Happy Birthday, brave kid!

Today is the birthday of my good friend brave kid from Fanfiction.net. Happy Birthday, brave kid! May your birthday and every day be full of happiness, friendship, and many, many good things. :)

 

 

Here also are two special birthday gifts I've made for him. One is a picture inspired by the movie Hey There, it's Yogi Bear, with Russel Ferguson skipping off to meet his beloved Zoe.

 

 

 

Here also is a picture of Coop and Mr. Kat as friends, sharing a hug. The song lyrics are from an episode of Dog With a Blog.

 





Cartoon Showcase: Littlest Pet Shop in Whenever Lola Laughs

In this episode, the pets are visited by melancholy performance artist Lola the Sad Little Kangaroo. Each of them attempt to make her laugh and show her how to be positive, which, unfortunately proves to be futile...futile, that is, until she gets a load of Squeaks' zany act, which has her cracking up in a heartbeat! Unfortunately, however, when her owner Gunther(who has worse trouble keeping his pants on than Tubbs does!) comes to pick her up, he takes umbrage at her newfound levity. Can the pets(especially Squeaks) show him the benifits of humor? Please enjoy!



Cartoon Showcase: Littlest Pet Shop in Treasure of Sierra Pet Shop

If there's a prize for how much slapstick is in a single LPS episode, this episode might certainly win it! In this humorous offering from this cool but underappreciated series, Chloe finds what she perceives to be a treasure map, so she and the other pets charter a boat to a small island to find it. When they find a large gold tooth, they end up feuding...all with appropriate amounts of hilarity ensuing! Please enjoy!

Funny Poem Showcase:There Was an Old Person of Blythe* by Edward Lear

Okay, he's loopy.

 

 

 

 

 

*No relation.

Cartoon Showcase:Littlest Pet Shop in For the Love of Lovas and Obedience School

In the first half of this humorous episode, Viv teams up with Sarge to save Sarge's old lobster buddy Lovas from a cooking show. (Watch for Viv to make good her cooking skills!)

In the second half, after Stu and Rookie wreck the pet shop for what must be the millionth time, Elwood enrolls them both in a renowned obedience school...but is the school all that it appears to be? Please enjoy!

You know...Viv's a pretty good cook. She should have a show on the Food Network! :-D

Cartoon Showcase:Littlest Pet Shop in Chet the Dream Horse and Going Bananas

Here, as per the previous post, is an episode of this hilarious series! In the first half, Chet, while dodging his would-be admirer Sabrina, meets a little girl named Marlene who'd like a littlest pet horse. Chet is all too happy to come with her...until she dresses him up like a doll and plays with him in her dollhouse! (Watch for Elwood to "not take yes for an answer"!)

In the second half, Squeaks drives off in Elwood's miniature car and comes across a boy named Ronnie who's working on a science project for school. Ronnie opts to use Squeaks in his science project...but will it work? (Watch for a cameo by renowned lawyer Larry J. Weasel!) Please enjoy!

In The Lemon-Limelight:Littlest Pet Shop

Everything they do is a wow.



Littlest Pet Shop was a series based off of the ever-popular toy line, made by Sunbow Entertainment. It premiered on UPN 20 in 1995.

The show concerned the kindly(but slightly eccentric) pet shop owner Elwood P. Harvey and the group of mouse-sized pets inhabiting his shop. Said pets had the propensity to cause mayhem and get into wacky misadventures, much to Elwood's chagrin.

The main cast of pets consisted of the smart, sensible, but sometimes sarcastic purple cat Chloe who seemed to be the group's leader, the dopey but lovable blue dog Stu(no relation), the witty, British-accented pink rabbit Viv who was something of a musician and whose hat contained a band(consisting of a rat, a mouse, and a squirrel), the feisty, short-tempered yellow horse Chet who acted like a stereotypical cowboy(not unlike Ultimate Muscle's Terry Kenyon*), and the hyper, comedic red monkey Squeaks who spoke in chatters and was obsessed with bananas(Everytime he saw a banana, he'd go DOWNRIGHT CRAZY!!!)

Allies of the group, who appeared on occasion, were the talkative parrot Harriet, Sarge the hamster, who, as his name implied, looked and acted like a millitary sergeant, Bernice, a large yellow hamster who was Sarge's on again-off again girlfriend, and Rookie, a normal-sized Dachshund puppy**. The group's main antagonist was Delilah, a normal-sized Monitor lizard who spoke and acted like Zsa Zsa Gabor. Delilah was forever trying to gobble up the little pets(This behavior, of course, always occured in Elwood's absence). Some other recurring antagonists were a trio of bugs who lived in the pet shop's walls. Occasional appearances were also made by Elwood's globetrotting mother Mumsy.

Episode plots involved various wacky mishaps the pets would get into, such as getting an owner who'd end up not working out, or sneaking into someplace and trying not to get caught; the group would occasionally meet other littlest pets as well(one most notable being a white tiger). Much madcap humor and Looney Toons-cum-Tex Avery-eque slapstick adorned every episode.

The show only lasted a year, with only 40 episodes made. While this show, regrettably, isn't currently available on TV or DVD, four different videos were made, containing four episodes each(except for the Christmas one, which only contains two):

Treasure of Sierra Pet Shop***

 

Wrecking Havoc

 

Scaredy Dog

 

Do Not Solve Until Christmas

 

 

Overall, this is a fun, entertaining, and downright HILARIOUS show that really deserved more attention. The characters are likeable and humorous, and the episodes are a lot of fun. Some fans have (somewhat unfairly) criticised the show's art style and music(Honestly, I'll admit it's no Toy Story 3, but it's pretty well done for something of that era). An underappreciated series that's definetly worth a peek;like the Littlest Pet Shop franchise(as I do) and you like hilarious TV shows(as I also do) this is the show for you!

The theme song captures the show's wacky nature perfectly****

 

 

Several action figures were made of the various characters*****, as well as several playsets and a few keychain plushies, all bearing the official Littlest Pet Shop label. These items appear on ebay from time to time.

 

 

"It's all for one and one for all, and also slightly off the wall!"

 

 

 

 

 

*More on that franchise later....

 

**Rookie's my fav character, BTW.

 

***BTW, I highly reccommend the title episode of this video. IT'S A SCREAM-A-MINUTE!!!! :-D

:-D :-D

 

****Lyrics were later added to the theme song, but regrettably, I haven't been able to find the version with the lyrics. If I do, however, I'll post it here.

 

*****With the ever-inexplicable absence of Chet. :-(









Book Review:George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl

Something's cookin' in the kitchen!

Here's a review of yet another Roald Dahl classic.

George is a little boy who lives on a farm with his parents, and has a kinda'...sorta'...(VERY!) huge problem:his grandma. You see, she isn't your typical kind of grandma, the sweet, kind, loves-her grandkids-like-crazy, gives-plenty-of-hugs-and-kisses, takes-her-grandkids-out-for-ice-cream-and/or-to-the-zoo kind. No, she's the meanest, nastiest, most hygeine-deficient old lady you'd ever care to meet, and constantly bullies poor little George.(George even wonders if she might be a witch...Honestly, she missed a good bet if she wasn't!)

George is in charge of giving Granny her medicine; he notes to himself that it never seems to her any good, because it never improves her demeanor at all. So, George decides then and there that he'll cook up a medicine that hopefully will change her attitude. He then sets about roaming around the house, gathering up various household items(shaving cream, floor wax, birdseed, hairspray, antifreeze et al.) and mixing them up in a large cooking pot.

When George gives this concoction to Granny, however, it ends up having an effect he hadn't reckoned on...it causes her to grow to a GINORMOUS size!(Unfortunately, however, it doesn't improve upon her mood at all.) :-(

Granny doesn't believe that George's medicine caused this, so George endeavors to prove it to her by feeding the medicine to a nearby chicken, which also not only grows huge, but lays a massive egg.

George's father is very intrigued by this, and asks George to dose several other farm animals(chickens, cows, pigs, sheep et al.) as well. George's father wants to market the medicine...but can George remember the formula? And what about Grandma?


My thoughts:Honestly, this is one of Dahl's funnier books, with animals(as well as Granny!) jittering around, flying into the air, and screaming "OWEE!", and many weird, wacky things happening. (Triple LOL with whipped cream and a strawberry on top!)
:-D :-D :-D

My only beef about this book is:

-Like a few other people that have reviewed this book, I didn't much go for what ended up happening to the grandma.(To embellish upon a quote from this Littlest Pet Shop episode, "The old lady was creepy, but even she didn't deserve that!)

All in all, a good, humorous, well-written book that any Roald Dahl aficionado is sure to enjoy.

Buy it on Amazon!