ICU2TV
J.P. announced the birthdays of selected Patches Pals by "viewing" them on his "ICU2TV" set (a cardboard prop that created the appearance that J.P. was looking at you from inside your television). He predicted where a gift might be hidden in the child's house with amazing accuracy (perhaps with the never-mentioned assistance of a postcard from a parent). The sound effect used was the same, distinctive ringtone of Cramden's "presidential hotline" telephone in Our Man Flint.
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