Friday, December 4, 2009

My Favorite Nick Jr (Noggin!) Show


L O S T is cool ... Battlestar was awesome. This year I like Flash Forward and Glee (cause Sue Silvester is awesome). But if I had to pick a favorite show on Nick Jr. - formerly Noggin - it would HAVE to be WOW WOW WUBBZY! It is about a little square dog with a zig-zag tail and a rabbit (Widget) who builds robots. Of course the little square dog, Wubbzy, gets in all sorts of trouble and tinkers, breaks and does other troubling things to the robots that Widget has to fix.



Next would have to be Oswald ... whoever came up with this one was smoking something really really really good. It is about a bright blue octopus who wears a hat, his sidekick weenie (a hot dog dog), and their friends Henry (Penguin) and Daisy (a daisy flower with a face). Some of the other characters are creepy - like the Tree named Steve, or the Robot's cat, Tinsel. Johnny Snowman is creepy too, and he runs an ice cream shop, of course. Oswald has all sorts of adventures that usually revolve around something incompetent that he has done - like the time he flooded "Big City" with his leaky faucet, or the time he almost got smashed into calamari when he ended up on the back of a gigantic earthworm. Madam Butterfly, who runs the diner is pretty incompetent too. She has to win the award for worst mother of the year. She constantly loses her "child" who is a pupal and equally incompetent Oswald tries to rescue her. Shenanigans ensue.



Finally I will wrap it with Yo Gabba Gabba. I still haven't exactly figured what is going on in this one. But it involved a dude named DJ Lance and five 'creatures' who dance and interact with each other. Sometimes one of them (I don't know any of their names except for Roby - who is green with dark green stripes and has arms as long as his body) can beam DJ Lance down to their land. Apparently they are really small. Anyway, they sing catchy songs and dance. DJ Lance is a fine young man, too.

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