Hey everyone, welcome to another fun-filled edition of Sybil’s Good News! This week, we’re going to be taking a look at something very important. Cocomelon was known to be as bad for kids as Caillou is because of its fast cuts and pace, but if you compare to a show I vaguely remember from when I was younger, Teletubbies Everywhere, this live-action show introducing early learning concepts to toddlers has long shots which just involve the Teletubbies walking around different coloured backgrounds, drawing shapes and dividing themselves up as the narrator counts them. In fact, there had been many incidents involving tantrums trying to switch off Cocomelon, from screaming toddlers to outright zombies. Now, I’ve felt like this when Scream Street was taken off the air and found its new home on BBC iPlayer. It took me two whole years for me to realize Scream Street was on iPlayer, and Scream Street made me multitask, throw tantrums and feel stressed. No! Wait! It was CBBC that made me do it - its programmes are becoming more and more American and more annoying than ever. If you want to learn more about how Cocomelon rots children’s brains, read this Reddit section here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Parenting/comments/rh62oq/cocomelon_is_overstimulating/
It’s just like how you’d read Horrid Henry in place of Dork Diaries - wheras Dork Diaries has Nikki, the main character, constantly calling out “SQUEEEEE!!” most of the time, Horrid Henry features repetitive dialogue, an insane sense of humor and sensible, less teenage girl dialogue, because Henry constantly screams and shouts a lot. Some people have banned Horrid Henry because it was making children naughty, but Dork Diaries may be well remembered - by me, obviously - for Once Upon A Dork, which features Nikki in a strange fantasy land when she got knocked out by her rival Mckenzie Hollister. Never let your rival knock you in the face, kids, it’s dangerous.
In other news, the other day I saw the most amazing and less flashy documentary on Sky Showcase, cutting me off from Sky Kids for one whole day. I know, there were ads in between each part of each episode, but man was it worth the wait to watch. It was named: Monkeys: An Amazing Animal Family, and featured the host Patrick Aryee roaming around the wilderness in search of our primitive ancestors. One of the most outstanding moments in episode 2 is when Patrick interacts and plays with chimpanzees. The close-up of Patrick and his chimp holding each other’s hands makes me want to envision what Kala said to Tarzan in Disney’s Tarzan:
“Close your eyes.
Now forget what you see.
What do you feel?”
Hearing this soothed my soul as a kid, and now this scene of Aryee and the chimps makes me want to envision him kissing a chimp, only to realize it’s all a dream, only to wake up with various other cartoon women in his bed. Teela, Mrs Goggins and Daphne. Those are the only women I know. Want to know where I got inspiration from? ;).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwrLhHdAt-M
And now for this week’s big thought. Right, this week I’m thinking about a music video for ‘In The Land Of Dreams’ from Acoustic Dreamland featuring Furaha and Orko. In this vision, the Land Of Dreams is a mystical, natural dream world where fireflies flitter in the night sky, snow covered mountains and hills are perfect for sliding down, lion cubs play all the time and the softest nests are covered with moss and leaves. It’s quite similar to the scene where the bush baby and the pangolin appear at night in the place where elephants dream in DisneyNature’s Elephant. I originally wanted Furaha and Orko to awaken in a world inspired by African art, where African animals take them for a ride, and an Aboriginal art kangaroo makes a tremendous boing and begins to fly, with Furaha and Orko riding on his back. Hush now, little Orko, go to sleep sensual breather…
And finally, we have a fact I would like to share from Weird But True USA. The Colorado State Fair hosts a pet rock olympics, including a prize for the best dressed rock. Now ignore all those annoying memes of Elmo raging over Rocco, because it may ruin how I think of the Sesame Street that was around during my childhood. So, imagine this: Zoe, Rocco, Sybil, Luke, Resus and Cleo are going to that fair to participate in the Olympics. During that time, Zoe is haunted by the fact that Elmo bullied her over her rock, so she lets Rocco go the same way Bandit throws his stone out to sea in Bluey’s ‘Stickbird’.
Speaking of Bluey, I named the surfer dog Jonno and added a friend for him, who came from Nimbin. He’s an Afghan hound who wears a white shirt and rainbow tie-dyed shorts. He rides a red skateboard and vapes. Unnatural, even to me, but that’s how my great, yet possible mind works. I can make anything possible. ANYONE can make anything possible if they learn from me. Learning is the best way to teach. And I learned from the best, both in South Woodham and Dornoch…EVEN THOUGH THE KIDS AT MY SCHOOLS WERE REALLY NOISY AND ANNOYING!!!!!
Sorry, am I being a bit of a bother to you?
Okay, I’m out.
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