Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Recycled Sprites
Running a little late this morning, so we caught Johnny & the Sprites for the first time in ages. Petunia loves that 'magical place' and especially the singing of John Tartaglia. Too bad it only lasts five minutes!
As I was watching this morning, I realized why it looked familiar to me. Anyone remember Pinwheel? It ran on Nickleodeon for, like, four hours at a time on Saturday mornings. My sister and I were glued in front of it for entire years at a time. It was people and puppets interacting (but in a trippier way than Sesame Street) and a bunch of European shorts.
Anyway, it had these bugs (apparently, they were called hobo bugs?) named Lulu and Herbert
and if you squint really hard, you can see the resemblance to Ginger and Basil.
Except I don't think Pinwheel had any Tony-nominated actors singing and dancing with the puppets. Too bad Johnny & the Sprites isn't on in four-hour blocks; I could really get a lot done around the house with that kind of time!
As I was watching this morning, I realized why it looked familiar to me. Anyone remember Pinwheel? It ran on Nickleodeon for, like, four hours at a time on Saturday mornings. My sister and I were glued in front of it for entire years at a time. It was people and puppets interacting (but in a trippier way than Sesame Street) and a bunch of European shorts.
Anyway, it had these bugs (apparently, they were called hobo bugs?) named Lulu and Herbert
and if you squint really hard, you can see the resemblance to Ginger and Basil.
Except I don't think Pinwheel had any Tony-nominated actors singing and dancing with the puppets. Too bad Johnny & the Sprites isn't on in four-hour blocks; I could really get a lot done around the house with that kind of time!
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It's nice to see that the obsession is bigger than us. We're hitting Disney World in August, right when they start their targeted promotion to the under 5 crowd, which includes (happily) breakfast with Jo Jo and the Little Einsteins and (terrifyingly) performanced by the Doodlebops.
We did, however, start Beckett on Season One of The Muppet Show yesterday. We had to combat the recent attraction to Elmo.
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We did, however, start Beckett on Season One of The Muppet Show yesterday. We had to combat the recent attraction to Elmo.
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