This show was great! When i was a child, there were only a few shows that i looked forward to watching during the week, and this was one of them. I couldn't wait to find out what 'today's special word' was. And when they said it during the show i was so ecstatic! I loved it when Jeff dropped his hat, and he froze. The other cast members would approach him and talk to him, not realizing he went back to being a statue. They would all act surprised. I still remember the theme song. "Today's special come and join in the fun, Today's special it's for every one, With magic everywhere, a world for us to share and friendly faces hoping that you'd want to meet us there. Today's Special. Today's special is....

I loved this show as a kid! I can remember running in from the school bus in time to catch it. I'm not quite sure how a mannequin with a magic hat and a rhythmically advanced mouse could entertain so well, but it was enthralling! If this ever comes out on DVD, I must get a copy! I think I'm going to start writing Nickelodeon every week requesting a "greatest hits" DVD of all the classics: from 321 Contact to You Can't Do That on Television to Double Dare (the original ones) to Pinwheel to, of course, Today's Special! Please join me in support of kids who grew up with wholesome, truly educational television! What ever happened to real cartoons like Thundercats and the Getalong Gang? They could definitely teach the Power Rangers a thing or two!

For the longest time I could not figure out why no one else remembered this show. Finally I asked my mom and turns out I was only like 2 1/2 years old when I watched it (I'm 19 now). I do not remember any certain episode really well, but I remember Jeff coming to life with the plaid hat and what the store looked like. And after reading "Hocus Pocus Alamgocus" that has come back to me too! It's too bad so few remember it. Most only know shows like Fraggle Rock and Zoobileezoo. Kids shows really just aren't what they used to be.By the way, anyone know how many years Today's Special went for? I watched it on PBS since I never had cable.

im a little young to be reminiscing about old nick shows, im 17, but i vividly remember some of these shows from some of my earliest memories. i can hardly remember "pinwheel," but i remember the brightly colored title screen. i can remember the opening title scenes for "today's speacial," where they toss a manaquine a hat and he turns into this really geeky lookin guy, and this ugly woman in a pink suit, and this huge puppet riding an escalator. i remember "you can't do that on television" when they slimmed everyone and frequently got people wet, and the introduction to the opposites. i remember some british mouse. i remember "wild and crazy kids." i remember "hey dude" vividly because it was my favorite show.(remember, i am a child of the early 90's) i remember "salute your shorts," and that became my favorite show. i remember "roundhouse," where they all sang in sort of a snl format, and this dude rolled around in a motorized and electonosized(made up word)la-z-boy. I remember "welcome freshmen" was right before "seventeen." i loved welcome freshmen, but i would never watch seventeen. "double dare" and "family double dare" and "celebrity double dare" where they always had a buch of pro wrestlers and athletes come and play with a bunch of kids, and mark sommers was the host, he now works on food tv.Old Rock of Ages, it looks like we got us a war. A slam-bang, gut bustin', mother-lovin' Navy war.