OK now kookily enough i've now seen this show and i have to kinda agree with Scott - ie:- It's crap !
I very much like the idea of a workout show for kids when they get up in the morning (so much so, i might steal the idea myself) but as other people have said, they really have tried too much to be educational rather than fun. When it's early in the morning - you wanna chuckle, not start to learn - if you are gonna get them to learn its better to do it subliminally. I think they should have put more effort into developing much stronger and funnier characters rather than going full on with the whole 'Animal' theme which i think gets a bit tired after about ooooh 3 minutes. It doesn't really need that, it could be just a fun puppet show where they prepare the kids for the day ahead. I liked the build up to the elephant coming on and the way he got his groove on but if i was doing it i would have had puppets dancing along with the kids probably and giving them more instruction as they went but in a light hearted way and maybe even individual to each kid. The segments inbetween the dancing aren't bad but suffer from it being hard to get to know the charcters - for a start calling them DJ 1, 2 & 3 is very impersonal. It gets about a 2 out of 5 from me - i think the channel they are on kinda demands how they are doing it rather than how maybe kids would like them to do it.
Remember the scene in MFS where Sam is excercising the chickens, and also the scene in VMC where the pig character is the dance instructor giving instruction. I'd love to have that kinda thing going on while teaching the kids to excercise. Maybe make it a small segment of a more general morning kids show.
I was also dissapointed by the Penguin. He's too cutesy and bland. Penguins are fun and zany - they're supposed to jump in the air and make you feel like you wanna wear your pants on your head (well, maybe thats just me). I would have liked a Muppet penguin, rather than *ack* an educational penguin ! *spits*
As the official spokesperson and president of the society against the gratuitous use of penguins i may well have to censure that channel for gratuitously using a penguin to educate the children of the country while betraying his own wacky heritage !
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