Editing Garfield Goose and Friends (section)

===Cincinnati===
Thomas created Garfield Goose for a local television program he hosted in [[Cincinnati]]. Thomas, who was an [[Indiana]] native and had worked on Cincinnati local radio since before World War II, said he got the idea when he saw [[Catholic]] nuns with a [[sock puppet]] in the form of a goose, with which they invited children to "feed the goose" with donations for charity.  He wanted to do something special to award prizes to children on his television show, so he created a Garfield Goose puppet for that purpose.<ref name=Frazier/> "Garfield" was the television station's telephone exchange. <!-- There are sources who say he started using the puppet at WLW and others who say it was WKRC. Looking at both shows, when Thomas says he came up with the idea of using a puppet to give children prizes on his television show, that could fit ''Shopper's Special'' at WLW or ''Meet the Little People'' at WKRC.-->In Cincinnati, Garfield Goose lived in a [[cuckoo clock]], since he had always wanted to be a [[cuckoo bird]].<ref name=Thomas>{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagotelevision.com/frazier.htm|title=Frazier Thomas|publisher=Chicago Television|access-date=6 February 2011}}</ref><ref name=Frazier>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1985/04/04/frazier-thomas-kids-tv-pal-for-35-years/|title=Frazier Thomas, TV Kids' Pal For 35 years|last=Heise|first=Kenan|date=4 April 1985|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|access-date=18 February 2011}}</ref><ref name=Feder>{{cite web|url=http://www.wbez.org/blog/robert-feder/remembering-chicago-classic-frazier-thomas|title=Remembering a Chicago Classic:Frazier Thomas|last=Feder|first=Robert|date=2 May 2010|publisher=WBEZ Radio|access-date=6 February 2011|archive-date=28 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728171724/http://www.wbez.org/blog/robert-feder/remembering-chicago-classic-frazier-thomas|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{sfn|Okuda|Mulqueen|2004|pp=51-66}}