Googly eyes

For the medical eye condition sometimes known as googly eye, see Strabismus.

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Two googly eyes

Googly eyes or wiggly eyes are small plastic craft supplies used to imitate eyeballs. Googly eyes traditionally are composed of a clear, hard-plastic shell, with a smaller, black plastic disk trapped within. The plastic shells come in a variety of sizes ranging from 15/16 of an inch to over 3 inches in diameter. The inner black disk is allowed to move freely within the larger clear plastic shell, which makes the eyes appear to move. These disks come in a variety of colors including pink, blue, yellow, and green. Googly eyes are used for a variety of arts and crafts projects including pipe cleaner farm animals, silly sock puppets, and other creations brought forth from the imaginations of children. Googly eyes may also be attached to inanimate objects in order to give the objects a "silly" or "cute" appearance. This use often personifies the objects for a humourous effect.

Examples of googly eyes

• Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, the comic strip created in 1919 by Billy DeBeck that inspired the popular 1923 song, "Barney Google (With the Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes)," with lyrics by Billy Rose.
• Cookie Monster, Harvey Kneeslapper, and several other characters of Sesame Street have googly eyes.
• Corneil the cartoon dog of Watch My Chops
• Bubbles of Trailer Park Boys
• Nutty from Happy Tree Friends
• Stick Stickly, a stick-puppet host on Nickelodeon during the 1990s
• SNL skit with Christopher Walken puts googly eyes on all his plants.
• Kash ("The Money You Could Be Saving with Geico") from GEICO
• Pet Rocks
• OOglies, a CBBC stop-motion children's show.
• The Black Mamba, a black sock with a red felt tongue in the show and movie Jackass that is used to slap people.
• xeyes, a popular X Window application.

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