Friday, 27 November 2020
Scooby Dooby Delight!
On the 13th December, CBBC is going to brace itself for the return of Scooby Doo! That's right, the cowardly mystery solving dog who was a staple on the channel between 2010 and 2015 has made his return in Scooby Doo & The Samurai Sword. Magic food and weight loss potions galore! Scooby Dooby Doooo!! This is CBBC's way of saying, "Well done, you got Scooby Doo for Christmas." Thank you, CBBC. You're welcome!
Do Something Newy For Bluey!
Wackadoo! Blue Mountains, Markets, The Dump and Bob Bilby are now featured as part of 50 Days Of Bluey! Let your kids loose and do something newy with Bluey by clicking the links below:
Monsoon Macacques
So I was watching Wonders Of The Monsoon. My favourite part in today's episode, which aired on Eden, was the part with the Black Crested Macaques - their kisses and cuddles and their simple things in life. What really made this scene likeable to me was the narrator's dialogue during this moment, describing their affection, kisses, cuddles, family, friendship and exploring their jungle home, the latter two are basically how you can describe I.B.F.Fs: The Eagle's Nest in two words. If The Brown Lagoon or The Beast Within will air next year, then I'll add these descriptions into my story. Simple! Life.
No Need To Sing Along With Tee & Mo At Grandma's
Guess what aired before Big Boots Birthday earlier on?
One of my two favourite Tee & Mo songs, Help Our Little World! Once I saw it on TV unannounced on the CBeebies schedule, I just had to sing along. I switched it on at the part where Tee & Mo sing about recycling and taking your bike instead of the car, but now you can watch the song in full. Take it away!
Why I Love Dog Loves Night
I have a new favourite episode of Dog Loves Books - it's called Dog Loves Night. I love this episode because it has a vampire bat that sounds just like Bella Negative, it has a choir of cats, there are foxes shopping for healthy things instead of fried chicken, and Dog, Pug and the bats being very careful to hide from humans - shy, nervous humans! You know what would be better? If Dog tried to catch the moon in a puddle, much like Noddy the silly in 'Noddy's Magic Night'. If I were in the episode, I'd have Resus and his mum and dad accompany me, Dog and Pug, and then we'd fish the moon out of the pond for real. But everyone would call ME a big silly if they knew I did that overnight.
Watch Dog Loves Night on iPlayer:
Videos I Saw At Grandma's Today
"The moral is: jump all around the town!"
"Oh my god, it's that wailing!"
WARNING: contains one scary scene. Watch with hands over eyes!
"Okay, everyone, this is it: the scariest film ever. Are we ready? Yeah!"
Three In One
I suppose my Dream Productions got away with it and decided to make three dreams last night. Let me tell you all about them.
My first dream was a representation of the premiere of Scream Street in October 2015, and was soundtracked by Alpha's Somewhere Not Here. I guess you could say the dream is mixture of the sequences for the Guess How Much I Love You theme and Can You Feel The Love Tonight, as my dream featured me playing around with Luke, Resus and Cleo in the forest on an Autumn afternoon and sharing our friendship on a windy beach. It was so warm, it could make your heart melt. It featured a few other CBBC characters from that year, too, but I'm not going to list them all down.
In the second dream, Dr. F, Six, Uncle Stripe, Aunt Trixie, Muffin, Socks, Agents Otto and Olive, Furaha the lioness cub, her big brother and sister Alkaharif and Alarramal and I were all staying in a hotel on Bonfire Night. While the fireworks were going off, Socks got frightened and Aunt Trixie tried to comfort him, while I spent a moment with Six trying to console each other over our friendship. As we watched the fireworks outside, Six got frightened of the loud flashes and bangs and hid in the hotel bedroom, to which I quickly scuttled into bed and softly comforted her. The ending of the dream contained a nod to the ending of the Bluey Christmas episode 'Verandah Santa', which the others hiding in the next bed, and then leaping out to engage us in an epic pillow fight. Bonfire Night started a little later than before.
In the third and final dream, I helped Bluey, Snickers, Coco, Honey, Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Fluttershy and Starlight Glimmer put on a play outside. As I was helping set up the stage and paint the sets, I looked at the Factory website on my tablet, and to my absolute surprise I found out new episodes of Scream Street were coming, including new episodes which featured a snow day and a Summer vacation! I was so excited I did an epic dance on stage, to which Rainbow Dash commented 'Awesome!' and joined the dance. Later, I saw a huge brown paper bag filled with 11 of each - the same food I had at Dornoch Academy: cheese sandwiches, chocolate cookies and bottles of fresh milk, alongside sausage rolls and pork cocktail sausages! As a result, we took a break from rehearsals and play duties and had a nice little picnic on the green. To recreate the dream, you can do activities themed to the Bluey episode 'The Show' with your little one and then have a picnic to ground it all:
Friendships, hotels, plays and picnics - what more could a big dreamer want?
Top 10 Things That Brightened 2020
Some of you may call 2020 a difficult year, but I don't! Even when I stayed home I made new friends - on a screen of course - and coped with the pandemic really well by thinking up new ideas and schemes. People don't have a clever brain like me, so I'm really glad I was born this way. Here are my top 10 things that brightened up the most difficult year ever:
10. My letters back from Ludo, Sarah and Blue Peter. There's something in your heart called 'thankfulness', and when I saw the Six Badges Of Summer Blue Badge programme from Blue Peter on CBBC, I just had to write letters to Blue Peter, CBBC, CBeebies, DC Thomson and Ludo about how thankful I was to have them in my lives. The response I got was incredible - Ludo gave me a Bluey postcard and badge, and Blue Peter gave me one of their cards which they use to hold badges and a signed picture of Adam, the newest presenter and the voice of that smartly-dressed goblin in Wolfgang's return episode of Scream Street. Learn how to make a thankfulness jar, or watch the Treasure Champs episode 'Thankfulness' to learn how to either thank people in your community or make something to help you be grateful for what you have:
9.My Musical Discoveries. Throughout 2020, I've made new musical discoveries on Youtube and online, y'know, because I love music, and I've used it to guide my way through the difficult times, including a little dash of Cee Lo Green for Scream Street!
8.Esme & Roy. When this show premiered on Tiny Pop earlier this year, I was in for a real treat. This colourful animated show from the creators of Sesame Street sees two BFFs - a young girl and a giant yellow monster that to my mum looks like Stanley from Saturday Mash-Up - go on missions to babysit the little monsters in their neighbourhood, such as wild Tillie, show-stopping Hugo and science-loving Simon. They turn everyday situations like trying new foods, sharing toys, tidying up or a fear of the dark into imaginative play experiences that young viewers would want to try at home. Who says Tiny Pop is boring? Esme & Roy is now my favourite show! Another favourite feature from Tiny Pop is the Sesame Street film 'When You Wish Upon A Pickle' which made me imagine my very own pink fluffy wish pickle, which uses the magic words 'Glittery Unicorn' to grant your every wish and sounds like Elmo's friend Abby Cadabby. I wish everyone had their own wish pickle!
7.My Pride. At the beginning of 2020 I was madly searching animated animal legend videos, and My Pride is one of them. The moment I saw the bloody violence of Starmane and Spark getting killed by Quickmane and Nothing getting her injury, I knew My Pride was going to be my favourite thing to watch on Youtube, and now it's one of my many inspirations behind my Me, You, And...stories. I even posted the videos on my blog, sometimes using them for my blog entry series themed to CBBC drama Mystic, which I believe contains blood and violence, Mystic Tales. Check them out on my blog! I'm excited for the next episode, which is coming this Sunday. I'll blog about it soon!
6.Horrid Henry. Unfiltered? Worst. Horrid Henry? Yeah! Horrid Henry is one of my favourite shows on Nickelodeon. Unlike most animated shows such as The Casagrandes and It's Pony, Horrid Henry has a beautifully animated style and early episodes stay true to the original books, with later episodes transitioning to gross out humor and fantasy elements. I have favourite episodes too, such as Horrid Henry's Holiday, Horrid Henry's House Party, Horrid Henry's Birthday, Horrid Henry & The Dinner Guests, Horrid Henry's Christmas and more. There are some nods to the books, too, like ""NOOOOOOOOOO!!" screamed Henry" and "Last time Henry had done this...' and so on. Now I'd avoid Spongebob since it's repeated constantly on Nicktoons, but Horrid Henry hits the spot. Wait. Horrid Henry Hits The Spot? That sounds like a great name for a pirate-themed episode of the show.
5.My ideas. I had lots of new ideas which keep transitioning from one to the next, but now I have the idea to do stories since I now know about one thing that keeps getting in my way - plagiarism. I'll get For The Right Reasons can publish my stories, they don't give a flying squirrel about plagiarism anyway.
4.Love Monster. This is one of my favourite shows to see on CBeebies, mostly because it has grown-up voice actors, unlike some shows like Bing and School Of Roars. The series is bright and cheerful and follows the adventures of a little red monster with a small blue heart on his chest as he navigates each and every special day in Fluffytown. There's wild, hyperactive Tiniest Fluffiest Bunny, kindly Book Cub and mischievous Bad Idea Puppy - and I, love them. I first started watching new episodes near to the end of Scottish lockdown, and I thought Love Monster sounded a little evil, but he was kind enough to be my new friend. Tiniest Fluffiest Bunny, Book Cub and Bad Idea Puppy can be my friends too, and my favourite episodes of the show are 'Sleepover Night' and 'Red Envelope Day'. I still love Clangers and In The Night Garden, no offence.
3.Dog Loves Books. I took a liking to this show before lockdown started, and boy was it worth watching. I never missed the premiere of any new episode, and Dog and Pug are quite the adventurers when it comes to reading books. They travel everywhere, from a Minotaur's maze tea shop to a stormy pirate ship on the seven seas to a biscuit factory and a fairytale forest and a place where new stories are made by old-fashioned people every day. My favourite episodes of the show are 'Dog Loves Drawing', 'Dog Loves Calm' and 'Dog Loves Bedtime Baboon' - Calm and Bedtime Baboon have given me ideas for new places in my imagination such as Glowbone Island, Unicornia and Pug's Friendship Tree, plus I've made a relative for Bedtime Baboon, named Cousin Matilda. She creates the world's bedtime stories. Every time Dog Loves Bedtime Baboon airs, I do a new story from Cousin Matilda using her magic ingredients. The main reason I love the show is because John Thomson, a voice actor who appeared in my favourite shows Strange Hill High and Scream Street, voices Dog. They're quite the Danger Mouse and Penfold of CBeebies, aren't they? Reading will never be more awesome!
2.Bluey. The true crown jewel of Disney Junior that drew me back to the channel, now I'll never watch anything else from the channel, like The Lion Guard or Sofia The First. I'd give anything to see such a beautifully written, wonderfully done show such as this. Unlike most Disney dogs, Bluey takes the cake. I never miss any episode run on Disney Junior. Bluey highlights what's important in life, such as good parenting, the power of play and spending time with family and friends, and I even thought up some alternate names for the episodes, like 'Early Baby' becomes 'Playschool Drama' and 'The Claw' becomes 'Desire'. This show is what really got me into Australian children's television. The sad thing is that when Disney Junior was taken off the air, I thought I was never going to see my little blue dog friend again...until I saw her on Disney+. I'll never leave Bluey behind ever again!
1.Scream Street. When the pandemic hit, I thought I was never going to see my best friends Luke, Resus and Cleo again. Throughout the pandemic, I made new friends like Bluey, Bingo, Dog, Pug and Love Monster, but when Scream Street came back to CBBC in August, I was both excited and delighted. When I heard there's going to be new episodes of Scream Street, I was over the moon. "Well, new episodes," I thought, "Fresh start, same old adventures." I thought the new episodes would feature just Luke, Resus and Cleo like old times, but then Six and Dr. F came along and things just got better. Now, Six and Luella are a part of my gang, and the new episodes are becoming my favourites, including the sexy Vanity Calamity. When Cleo started crying in Endless Summer, I felt sorry for her, as she is strong and never cries, much like Tracy Beaker - this episode saw Luella become BFFs with Cleo, which made me think about the age old question: "Can we still be friends?" Two of the episodes represented love-making and birth, and I'll sure-fire be excited for new episodes coming next year. Now that Six is here, I'll never look at Frankenstein's monsters the same way again, and neither will I look at werewolves, vampires, zombies, Egyptian mummies or witches ever again.
Watch Scream Street on iPlayer:
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