Loonette the Clown

Loonette the Clown is the lead character on the Canadian children's program The Big Comfy Couch, portrayed by Alyson Court from 1993-2003 and Ramona Gilmour-Darling as of 2006. In it, she is a young clown living with her dolly, Molly, on the eponymous Big Comfy Couch, an oversized couch.
She frequently reads stories to Molly (by wearing huge yellow reading glasses and holding a blue storybook), always performs a Clock Rug Stretch, and likes to visit her Granny Garbanzo. Auntie Macassar (or more recently, her Uncle Chester) frequently sends Loonette postcards which Major Bedhead delivers on his unicycle (similar to Reba the Mail Lady from Pee-wee's Playhouse). Loonette is gifted in the art of classical dance and runs "Miss Loonette's Dance Academy". Another gift she possesses is the unusual ability to clean just about any mess up in ten seconds, which she calls the "Ten Second Tidy". (In reality, the video's action was obviously sped up during post-production of an episode, and even then often took longer than 10 seconds).
Originally, Loonette was too young to visit Clowntown, but starting from 2006, Loonette makes frequent (adult supervised) trips to Clowntown to visit Granny Garbanzo's "Cabbage Club Cooking School", "Clowndergarden", and Major Bedhead's "Clown Chi Mojo Dojo and Dancing School". The trips to this second location indicates that she practices martial arts.

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