Giggles' Big Top Bonanza

Giggles' Big Top Bonanza is an animated/live-action show that ran on WXLF in Tulsa, Oklahoma from fall of 1993 to January 1995. The show's fictional host, Giggles the Clown, was a hyper-sexualized, over-endowed cartoon clown who typically has comically large breasts or ass cheeks. Much like the 1980s film Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, footage of the audience and set were shot in live action, while traditional cel animation of Giggles and things she interacted with were rotoscoped in. Despite being ostensibly a children's show, many of Giggles' behaviors were deemed too sexual or offensive for a child audience.

The show featured numerous unusual transformations, involving semi-unwilling "volunteers" from the audience. Giggles would usually choose one at random, "toonify" them with her magic pencil (where they would be replaced by an animated version of themselves), alter their form to her content, then return them to normal, where their physical changes manifested in the real world. She frequently alters her own proportions (namely her bust, lip, and posterior sizes) at a whim, usually timing them for comedic effect.

The show went off the air after two incomplete seasons, apparently due to budget concerns. However, several unauthorized episodes later appeared at odd hours on TV, each of them taking an increasingly macabre tone. In one of them, Giggles transforms a boy from the audience into a circus's fat lady; she accidentally falls over due to her new weight, crushing her mother to death. In another, she turns a woman into a cartoon elephant, despite the woman's increasingly panicked refusal. Giggles takes almost sadistic glee in erasing the woman's human features and redrawing them as elephantine ones, laughing as she watches the woman's mind break down when trapped in a bestial form. In the final one, she devours several audience members in grotesque ways, from swallowing them whole to absorbing them through the flesh of her posterior. She lets out a belch in the end that echoes with the screams of her victims.

Although the last names of the victims in the unauthorized episodes are never revealed, several have speculated on their identity. For example, Jacob (later transformed into Bertha L-B) and his mother are both similar in age and appearance to Jacob and Linda Albee, though they vanished after a home invasion in 1989. Similarly, Carl Simmons matches the appearance of someone absorbed by Giggles' ass, but he was missing and presumed dead for over a decade.

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