Thursday, January 28, 2016

Musical Tales

I slept in and had just enough time for a Backyardigans episode before I headed to work. Few young kids' shows have as much fun with genre spoofs as this one does. "Blazing Paddles" parodies Lone Ranger-style oaters. Uniqua is the sheriff in peaceful Ping Pong Mesa, where the residents are crazy about ping pong. At least, they are until Pablo the Ping Pong Bandit shows up in town and trounces everyone, including Uniqua, with his amazing "Bandit Slam It" move. He wins all their paddles, and no one can play anymore but him. Uniqua leaves town, determined to learn how to out-play him...and prove to Pablo that it's no fun to play ping-pong alone.

I made it to work on time today...which proved to be a moot point. We were dead for a lot of the afternoon, and never more than steady. It was a beautiful, sunny day, well into the 40's, it's right before the beginning of the month, and we're between holidays. Other than some annoying customers, there were no really major problems, and my relief was actually a bit early.

Went straight home after work and did some more Backyardigans genre fun while eating the last of the pasta fagioli for dinner. Tasha, Uniqua, and Austin go where no trash collectors have gone before in "Garbage Trek." They're intergalactic waste managers, picking up trash on whichever planet it may lurk. The aliens Tyrone and Pablo keep sending fake distress signals in order to distract them and steal their trash...but when the two are really stuck in a black hole, will the others agree to help?

Went to a take on superheroic origin stories in "Flower Power." When flower seller Uniqua pricks her finger on a certain blossom, she becomes Flower Girl, Garden City's newest superheroine! She needs to learn how to control her powers of light and growth in order to stop the Gloom Meister (Austin) and save the other citizens of Garden City.

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