Dexter's Laboratory - "Sister's Got a Brand New Bag"

Uh, look guys, I don't have a lot of time, I'm kind of in the middle of something and I really can't explain, so, I'll try to do this review of "Sister's Got a Brand New Bag" real quick alike.

Dee-Dee learns a brand new dance from Groove Train, a spoof of Soul Train, and it's been well choreographed that Dee-Dee wants to show Dexter her new dance, but no matter what Dexter does, he literally cannot avoid it.

How will Dexter get out of this? Or will he give in to her sister's instincts?

Well, I'm not telling! Because you've got to watch and figure it out for yourself.

Next, the jokes and humor.

This episode is a lot of fun, and the dances are well done, I mean take a look at Big Daddy Fat, he really knows how to groove unlike all the other dancers Dee-Dee has seen before.

I also like the humor of Dexter accidentally turning his lab into an icy environment.

And I even like Dee-Dee's slow mo dancing while underwater.

Also, Dexter does like the dance, and there's no music playing in the background. That's kind of odd, isn't it?

All in all, this episode is a heck of a lot of fun. It's visually interesting, it's funny, it's musically interesting, and even Dee-Dee's dance takes up most of the episode in a good way.

The dance by the way is called the Moonwalk.

All I can say here is that Dee-Dee's got a  new way to walk, song reference intended.

Anyways, this is my last review for now. Hopefully, by the time my computer gets moved to another location in to the dining room, hopefully, I'll get a new review out by Friday. That is, if I don't go through limited time using the computer, because for some reason, my Mom and Dad don't trust me using this computer in my room anymore.

Phineas and Ferb - "Happy New Year"

Even though it's already the second week of January 2018, I'd figured I should still review the New Year's Eve episode of the ever popular Disney cartoon, Phineas and Ferb. So, without acquaintances be forgotten, let's begin.

It's New Year's Eve, and everyone's getting ready for the Big Bash. Phineas and Ferb put up their annual New Year's Eve Ball into Outer Space outside Isabella's backyard, and Candace is going to a New Year's Party with Jeremy and Stacy. However, there's a problem. Candace can't stop thinking about Phineas and Ferb doing those sneaky things which Candace fails to show her parents, when she goes to the bathroom to pull herself together, she sees someone eating a sandwich despite announcing their New Year's Resolution, and Candace decides maybe it's not too late to bust Phineas and Ferb. So, she leaves the party to investigate. Will she finally bust the duo? Fat chance!

Over on the Perry and Doofenshmirtz side of things, Doofenshmirtz decides to brain wash everybody at midnight into making him to his orders, comes as no biggie that his plan does indeed backfire. And he does have a heart, an evil one that is, and he does wish Perry a Happy New Year near the ending. You know, if these Perry and Doofenshmirtz plots were never on the show, I would've been fine with that, but that's just me. I kind of like Doofenshmirtz's robot though.

This episode is visually interesting, it's not laugh out loud funny, but it's got great visuals. It kind of reminds me of the Sesame Street New Year's Eve Special if you ask me. Except, in that special we only see the kids side of the party, but here, we see both sides, both adult and kid alike. I kind of like the looks of that giant ball, it looks an awful lot like that giant Disco ball from the Powerpuff Girls episode, "Boogie Frights." You did see my review of that one, didn't you? I especially love the ending song, simply knwn as "Happy New Year" as sung by Olivia Olson, yes, the actress who voiced Bliss in The Power of Four, but I'll review that one of that rehash some other time. And Ferb's line in this was and I quote "Auld Lang Syne" literally means "old long ago," but I'd rather think of New Year's as an unspoiled universe.: I also like the fireworks at the end and even the romance that Jeremy and Candace have, even Jeremy likes Candace the way she is, being her girl who tries to tell on her brothers self. The fireworks are something that was really missing from the Sesame Street New Year's special. So, If I had to choose between those two specials, I'd pick this one. Did I forget to mention that John Viener, who worked on Family Guy, voiced Norm the Robot?

So, in the words of Cookie Monster, "THE END! Me love credits!"

SpongeBob - "Jellyfish Jam" Review

Now, I'm going to review a SpongeBob episode, not a current season, but an episode from the first three seasons. This is one of them. It's my favorite episode of the first season, it's called, "Jellyfish Jam." Y'all ready for this? What's the story?

After making a jelly sandwich from a jellyfish, after trying so desperately to get rid of the jellyfish, SpongeBob gives in to his own instincts and decides to take the jellyfish home with him because the jellyfish has feelings for SpongeBob. They spent almost the entire day dancing to rave music that was composed for Mark Governor and Glenn Nishida, much to Squidward's chagrin. It gets so out of hand when the jellyfish invite all of the entire jellyfish fields residence for a dance party unlike any other. How can SpongeBob handle this? Watch to find out. Now, onto the review.

This episode is a heck of a lot of fun, it has such cool music to dance to, and it has a good moral, wild animals can throw very wild parties. Squidward's appearance was also impressive and well-balanced. And it was one of the FEW, and I do mean the FEW episodes where the french narrator concludes the episode. I also like how they use SpongeBob as a Disco ball. And for the rave music, it's a little bit like the Bunny Song just in the sense of you know, everything else fades to black and you've got colorful spotlights all over the characters. I especially like the animation of the house jumping up and down as we pan to Squidward's house. What's there to not like here? Seriously?

So, what's the bottom line? Well, it's just so much fun. I mean, hey, it was written by the same people who wrote Plankton! Ennio Torresan Jr. and Erik Wiese. Mr. Lawrence didn't write this episode though with the duo, original story editor Peter Burns co-wrote this episode, but just because Mr. Doug Lawrence didn't write this episode doesn't mean it's not good. I should also mention that this episode only has two voice actors. Tom Kenny and Rodger Bumpass. Just two, that's okay, we don't need more. If you have your SpongeBob spirits back up since Stephen Hillenburg's return, go ahead and watch this episode.

Also, go ahead and check out the rave music, right here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5glkFSCuMI

What Was Blue's Dream About?

Here comes another. This one is my personal favorite season two episode, "What Was Blue's Dream About?" What's strange is the fact that this episode aired right after "Blue's Birthday" where Steve had much shorter hair, minus the intro, I point this out because Nickelodeon had a very strange airing order. But I digress. What's the story? Blue had a dream, and we play Blue's Clues to figure out what it was., along the way, we see what Slippery had a dream about, what Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper dreamed about what Paprika grew up to be, and Mailbox delivering a letter about making dream catchers, and last but not least, Steve and the audience help Sleeping Beauty change her nightmare into a party!

What's great about this episode is that it's fun, it tackles on dreams and how we can use our imaginations to change them. The episode also got funny at times, like for example, Steve mishearing "A clue!" as the viewers telling him to tie his shoes, it's important to note that it's revealed that Steve indeed wears green socks, the other funny part is the part where Steve trips over the second clue, the mat that is, and says :"Oops," as well as him getting the wrong answer about a leotard rolling up and taking a nap. I also like the idea of Slippery Soap's superhero alter ego, which ironically, he would get a superhero alter ego a few years later.

But perhaps the best highlight of the entire episode was of course, the Skidoo segment, where Steve and Blue skidoo into Sleeping Beauty's dream to fix it and make it into a party, changing a monster into a three layered cake (a piece of cake), during scary trees into three balloons, pretty neat, and finally, changing the dark fence into a fence with party hats on them, when all that's done, we get a cool song that unfortunately never released on CD on any of the Blue's Clues CD albums, "Our Dream" a glitzy Disco tune that really helped put Disco back on the map, kind of like how The Angry Beavers' "Beaver Fever" song did. If I didn't know better, I'd say this song looks like something that Christopher Cerf would write, in fact, I wonder if Christopher Cerf actually co-wrote this song with Nick Balaban and Michael Rubin. Oh, well, wild guess or not, we'll never know.

If your a fan of disco, or if your just a fan of Blue's Clues, go ahead and check it out if you haven't already. It's a heck of a lot of fun.

Count it Higher: Great Music Videos from Sesame Street Review

Time for me to review another direct-to-video musical video but not a sing-along video in my opinion,

Count it Higher: Great Music Videos from Sesame Street! One of the best Sesame Street videos made period. We're going to count down the songs, and the extra, and we'll pick one is the best okay. Anyways, this video was written by Christopher Cerf and it was directed by Jon Stone, who also directed "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street."

The Count (Jerry Nelson) is your VJ host on The Count's Countdown Show as he presents the top 7 videos of the week, however, it still features the usual My Sesame Street Home Video appearances by Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, because all of these videos had Carroll Spinney in them. Here are some fun facts, Martin P. Robinson, the voice of Telly and Riff was the announcer, and David Rudman assisted Jerry Nelson with the Count on his puppetry, doing his right hand. The Count framing segments are pretty good. The reason I think it's good is because it looks like they were taped during production of Season 20, hence the lighting, but the 1982-1988 Big Bird puppet was used here, so, if I didn't know better, maybe that puppet was originally going to be a part of Season 20. But I'm just making wild guesses and getting ahead of myself, onto the countdown.

Number 7: The Ten Commandments of Health

The song was written by Christopher Cerf and Thad Mumford.

The song was performed by Dr. Thad and the Medications with Dr. Thad (Thad Mumford) providing the lead vocals. What I like about this song is how the Fat Blue patient (Jerry Nelson) keeps memorizing Dr. Thad's lyrics, but keeps getting put down by one of the doctors. Also note that Christopher Cerf, Frank Oz, and Richard Hunt can also be heard as the backup doctors. This was a clever parody of "The Ten Commandments of Love," despite myself never hearing the actual song. Also, this is one of Thad Mumford's very few involvements with Sesame Street, his other involvements were "Oh, G (I Love That Letter)," "Me Going to Munch You, Munch You," as well as backup vocals by the Monotones in "With Every Beat of My Heart." He was also the writer for the other Sesame Workshop program, The Electric Company, and he later went on to write for various shows like Good Times, ALF, A Different World, The Duck Factory, and of course, M*A*S*H. Next number.

Number 6: Do-Op Hop!

Here's my personal favorite song on the video. "Do-Op Hop!" it was written by Norman Stiles with music by Christopher Cerf.

From 1984, this particular song was performed by Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson) backed up by the Moo Wave cows. What I like about this song is that it's fun, it has a good rock and roll beat to it, as well as good choreography by all of the animals. Especially at the end when Kermit gets tossed up in the air as a way of hopping. In fact, Noel MacNeal, the voice of Magellan, Leon, and Kako provided most of the tossing of the puppets as well as the puppetry for the dog during Kermit's second verse. According to The Count, there were 62 hops!

Number 5: ZZ Blues

After a celebrity appearance by Big Bird, we get Over the Top performing ZZ Blues. It's obvious that I've never heard the band, ZZ Top, these guys really knew how to parody the band with those long bears and everything like that. In my opinion, I just don't think this song kind of fits for my taste, it wasn't that catchy, but the visuals were at least interesting, like for example, the Zebra, the multicolor lighting, the zipper, and the dancing Z. The song was written by Christopher Cerf and Sarah Durkee.

Song Extra: Honk Around the Clock

This song was written by Christopher Cerf and Tony Geiss (who created the character of the Honkers)

This song, sung by Christopher Cerf, has the Honkers literally honking around the clock at the Sesame Street Fever disco palace. The song's title by be a parody of "Rock Around the Clock," but it sounds nothing like Bill Haley and the Comets' own song. All I can say is that it's pretty catchy.

Song #4: Letter B

This 1979 song was written by Christopher Cerf, as requested by Oscar the Grouch, and sung by The Sesame Street Beetles, with Richard Hunt provided the lead vocals. This is another song, that I refer to to be pretty weak, but on the plus side, there is a much better Beatles spoof song coming up in a few songs. I still like Richard Hunt as the lead vocals. Fun fact: This song is a parody of the Beatles song, "Let it Be." When the Beatles' catalogue was still owned by Northern Songs, the company attempted to sue Children's Television Workshop for $5.5 million. They cited that the song too closely resembled "Let It Be." Before the case came to trial, Michael Jackson purchased the Lennon/McCartney catalogue and the suit was dropped. The Children's Television Workshop was only fined $50, which was paid out of Christopher Cerf's own pocket. Paul McCartney, who was not involved in the lawsuit, wrote to Cerf saying that he liked the song This info was not by me, but I read it from The Muppet Wiki, just bare with me okay, the rest will still be my material, like for example, I will say that the name of their album, Sesame Road, would eventually become an actually Sesame Street album a few years later in 1993, now, with that out of the way,let's keep going.

Song #3: Wet Paint

Written by Christopher Cerf and Jon Stone and sung by How Now Brown (Christopher Cerf) and the Moo Wave This song is so cool, it's your stereotypical 1980's music video parody with some clever twists, the music has a cool rock and roll beat attached with the Moo Wave (Ivy Austin and Cheryl Hardwick) harmonizing during the chorus verses by How Now Brown. A fun fact is that I should mention is that this segment originally began with an intro by a Hot Pink VJ voiced by Fran Brill, heck, her name is even in the credits in the video.

Song #2: Do De Rubber Duck

Another song that was written by Christopher Cerf and Norman Stiles. It was performed by Ernie and his friends, Telly Monster, Oscar the Grouch, Kermit the Frog, The Count, Biff, Guy Smiley, Gladys the Cow, Elmo, and Hoots the Owl. Fun facts I should mention is that Noel MacNeal actually did the puppetry for Oscar hear while Carroll Spinney dubbed it in later, and David Rudman, who helped Jerry Nelson in the framing material did the puppetry for Kermit in this song, while I guess Jim Henson was too busy performing Ernie. Another Muppet performing contribution I should mention is M. Elizabeth Huston (or her nickname, Michael Huston). I like the ending where everyone disappears and Ernie looks around and says, "Whoops! Where did everybody go?" They must've left one heck of a clog in the drain. And at the end of the son, The Count acknowledges his appearance and says that there were 247,561 bubbles in Ernie's bathtub.

And now, we saved the best for last.

Song #1: Count it Higher!

This song according to the Count will always be number one, why? Because it's his favorite song, that's why, coincidentally, this is my favorite song too. Anyways, this song was from 1973 of Season 5, and it was the musical debut of Christopher Cerf and his band, Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats. The Alphabeats here are performed by Richard Hunt (the green one), Jeff Moss (the lavender one), and Jerry Nelson (the Hot Pink little one). And the best part is the song is so catchy that you could never get it out of your head. That explains why it would always be number one. Also, this song is a spoof on the hit song "Twist and Shout," originally covered by The Top Notes and The Isley Brothers, but it was made famous by The Beatles. This song will forever be one of my favorite Christopher Cerf songs on Sesame Street.

Bottom line, this was a great musical full of great Sesame Street music videos, most of them from the 80's that is. My only complaint is the fact that the song from 1987, "Healthy Food" by Cookie Monster and the Fly Girls is never on this video, I wonder why, did they not know they had a song already taped and written, oh well, I'll never know. Anyways, it was a great video that was taped during Season 20 and was the video that really wanted the people on Sesame Street to start working on the Sesame Songs video series. Christopher Cerf, Jon Stone, and Jerry Nelson were all terrific in their roles as the stars of this particular masterpiece.

If you wanna see the video as a whole: Check it out in the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-PzWYsQX58

One more thing, the video was brought to you by the letters B, and Z, and by the number 10 (hence the songs.) Sesame Street is a production of the Children's Television Workshop.

The Powerpuff Girls - "Boogie Frights"

If you've just watched Shadow Streak's recent reviews of the reboot's episodes "Professor Proofed" and "Somewhere Over the Swingset," it's a sure sign that the original series is SO much better, and you should stay away from the reboot and wait until it's canceled. Today, I'm reviewing the 5th episode of the series, "Boogie Frights." In this episode, The Boogie Man, a disco dancing monster, plans to block out the sun so that he and his monster colleagues can dance and party all night long! So, it's up to the girls to stop him and destroy the giant disco ball in space.

Even though Bubbles is the main focus of the episode, the star of the episode is none other than Buttercup! She got a lot of spotlight in the episode, explaining about loving the nightlife, and even teasing her sisters about the Boogie Man thus scaring Bubbles. The episode also has a great moral, face your fears head-on. The title of the episode is based off of Boogie Nights which is not for kids. But as you know, they sometimes make jokes that aren't for kids. As for Buttercup's character, E.G. Daily sounded like she was just having so much fun! She's adorable, how could you not be scared by it. This made me realize the original series was a much better comedy. And I give Tara Strong some credit for making Bubbles sound so scared she couldn't even fall asleep until the Professor helps the girls with their problems.

This episode is a heck of a lot of fun, check it out for yourself if you haven't seen it. You can even enjoy it...............AFTER DARK!

Did I scare you?