*headdesk* They're training them young!

[CaroPhoenix]

My daughter loves the TV show, "The Backyardigans". They are 5 "kids" one is a hippo, one is a moose, one is a penguin, one is a kangaroo and one is an alien (not illegal but space, I think). Right at this very moment they are airing an episode where the penguin and alien (Pablo and Uniqua) are running a tourist boat out in the swamps. The hippo and the kangaroo (Tasha & Austin) are the customers. I wasn't paying much attention to the episode until I hear Tasha singing about how "The Customer is always right". My jaw looked like this: :jawdrop: and I began to think: :wtf:

And then a little later in the episode, Tasha grabs a hold of the tourist boat steering wheel, Uniqua tussles with her over it and the boat ends up on a "sandbar" of sorts due to the customer being right and has to take over and do the employee's job. At least Tasha was sorry for hurting the boat and both she and Austin say "sorry", but really ... do toddlers/pre-schoolers needs this episode? Now I'm going to have :brainbleach: the "customer is always right" song out of my head. :roll:

[Barefootgirl]

Hey, does that mean there's a new series of Backyardigans? Excellent!

Actually, I think its rather sweet that even Backyardigans is prepared to debunk the "customer is always right" myth. I can jsut see small children overhearing some ranting customer using that line and saying, "but when Tasha said 'the customer is always right' she was wrong and the boat crashed, and its naughty to say that..."

Well, i can see my small child saying that, anyway!

[Knightmare]

My daughter LOVES Pablo. She adores anything penguiny. She doesn't live with me. But when I have a day off and I don't have her that day, I will watch The Backyardigans when she does, so we can talk about the episode later on. She is amazed that I know who they are and that I know so much about them.

And I will teach her that the customer is seldom right!

[Barefootgirl]

Just as a follow-up on this, we were watching BAckyardigans this morning, and it was the Ancient Egypt episode with Queen Cleo-tasha being rude to her servants. She had to learn the secret of the Sphinx in order to re-fill the dried-up River Nile, and it turned out that the secret was having good manners and to always say please and thank you. So I think they use the character of Tasha to illustrate bad behaviour and to demonstrate that it always has consequences.

I can't believe I'm deconstructing Backyardigans like this.

[CaroPhoenix]

LOL ... That's okies ... It seems that I'm the only parent at my daughter's pre-school who actually knows all the Backyardigans' names. I'm just too geeky!

[Lvl_9_Gazebo]

When I learned that one of these critters has my name, all I could do was weep. When an educational, multicultural cartoon character hijacks your name, that's the last shot. Your name there on the battlefield, succumbs and falls down, not dead but something much worse -- trendy.

[Barefootgirl]

Please tell me your name is Uniqua...

[Misanthropical]

My 11 year old daughter came across the show, and was not impressed to find out one of the main characters has the same name as her.

[Silvercat]

It could be worse... Daria stole my identity.

'OMG you're just like Daria.'
'That's nice, now go die.'