Four Spooktacular Things That Cheered Me Up After My Bad Trip Out Yesterday

 

1.Scream Street - Lovestruck. It was so nice to see Luella again, and making that blog entry about her reuniting with Mildred was an excellent choice. After a break of six months, I guess last night was the night when the witches fly over Golspie - a Halloween themed night! It was also nice to hear the narrator in Danger Mouse say, "London. City of shining architectural wonders - the gherkin! The tennis racket! And the house of cards! But what's that familiar sound? Could it be? And now, the world's twelfth greatest sidekick Penfold, will speak the first beautifully constructed line of the new series!" Something the whole world heard back in September 2015 when Danger Mouse made a triumphant return to British television.

2.Scooby Doo & The Witch's Ghost. This was released the year before I was born (1999), and the animation is well, with cosy colours and dark background pallets. There are some hilarious moments, too, such as when Scooby and Shaggy are confronting the giant turkey and they dress up as pilgrims to cook and eat the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. 'Cause, you know, Shaggy and Scooby love eating turkey for Thanksgiving, 'cause it's an American tradition that may be Scooby and Shaggy's favourite time of year, alongside Halloween and Easter.

3.Halloweentown. I watched it on Disney+ last night, and it proved to be the best Disney Channel original film ever beside the 2018 version of Freaky Friday (I thought it to be a Disney Channel event, but it was a film all along), Teen Beach Movie, Kim Possible and Good Luck Charlie: The Road Trip Movie. It reminded me so much of Scream Street, and my favourite part was pointing out all the monsters in the background, such as fairies, gremlins, the yeti who runs the ice cream shop, the postman and the policeman, plus the creepy Illuminati symbol on the taxi. I can't imagine the time and effort they put into making this TV film, which was released one year before Scooby Doo & The Witch's Ghost was released. In fact, it's like Disney Channel's very own Scream Street. I wonder if Tommy Donbavand, the writer of Scream Street, saw this film and thought, "Hey, this film could be one of my inspirations for my book series about the adventures of Luke and his friends, besides my thoughts of living in a haunted house." Halloweentown aired in the UK too, you know, I saw this on Disney Channel one Halloween, GET OVER IT, SCREAM STREET FANS!

And finally, the main course (great pun, I said it just in time!)...

To cheer me up after my little blip, Mum ordered an ASDA order, and the reason I put this picture of Brambly Hedge up is because the essential part of this series isn't the beautiful music, dresses, backgrounds and everything, but because of the food they eat! That's why my order, with sausage rolls, pork cocktail sausages and anything that comes to your mind when you watch Brambly Hedge or play the Mr. Men PC CD Rom game Mr. Nosey's Surprise Picnic, comes to your mind. Watch out, here I come!

Scooby Doo Goes To Halloweentown

 

Tonight's Boomerang movie, Scooby Doo & The Witch's Ghost, which was released in 1999 - one year before I was born - can be easily described by autistic people like myself as Scooby Doo meets the Disney Channel original movie, Halloweentown. Now, Halloweentown was release one year before the film made its debut, so the folks at Warner Bros were like, "Hey, let's use Scooby Doo to rip off a Disney Channel movie and have them confronting a witch ghost who brings things like turkeys and pumpkins to life in a Salem town!" The result? This film.

Mildred Reunites With Luella

 

MILDRED: We know it's hard to always stay at home without your friends,

But we've all got a part to play,

And one day soon we'll be back the way we used to be,

And we can't wait for that day!

MAUD: Alright, Mildred, stop, you've been singing this song for the last six months now.

MILDRED: I can't help it, it's one of those earworms that keep swimming in my head. By the way, have we seen Luella recently?

ENID: No. Why?

MILDRED: (in tears) I...I've been missing her a lot recently. Now that we're going back to Cackles' Academy, I just feel life isn't the same without her. I wish I could see her again.

LUELLA: Wish you could see who again?

MILDRED: LUELLA!

(Mildred races up to Luella, and the two girls hug)

MILDRED: I've missed you so much, Luella, it's so good to see you again!

LUELLA: Well, today's the day.

MILDRED: How are your friends? And perhaps your dark angel has something to say about seeing me again?

LUELLA: They're comforting their friend Sybil because she has had a horrible day - it's been six months and she's coping with going out with her friends again. She hit her support worker in the leg!

MILDRED: Oh no!

LUELLA: She's learnt her lesson, right?

MILDRED: Of course she has. Were you right?

LUELLA: I'm right.

MAUD: Oh hey Luella, how's things?

MILDRED: WHAT?!

MAUD: Sorry, Mildred.

MILDRED: Why am I surrounded by idiots? You have to be excited, Luella is back!

MAUD: Hey, Luella, how very nice to see you.

ENID: And to think fans missed me because I went to the race due to my super fast powers. I'm actually still with Mildred and Maud.

MILDRED: How's about we come over to my place and chill out, maybe binge watch The Worst Witch on BBC iPlayer?

LUELLA: That's what I live for! Yeah, let's go!

Watch The Worst Witch here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b09m8lyz/the-worst-witch

Dog Loves Hey Duggee

 

I honestly thought today's Dog Loves Books episode, Dog Loves Puzzles, will reveal Dog's love for bone marrow on pizza just like in Dog Loves Fairytales, but I found out this episode is similar to an episode of Hey Duggee, what with Dog and Pug playing games and solving puzzles like the Squirrels in an episode of Hey Duggee. It would be much better if Granny Pug handed Dog and Pug a Puzzle Badge, then it'll be complete! Click the link below to see episodes of Hey Duggee and Dog Loves Books:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000fzqw/dog-loves-books

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b07xdmgk/hey-duggee

A Tribute To My Black Pen

 

Tom & Jerry & The Wizard Of Oz & Scooby Doo & The Goblin King - Are They Similar?

 I've seen Tom & Jerry & The Wizard Of Oz, but now I think it's similar to Scooby Doo & The Goblin King due to all three characters interacting with real, magical beings.

Whilst I think Tom & Jerry & The Wizard Of Oz is similar to a mix of The Tom & Jerry Show (2014) and Dorothy & The Wizard Of Oz, another Boomerang show, on the other hand I believe Scooby Doo & The Goblin King is similar to a mix of Scream Street, Peter Pan and South Park's Imaginationland. What's next, Tom & Jerry Meet Oliver Twist? I don't think so! Well, I do, but I'd love to see Tom & Jerry joining in with 'Consider Yourself'.

My Gel Pens!

 These are the gel pens I got from Sally today.

Even though I did the wrong things and shouted at Mum and Grandma today, I'm so glad getting these pens have been my favourite part of today. And when each one runs out of ink, I'm going to hold a memorial for each pen right here on this blog.

My Tracy Beaker Lockdown Story

 

Tracy Beaker was stuck in lockdown for the past few months. She had missed her friends Arthur, Buster, D.W., Vlad and Zoltan because she'd been writing in her diary a lot and was thinking about her time on CBBC. Whilst searching through the attic, she found a box of old video tapes and DVDs labelled 'CBBC - Do Not Touch Without Permission' in wacky Jacqueline Wilson writing. Curious, Tracy moved the box out from under the Christmas tree (she was lucky to see there were Christmas decorations untouched, yet they brought back past memories of Starring Tracy Beaker, which she kept on her bookshelf and read at night). She blew the dust away from the box and lifted the lid. To her surprise, the box contained tapes and discs which all read 'CBBC' and had a random date printed on it. The first tape was labelled 'CBBC - Tracy Beaker - 18/5/2'. Tracy knew this date - it was when she first arrived on CBBC.

Tracy heaved the box downstairs, being very careful to watch her step, grabbed some popcorn and a drink and placed the tape into her video player. The screen fizzed and crackled, and then the presenters of CBBC from 2002 appeared to announce that "Tracy Beaker is coming up next!". Tracy smiled as the familiar intro began to play.

"I can make my world come true,

All my dreams will see me through,

Doesn't matter what may come my way,

Believe me now, I will win someday!"

It was then that Tracy heard the familiar first beautifully constructed lines of her debut on television: "And you never let me eat sweets, you (unidentified words) watching horror videos, and your kitchen stunk of wet dog! And I never want to see you, EVER, AGAIN!!" "Serves you right, Julie and Ted," laughed Tracy. Having heard these words in the Dumping Ground episode 'The Last Dance' last year, Tracy shed a tear hearing this:

"Do you not want to hear the Mike Milligan childrens' home welcome speech?"

"Not the way you say it, you're pants."

Tracy heard a familiar vocal tune, beautiful and breezy, playing in her head, almost like a breath of wind was calling her, as she heard Mike say his iconic first words to her young, brash self. This was cut off however by her younger self's yelling, which lead to the hilarious first animation of the Dumping Ground exploding due to Tracy's temper-fuelled shrieks, sending everything including Mike, an armchair and a toilet flying out. This sent her into fits of laughter, and caused her popcorn to spill onto the floor.

Tape after tape she watched every day after lockdown, other times, she sat in silence, remembering the good times she and Arthur shared together, playing pranks on D.W., hanging out with Buster, Vlad and Zoltan and riding bikes in the park.

Every time she put a different tape on, a fun memory of when she was with her friends, from the Dumping Ground or not from the DG, came into her mind. Next, she decided to watch the DVDs. First, she watched the DVDs that had the labels which read the premiere date of each episode of Tracy Beaker Returns. The loud, gripping noises of the first two episodes of Series 3 make Tracy hold onto the edge of her seat, and when it came to watching the last episode, this was when Tracy's emotions broke. She began to cry. As she cried, she had fond memories of her friends from CBBC at the time. Arthur, Vlad, Buster, D.W., Zoltan, Sarah-Jane, Roy, Little Howard, Scooby Doo, the Pet Squad, almost everyone who was important to her, including everyone in the Dumping Ground. Now she'd want to call Justine I'm-Sorry-I-Was-Mean-On-You Littlewood. As soon as the last DVD that had a premiere of a new episode of Tracy Beaker ended, Tracy wiped her tears away, for she had an idea: she'd write letters to Vlad, Arthur and Buster to tell them how they were doing during lockdown! So she did, and she remembered not to touch the germy postbox as she posted her letters - yellow for Arthur, blue for Buster and black for Vlad.

The next week, she decided to escape the whole Boy-Girl-Dog-Cat-Mouse-Cheese-Little-Big-Awesome conundrum with her Dumping Ground tapes, mainly the first one, which contained the full length premiere of the show itself. Memories of The Dumping Ground itself flooded her mind as she fixed eyes upon the drama on screen and the animated sequences, such as the kids throwing the support worker lady up into the air on a see-saw, the Dumping Ground exploding because of a grenade and Frank and Tyler becoming superheroes. Just as she was about to put on the tape that contained the episode 'What Would Gus Do?' Tracy heard the mailbox go clunk, and she looked outside to see a large brown package shaped like a video tape. She picked it up and looked at it. Tracy had one of those really old mailboxes right outside the house. Sometimes, Tracy finds things in the mailbox like bugs, rubbish and things like that - a few years back, she had found a squirrel had made a nest there. Tracy undid the package and looked at the tape. It looked like the tapes she kept in the old, dusty box. She looked at the side, and there was a sticker of a picture of Arthur on it! She looked on the package and saw all the names of every CBBC character she knew from her time there, written in pink felt tip pen markings.

Tracy went back inside and inserted the tape in, waiting until it had finished rewinding. As she pressed play, she saw an image of Arthur preparing a camera and sitting down on the sofa, or couch, as he called it. He had a mournful look on his face, almost as if he was about to cry. Tracy felt for Arthur has he swallowed and said this:

"Okay, here goes: Tracy...I've always wanted to say this to you for a long time, but without you here I couldn't have made it through my awkward childhood in Elwood City. That was even during the time I ripped my pants in school - you know them as trousers in the UK - but I feel really upset now that my show is the first thing we see early in the morning. Friends get you through in tragic times like this, and because there are so many people suffering out there, I want to say...I...I....well, that's just the thing. I don't know how to talk about this drastic times anymore. So I've recorded this message on behalf of everyone at CBBC to wish you well during the virus lockdown."

Arthur broke down into tears as he continued:

"And to prove to myself that this might be forever, I've taped this over the arrival of three remarkable kids who have changed CBBC forever in 2013. Good luck, Tracy."

Arthur took off his glasses and wiped away his tears just as the screen fizzled and cut to the CBBC Office in 2013. After this segment, it led into the premiere of Strange Hill High. Tracy was delighted, as she hadn't seen Mitchell and his friends for months and was glad to see them again as much as she'll reunite with Arthur someday.

That night, Tracy happily put on her glasses and pyjamas and read The Story Of Tracy Beaker in bed, a moment much better than watching the noisy Charlie & Lola during the new weekend Bedtime Hour. All she wanted now was a reply from Arthur.

The next morning, as Tracy was pouring out her cornflakes, she heard something being pushed through the letterbox. As she went to look, she was surprised to discover 20 letters sprawled out on the floor! Arthur, Buster, Vlad, D.W., Mike, Justine, Louise, Peter, Tyler, Jody, Frank, Carmen, Tee, Lily, Gus, Harry, Billie, Toni, Ryan and all the other kids she'd met at the Dumping Ground have all replied to her. Each letter wished her the best of luck, and D.W.'s letter had cute little Mary Moo Cow stickers all over it. Arthur's letter touched her the most, as it told her that he and everyone on CBBC will always be there for her, even when they are far apart.

Tracy stuck the letters up onto the wall. The recession so far had been a heartwarming one according to Tracy, with all those happy memories of what the world once was flooding her brain once again, and bringing her back to her rebellious young self once again. Poking her head out an open window, she saw a flock of doves taking off into the sky and into the sunlight. Taking a deep breath, she called out the catchphrase CBBC fans came to recognise so dearly since Tracy Beaker made her debut on the channel in 2002:

"BOG OFF!!"

Me When I Get Soap In My Eyes When I Have A Shower

 

My Diary - 10th-16th August

 

10th August

New episodes of Dog Loves Books! Today's episode, Dog Loves Pyramids, really reminds me of Superted Kicks Up The Dust.

11th August

On my blog someday, I'm going to remind Canadian readers of shows of Knowledge Kids.

12th August

Dog and Pug visited three calm places today - Glowbone Island, Unicornia and Pug's Friendship Tree.

13th August

Well, it was a big day - Amy took me out, Scream Street returned and tonight, Scooby will read a magazine for dogs.

14th August

I wonder if today's Dog Loves Books episode, Dog Loves Elephants, is influenced by the music of Camille Saint-Saens?

15th August

Thoughts of Wall-E entered my mind as I saw Barbie Dreamtopia: Festival Of Fun at Grandma's.

16th August

I got a pack of gel pens from Sally! I'm also going to see a crossover between Tom & Jerry and Dorothy & The Wizard Of Oz.

How To Share Your Sausage Rolls With The Residents Of Scream Street

 Here's the Scream Street residents you'd most like share sausage rolls with.

• Luke
• Resus
• Cleo
• Luella
• Sir Otto Sneer
• Dixon

If you were to share a sausage roll with Luella, she'd double it with magic and share it with her friend Mildred, who'd order more sausage rolls to replace the boring porridge at lunchtimes at Cackles' Academy. Sir Otto Sneer would scoff his down right away, as in the Scream Street episode 'Cry Wolf' he had a whole desk laid with food which Carla Black stole, while Dixon would turn into a chipmunk and nibble on it straight away. Luke would wolf it down (geddit) and Cleo would check to see if it's poisonous, while Resus would push it away because it's meat, and vampires eat flesh, don't they? Some do, some don't, but you'd better understand your stereotypes.

Videos I Saw At Grandma's Today