I got a dvd for Adia about using a toilet. It starts with a lifeless British voice over:
"This is Jake. Jake has three special friends that live in his pocket."
The camera zooms on on the animated boys pants and inside the pocket at three snails, Gordan, Dale and Buttons.
I wish I could have been at the planning meeting for this show.
guy1: We've got to get kids interested in potties. How do we go about this?
guy2: We need a mascot some fun animal...
guy1: Something cuddly like a rabbit or exciting like a dinosaur?
guy2: ...or like a SNAIL!
guy1: Oh brilliant! yeah kids these days love snails. I mean what could be more exciting than snails.
guy2: And the snails live in pockets!
guy1: So they don't have shells right cause that's where snails live.
guy2: No, they still have them it's where they keep magic things like a potty map and a camera to take pictures! Pocket Snails, kids are gonna freak.
And Adia did. I catch her making up songs about them.
And in more British news, I'm adding a link to my favorite podcast (2nd is Radiolab) I run through the house and fall over giggling when I see my itunes has downloaded a new episode.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/the_bugle/article5675321.ece
(here is radio lab if you want it http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/)
2 comments:
Maybe it's because snails kind of look like poo...?
Ahhh, gotta love the potty movies.
...even better when they're british (then again, isn't everything better when it's british?).
ps-we're lucky enough to have fireflies in the summer here in Oklahoma. Ezra thinks they're the absolute best thing ever.
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