Relax...Not Bluey, But A Town Called Panic

In this French language short, Cowboy tries out the new relaxing chair bought for him, Indian and Horse while his two roommates head off to get some more eggs for their cake. If you're a fan of French, you may well be able to understand what they're saying by now.

My Top 10 Emotional Support Items

10.Hot Chocolate

9.Pikachu & Pinklight Sparkle

8.Talking To Someone I Love

7.My Little Pony

6.A Town Called Panic

5.Scream Street

4.Strange Hill High

3.Thundercats

2.Old Disney films

1.Orko from He Man

Good Craic Cafe Postcards - Wave 1

1.Not Quite Narwhal

2.My Little Pony: Make Your Mark

3.My Little Pony: A New Generation

5.Gabby's Dollhouse

6.Barbie: Epic Road Trip

7.Johnny Test's Ultimate Meatloaf Quest

8.I Want To Wake Up With You

9.A Hug For A Caretaker

10.Love As Large As Enormities

A Little G3 Surprise!

The little lineup of cards on Sunny's window in the Make Your Mark episode 'Ali-Conned' sees a big surprise: the first card is a picture of a rainbow in the night sky with Twilight's Cutie Mark symbol at the end of it. However, the 3rd card has an even bigger surprise: a nod to the G3 era of MLP, featuring a purple G3 pony on it! Wow! Just goes to show that even a now hated era which I grew up with can live in harmony with the newer CGi ponies...and I bet you guys didn't know that 2003-2006 G3 ads had CGI animation!

Always trust a G3 pony.

10 Things I'll Talk With The Coffee Club About If I Attended At The Good Craic Cafe

10.Not Quite Narwhal

Not Quite Narwhal is already an adorable and cute series that I'm watching right now. I think i't's a metaphor for evolution, as the main character climbs out of the ocean and discovers unicorns of his kind. Remember back in Walking With Monsters when we saw the first reptiles take their first steps onto land? Yeah, those guys. So the main character, Kelp, is a metaphor for human evolution. It would be better if their were an adult unicorn telling the episode's stories to a group of young unicorns, and Not Quite Narwhal would be a storytelling series, much like the old hand drawn Peter Rabbit series and Wind In The Willows films.

9.My Little Pony: Make Your Mark

With its slow paced CGI and bright colours, Make Your Mark carries on where Friendship Is Magic and A New Generation left off...but only if you subscribe to Netflix. The series follows the many adventures of Sunny and her diverse horse friends going around Maretime Bay discovering many secrets and lies, and encouraging bad pony Misty to become part of the gang. I guess Sunny really is following in Twilight's hoofsteps, isn't she?

8.My Little Pony: A New Generation.

Movies like ones under the My Little Pony label always bring a smile to the faces of young girls (and mostly Bronies), and this one is no exception. It's a great start to the CGI era, and follows young Sunny Starscout as she goes on a mission to unite earth ponies, pegasi and unicorns as one big herd, grazing in the city of Maretime Bay and galloping free along the beach. The bond between Sunny and her dad is really heartwarming, and I can recite lines from the beginning scene off by heart. "Yeah, I'm a unicorn and we're EEEEVIL!" How the Coffee Crew will laugh.

7.Gabby's Dollhouse.

Mum told me that toys themed around Gabby are on Amazon, and yet I haven't seen the actual series yet. I think Pandy Paws will be my favourite character because he's super cute!

6.Barbie: Epic Road Trip.

SQUEEEEEEEEEEE!! Oh I can't wait to play this game today! It's a new game unlike anything you've played with Bluey be it work or hotels, and Mattel is a treat when it comes to giving us series and movies based on their toylines (not horrible CGI versions of Bob The Builder, Thomas & Friends and - dare I say it - Fireman Sam), but hey, you can control where Barbie and her friends go! Isn't it exciting?

5.Johnny Test: Ultimate Meatloaf Quest

I admit it, Johnny Test is an older kids' version of Caillou, and people hate him just as much as the bald little brat, but despite his ongoing tantrums, I believe his game is just the best. You get to decide where they want to go to get a better dinner to avoid Johnny's dad's Garbage Loaf. Gross. Kids will love it, but adults? Nah, not so much.

4.The Cravendale Stop Motion adverts.

How I love those Cravendale adverts. Nah, not the modern ones, but ones with Cravendale's former mascots, the cyclist, pirate and cow. All they ever say are random words, and they always find solutions to every milk related problem. My favourite two adverts from the campaign are 'Bad Bull', where a bull barges into the trio's milk bar and drinks all the milk, causing the trio to filter him to make him into a reformed, pure and sweet cow, and 'Out Of Stock' where the trio almost fail upon seeing the last bottle of Cravendale being bought by a sheep, until Cow hatches a plan to get to the Cravendale dairy and nab the lot. If you like these amazing pieces of art, you should check out A Town Called Panic. It's done in the same animation style as the adverts, and features a Cowboy, Indian and Horse in zany situations. I also love Barry Biscuit Boy, but that's another story.

3.I Want To Wake Up With You.

Aaaaaaahhhh. The joys of waking up to your best friend lying next to you in bed. That's just how it seems in this short vignette based on 'I Want To Wake Up With You' by Boris Gardner. Orko wakes up one morning in a white, silky soft bed to find Furaha asleep next to him. Suddenly, she disappears, and once Orko finds her hiding under the covers, a full on chase ensues, followed by a wild, fun-filled pillow fight. This would surely make me want to go back to bed, but suddenly, I feel a little out of sorts this morning and my eyes are laden with huge amounts of eye booger...eeeww.

2.A Hug For A Caretaker.

Yesterday, it was Hugging Day, a great day to be hugging your friends and family and watching the Blue's Room DVD 'It's Hug Day'. But Hugging Day, along with Cuddle Up Day, happens to be my favourite day of the year. Tell that to toddler Furaha, she loves that day so much she spends it with her caretaker Orko in this vignette, hiding under the duvet, tickling each other on the sofa, and the best part? Building a cuddly blanket fort to hang out and relax in. This'll give the entire Coffee Crew 'Looking After Arnold' vibes, where Kipper plays various pretend games with Arnold, such as blanket forts and trains, until he gets tired himself. Being a babysitter is hard, ain't it? Yeah, it is.

1.Love As Large As Enormities.

This is a gentle vignette of Furaha and Orko playing with Optimus Prime, and this time they don't just play with him, they play with all his men too - Hot Shot, Red Alert, Jetfire...any Autobot from Transformers Armada you saw in the series. The main ones, not every single one you could think of. It's mainly Hot Shot and Red Alert who come to appreciate they have Furaha and Orko in their lives, as they aren't complete without such a cub to play with them. Remember, the Autobots will always be there to protect our two friends whenever there are spooky shadows or thunderstorms - huge, enormous guardians to help our friends whenever they feel alone.

10 Ideas To Celebrate Hot Sauce Day

10.Try the 'Hot Sauce Challenge' - buy yourself a suitable kit where available.

9.Watch the Annoying Orange video 'Time To Burn' about how too much hot sauce sends Orange hurtling around the universe.

8.Discover the spices that make hot sauce so hot, and how it got its flavour.

7.Pour some hot sauce onto your breakfast toast to start the morning.

6.Watch 'Sunrise Surprise' - a pony video about Octavia reacting in horror over a spicy hot sandwich.

5.Try out some different curries at the local market - they're as hot and spicy as chilli sauce!

4.Draw fanart of characters from Netflix series Not Quite Narwhal, My Little Pony: Make Your Mark, Gabby's Dollhouse, Barbie Epic Road Trip and Johnny Test's Ultimate Meatloaf Quest trying the Hot Sauce Challenge.

3.Find out what foods go well with hot sauce.

2.Pour hot sauce into your milk to give it a spicy feel.

1.And when you're done with all the hot sauce fun, douse it all out with a nice refreshing glass of water!

Milk MILK!

10 Scenes I'll Add Into Animal Kingdom

10.Leopards

Laziness is an essential part of the animal kingdom, especially when Furaha and Orko encounter the leopards. They are the masters of laziness, and teach Furaha and Orko to enjoy the good things in life, such as lazing on a branch and looking out over their jungle. The leopards also remind the duo to take things slowly, and not take a word from their cousins the cheetahs, who remind people that speed makes you have your way. Naughty cheetahs!

9.Bears

The bears are the masters of art. They place their pawprints on the walls of their cave to mark their territory and be there even when they die. Furaha and Orko encounter the bears, who tell them about making their mark on the cave walls to let every creature know they're there. The bears use a special paint called 'Cranberry Paint' which is made of all the fresh cranberries in the kingdom. It's a bit sticky, but painting with it's super fun, and Orko tries to taste some!

8.Rhinos.

The rhinos live in the African part of the kingdom, built with toughness in their horns and legs. They attempt to train Orko to be as tough as them, but after a while, Furaha decides to lure them away from the rhinos by singing 'All The Animals', her oath to the kingdom she and Orko were paired up in. I'll tell more about the song later.

7.Hippos

The hippos are a much more chilled out species, allowing Furaha and Orko to ride on their moist, wet backs across the river. Riding on them is a relaxing experience for the duo, but when they open their mouths, their breaths are smelly from eating fish! Eeeeurgh! Luckily they manage to hop off just in time, so no harm done.

6.Giraffes.

The giraffes have very long necks, which can help them get food from the treetops easier. Furaha and Orko are feeling hungry after their travel round the kingdom, so when they spot a banana tree, they try to reach the fruit. Orko can luckily float up to the bananas to pick them, but they're too slippery and one flies out of his grasp because of the slimy insides of the bananas. Luckily, the giraffes arrive and help the duo get the bananas easily. Good ol' longnecks!

5.Raccoons.

The raccoons are very sneaky, and luckily spot Furaha and Orko when they're trying to seek a bed for the night. They help them find a bed in a very complicated variety of places in the forest, such as a birds' nest which proves too small, a hole in the tree which seems too tight, and a beaver dam which is too itchy. Luckily, they find a treetop nest that used to belong to the gorillas, which moved to the Congo years ago, and they let Furaha sleep in it thanks to a note left behind by the two gorillas who left. Lucky two, that Furaha and Orko!

4.Hyenas.

Hyenas are always laughing, and in their den they're always cracking jokes and engaging in drooly, drippy banter. Furaha and Orko see them laughing over one joke after another and gladly join in their conversation, until the hyenas see them as dinner. Luckily, our friends escape just in time. Those hyenas...they are a hungry lot, aren't they?

3.Chimpanzees.

The chimpanzees are always full of beans, and with the duo of chimps, there isn't a dull moment. The male chimp is level-headed and fatherly, while the other younger female is excitedly screaming and going wild a lot. The male gives Furaha and Orko a ride on his back to his colony, where he introduces them to his family, and they get to play with the baby chimps. The babies will be almost too cute to put into words, especially with their tumbling and bumbling and rumbling!

2.Kangaroos.

Boing boing! We've seen kangaroos before in Spirit Of The Kangaroo, mate, but in this, there are two kangaroos this time - they give Furaha and Orko a ride in their pouches and let them bounce on springy jungle vines so they can bounce like them too. Boing! Wow! Look how high they go!

1. 'All The Animals'

This is a song originally performed by Jewel for her Fisher Price lullaby album, and this is Furaha's lullaby, which she sings to Orko to help him get to sleep when he hears bats screeching in the night. As she sings, the other animals fall asleep too, and Furaha and her brother snuggle down to sleep. What a pleasure it is to be beside your friend in a kingdom full of animals.

10 Scenes I'll Add Into The Furaha & Her Caretaker Trilogy

10.Orko Reads Furaha A Story By The Fireplace. (A Caretaker's Cuddle)

To calm themselves down during a comfortably cold night, Orko reads Furaha the story of a grasshopper trying to get a blueberry by the warmth of their glowing fireplace. This is one of the many moments that show Orko and Furaha have a friendship so cuddly it outlasts any other friendship, and that the warmth of friendship can forever be the warmth of a friendship with a caretaker too. Of course, there's nothing like a story to calm someone hyper down.

9.Orko Looks For Furaha Under The Bedclothes. (A Caretaker's Baby)

The scene in the Thundercats 2011 episode 'Native Son' where Clawdus' former wife tries to find baby Tygra under a pink silk blanket really warms my heart, alongside scenes where Tygra finds out about the new baby she and her husband are having and watches his mother die as Lion O is born. Well, history has to repeat sometimes, and during Furaha's baby years with her caretaker, he loves looking for her under the duvet, because she sleeps with him just so she isn't alone. The duvet is fluffy and white...and very cuddly.

8.Building Blocks (A Caretaker's Baby)

Orko and Furaha's friendship isn't without a little bit of play in their lives, and that includes not just imaginary, stimulating play like Bluey, but toys too. This goes for a set of plastic building blocks which Orko uses to make towers with Furaha and teach her the alphabet. Once he reaches C however, Furaha crawls onto the blocks and knocks them all down, causing Orko to comically think a giant is knocking down his only work (the tower) and crawl away laughing and calling for help, until Furaha crawls all over him, both of them laughing happily.

7.The Beach (A Caretaker's Cuddle)

Going to the beach makes for a cuddly day with your caretaker, especially if he's a magical wizard from Trolla who used to be neglected during his years in Eternia. Now on Earth, Orko lives out many adventures with his best friend Furaha. Furaha and Orko go to their favourite place of all - the beach. Orko applies blue zinc suncream and a white sunhat with a red ribbon to Furaha so she can be safe in the sun, and they enjoy building sandcastles, splashing in the sea and having a nice picnic with ice cream they got from the ice cream stand. Pure and simple Summertime joy.

6.The Blanket Fort. (A Hug For A Caretaker)

I was inspired by the Kipper episode 'Looking After Arnold' to do this. In the original scene, Kipper and Arnold make a house under the table with all of Kipper's toys, lots of pillows and blankets and later a delicious cake with yellow icing and cherries. Yum! The same goes to the scene in A Hug For A Caretaker, where Orko and toddler Furaha make a blanket fort - the cosiest, snuggliest, huggiest one yet - and spend time pretending they're in their very own house when Orko is living in his own house with the cub he takes care of. They spend time relaxing, drinking cocoa and sharing cake in their fort, and Orko even relaxes Furaha by telling her a story. Cute...!

5.Queen Of The House (A Caretaker's Baby)

When you're the ruler of the house, you get to make your own rules - especially if it's Yes Day. Orko pretends that his baby friend is a queen who rules over the whole household, and he is her servant. He brings her all her soft toys, but one rule applies - her servant will always be her caretaker. He hugs his queen, saying she's the best queen ever - even if she has so many toys! Do queens have lots of toys when they're younger? Eh?

4.Furaha Crawls All Over Orko. (A Caretaker's Baby)

Wow, I must've used A Caretaker's Baby a lot today! Anyway, this extract is at the very start of the vignette, where baby Furaha wakes Orko up by crawling all over his body and tickling his shadowed nose with her small, fluffy tail, causing him to wake up and see her. He then engages in a morning hug with her, and tickles her tummy, even though he's just woken up. What a lovely way to start the morning!

3.The Country Farm. (A Caretaker's Cuddle)

Okay, NOW we're onto something different. Furaha and Orko visit a country farm, where they see lots of different animals like cows, sheep, horses and pigs, and Furaha even gets to stroke some of them. Orko even reminds Furaha that getting dirty in mud is fine, but touching pigs may well give her germs. Now we know it's not just sneezes and coughs that cause germs. Orko and Furaha also buy a punnet of strawberries to enjoy at the beach later on, and watch two baby goats playfully butting their heads together. These two goats are inspired by two goats I saw at the animal farm, named Bonnie and Clyde, who were always fighting. "STOOOOOP FIGHTIIIING!!" Okay, Furaha and Orko don't say it in this story.

2.Hiding Under The Duvet. (A Hug For A Caretaker)

As part of Hugging Day (which is today, and is the setting for this vignette), toddler Furaha hugs Orko first thing in the morning, then they hide under the duvet like it is their very own cave. When I had my cats, whenever I was in bed, my old cat Mushroom used to play Cavies with me, which is crawling under the duvet like a cave lion. This is repeated in A Hug For A Caretaker, where Furaha pretends to be a lion prowling under the duvet, and Orko keeps a sharp eye out for her...until Furaha pounces onto him, causing him to fall over backwards with the duvet off the bed, with Furaha on top of him. Luckily, they're both not hurt and they hug again.

1.Bath Time. (A Caretaker's Baby)

SERIOUSLY?! Does THIS have to be number 1 on the list? A Caretaker's Baby is overly repeated on this list, just like Teen Titans Go on Cartoon Network! That show sucks! Anyway, in this scene, Orko fills a small blue bathtub with warm water and soft, thick bubbles and gives Furaha a nice, soft bath, complete with a little squeaky yellow duck and a plastic yellow and red boat, which Furaha tries to sink. Orko even gets out bubble mixture and blows bubbles for her. When it's time for Furaha to get dry, Orko dries her so much she becomes fluffed up, and he has to use a soft-bristled brush to make her fur sleek and smooth again. Aaawwww, what a nice little cub...

Toilet Tag

Introducing the stinkiest, smelliest game ever played by Bluey's friends - Toilet Tag. Although you need three friends to play the game, the game works best with a large group of people - unless you're Pretzel!

Toilet Tag

10 Ideas To Celebrate Hugging Day

10.Watch the 'We Are Family' video featuring characters from Bear In The Big Blue House, Sesame Street, Barney & Friends and more.

9.If you have Care Bears or other stuffed animals at home, give them a bear-sized hug!

8.Watch films featuring huggable characters. Examples include Winnie The Pooh, the Care Bears and Little Bear.

7.Read the book 101 Hugs and make up stories for the huggers featured on each page.

6.Spend a day hugging your duvet while cuddled up in bed.

5.Draw fanart of your favourite cartoon characters hugging.

4.Write a vignette about Furaha and Orko going on a huggable, cuddly adventure.

3.Read the storybook 'Cuddle Bear' about a bear who always gives hugs, then 'Time For A Hug' about a rabbit duo who always hug.

2.Close your eyes and try to imagine tough characters like Lion-O, He Man or Optimus Prime hugging a sweet, innocent original lion cub character.

1....Or just go out and hug someone today!

3 Websites to Get You Off Your Hype Over He Man (2002)

Whenever you encounter an early 2000's series that'll give you a sugar rush of a hype, the same goes to the 2002 He Man series, because of Orko. You'll fall for how cuddly he is, even though he has a minor appearance in some episodes...sometimes I'm against it for not including Orko in almost every episode. So, to get off that hyperactive and flashy series, here are three websites I would recommend would get you deeper into the series...

1.These videos on Youtube provide a portal to where He Man aired in the UK - on Toonami and on GMTV's Up On The Roof strand.

2.This Masters Of The Universe review website reviews all the episodes of the Mike Young series, as well as series from Filmation, Jetlag and Netflix. Click on the link and check it out:

Mike Young Productions

3.Check out these Toonami lineups, featuring He Man in its schedules:

Fridays

Mondays To Saturdays

10 Ideas To Celebrate Cheese Lover's Day

10.Add some cheese sauce to your breakfast toast to start the day.

9.Find out why Swiss cheese has holes, and why mice like cheese.

8.Try out some free samples of cheese at your local food market.

7.Watch shows like 'Tom & Jerry' and 'Wallace & Gromit' where the main characters have a love of cheese.

6.Watch old Laughing Cow adverts with a rapping sheep and a kung fu kickin' rooster, and an old Anchor Cheddar advert featuring a wise turtle and a comical parrot.

5.Find out why cheese and wine go together.

4.Watch the Rocky & The Dodos episode 'Cheese Means Dreams' where Trojan the walrus eats some cheese and has dreams of his island sinking, so he goes to alert everyone.

3.If you have pet rats or mice, give them cheese as a signal to enjoy this special day.

2.Try some cheese block slices with Vimto.

1.Or...just enjoy a cheese sandwich!