That’s pretty cool, Brian. I might check it out over the weekend. I found it on the Museum of Classic Chicago Television’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnZodlc0UyE
Looking back at the promo art, it’s an interesting choice to draw Blondie with a flat chest. Perhaps they didn’t want her to upstage Loni. (I think the artist did a good job generally of drawing Loni and the characters. They were clearly a caricature artist first and foremost.)
Andrew, in the special, Loni credits Bill Melendez, the animator behind the Charlie Brown specials, as the animator for the program, and the character designs match that promo sheet. Which is why the Peanuts kids are so on-model!
She’s wearing Daisy Mae’s top but Li’l Abner isn’t in the list.
I was an extra for a scene in the biopic Anderson did on Jayne Mansfield. After the director didn’t get the desired reaction from us extras (playing the audience to a live show), Loni herself explained to us that we were to react to her towel slipping just enough to show a bit of nipple (no nipple was actually going to show). Her we understood perfectly and I realized she wasn’t just acting but had a full grasp of the story and who Mansfield was.
Comics I Don't Understand 
Back in the day Zippy the Pinhead was fascinated by her formidably solid hair style.
She hosted a show about comic strips.
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That’s pretty cool, Brian. I might check it out over the weekend. I found it on the Museum of Classic Chicago Television’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnZodlc0UyE
Looking back at the promo art, it’s an interesting choice to draw Blondie with a flat chest. Perhaps they didn’t want her to upstage Loni. (I think the artist did a good job generally of drawing Loni and the characters. They were clearly a caricature artist first and foremost.)
Andrew, in the special, Loni credits Bill Melendez, the animator behind the Charlie Brown specials, as the animator for the program, and the character designs match that promo sheet. Which is why the Peanuts kids are so on-model!
She’s wearing Daisy Mae’s top but Li’l Abner isn’t in the list.
I was an extra for a scene in the biopic Anderson did on Jayne Mansfield. After the director didn’t get the desired reaction from us extras (playing the audience to a live show), Loni herself explained to us that we were to react to her towel slipping just enough to show a bit of nipple (no nipple was actually going to show). Her we understood perfectly and I realized she wasn’t just acting but had a full grasp of the story and who Mansfield was.