Kids on the West Coast were getting back from school and jumping right 
into the high-priced educational ractives that their parents made available to 
them. These things created a plethora of extremely short but fun roles; in 
quick succession, Miranda's face was morphed into a duck, a bunny, a talking 
tree, the eternally elusive Carmen Sandiego, and the repulsively cloying Doogie 
the Dinosaur. Each of them got a couple of lines at most: