Friday, 2 October 2020
Me, You, And Transformers: Armada: Love Stronger Than Muscle
Furaha, Sparkplug and Jolt are about to wake up Hot Shot, Bluey-style! It's the beginning of the Transformers Armada episode 'Jungle' and all we know is that Furaha will befriend a buck who has been separated from his parents.
So Awkward & Newsround: Good News & Bad News
JAS: Guys...I have good news and bad news.
MARTHA: Someone peed on your homework again? Mostly a dog, or someone might've dropped it down the toilet.
JAS: No, it's more serious than that, so I'll start with bad news: Ollie is dead.
LILY: No...
MARTHA: Not Ollie?
JAS: His actor died of an illness, but in our reality, Ollie died in a car crash. There was nothing his doctors could do to make him better. Read this article:
MARTHA: Oh my god, no Ollie! *cries pathetically*
LILY: Don't worry, Martha, we'll find another way.
JAS: Another way? Are you kidding? Some words are going to be kicked off the English vocabulary, and we don't want that to happen!
JAS: The word 'Betrothed' was used in The Lion King by the way.
LILY: When Zazu was talking to Simba and Nala? I remember that scene. I used to watch The Lion King in my childhood.
JAS: It's more serious than that I'm afraid...Disney Channel is celebrating its 25th birthday even though it's gone!
MARTHA/LILY: Yay! Woohoo!
MARTHA: So there's no need to worry about Ollie, next Thursday we can continue our socially awkward lives like always!
LILY: Even through the pandemic?
MARTHA: Even through the pandemic.
JAS: Don't forget to check out iPlayer to catch up on old episodes:
Social Distancing - The Sequel To Consider Yourself & Fun At Home
I just found this fun South Park song about the pandemic on Youtube while I was working on MYATA: Love Stronger Than Muscle. You instantly get so distracted by the song you forget what you're doing and see the funny side of the times we're in!
3 Things I'm Looking Forward To This October
1.Our car coming back
2.Bluey on Disney+.
3. Scream Street and Bluey returning with new episodes. I'm glad to announce that from 'Mum & Dad 2.0' onwards, I'm adding a new character - Mum's friend from work, River, and her daughter Marcia, who attends the same school as Bluey. Marcia always finds the solution in everything, like trying to uncover the true identities of Mum 2.0 and Dad 2.0, and she wears glasses, just like Bluey's friend Honey. Just like Six in Scream Street, Marcia and River will be new characters in The 'Hood as well. Tune in on the 26th to meet River and Marcia for the first time!
Thursday, 1 October 2020
Mum & Dad 2.0
Remember what I said about meeting Bluey soon? You'll meet her on the 25th, and she's got babysitters! She'll set up a circus, help out on bin night and more. And plus, there'll be new alternate names! I've already named the first few episodes, Double Babysitter, Bad Mood and Circus, Mum & Dad 2.0, Grumpy Wumpy and Rumble Tumble Fun. I'll list down the new Bluey episodes in a blog entry soon enough, and I'll put them in my tubs when I've got the chance. There I was, on a quick stroll to see the number of the episode 'Escape' when all of a sudden, POW! There are new episodes of Bluey in front of me. And you'd think I'd leave Bluey forever - I've got a whole new world of The 'Hood to look forward too! Cue the reggae music!
Recreating The Experience At Home
Since losing our car feels like we're in a second lockdown, I decided, 'What better way to recreate watching Youtube videos at Grandma's than doing the experience at home?' So, I did, and I themed it to the subject of the work I've been doing. Today's theme is Clifford The Big Red Dog, and on Saturdays I'll do various random videos since I'm having a weekend off.
Noddy In German
Just before I did my main Clifford post of the day, I discovered a dub of Noddy in German. I warn you, Noddy sounds a lot older in this one, but be free to check it out yourself:
What Your Favourite Clifford The Big Red Dog Episode Says About You
My Best Friend:
You care about your friends more than anyone else in the world like Clifford and Emily Elizabeth care for each other. Your special friend always shares in your problems, what you like and what you do together and until you grow old and grey, your best friend will always be there for you no matter what the problem is.
Cleo's Fair Share:
You're spoilt and get everything you want, not caring about the wellbeing of others and what they want. You care about everything you own - your toys, food, favourite TV programmes, etc.. and never do you share.
Special Delivery:
You're good at covering up mistakes and telling lies, because the more lies you tell the more excuses you make. Clifford never tells a lie, and neither do his friends (censored because of Scream Street) and T-Bone. He always makes it up to Emily Elizabeth at the end.
A Ferry Tale:
There are two sides to your style: on one side, you are clean and love to take regular baths and showers, spritz yourself with perfume and keep the house neat and tidy from top to bottom. But on another side, your are dirty, never clean your room, you play in the mud like Clifford and his friends sometimes do and you refuse to take a bath and wash your hair on a regular basis. When will you learn?!
And Birdy Makes 3:
Although you care about others, your friend helps another person out and you are willing to help, but, seeing as you're the juvenile one, he or she leaves you out to focus on the patron they are caring for, and you don't like the attention one gives to another. Eventually, your friend makes it up to you in the end.
Home Is Where The Fun Is:
You are the clever one and find some amazing things to do, even at a time like this when everyone is forced to stay home because of a stupid virus. There's lots of things to help you learn and think about the world around you - bake, draw, write, paint, play on the computer, watch TV, play with toys, anything that helps you connect with your world. Doing a blog is good, especially when you're doing one on a big red dog like Clifford!
Clifford's Carnival:
You like to be the first in everything, whether it's first on the water slide, the bouncy castle, the computer or the first to go on the games console. Sometimes it's just important to wait your turn 'til someone else allows you to have a turn.
Clifford's Doggy Reunion:
Embracing family is the best thing you could ever do - caring for others in your family can always bring a smile to your face, whether a cousin needs your help like Emily's cousin Laura and her dog Rex, or a brother and a sister want to help you when you're the smallest member of the family. Spending time with a family is also a great thing to do when you're lonely, but sometimes when they're busy you go off and do it alone.
The Great Race:
You are the boastful member of your group of friends, and are always bragging about how you have more toys than anyone, or more books or more fridge food. In your heart, you share with others and make sure someone has the last half of your sandwich at lunchtime at your school.
Tummy Trouble:
You're a total greedy guts and like to eat a lot - that's why you're into things you only like and are unaware that eating too much can cause something bad to happen to your body. So, doing something to keep your mind occupied whilst waiting for the next mealtime can keep your waiting experience fun and engaging.
Cleo Comes To Town:
I don't want to include this in this personality trivia test, but I'm calling Clifford's purple pooch friend a different name to avoid confusion with the character from Scream Street. From now on, Clifford's friend will be referred to as Prissy because she's always bragging about how pretty she is, with her pink bow near her big purple candyfloss hairdo. As I'd like to say, "You na-heme! There's only one Cleo and that's my mummy!"
False Friends:
You seem to accept a new friend as your own following his or her arrival into town, and you love to play with him or her in the playground. Being with others is the most important thing anyone could ask for you to do, especially if you're a purple dog like Prissy.
Clifford & The Beanstalk:
When it comes to amateur dramatics, the main star of the show happens to be you and you alone. You stumble at first, but you practice your lines and your role perfectly, like Emily taught Jetta to do when they rehearsed for their Jack & The Beanstalk play. How your friends appreciate how you act is only enough to bring a smile to their face.
An Itchy Patch:
You suffer from constant itching quite a lot, whether it's after the shower or quite unexpectedly - it's giving me an itch right now!
A New Friend:
You care about disabled people as you're a really good helper and even like to help yourself if you have autism or down syndrome. K.C. is a representation of a one-legged disabled person, or a person in a wheelchair. Oddonesout talks about this episode and a Dragon Tales character in a wheelchair and why he appreciates PBS is creating characters with disabilities into their educational shows - that includes Caillou, too, remember when he went swimming with a boy who is handicapped?
Stormy Weather:
Your skills can come in useful, especially during major crisis's like the ones we're in now. Even little things like baking a cake or raking the yard will help people around the planet. A letter we write to starving child in a poor country in the world is a helpful sign. If Clifford were to learn to write, he would learn to write his name first...if he had opposable BIG RED thumbs.
Circus Stars:
You have talent. Amazing, incredible talents no one else in the world saw you have, you unleash them unexpectedly, you have quite the skill and the math to accomplish little tasks using your big talent - like me, I use my love of writing and filmmaking to help me cope through tough times in 2020, like the Coronavirus outbreak or the George Floyd hearings, or even that massive explosion that happened in another part of the world. Can't you just rely on Clifford to make 2020 the best year ever?
Limelight Fright:
Even though you're boastful and love to brag, you're still shy and a little scaredy cat on the inside, but is strong and brave on the outside. The episode is actually about being one feeling on the outside, but another on the inside, but unleashing what's inside can make an experience such a lot of fun and can expand your time into a fun one.
To Catch A Bird:
You're clumsy and think of yourself as the worst person in the world, but you don't have to be ashamed of yourself, there's something called 'self-respect', which means respecting your clumsiness, your ungrateful desire to bump into things when you're not looking where you're going or your desire to drop something onto the floor, like your mother's favourite China plate.
The Best Party Ever:
You LOVE to party! You have everything planned out - balloons, decorations, delicious food like cocktail sausages, sausage rolls, biscuits, fruit slices and even bones for a dog like Clifford, and even a pool and a bouncy castle! You love partying so much, you instantly forget about the ridiculous partying celebrity life you'll lead as a famous actress/model/singer in the future. But your type of party girl is a simple party loving kid - no biggie.
Come Back, Mac:
You make mistakes, you're forgetful, you bump into things, you're an awful person...unless being all these things make you who you are.
Boo!
You're not afraid of anything, especially when you're forced to watch a horror film at a sleepover or you go trick or treating in the dark. Horror films aren't my kind of thing, but being brave means being scared first, except for when you're scared of content on Adult Swim or injections or scary monsters or people or things you see on the internet or TV. I never see scary adult stuff, but soothing and gentle and less scary stuff like Clifford himself, or Little Bear.
Little Clifford:
Even though you're small doesn't mean you can do big things. Some of you reading this blog are born with dwarfism, but somehow you love to accomplish little and big efforts, even BIG RED efforts like ones Clifford likes to accomplish. Watch Clifford's Puppy Days, you'll see what I mean.
Welcome To Birdwell Island:
You love your hometown as much as Clifford loves Birdwell Island, the island where he embraces his peaceful life with his owner Emily Elizabeth and his friends Prissy and T-Bone. Even though your's, like mine, can be quite noisy, inside you like to live a quiet life away from all the hustle and bustle, and just wait for that dog next door to stop barking.
Doing The Right Thing:
I always know how to do the right thing, especially when you do the wrong thing and think about how others feel. Thinking about others is a great way to learn how to do the right thing, like T-Bone. He should think about his friend before stealing the squeaky toy from him, and you should think about it first before doing an action that you could possibly regret or believe you could do.
The Dog Who Cried Woof:
You know the best hiding spots around the place where others can't see you. When they're not expecting it, you like to jump out and play a little trick on them, like Clifford and his friends when they played their little hide-and-seek game. But sometimes, you have to think about how others feel if they want to be brave and face their own fears.
Leaf Of Absence:
You are an avid leaf pile expert, and you know the best ones good for jumping in on cold Autumn days. In your time, you like to collect leaves and add them to your collection, or catching leaves might be the hobby you desire to wait for Autumn for!
Nobody's Perfect:
You have a love for inventing silly games and enjoying the fun and excitement that happens to go along with them, like Emily's school during the Silly Sports Day. You love to invent silly dances, make funny faces and invent silly stories to tell around the campfire at Brownies or scouts. Not scary stories, but silly stories, ones about clowns or accidentally weeing in the toilets when you're too late to go to the toilet at school. I know, it's embarrassing, but confessions mean everything.
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Disney Channels Memorial
We're here today to say goodbye to the greatest channels in the history of the UK beside CBBC and CBeebies: Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD. They provided magic, mischief and mouse ears for all of us, along with lessons to live by and characters to love, but most of all, favourite things besides Disney films.
First, Disney Channel is known for its lively content and lovely cartoons, which I should've seen in my childhood. My favourite programmes on there are Good Luck Charlie, which I love because of the surreal things that happen during the end credits, and Mighty Med, because so much goes on in the background that you completely forget to focus on the main characters. I also love the original films, like the surreal ones like ones based on books featuring aliens, leprechauns and monsters and the such.
Disney Junior...this is a heartwarming one. It had such lovely programmes, even as Playhouse Disney. I used to see Playhouse Disney as a kid, and the best moment of this era is seeing the Winnie The Pooh episode 'All's Well That Ends Wishing Well' because of Wishland - a place of wishes only invented by a child's imagination and all the things Tigger wishes for. Later on, when it became Disney Junior, the fun multiplied, and a blue dog was born - Bluey. She became my favourite of all the Disney Junior characters for her slice of life feel and unique premise, and now I have three things to remember her by: The 'Hood, ABC Kids and the alternate episode names I gave each episode earlier this year.
And as for Disney XD...let's say I preferred it as Jetix, like it normally was, because it contained great shows like Power Rangers, Sonic X, Digimon, Transformers and especially Pucca, which my mum loves.
I'm so upset Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD are leaving. I just wish they could wake up and keep it forever, but I wish Bluey would be on CBeebies.
I wish the Disney channels would end like the videos above. As we part from our true blue friend and her magical friends, we list the alternate names for Bluey episodes for the last time:
- Joking Around
- Pinot Grigio
- The Balloon
- Robots, Milk & Cookies
- Cool Shade
- Lazy Weekend
- Waiting For Lunch
- The Night Guardian
- Gay Marriage
- Morning Lie In
- A Frog's Journey
- Bluey Breaks The Rules
- Our Views On Men
- Bluey Goes To China
- A Snuggly Adventure
- The Toilet
- Shama Lama
- Strange Cases
- Desire
- Summer Fete
- Handy Hands
- Skinny Dipping
- Watch Out For Goblins
- Lazy Morning
- Drama
- Sand, Water & Steps
- Swinging
- Never Too Young To Have Fun
- Soothing Naturals
- Bluey Goes Irish
- Boredom
- Folk Tales
- Reach For The Sky
- Road Trip
- Animal Man
- Breastfeeding
- The Secret Club
- Like Father, Like Daughter
- There's More To A Sleepover
- Playschool Drama
- Work & Play
- Mindfulness
- Survival
- Adventure
- Public Humiliation
- Back To The Beginning
- Dads Can Be Anyone
- Flashbacks
- Bluey's Zoo
- He's A Bit Of An Animal
- Late Evening
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