Mister Magic

by Kiersten White

Mister Magic centered around six children and their friend, Mister Magic, who could be called into existence whenever they needed help. No scripts or recordings of the show can be found, but recollections revolve around the children playing imaginative games and learning lessons from Mister Magic in the form of catchy rhymes.

“Why are they doing a reunion podcast?” she asks. Marcus answers. “I guess it was one of the longest-running programs ever, which makes it important.”

“Our families had to live somewhere during the show.” Isaac shrugs, but it’s more like a twitch. “None of you remember the house?”

no one has any images of the kids or Mister Magic or anything. Which makes me feel like I made up the whole thing, like I hallucinated this show that I used to watch every single day??

This love began young, planted deep by my favorite show as a kid, Mister Magic. The way everything started on that blank black stage with no walls or floors or ceiling, and then as the kids played it was populated by their imaginations? Astonishing. Possibly the best example of dynamic set design that’s ever existed, and I desperately wish I could link it here! I’ve tried everything to find copies of the episodes to study how they did it, but maybe it’s

There’s no life here. The land is frozen, without hope for change. The dirt and rocks around them have a reddish tinge, a meager contribution of loveliness to the bleak landscape. Not enough to give her eyes anything to linger on. And the house looms over it all, watching. Ready.

gives me Beetlejuice vibes

Magic never forgets the taste of your friendship.”

“It’s a children’s show. And what’s crueler than children?”

namely that every Smurf is defined by what he does with the exception of Smurfette, who is defined solely by her gender

never even thought about that--weird

Steve left Blue’s Clues because he died of a drug overdose. Turns out he just didn’t want to go bald while hosting a children’s show.

urban legend, I don’t remember a Kitty and there’s no proof

Mister Magic is older than that, bigger, constantly seeping out of the boundaries given to it.