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Margaret Hamilton, well known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West, with Oscar the Grouch on episode #0847 of Sesame Street, 1976
Source: The Vintage News

Margaret Hamilton, well known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West, with Oscar the Grouch on episode #0847 of Sesame Street, 1976
Source: The Vintage News
Movie review
Michael Rubbo’s The Peanut Butter Solution
The Peanut Butter Solution is a Canadian, family-friendly horror classic. The story centres around a kid who lost his hair from fright after visiting a scary, abandoned house. He then gets a recipe from a ghost to grow his hair back, but this solution only leads him into the hands of a villain.
Watching The Peanut Butter Solution as a kid, I liked that it was funny, scary and bizarre. Even as an adult, I don’t think that I have ever seen anything quite like it. With a bit of an old school Degrassi feel to it, this movie is fun and worth a watch if you haven’t seen it yet.
Rubbo, Michael. The Peanut Butter Solution, Cinéma Plus (CA) / New World Pictures (US), 1985.
Did you grow up reading a storybook version of Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market?

Sometimes I wonder about Sweetums’ back story before he joined the Muppet Show. Was he a mean monster turned softy after a particularly traumatic experience? Had he always been a sweet monster; was that part of how he was as a species? Or, was he an outcast from his aggressive family? I usually think of him as an outcast because, for the majority, all of the Muppets are outcasts, and he finds his family among them. Oh, Sweetums!