Other puppet characters that appeared in the show included: Blackboard, the grumpy blackboard that Mr. Squiggle uses for an easel, whose catchphrases are "Hurry up", "Hmmph", "Double hmmph" and "Booorrriing". Gus the Snail, who had a TV for a shell and later, a flower pot, often tells knock-knock jokes.
Hetherington's concept for the Mr Squiggle character was simple: he completed ''squiggles'' sent in by young viewers into fully realised drawings and cartoons by connecting lines with his pencil nose. He worked upside down most of the time and when the drawing was completed he would call ''Upside down!Dec 8, 2010
Iconic TV puppet Mr Squiggle is at the National Archives for the Out of this World exhibition.Oct 13, 2020
July 9, 1999Mr. Squiggle / Final episode date
Hetherington was granted the copyright (No. 8027) for Mr. Squiggle in 1962; and his application stated that he had first created "Mr. Squiggle" on 1 August 1958).
South Pacific Zone 1 - $25.00. Asia Zone 2 - $28.00. Taiwan - $95.00. North & South America Zone 3 - $30.00.
1:364:01Drawing Game: The Squiggle - YouTubeYouTubeStart of suggested clipEnd of suggested clipSo I actually had a friend do this and then you're gonna take a pencil and you can turn all of theseMoreSo I actually had a friend do this and then you're gonna take a pencil and you can turn all of these squiggles into whatever your imagination. Comes up with so like maybe I see this as a mustache.
A Squiggle is an incomplete drawing of lines, dots or shapes and the game involves creating a picture from those 'squiggles'.
July 1, 1959Mr. Squiggle / First episode date
1 : squirm, wriggle squiggling in her seat. 2 : to write or paint hastily : scribble. transitive verb. 1 : scribble.
The Squiggle Game, described by pediatrician/child psychiatrist D. W. Winnicott, is a pencil-and-paper technique for eliciting children's thoughts and feelings. Unlike drawing tests such as the Goodenough Draw-A-Person Test and the Bender-Gestalt Form Copying Test, the Squiggle Game has an entirely unstructured format.