- "Of all the stars in the sky, you twinkle the brightest, Star."
- ―Nina
The Star puppet of Season 1
Star and Wilbur.
Star with Kaitlin Becker.
"Proto Star" with Nina.
Star and Melanie.
Star B. Twinkle is an original character created for Sprout. Along with Nina, he was one of the hosts of The Good Night Show, and was introduced in July 2006 with Melanie the Babysitter, shortly before Sprout axed Melanie Martinez.
Star is Nina's on-air sidekick. As Nina does activities with him and the viewers, he asks for more time to stay up. Unlike most kid characters on other children's shows, Star does not go down easy, being four years old and all. Nina and Star engage in banter whether or not the latter should get in his hammock. She does it with kindness, but it's a fight. Nina, of course, does eventually win that fight.[1] Star is also very curious, like most preschoolers, and is prone to ask questions about the night's adventure.
Appearances
Star appears in most Good Night Show segments, except for the the Sprout stretch segments (save for said segments' introductions in the first three seasons of the revival), and hosted the Star Talks segments, added in the show's fourth season. He first appeared during the second season in early 2006, when Melanie was still the show's host. When Melanie Martinez was cut from the channel as a result of the PSAs she was in, he continued to appear in the segments with Leo and then Nina. An animated likeness of Star also appears on The Good Night Show's spin-off series, Nina's World.
Star also appeared in the app Good Night Star.
Notes
- Like most cartoon characters and puppets, Star has four fingers.
- Star had three fish named Art and another named Samuel Fishington Eugene Oceanic, and a "pet rock" named Wilbur.
- According to Steven Binnig, Sprout executives once shipped the only Star puppet using FedEx, and to this day, it is currently unknown where the puppet ended up.[2]
- In "Safety First," it is revealed that Star rides a scooter.
- According to "Red, White, and Blue," Star's favorite color is red.
- Star has been mistaken for a girl several times,[3] even by Sprout itself - in a Twitter post for his March 2010 appearance on The Sunny Side Up Show[4] and the The Good Night Show website story "Sleeping Star," which was also in the Good Night Star app.
- A Star costume was a feature in My Little Sproutlet.
See also
References
- ↑ More "Good Night Show" Flak
- ↑ Facebook Messenger conversation between S. Binnig and M. Fretz, 2022
- ↑ Another Sleeping Pet Peeve
- ↑ Twitter post