As represented in a 2005 ident.
Lucy in a circus.
A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists, and unicyclists as well as other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists. The term circus also describes the performance which has followed various formats through its 250-year modern history.
References
- A 2005 Sprout ident takes place under the big top, complete with acrobats, seals, a bear juggling on a unicycle, and even a monkey on stilts.
- In a Doggity's segment seen in "Story Time," the team makes Big Top Pasta Salad for visiting circus performers. Cap'n Tony also mentions that he used to work in the circus.
- An episode of The Good Night Show focuses on circuses.
- In "Dress Up," Nina tells Star that people at the circus play dress-up every time they go to work.
- One Lucy Light the Way segment sees Lucy visiting a circus.
- An episode of The Chica Show sees ringmaster Chica putting on a circus with Kelly, Stitches, and Bunji as acrobats.
- Chica's cousin Billy is only seen by the legs, and in "Dance of the Sugar Cluck Chica," Uncle Vern notes that he had just come back from circus school.
- In "Imagination," Nina, Star, and their Sproutlet friends imagine they're in the circus, using a ladder Star borrowed from the lions to climb up to the trapeze.