# Look up, look way up. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 3, 2000, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-way-up/18456 "2000-05-03T15:08:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-way-up/18456/1 "2000-05-03T15:08:43Z")
This thread will probably only make sense to Canadians. The Friendly Giant died today. _Sigh_ That show was a big part of my youth. I feel sad knowing the man who created Rusty and Jerome has died. Dammit, I miss that show and I guess I miss my lost youth as well. You start to feel old when the idols of your youth die. Keith P.S. Did you realize that Mr Dressup and the Friendly Giant were both Americans. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-way-up/18456/2 "2000-05-03T16:32:11Z")
I imagine this was a kids show. And the fact that there was a Canadian kids show with a character named “Mr. Dressup” TOTALLY explains The Kids in the Hall. ---
**Author:** ![saucy\_potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@saucy\_potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucy_potato)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-way-up/18456/3 "2000-05-03T16:35:49Z")
Oh no! :😭: ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-way-up/18456/4 "2000-05-03T16:38:26Z")
The Friendly Giant was always one of those shows I hated but felt a need to watch anyway. All the same, he and his recorder will be missed. ---
**Author:** ![meek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-way-up/18456/5 "2000-05-03T17:01:10Z")
Bob Homme was part of the Canadian psyche as television’s Friendly Giant. We’ll miss ya Bob. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-way-up/18456/6 "2000-05-03T17:21:57Z")
I grew up in Detroit, and watched them both on Channel 9. Bummer. ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-way-up/18456/7 "2000-05-03T17:25:55Z")
And a rocking chair to curl up in… That was one of my favourite shows. He was definitely one of the pioneers of Canadian Children’s TV. ---
**Author:** ![saucy\_potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@saucy\_potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucy_potato)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-way-up/18456/8 "2000-05-03T17:42:15Z")
No no, **CanadianSue** , it was a rocking chair for **two** to curl up in. 🙂 I always wanted one of those… ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Derfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@Lord\_Derfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Derfel)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-way-up/18456/9 "2000-05-03T17:48:04Z")
I read the news in the paper this morning. I grew up watching that show. I always thought his castle would be a cool place to live. It’s a sad day… ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-way-up/18456/10 "2000-05-03T17:53:48Z")
You are so right saucy. They just played his theme song on the radio… wow that brings back memories. ---
**Author:** ![Suo\_Na](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Suo\_Na](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suo_Na)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-way-up/18456/11 "2000-05-03T19:01:33Z")
I only vaguely remember the content of the show itself, but I used to have the opening and closing memorised. And “Early One Morning” has always been one of my favourite tunes. I used to have a little rocking chair like those. I wonder what happened to it? ---
**Author:** ![GoSensGo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@GoSensGo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoSensGo)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-way-up/18456/12 "2000-05-04T21:02:27Z")
I guess I’m probably about as young as it gets for those for whom this program was a staple of childhood. Right after The Green Double-Decker, right before MR. Dressup… Heck… I can’t hear recorder music and not think of the Friendly Giant. Alex ---
**Author:** ![GoSensGo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@GoSensGo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoSensGo)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-way-up/18456/13 "2000-05-04T21:04:38Z")
I guess I’m probably about as young as it gets for those for whom this program was a staple of childhood. Right after The Green Double-Decker, right before MR. Dressup… Heck… I can’t hear recorder music and not think of the Friendly Giant. Alex ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-way-up/18456/14 "2016-04-14T00:56:46Z")
Reviving a zombie for Canucks who remember The Friendly Giant, as the CBC posted this interview today: [http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/1982-friendly-giant-bob-homme-steps-out-of-costume](http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/1982-friendly-giant-bob-homme-steps-out-of-costume) And it’s “a bigger chair for two more to curl up in and for someone who likes to rock a rocking chair in the middle.” ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-way-up/18456/15 "2016-04-14T01:26:54Z")
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