help Each Other" song at the end without never hearing it first!! And in "Storms" Mitch never knows the words to Snap Clap and a Chuckle yet he still sings it at the end!! In the episode Ice Cream, Flora Frimble sings the Ice Cream song without hearing Jodie and Jeff sing it first!!! I'm sure there are many other eps where the guest characters join in with the main characters in a song they have not yet heard.....

[@afriendofbean]

@@Anonymous-qg9xx I have heard those episodes you mentioned but, I'm not familiar with them (I will have to watch them on KZbin sometime) except for the "Storms" episode. Also yes, Mitch didn't know the lyrics to "Snap, Clap, and Chuckle" where he was watching and listening to Jeff, Jodie, Sam, and Muffy first (they were showing him how it goes) and then you can hear Jeff saying to Mitch, "come on Mitch" like he was telling Mitch to join in after listening which is why Mitch started singing.

[@DaveFisher-cq2dr]

20:45 popsicles? I thought doctors give people ice cream after they have their tonsils out

[@JenniferEnnett]

I don’t know maybe she thought Sam was sick

[@NikkiDeJonge]

I want to add: regarding the Math Patrol cross over, 🤔 think it was Karen Kane as the ballerina-sorry, my bad.. :)

[@Anonymous-qg9xx]

The episode is "Dance"....Season 2...episode 1...your welcome!

[@NikkiDeJonge]

@@Anonymous-qg9xx Thank you. I really appreciate it :) 👋 ☺ Have a good day

[@jimt.626]

The other option would be if Waldo went with Jeff to the hospital then he could be protected

[@afriendofbean]

@jimt.626 Well, Waldo only kept the magic within the store and if he magically took Jeff to the hospital and went along, Dr. Bennett and the nurse would know he's a mannequin wearing a magic hat when the magic hat is to be kept private between Jodie, Sam, Muffy, and Jeff himself. Although I remember Jeff let Jodie's old friend Karen on the secret of his magic hat from the episode "Moving" probably only because she was a friend of Jodie's. However I remember Jeff almost got his wish come true to be a real person from the episode "Wishes" when everyone was getting a real wish granted for them. Unfortunately, Sam and Muffy wished in anger towards each other (Muffy wished Sam would turn into a sardine sandwich and Sam wished Muffy to disappear) and then Jodie wished she could look like Sam and turned into a sardine sandwich herself. Then Jeff had to wish them back to normal feeling it's better to have normal looking friends than wishing to be a real human.

[@andrewbixler7104]

Besides even if Jeff could go there I frankly don’t see what he could do

[@afriendofbean]

@@andrewbixler7104 Jeff did say that he wishes he could go at 10:33 and from 17:49-17:53 he did say that he wishes he could be at the hospital to cheer Muffy up and make her laugh and at 19:39 he at least gave his picture as a way of saying that he is not able to go to the hospital and Muffy was at least holding the picture seen from 28:20-28:46.

[@jimt.626]

@@andrewbixler7104or Waldo if he magically took Jeff and went along with

[@jimt.626]

@@afriendofbeanyeah but remember what Waldo the Magnificent said… if Jeff left the store the magic would wear off and he could never come back

[@NikkiDeJonge]

Do you have the episode where Muffy & Mort get kidnapped by a creepy man with a top hat, he has a slight naisly👃 voice. He puts Muffy & Mort in a cage. He wants to put them in his Circus 🎪 🤹‍♂️ cause he's never had talking mice Sam pretends to a toy 🛥 boat..to distract the guy..& Jeff & Jody pretend to be Manniquens..😊 👋