Luke, Resus & Cleo Review - Me, You, And Transformers Cybertron Dreamtime Songtime: Hunter

LUKE: Have you ever heard of surfing Transformers?

CLEO: People in the '80s have!

LUKE: Check this out - they finally did a music video for the Australian band Garrangali's song, 'Hunter'.

RESUS: You know what they didn't include? No Furaha and Jetfire, no Optimus Prime, no nothing, just Hot Shot and Nakona enjoying a day of surfing on the beach.

CLEO: Surfing's very popular in Australia, mostly near beaches like Bondi.

LUKE: Oh now you're giving me memories of when we nearly lost our lives in that air surfing race.

CLEO: That was two weeks ago!

LUKE: Oh, right. The music and the story match each other, and the music really makes you think of Nakona and Hot Shot playing by the sea.

RESUS: Lanka and Override are on there too.

CLEO: Hey! Is this the first time Override has ever been to the seaside? Because in the original Transformers Cybertron, she didn't.

LUKE: She does here.

CLEO: WELL!?

RESUS: How can anyone translate what the singers are saying?

LUKE: It's all in native Australian, so viewers can understand world culture better.

RESUS: Oh.

CLEO: Guys, just thinking about that video makes me want to race back to my house and look at my trophy collection. Be right back!

LUKE: What's her problem?

Look for more Me, You, And Transformers Cybertron Dreamtime Songtime shorts coming soon!

-Yours sincerely,

Sybil, Luke, Resus & Cleo

Videos I Saw At Grandma's Today

From now on, I'm beginning every visit by seeing videos themed around my excitement for Scream Street coming back in two weeks, followed by videos themed to what I'm doing today. This time, my excitement expressions are accompanied by videos related to Me, You, And Transformers Cybertron Dreamtime Songtime!

CBBC Halloween Highlights

In two weeks, CBBC will get you 100% excited for Halloween! Why? Because not only is there an exciting array of special programmes, but there's also no *censored to avoid bad luck*! Just avoid Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese if you have the chance. From Monday to Friday, the treats just keep on coming. Move the tricks aside!

Monday:

• New Odd Squad - The Mobile Unit is back and more odder than ever!
• Professor Branestawm - The only useful invention here is a movie for the entire family!
• B.O.B's Big Break - Characters from Monsters Vs. Aliens break out of a test lab.
• Creeped Out - Marti - Apparently The Curious uses a cell phone a lot, it's common in stories like No Filter or Takedown. Hopefully we'll get to see the special Creeped Out ident again!
• The Nine To Five With Stacey Dooley - Charities will scream for help when Stacey Dooley appears in a CBBC show!

Tuesday:

• Mr. Stink - David Walliam's heartwarming story about a stinky old hobo and his dog has been adapted into a wonderful animated film for the whole family.

Wednesday:

• Odd Squad: The Movie - We go right back to where it all started as everyone's favourite sarky group of young agents return for an adventure more odd than your mother's washing line.
• Our School & The Forgotten Room - Our School is getting into the Halloween spirit - and just in time, too! Prepare to grip the edge of your seat - it won't be like the zombie episode from two years ago.
• Shrek: The Ghost Of Lord Faarquad - Dim the lights, put your 3D glasses on, watch in 16:9 if you can and prepare to touch the daring escapades of the evergreen ogre and his gang of fairytale friends!
• And remember: avoid Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese's Halloween episode!

Thursday:

• Grandpa's Great Escape - David Walliams' high-flying adventure soars onto CBBC!
• Blue Peter: Spooky Spectacular - Come and celebrate Halloween with Lindsey and her petrifying peeps - Richie, Adam, Mwaksy and of course the lovable cutie-pie hellhound Henry!
• Dragons: Gift Of The Night Fury - It's not Christmas yet, but it sure does look like it here in Berk!
• Shrek: The Pig Who Cried Werewolf - Three German-accented little pigs solve mystery of why their next door neighbourhood, a big bad wolf transvestite grandma who sounds like a man, transforms into a jolly old sadistic woman who wants to cook them for dinner.
• Horrible Histories: Spooky Special - Death is staying at home due to recent events, and that's good because even though there's a hilarious fact that he still lives at home with his mum (tell that to me), these skits will be so (bad F word) scary that you'll have pee in your pants! By the way, do Death's corpse friends pee? I bet they do, if so they'll probably wet their graves - and possibly make flowers grow.

Friday:

• Arthur & The Haunted Tree House - Arthur, Buster and Ladonna are celebrating Halloween for the first time ever on CBBC. Check out their awesome costumes!
• Tracy Beaker: The Movie Of Me - Prepare to meet Arthur's BFF, the kid that rocked the Dumping Ground, in an adventure filled with surreal animated sequences done in the cruddy flash animation that made up the original Story Of Tracy Beaker series. And by the way, did I tell you that Young Dracula was going to air for a limited time? Sweet!
• Mimi & Co - Spooked - The ghetto version of Tilly Ramsay celebrates Halloween by pranking and prancing.
• Monsters Vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins From Outer Space - What happens when trick or treating turns bad? Uh oh, things aren't looking too good for the Monsters Vs. Aliens gang...

And now, the highlight of the week, the most epic thing that'll ever come out of CBBC ever since Strange Hill High:

SCREAM STREET!

With a new character, a Frankenstein-like teenage girl called Six, and lots more fun antics including a new pet for Cleo, Luke and his gang will make their way back to CBBC as if a miracle just happened. You know what? I think CBBC's real Halloween campaign for this year would be themed around Comfort's 'Do The Moves' song and would encourage viewers to 'Shake Things Up With CBBC & Scream Street This Halloween'. Cool, right? Cool. Thinking about new episodes of Scream Street makes me want to get up and dance to songs related to Comfort Fabric Softener, like Do The Moves or Move It Shake It.

The 'Hood: Up & Down Teaser

On Monday 26th October, get ready to meet some new residents of The 'Hood - River, Bluey's mum's friend from work, and her daughter Marcia!

During Picnic Day, the gang meet Marcia and Becky takes quite an interest in her since they both wear glasses. Marcia leads the gang to her favourite treehouse, where she does her favourite thing - host a tea party with the picnic food she's been given. The boys are hesitant, but Marcia invites them anyway. A week later, Izzy, Bluey, Bingo and Becky visit Marcia at her house and have a fun time playing in the garden and bouncing on her trampoline. By the way, there's a Picnic Day in Australia, as I mentioned in an earlier blog entry, and it's very common in the country.

While you're waiting, learn how to plan your very own tea party, just like Marcia:

https://www.thespruce.com/kids-tea-party-guide-2104249

The 'Hood: Up & Down. Coming Monday 26th October!

No, Quality Street!

I used to love Quality Street and taste some of them when I was little. I mainly love the green triangles, even the pink and red ones, as pink and red as the heffalump and woozle that changed shapes and colours during one of my favourite Disney movies, The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh. I don't like the Quality Street choccies with hard bits, because they taste stale to me. What have they gotten themselves into? Read the link and prepare to be devastated:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/54550584

My Musical Discoveries

Me, You, And Transformers Cybertron Dreamtime Songtime: Hunter

Dreamtime Songtime: Hunter

Grab your boards! Nakona and Hot Shot are going surfing! Discover what makes this awesome sport more cool than a big bro bot popular in Australia and get ready to ride the big wave with Nakona and his sweet big bro!

Listen to the song that accompanies the animation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzJ_MkE4fHE

They Got The Moves!

When Coming To England Airs On CBBC

The 'Hood Teasers

Every day, I'll fill you in on an update on a new episode of The 'Hood with each new Bluey episode posted onto the ABC Schedules page. Who knows? One episode might introduce you to River and Marcia!

I'm Starting A Chain Reaction...

The 'Hood: When Nature Calls Teaser

It's finally here!

In 'When Nature Calls', the gang go on a camping trip with their friend Snickers, and head off into the bush for an adventure. While there, they encounter an island in the middle of the lake and decide to row there, but once they get to the island, they're stranded! They decide to while away the time making their own little "civilization" and natural den while they're waiting for rescue.

The 'Hood - When Nature Calls. The first episode of a new series, coming soon, and later airing on Boomerang and Cartoonito here, and on ABC Kids and ABC Me in Australia!

While you're waiting, you and your children can learn how to build your own natural den like Izzy and her gang in what's to come by clicking on the link below:

https://www.getoutwiththekids.co.uk/activities/making/building-a-den/

Or you can learn how to make your own island civilization flower crowns to prepare your little tribe for the first new adventure in The 'Hood:

https://www.thecrafttrain.com/flowercrown/

Were They Really Influenced By Supernatural To Make Scooby Doo: Frankencreepy?

Scooby Doo: Frankencreepy was the weirdest, most electrifying Scooby Doo movie to ever exist, but was it really inspired by the horror-crime-drama series Supernatural?

First off, Supernatural premiered in 2005, while a few years later, Scooby Doo: Frankencreepy was released onto DVD in 2014. So, judging by the fast images that pop up every few seconds in the movie, the makers of the film saw a few episodes of the series in the Warner Bros studio, and instantly Scooby Doo remaking Frankenstein came to mind. A few years later, in 2018, they were so pleased with the film they decided to make the episode 'Scoobynatural' in the animation studio's honor. I hope the episode contained some aspects of the original Scooby Doo we all know and love: the door chase, Scooby and Shaggy tricking the crooks by disguising themselves as various people, etc.. I love the door chases that happen in Scooby Doo & Guess Who because in last week's episode, I saw Velma dressed as Little Red Riding Hood, Shaggy playing fetch with the werewolf and Scooby Doo ribbon dancing like a girl. How pathetic is that?!

For more information on the Scoobynatural episode, click here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoobynatural