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You are definitely not imagining things. I recall Snippets from back in the day.

I don't remember much more than you do but I remmeber the intro for it had 3 or 4 little worm-like cartoon characters that yelled "Snippets!"

This is NOT to be confused with Sniglets. :)

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I don't remember any techno, but I kinda remember a clamation opening with the clay spelling out Snippets, and then a chorus of children all saying the name. But past that I am a blank.

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Yes! I remember Snippets. Or was it Snipets? I thought they were a local Boston thing--I saw them on WSBK 38 or WLVI 56, I think. I only remember the content of one Snippet. In this segment a bunch of (stop-motion animated) toy tops are spinning around in what looks like a model of a city playground (actually just pavement and a brick wall), to the sounds of children playing. After a while they start to slow down and eventually all but one of them fall to the ground. The one remaining top (with googly eyes glued on it, I think) then turns to the camera and says "I had a good breakfast!" That memory has been stuck in my head for decades.

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I think the theme song was the instrumental song called "Popcorn".

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Oh yeah. Syndicated (My local was Channel 32 (WFLD)in its Kaiser Broadcasting incarnation) kids fluff filler masking as a PSA. The kid voices now ring in my head OP. Thanks a lot.


PS - While on the subject, when "Snippets" wasn't in rotation, it was usually "The Kingdom Of Could Be You", another PSA-ish kid thing about careers with a wonderfully dippy theme song ("Butcher-Baker-Dressmaker-Could-Be-You......" Yikes. And yet it's stuck in my head like a fungus 30 some odd years later. Ah, television - so powerful on a young mind )

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I just did a search on "Kingdom of Could Be You" because I had a dream last night that I was a little kid watching one of those, and this blog came up. That damn theme song is still caught in my head 31 years later. "Look at all of these...possibilities..."

Bleh. My mind is absolutely polluted.

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SNIPPETS! I've been looking for info about this mini-show for years! The theme song was "Popcorn" by a group called Hot Butter. I grew up in Detroit, MI, and I always thought this was a locally produced thing because the production values were not the best. I remember two specific episodes. One was a claymation creation with an apple sitting on a throne, and one of his loyal subjects asks him, "Master Apple, how may I serve you?" and the apple sings a little ditty about being served as "...apple sauce, apple pie, baked apple..." with the apple changing into these things as he spoke the names. The other episode was a kid talking about writing poetry-"...a frog can do many things, but one thing it can't do is fly with wings..."
Are these available anywhere?

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I DEFINITELY remember the Snippets.they were on well into the 80s..I am 29 and remember seing them from about ages 4-9. I echo Scott's comment..I grew up in Boston and thought they were only a Boston thing. They were on both WSBK 38 and WLVI 56 if I recall, and I don't remember a lot of the episodes, but the intro is 4 or 5 green snake-like creatures (animated, not live or clay) and a short jingle of the word "Snippets" sung by children. The episodes I remember are: 1. How to make a "comeback can" with a coffee can and a weight inside it attached to a string, 2. kids making a telephone with a couple cans and string and 3. a pinhole camera. I've looked for years on the internet for the Snippets, Snuffy the Talking Fire Engine, Willie Whistle (TV 38 only in Boston), and those cool Boston Museum of Science (Where it's fun to find out!) and New England Aquarium commercials from the early 80s (THIS IS THE CAPTAIN SPEAKING!!). Memories of these have been in my brain for 20+ years and probably will be another 20.

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