My kids have taken to watching LazyTown, this really druggy and garish kids' show on Playhouse Disney. It's got a lot of caricatured puppets of children with the hands of real people, but also three live actors, the main character played by a little girl in a pink wig. The live actors, particularly the tall fey lantern-jawed villain, ham up their performances mercilessly. Their interactions with the vacant-eyed puppets lend an extra dimension of unreality to the show, and when you add the fact that it's all been dubbed into Swedish so the lip movements don't synch, you've got a product way off the scale on the weirdometer. Bad trip. Baaad trip. Yet LazyTown's intended message is about the virtues of sports and exercise!? It'll have a whole generation huffing paint stripper, mark my words.
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Ha! You think that's bad? My wife complains that I'm not as fit as Sportacus - not by a long way. I'm making an effort - I've promised to grow the moustache...
Yes, my almost 2-yr old sometimes likes to watch it too. I do like it (in english, det ska vara jätte roligt på svenska) only because it teaches fitness and teamwork. I do not like the villian and the puppets though. I find them exceedingly annoying.
You forgot to mention the dance+techno+europop songs!
Kevin, my good man, there are certain things that are not mentioned in polite company. It is simply not done, if you follow.
I've watched LazyTown without sound, last summer when I went to the US they showed a couple of episodes on the flights back and forth. Without sound, you have absolutely no idea what's going on, and that actually makes it even more trippy, if such a thing is possible...
Of course it's trippy, it's from Iceland!
And starring Iceland's gymnastics champion too.