Super Why and Wonder Pets

Well two old favourites have returned to our screens, so it must be time for my bi-annual promise to keep this blog updated regularly.

The always good value, Wonder Pets is back with a vengeance. Like all the best in kids TV, there's always plenty for the grown-ups to enjoy. Tonight there was an absolutely merciless swipe at Care Bears to enjoy, as the Wonder Pets visited Happy Forest, where no-one was happy despite constantly singing cheerful songs. Top notch.

Meanwhile, at the opposite end of things is the now completely bereft of ideas Super Why. When they pitched the (admitedly great) idea for the show to TV Execs they had precisely four ideas for shows. Despite ploughing on for several seasons since, they are yet to come up with another idea. Oh well.

Show Me Show Me

Please Show Me how it possibly took Chris and Pui six months to make this. Already it's dubbed "I Can't Believe It's Not Playschool" in our house. Hmmm! Much as we love the Pink Jumpered one and his Fag Hag pal, this isn't holding the attention at Castle Bus Stop. DTY went, as instructed by Chris and Pui, to get a toy this morning and clean forgot to come back. Such a shame - we had huge hopes.

Peppa Pig

A while since we updated you on our family viewing habits, so here we go. At the moment we are mostly watching Peppa Pig. DTE had tried it a while back, but it wasn't holding her attention. Now that she's old enough to get the jokes though, it's becoming a firm favourite. DTY even has a Peppa Pig Swimming Cossie and has developed a real obsession with George. Daddy enjoys Peppa Pig too - like all the best kids TV shows, there's enough grown-up humour there for the parents.

Can't say we didn't see it coming - after a year, the Green Balloon Club kids have hit the dole queue, and Cbeebies has ruthlessly started running the show from the start again. The old episodes are the best though - back when none of them could act (not that they improved much, except for our favourite, Cat) and "responsible adult" Sky was treated like a Galley Slave peddling away in the background and rarely spoke.

An Update on Our Telly-Box Watching

Goodness, another month goes by without a post on this blog. Anyway, I just thought I'd quickly bring you up to date with the viewing habits in our house.

Yesterday's Balamory threw up the interesting prospect of the Balamory Morris Dancing Society - about as likely as the Balamory Kurdish Community I mentioned a few posts back. It also featured our old friend Edie being sent to an oil rig to cheer the boys up - well if there's one woman for a job like that ("I can show you it all, come up and see me sometime") - all captured on video as always.

The Night Garden episode we saw this morning featured the Tombliboos riding on the Pinky Ponk desperately trying not to spill their juice. Eventually they did, of course, and needed Macca Pacca to blow them off with his Uff-Puff to get clean. No, it's too easy. I'll let you do your own jokes.

Meanwhile, 3rd and Bird, the poor man's Wonder Pets continues to bore us, and Boo! makes Dad want to launch bricks at the TV, however on the bright side, at least we got to see Smokey dragged up as Suzie from Balamory the other day and Pingu is back.

Balamory Tackles The Weighty Political Issues

It's been a while since I posted about mine, DTE and DTY's telly-box habits. However, this morning DTE requested an old-school Balamory, instead of our current fave Super Why.

We were delighted to be treated to Edie's raunchy number "Come Up and See Me Sometime", but somewhat mystified to see the popular pre-school show diving into the weighty political topic of the existance or otherwise of the state of Kurdistan. Miss Hoolie took her Kurdish guests for a picnic in a thinly disguised Bellahouston Park, and we were 'treated' to Kurdish dancing. I might be wrong, but it looked suspiciously like the BBC had rounded up all the vaguely 'ethnic-looking' children from nearby and raided the fancy dress box, as none of them looked like they had ever encountered a Kurdish dance before and shuffled around looking embarrased. Still it looked like The Kurdish Camerons (maybe I misheard the name) enjoyed it and they immediately stopped missing their intellectual homeland. Good, good.

Daddy's Favourite In The Night Garden Episode

If you too love the innuendo packed In The Night Garden, then you can't have failed to see yesterday's spectacular.

Upsy Daisy wants to show Iggle Piggle her flower, but Iggle Piggle wants to ride in the Ninky Nonk.

Includes the ultimate classic Derek Jacobi line, "Where is Iggle Piggle taking Upsy Daisy?"

Schoolboy sniggering aplenty. Marvelous stuff.