studios. They don't have that one in rotation with the rest so I don't see
it as often.
Until Later,
Hatton
-----Original Message-----
From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:49 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Children's Programming (was RE: Ray................)
hehe
It may be mildly better than the Barney song. To this day I have that song
stuck in my head. Is Bear on the Wiggles?
Dana
C. Hatton Humphrey writes:
> The wiggles are an Australian 4-man group of child
entertainers/educators
> with brightly-colored shirts, they also have a supporting cast including
a
> pirate with a ticking "feather sword", a dog named Wags, a Rosasaurous
> (rose-eating dinosaur) named Dorothy and Henry the Octopus... who leads
an
> underwater big band.
>
> Bear ends each show telling Luna (the moon) about what they did "that
day".
>
> Yup, I'm the one that gets up with the 15 month old in the mornings and
> turns on Playhouse Disney. I now know why parents are insane... it's
not
> because of the kids, it's because of their "innocent programming" on TV.
> Right now I have the Wags Tango running through my head, and before that
it
> was the music for their new "Super Short" show. When you're subjected
to
> the same shows, songs and episodes 2 to 3 times each day 6 days a week
they
> get drilled into your head. Playhouse Disney has what equates to a 3
hour
> set of programs and they run them starting at about 5am until just after
> noon. I'm saying this *from experience*.
>
> Don't get me wrong, the programming is great for kids, educational and
the
> only annoying ad is for their website, playhousedisney.com (where you
can do
> all kinds of fun things, or so they say). Their MC-esque character is
this
> innocent little claymation blob... named Clay (wow, what a coincidence!)
and
> he has a friend named Page (which is a piece of paper that flies in as
> either a paper airplane or an origami swan) who cheerfully deliver the
word
> of the day.
>
> There's one show they just took out (I think?)... PB&J Otter, though I'm
not
> sure if it's gone or not. Think something along the lines of the Little
> Rascals meet Mayberry in a cartoon setting.
>
> The one thing I will say is thank GOODNESS they finished that accursed
"A to
> Z" event with Stanley... I don't even want to start on that!
>
> Great, now that song's in my head. I think I'll go bang it against a
wall
> now!
>
> Until Later!
> Hatton
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> I asked my kids about this. The 11yo says the wiggles are cool. And
there
> is no fifth Wiggle. (I guess that was the joke??) She was less sure
about
> Luna, said she was either an octopus or a fox, which is wrong I think.
Her
> brother looked at her like she was out of her mind. Apparently she
> encountered the Wiggles on a sleepover at a friend's who has a 4-yo
> brother, and demonstrate a Wiggle dance for me.
>
> Dana
>
> Jerry Johnson writes:
>
> > "Oh, man!"
> >
> > You can't ever keep up.
> >
> > The only way I come close is to study up during the week so I am
current
> for my time with my nephew on the weekends.
> >
> > It's a full time job being the "cool" uncle. More studying than I
ever
> did on college (which is probably why I have no degree =)
>
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