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PIRATE EMERGENCY!
Deidzoeb Started conversation Jun 9, 2001
Anyone who has links to sites which tell me more about YOHO AHOY, please email to me IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!!
I was just poking around in the main BBC site and found some vague references to this new PIRATE SHOW (why am I obsessively drawn to children's pirate shows and toys? go figure) and I must know all about it.
PLEASE! HeLP! Need fix! More cartoon pirates! (Apparently one of them is named POOP and there's another named GROG who has hooks for both hands?!??!?! Gott in himmel, it sounds so grotesquely charming!!!! Please get those Teleguts off the air and put MILLIONS OF TEENY CLAY PIRATES on the air instead!)
YOHO AVAST!!!!
PIRATE EMERGENCY!
Deidzoeb Posted Jun 12, 2001
Never mind. Cancel emergency. Step down to DefCon 3.
Surfing hard last night, I was able to find a tv listing for an Ontario station that shows Yoho Ahoy on weekday mornings. It doesn't come in very clear, but clear enough to get a good glimpse of the show. Unfortunately, they show 7 or 8 minute episodes of several different cartoons, so I got up early this morning just to see one 8 minute segment of the baby buccaneers.
Still pretty cool. Grog the cook has two hooks for hands, but can put other attachments in place of the hooks, like a spoon and an egg-beater. Cyborg? Not quite, but cool.
I thought the two-word vocabulary would be pretty weird, and it is interesting how much they can express just by the tone and volume of two words. But it's not as trippy as some of the weird elements of Teletubbies. The vast green lawns with bunnies and flowers and the submerged UFO they live in. Those speaker things that pop up out of the flowers like something from The Prisoner. And especially the baby sun god. I find something so compelling yet disturbing about the baby sun god. As Dieter would say in a favorable review, "baby sun god pulls my pants down and taunts me."
PIRATE EMERGENCY!
Deidzoeb Posted Jun 12, 2001
PS - I love the fact that a children's show features a prominent character named POOP. This will not set well with parents. But it's an awesome show, and will overshadow the Teleyawnables within moments.
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