Quote Originally Posted by 65memories View Post
G-DDT...Kidbits, the Detroit science show.
Thank you. Thank you.

Hope you didn't just look at the comments on Youtube to acquire that bit of info; for those comments are jammed with folks from Detroit who remember that show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoc9pjVoQ-0

If you were of my generation growing up in Detroit, it was difficult not to encounter Kidbits. You got up early on a Saturday [[for the younger crowd who may not understand, prior to the mid-90's, Saturday Mornings were a special time for kids. You looked forward to it all week. Comic books ran network ads telling you of the great seasonal lineups of cartoons featured in that early slot. Most after school weekday afternoon cartoons were 'feh, but the ones shown on Saturday mornings rocked. you got loaded on sugary cereal, had no obligations to go to school, and you zoned out until afternoon golf came on. Since Cartoon Network, Disney, & Nickelodeon eventually gave everyone this 24/7, that time suddenly meant less and less. Come to think of it, so do the cartoons themselves mean less....), maybe there were some Little Rascal shorts or Captain Kangaroo, but you were anxious for your toon fix.

NBC ran a series of segments hosted by a Gary Ed Mach named Kidbits. In between segments they played this loop of the "doot doot-doot doot do-doot" [[from the song above) over and over [[with the show identification displayed) again for a quite a confusing long time. It stayed in your head. Every kid knew it. I encountered loads of folks from my generation who if I just sang that or brought it up, they'd start doing the "doot doot" bit.http://www.wtfdetroit.com/forums/arc...hp/t-6899.html

The show was okay. It had Gary being dry and demonstrating stuff-like how to drive a straw into a potato. Here he is promoting the Science Center I used to work at [[song piece used at 3:43). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMnA2TVAmGc

There have been many folks [[or just the same handful) who have been raging nostalgically about it since 2008 online. I feared this would go overlooked, as John Lodge tried to get folks on DY commenting to no avail.http://www.detroityes.com/mb/showthr...hlight=kidbits