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    Alyson Court talks about how she handled being a mom and Loonette the Clown toward the end of her time on "The Big Comfy Couch"

    • Alyson Court played Loonette the Clown on The Big Comfy Couch from 1992 until 2002.

    • At 16, she helped with the demo, unaware she was embarking on a decades-long journey as Loonette the Clown

    • Alyson looks back at filming her final season of The Big Comfy Couch while six months pregnant with her son

    Alyson Court was just a teenager when she began playing Loonette the Clown on The Big Comfy Couch.

    The early 1990s Canadian children's series took off in a way the actress could have never imagined. What felt like "just a job" at the time turned into a big piece of her life, Alyson tells PEOPLE.

    "At first it was just 'This is the character that I'm playing, and I've got my life outside of it.' And then I started interacting with little children that loved the show," the actress, 50, sa

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    Whatever Happened to Big Comfy Couch’s Loonette? A Rare Convo With Alyson Court

    Alyson Court Explains Infamous "The Big Comfy Couch" Clock Stretch

    There's a whole micro-generation who aren't afraid of clowns. Why? Because they grew up watching The Big Comfy Couch.

    Every week, these '90s-born millennials crowded around the TV set—this was well before streaming, kids—to watch Loonette and Molly (that's a clown and her dolly) tackle life's greatest problems. Well, greatest problems being those annoying dust bunnies and that damn clock stretch being near impossible to complete at home.

    That undeniably flexible superhuman was Canadian actress Alyson Court, who did a helluva lot more than just chat with Major Bedhead in Granny Garbanzo's garden. As it turns out, the woman underneath Loonette's curly-haired wig, oversized glasses and red nose reigned over your childhood. You may have just not known it. Back then, she leant her voice

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    Alyson Court Reveals She Owns the Couch from “Big Comfy Couch —” But It Doesn't Fit in Her House (Exclusive)

    The beloved former child star opens up to PEOPLE about her time as Loonette the Clown

    • Alyson Court was working on Canada's Mr. Dressup when she met the creators of The Big Comfy Couch

    • At 16, she helped with the pilot and at 18, she began shooting the beloved '90s children's series

    • Alyson looks back at that time with PEOPLE and shares her biggest takeaways from her time as Loonette the Clown

    When Alyson Court got her first gig as a child actress, she had no idea it was setting her on the path to becoming a childhood favorite, as well.

    The Canadian-born actress, now 50, was one of a lucky few kids getting opportunities on the production scen in Toronto in the 1980s.

    "In Toronto, there weren't a lot of professional kids in film and television at the time. It just so happened that inom was going to a school for the arts. You had to a