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unusual facts about Sparky


Sparky's Magic Piano

In 1978, Mancunian folk poet Les Barker released a comic parody entitled 'Sparky's Magic Contraceptive' on his live album, 'Mrs. Ackroyd: Superstar!'.


Autopia

The colorful Chevrolet Corvette Stingray-style cars were replaced by three different kinds of cars: Dusty, an off-road style car; Sparky, a sports car; and Suzy, a Volkswagen Beetle-style car.

Big Shot Comics

Original characters included The Face, Sparky Watts, Skyman, Brass Knuckles, Marvelo and Spy-Master.

Book-and-record set

In the late 1940s and early '50's, Capitol Records produced many book-and-record sets for children, ranging from everything from Bozo the Clown to the classical music fantasy Sparky's Magic Piano.

Cartoon Art Museum

Over the years, the Museum has presented the Sparky Award (named after the nickname of Charles Schultz), in honor of the lifetime achievement of prominent creators in the fields of cartooning and animation.

Cincinnati Kids

The Cincinnati Kids are referenced in an episode of the TV show WKRP in Cincinnati which guest-starred baseball great Sparky Anderson as himself.

Daniel Shanahan

His major works include Towards a Genealogy of Individualism (University of Massachusetts Press, 1992) and Language, Feeling and the Brain (Transaction Publishers, 2007) Waiting for Something That Never Arrived: Meditations on a Progressive America in Honor of Tony Judt (Togga, 2011) and Sparky's Folks: A Tribute to the Life and Work of Charles Schulz (Togga, 2012).

Fat Worm Blows a Sparky

Fat Worm Blows a Sparky is an action / maze video game written by Julian Todd in the five months before going to University and published by Durell Software in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum.

Horace series

: "Hungry Horace" is also the name of an unrelated character from the UK's Dandy, Sparky and Topper comics.

Stitch! The Movie

Having locked Hämsterviel in handcuffs, Lilo, Stitch and Sparky short-circuit Gantu's ship causing it to crash near a waterfall on Kauai.


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