1980 Romper Room Magic Mirror Clip

[kathryn0200]

what happened to her? I guess the sun went supernova and killed everyone.

[aramanth]

magic mushrooms tell me true...

[Whippsy1]

How many kids became paranoid over the magic mirror? They can "see" me? Too much...

[oakland2949]

Doobie! Yeah. Thanks to the Govt for that one.

[rttoronto]

I watchef this for years and they never said my name, but they would say my sisters name, this scarred me for life.

[micheltoronto]

She never called my name. and it wasn't even Shaniqqua! Yup hated her too...

[Zalamita]

How come there is no audio?

[NYKID10014]

I remember Maryetta was killed in a home invasion about 1998.

[cheekyface3]

"i always do whats right....i never do anything wrong...im a romper room doobe...a doobe all day long!!!"

[EllPro]

Why didn't you ever say my name? I watched you for years - why didn't you ever say my name? Huh? HUH? MY NAME'S DEVIN! SAY IT, BITCH!! DEVIN!! (*sob*)

XD

[inspectorcritic]

HOW THAT MIRROR GOT IN PLACE. BACK IN 57 I RESCUED SOME GIRLS FROM MAIM-HAMS THEY WERE WOUNDED WE ALL WENT ON THE SHOW. THEN THE NEXT GROUP OF WOUNDED WENT ON. THE SLOBS WERE HAPPY ABOUT THEM BEING BEATEN ON. I CALLED UP THE SHOW TO HAVE THEM EXPOSED I SAID I NEED THE NAMES OF THE MAIMHAM SLOBS EXPOSED TO INTROVERT THEM I GAVE THE NAMES SHE CAME UP WITH THE MAGIC MIRROR. FOR WEEKS I CALLED IN THE NAMES OF MAIMHAMS IN THE AREA. FOOLED THEM SHE COULD SEE RIGHT THROUGH THE TV IT SHATTERED THEM.

[JENDALL714]

As a kid did not want a Teacher to see me a home! I use to think she must be some kind of witch if she could see me! I was always happy when I didn't hear my name! I did hear my name once and I was freaked out! Holy crap, she can see me!

[joeblowthehot]

come ON people you are all drunk at home late at night and getting sentimental...this is a weird trip aint it..?

[PatrioticPirate]

I am TOO sick of you people who cut the jokes about Do-Bee's name. EVERYone knows the ACTUAL real meaning of Do-Bee. I hate that foolishnesss, and you people need to cut it out.

[SirBrackalot]

She never said name either , Helgafarterbarter.....I just don't understand why??? LOL

[davidjradich]

I used to freak out when she mentioned my name when I was a kidI I though, HOW COULD SHE SEE ME? Now I know, it was all part of a government plot. She is in league with the President's council on physical fitness. The feds! Well, Back to putting that tinfoil hat together.

[lsn2jah]

@davidjradich - Too  funny!

[SubconsciousGatherer]

I watched for years and she never said my name.

Sincerely,

Hugh Jaynuss

[acehighpat]

She never saw me either. Everytime I watched I was hoping she would mention me.

[UpTick21]

God . . . it must have been fun!!!!

[rapingurchurches]

hell she never saw me when i watched this back when i was smalll. then again that was a foreshadowing of my life.

[killerneon302]

where the fuck is eric??

[wiccanme82]

WHy DIdnt she say DANNIELLE!

[eelwoman75]

You didn't see me!!!! You lie!!! Like you always do!!!!!!! You NEVER see me in that stupid "magic" mirror!!!!!!!! You NEVER said my name!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHAARARRGGG!!!!!!!!!!

[4everachild]

Wow I used to watch the magic mirror to see if she mentioned my name,,, Was so neat . Who says we have to grow up

[MrBonsoy]

dooooobie

[michellue]

yep ..I also waited and waied to hear my name also .....NEVER once did she say my name

[aramanth]

What is that scary drug induced animation bit? As a kid it kinda worried me!

That was the 70s. Cartoons were psychedelic!

[beccaelf]

She never said my name either :(

[19florydory00]

I've been waiting since 1970 to hear my name. I think I should just forget it.

[herper64]

lmao!!! ;) the music sounds like farting at :44!!

[jammrr1238]

Love Ms, MaryAnn- almost as good as Ms, Louise, My FAVE. Why are there no videos of Ms. Louise Redfield on here?

[metsdudenj]

The mirror was a fucking crock of shit. My name is Michael and thats the most common name there is, and I watched for 3 years and the douche never ONCE said my name. Fuck her

[shaithis45]

@mets, ROFLMFAO. Also might I point out Romper Room was racially biased for its time.  I'd never heard Juan, Aurelia, Gustavo, Habib ever being mentioned from that magic mirror schtick. You are absolutely correct in your mirror interpretations.

[metsdudenj]

There was one black girl on one of the episodes, but she was jumping all over the place and didnt follow directions

(crack baby maybe?) and she mysteriously "disappeared" after a commercial. I asked my mom what happened, and she said. "Maybe she went to the bathroom.." So innocent was I. I am convinced the names were the ones of the white consultants and producers. They never once said Michael. I can't believe I watched that ghetto show with those horrible pictures and visuals

[shaithis45]

@mets, that was a very good catch and doesn't sound surprising. Haven't really seen much in the way of diversity when looking up old Romper Room Teachers. Since we were all subjected to this programming I almost have to say that We "The Friends at Home" are truly pissed :) PBS offered better programming as well as the major networks when it came to quality programming for that timeframe: Electric Company, old school Sesame Street etc. etc.

[shaithis45]

@mets, I may be walking a fine line too about not enough diversity etc. etc. in Romper Room. Just depends on what part of the U.S. you grew up in. Oh well it is old news but fun to tear Romper Room apart and follow the Family Guy method in tearing the seventies and eighties apart :)

[antonfjordson]

bingo!

[fueledbymusic3]

WOW serious flashback! I remeber that mirror. I remembor those Romper room shows! The music & themes!

[FlorrieDugger]

I forgot how tripped out that magic mirror was.

[wabankik]

...Did She Say Schmoo?,.Really,.!,.Ughh!,She Didnt once say my name,but she has the odasity to mention...I dont even think thats a Real name Schmoo!!!

[videoizer]

My aunt was one of the Canadian hosts of this show, I was on it twice. Being there for the mirror part was even creepier but that damn Doo Bee scared the crap out of kids! Every show there was a kid or 2 backstage crying and scarred to death! Theres probably 100's of kids that made it to the set but never got on TV because the bee scarred them.

"did all the kids have fun at play?" sheeesh....

[reneepow]

Yay!..Romper Stomper Bomper Boo!..Creepy is an understatement!..I was traumatized too!

[shaithis45]

@reneepow, remember the seventies were all drug induced which let to some very unique TV programming. It's okay now, we have therapeutic reality tv shows to watch :)

[oreochick24]

Did anyone else ever find the mirror bit creepy. She never said my name but I'd be scared because she could see me..... It took me years to get over that. I'm scared again....

[QBCNetwork]

Is it me or does the last part of the magic mirror tune sound like the ending to Jeopardy!?

[Lectronimo]

That announcer sounds like someone doing a bad Ted Knight impression.

[johnissoevil]

That would be Russ Dunbar, who was an announcer for WOR-TV at the time.

[Norogoth]

*shakes fist* You see this lady!?

[Blondiegreeneyes72]

LMAO!!

[PieFights]

Dude that Magic mirror used to scare the crap out of me when I was small

[Blondiegreeneyes72]

yeah it was pretty trippy :D

[ronofontario]

Amazing... How can she look through that mirror before and after. IT'S MAGIC

[PGMEagle]

I remember back in the early 80s on my local CBS station at the top of the hour you heard that classic Bong and then Romper Room came on

[LyndseyGavin]

OMG!!!! she said alexandra!!!!!! :D 0.28

[djerichall]

I see a pedophile in the mirror...

[JMFabianoRPL]

0:3...can't sleep, clown'll eat me...

[InfamousShad]

This was referenced in volume 1 of the XXXholic manga. XD

[Marbles471]

So every city had it's own version of Romper Room, with a different host? Man. That's nuts.

My local CBS station in Albany, NY used to play old Romper Room reruns on Saturday mornings at about 6:30, before the cartoons started. This was in 1992 and '93. I remember looking at the copyrights and noticing they were almost always from 1975 or 1980. They weren't this version of the show---the host was different and the graphics and colors were MUCH less "70s-looking" than the ones here.

[rjam1974]

Damn even now the magic mirror trips me out lol. The jack i nthe box thing is the scariest jack in the box I've ever seen lol.

[rdavi828]

Too bad all these good children's television shows have gone by the wayside.

[greenwichlirr]

Ah yes.....Channel 9's version was what Long Island was lucky to get, and when I saw those two guys at the end during the credit sequence, I had one of the biggest flashbacks of my life. I always wondered who the hell those two guys were!

Tapes of the local Romper Room productions are rare, so this and your other clips are great! Thanks for posting!

[waddleduckie1]

I remember this and the tune as a child! This is a classic!

[darkendblu]

i always waited for my name and they called all of my friends but me. I grew up feeling regected all my life in till befriended DoBee as a late teen

[TheCommish2008]

That is a terrible psychological outcome you experienced from this show. I always believed this show affected people in negative ways such as this. Thank you for verifying this for me.

[WorldScott]

@darkendblu serioulsy. LOL!!!!!! 'DoBee' Classic!

-Scott

[TheYellowcougar]

@darkendblu That makes 2 of us!! I began to hate that lady!

[goil2yrface]

Hey! Romper Room should come back on tv. If she can see all those people, and concentrate on seeing those kids. Why not us grown ups. I am sure osama bin laden she can see. Is she to afraid what people really thing of her. HEY! Darn Too tin. There are many false prophets out there. Osama bin laden is one of them. Ok lets find him using romper room magic. It will be, The war of false prophets game. And cave men. Not the Gaico cave men. But the cave men before Geico. Native cavemens.

[Louellamarierose]

We used to watch as children, and I waited and waited for her to SEE me! She saw Rick, and Jane and Beth, whom were my siblings, but not me! My mother finally called up the show and told them about me, and lo and behold one day she "saw" ME! LOUELLA! in her magic mirror!  Imagine how happy that made the little girl whom was me!!!!!!!!!

[yeah10000000000000]

@Louellamarierose it's ok google can see you!

[JayJayisOK]

@Louellamarierose I loved your post!! A friend and I always talk about how we waited and waited for the lady to see us and she never did! Lol!

[mecassid]

I used to watch this to just hear my name. I can't remember ever hearing it. Sigh.

[sirsniffy]

She never said my name...Tyrone. Sigh.

[lno2k6]

"fl1992"-the Claster Corp. co-developed "The Great Space Roller Coaster" a year later (1981).

[sdavidson15]

was that Sahra Palin

[cpatterson76]

Hmmm, I didnt' know there was an American version? The one I used to watch was from Kitchener, Ontario I think???

[markjv]

yup it was a franshise they had to go to a special romper rm school to b able to host, i only watched the kit 1 cause im from kit :)

i miss all my old shows they dont play em anymore

treehouse, oopsy etc

cin

[hereiwaswasihere]

omg thanks for this!!!!

[bluetoothheffa]

oh wow. i used to watch this faithfully and always wait for her to say my name! lmaoo. i love to 70's & 80's

[ellen830]

still waitng to hear my name...............lol

[VideoFanatic02]

I remember it very well. I used to get annoyed that I never heard her say my name. I used to sit there and wait for her to say it, and she never did. I remember it being on WWOR 9, while the CTW programs (Sesame Street, The Electric Company) were on WPBS 13. Great memories, thanks.

[stewballmax2]

Hi

VideoFanatic02...

Remember Wonderama on channel 5? First with Sonny Fox and then,Bob McCalister.

~Max

[iluvagothkenny]

i used to watch the reruns as a little kid lol i loved this show x3

[082207]

This must have been a regional thing, in Minnesota Twin Cities, probably around 1957 i won a couple pairs of shoes from a local shoe store in Anoka Mn. and My dog chewed up both of them, great memories!

Bend and stretch, reach for the stars there goes Jupiter there goes Mars....

[Lottech96]

was this from WWOR9?

[mammer90]

Yes it was!

[KroovyMonsoon]

@Lottech96 Yes indeed !!!!! I was actually on this edition of Romper Room around 1978 or so (I was 4). I remember Miss MaryAnn.

[MrsPoetryCrvdInFlesh]

My mum made me, yes made me watch this all the time!!! I am one of 7 brothers and sisters.....I was a bit old for this! LOL

Thanks Max for the send and time warp!!! :)

[ghostgal30e]

Thanks for sharing but I remember.

[gbear4]

These shows were ALL trippy. Remember HR Pufnstuff? Big headed dragon. That was some scary crap.

[JefferyT]

Psychodelic colors and a bee named Doobie??!! HEY WHAT'S GOING ON HERE!!

[ellen830]

very funny,,,,,,,, a bee named doobie

[browneyedaquarious]

Ellen, how funny, I am almost 46, and my first name is Ellen and also watched this and often cried because she would never say "I see Ellen."

LOL : (

[mamasboyl]

Trippy(LOL)!!!