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People are voting emotionally.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

If anyone is interested I have this animated feature on original video. I am about to list it one the UK ebay site. I find the Follow Me song a bit annoying, but yet I couldn't get it out of my head after watching this blast from the past. There are other episodes in this series, I haven't got any of the others though.Check out my listing. I haven't seen it anywhere else. I know that it is definitely NOT available on DVD. The video I have is a UK PAL format. This means it will not play on a standard American VCR, as they are NTSC. UK vcrs play all formats, so this is something to check out before purchasing videos from the UK. Videos in different countries have different playing formats.

Thanks to Timer, I now "hanker for a hunk o' cheese" at just about any time of the day or night, not just when I'm feeling "weak in the knees." I wonder if some of his spots would pass muster today, given that kids are currently being brought up in the country of Obesica.But on ABC in the 70's, Timer was the, er, man, and this show was astonishing when I was nine years old. It really was like "Wizard of Oz" meets "Fantastic Voyage"; and the songs were terrific and inventive, singing all about the functions of the human body, at least the ones you could sing about on 1970's television. (I don't recall a song about the need to dispose of bodily waste...) I recall seeing this show about a half dozen times (they would replay it on Saturday mornings, too). The sequel about Little Red's Head was enjoyable, but had nothing of the impact that this one did on me. I had little interest in most of the After School Specials, for I was already a committed animation nut, and if the episode was not a cartoon, I really had no use for it. I did watch and enjoy the occasional live-action episode ("Duffy Moon" was sweet), but this one was the peak of the series.I know many of the After School Specials are being released slowly onto DVD, but how about an all-Timer set, with both movies and all of the Bod Squad spots, with commentary by Lennie Weinrib (Timer in all but the first movie)? I'd pony up the cash...

I just recently discovered the name of this one. I was only 9 years old when this came out, but certain scenes from it are still so vivid in my head. I would do anything to find a copy of this and view it again, it made such an impact on me as a kid. Such wonderful, twisted yet emotional stuff was done in the 70s that I think today's kids are truly missing out. If anyone has or knows where to find a copy of this cartoon + live action short... please, please contact me ASAP.

I would see this as an After School Special, and it was a treat. No doubt the first appearance of Timer, the little yellow man who would dominate seventies Saturday morning with his hankerin' for a hunk'a cheese ideas. What an absolute marvel this was for me.With the help of Timer, the children, Peter and Missy, would venture through their uncle's body; their uncle, who smoked cigars, got upset working on the kitchen sink and ate and drank too much while he watched his football game.With each emotional turmoil, the kids would endure amusing, fascinating animated adventures within his body. Making the effect so much better was the uncle and outside of his body was real, but within it was cartoons. Talk about a child's delight.But hands down, oh definitely, it was the singing. Those wonderful, wonderful songs. And after this incredible, remarkable adventure, the children must say good bye to their new friend Timer, and we were treated to a touching rendition of Timer's arrival song "Follow Me" and Missy's lonely song, intertwined together.Where do you go after such a grand finale, you ask? Where else but the children, now real life again, running to their poor uncle and telling him what all they went through; journeying through is body, his blood pressure, his anger and so on. And bless his Archie Bunker heart, the poor man just listened to them as best he could and never doubted a word they said.This was a fantastic cartoon story for kids, and yes, there was a sequel, fully animated with no real life parts, entitled "A Trip through Little Red's Head". In that one, Len Weinrib would do the voice of Timer. Follow me, follow me!