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<td width="*" align="left" valign="top"> ''Unknown origin. He arrives amid a steamed cloud of futuristic hoo-haw, waving a withered mit. His nose is a television dial. He is a television dial. He is given a return ticket to the stars, first class.'' <td width="*" align="left" valign="top"> ''Unknown origin. He arrives amid a steamed cloud of futuristic hoo-haw, waving a withered mit. His nose is a television dial. He is a television dial. He is given a return ticket to the stars, first class.''
-DingDing was a representative of the alien race that helped to create [[Choco]]. Although he only appeared as a hologram to Choco, he proved to be a useful source of wisdom and aid to the beleaguered chocolate hero. Kind and witty, he communicated in a series of mysterious clucks and twitters only Choco could decipher.+DingDing was a representative of the alien race that helped to create [[Choco]]. Although he only appeared as a hologram, his sage advice proved to be a useful source of both burlesque humor and moral support to the beleaguered chocolate hero. Kind and witty, ever a pillar of staunchness, DingDing communicated in a series of seemingly nonsensical clucks and twitters. Though translations were usually offered in subtitle, they amounted to little: [[Dacusse]] described the transliterations as "vaguely anomic lisping" and "the terrific weeping of bowling balls." Choco, however, displayed no difficulty in deciphering DingDing's holographic missives, a fact not lost of Dacusee, whose childhood Choco-envy "was like wanting bigger muscles."
He was so popular in Canada that in 1982 he was given his own CBC television show, ''The DingDing Hour.'' The program was made with puppets and continues to be diffused to this day under the direction of Argentine puppeteer [[Pablo Mollusconi]]. He was so popular in Canada that in 1982 he was given his own CBC television show, ''The DingDing Hour.'' The program was made with puppets and continues to be diffused to this day under the direction of Argentine puppeteer [[Pablo Mollusconi]].

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Unknown origin. He arrives amid a steamed cloud of futuristic hoo-haw, waving a withered mit. His nose is a television dial. He is a television dial. He is given a return ticket to the stars, first class.

DingDing was a representative of the alien race that helped to create Choco. Although he only appeared as a hologram, his sage advice proved to be a useful source of both burlesque humor and moral support to the beleaguered chocolate hero. Kind and witty, ever a pillar of staunchness, DingDing communicated in a series of seemingly nonsensical clucks and twitters. Though translations were usually offered in subtitle, they amounted to little: Dacusse described the transliterations as "vaguely anomic lisping" and "the terrific weeping of bowling balls." Choco, however, displayed no difficulty in deciphering DingDing's holographic missives, a fact not lost of Dacusee, whose childhood Choco-envy "was like wanting bigger muscles."

He was so popular in Canada that in 1982 he was given his own CBC television show, The DingDing Hour. The program was made with puppets and continues to be diffused to this day under the direction of Argentine puppeteer Pablo Mollusconi.

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Screenshot from The DingDing Hour, 1983.
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Screenshot from The DingDing Hour, 1983.

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The short-lived snack-cake line, Ding-Dings, were marketed unsuccessfully by a cult group dedicated to the scientific manufacture of a Choco-like creature.