Pokadot Lydia’s favorite clown

Clowns and Mascots

Lydia loves clowns, and has enjoyed several who peform in the area, including:

• Pokadot & Company
• Colors (with her pet pig, Petunia, and a host of other animals)
• Butterfly
• Harmony
• Twist & Shout (one person)
• Mar-E-Lynn
• Smuckers (who looks like Raggedy Ann)
• Shivy
• Cyndi
• Razzles
• Cuddles
• Stripes
• Loopy

(All of the above are ladies, with the exceptions of Company, Shivy, and Stripes.)

Her favorite things to do with clowns are balloon-twisting and face painting—one time she was painted up to look like a clown herself!

A footnote case can be made for her Daddy, who has a couple of times donned the red nose (and some weird clothes and hair paint) to emerge as Halitosis the Clown.

Lydia has also been seen in the company of many (mostly) animal mascots, including the following:

• Arthur the Aardvark (at WFUM in Flint)
• Big Lug & Ratchet (at Oldsmobile Park)
• Blizzard and Snowflake, white tigers (at the Cincinnati Zoo)
• Cat in the Hat (at Babies ‘R’ Us)
• Chuck E. Cheese (at Chuck E. Cheese’s)
• Clifford (at Babies ‘R’ Us)
• Dora the Explorer (at Fifth/Third Field)
• Max & Erma (at Fifth/Third Field)
• Muddy the Mud-Hen (at Ned Skeldon Stadium)
• Muddy the Mud-Hen (newer and cuter version, at Fifth/Third Field)
• Mudonna the Mud-Hen (at Fifth/Third Field)
• Paws (at Tiger Stadium, Ned Skeldon Stadium, and Comerica Park)
• Ricky Raccoon (at Idlewild Amusement Park)
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (at Children’s Wonderland in Toledo)
• Slippery the Sea Lion (at Storybook Gardens in London ON)
• Swoop the EMU Eagle (at Eastern Michigan University)
• Tony the Tiger (at Cereal City USA and Eastern Michigan University)
• The Yak (mascot of the children’s section of the Detroit Free Press; at the Target Children’s Book Festival at Kensington Metropark)
• And some unnamed ones
  • tiger, hippopotamus, & polar bear (at the Toledo Zoo)
  • parrot & zebra (at the African Lion Safari)
  • two dogs (at Meijer)
  • two other dogs (at Wiard’s Orchards)
  • elephant (at the Buffalo Zoo)
  • purple teddy bear, representing the American Cancer Society (at Eastern Michigan University’s “Family Day” celebration)
  • polar bear and snowman (at Children’s Wonderland in Toledo)
  • walrus, dog, chipmunk, elephant, triceratops, snowman, gingerbread man (in the 2004 Children’s Holiday Parade in downtown Ann Arbor)
  • panda and monkey (representing Target stores at the Target Children’s Book Festival at Kensington Metropark)
  • toy soldier and gingerbread man (at the Cincinnati Zoo)
  • giant cell phone (at a store’s grand opening in Ann Arbor)
• special footnote: a Talking Tree (at Children’s Wonderland in Toledo)

Updated most recently on 10 September 2007.