My friend spike21 still remembers being freaked when The Captain asked for the usual audience participation in one of the shows rituals. Keeshan had asked " Boys and girls, are you going to help me wake Grandfather Clock? "; her then reply, at about age 5, was a sullen, flippant " No! ". To which the Captain stared quizzically but concernedly directly into the camera and gasped " 'No'? "...

My friend say this is still one of the top ten out-of-the-blue jolts of her life.