Created by writer Anne Beatts, who had made her name as a pioneering female comedy writer on Saturday Night Live.
Square Pegs was a short-lived but culturally significant American teen sitcom that aired on CBS for a single season from September 27, 1982, to March 7, 1983. Created by writer Anne Beatts, who had made her name as a pioneering female comedy writer on Saturday Night Live, the show aimed to bring a more authentic and quirky voice to teenage life,
Using a wand with a small magnetic tip at the end, a user could move the magnetite whisker material around Wooly Willy, giving him anything from bangs to beards to bowties.
Wooly Willy is a toy in which metal filings are moved about with a magnetic wand to add features to a cartoon face. In Smethport, Pennsylvania, in McKean County, near the New York border, there is a small auto parts store, tucked away on Fulton Street one-half block off Main. This used to be a toy factory, and it was the birthplace of Smethport’s most beloved citizen—an international icon whose fiftieth birthday Smethport celebrated in 2005: Wooly Willy.
