Wonder Dorks
Every night before the kids’ bedtime, the whole family relaxes on the couch and watches one episode of Thomas, Max and Ruby, or Wonder Pets. I’m not sure who likes the cartoons more, Carson or Tate and me.
Here’s a snippet of a recent conversation between Wonder Dork #1 and Wonder Dork #2:
Tate: “Can we watch both Wonder Pets episodes? I haven’t seen the one where the they save the kangaroo.”
Me: “Oooh! It’s a really good one! It’s kind of a tear-jerker, though. It all works out in the end, luckily. They have celery on the barbie when they find the kangaroo’s mommy.”
We looked at each other and realized to our horror that any semblence of cool that we liked to pretend still existed had at that moment gone up in poof of smoke.
Since we had already lost our membership in the cool club, Tate and I belted out all the lyrics to the Wonder Pets songs.
(Just shut up. okay?!) (Don’t pretend that you don’t tear up at Wonder Pets occasionally and sing along, too.) (And I’m sorry if I gave away the ending to the kangaroo episode. I probably should have given a spoiler alert.)
hehe that sounds like us with Handy Manny
I love Wonder Pets but they’ve changed Mingming’s voice so she’s just not as cute anymore 
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That is hilarious! But don’t worry, Dora taught me Spanish, what little I know.
I haven’t seen the wonder pets in awhile…the backyardigans have been quite the staple lately!
I really enjoy the Tiki Beach episode!
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Maybe we could have a support group.
My name is Maggie. And I love the Wonder Pets.
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I would love to watch this show, but the duck’s lisp makes me want to beat someone. Who makes a show for kids and gives one of the main characters a lisp?
Whew, feel a little to strongly about that apparently. I’ll have to give it another try if what Marilyn commented is true.
My girls are a little older than your kids, so we’re into shows like Word Girl, which I secretly love for them to watch. It’s actually really funny, which also makes me a dork.
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Wonderpets. Check. We’re always looking for a good video to become addicted to. We’ve gone through Pooh, Elmo (kill me now), Old School Sesame Street, and now we’re on Curious George. Good times. And yeah, we said goodbye to cool a LONG time ago.
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We have the same routine with Jeopardy and then Dora/Diego.
And my husband looks at me and says, ‘Is it wrong that I’m learning all the spanish I know from a kids cartoon?”
I also wake up some mornings with the Johnny and the Sprites song stuck in my head. It’s like mad cow disease.
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seriously, I’ve never see an episode….apparently I need to, all the cool kids are watching it.
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Awww…TheKid is too old for those shows now. I secretly enjoyed Power Rangers when he was younger though.
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I have never seen a single moment of Wonderpets. And I think that might just be a good thing.
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I’ve not had the pleasure of watching Wonder Pets…but I’ll check it out if you say its THAT good.
Its ok that you and Tate aren’t cool. I was informed by my lil cousin that I’m not cool either because I still wanted to watch Dora and aparently that’s just not “in” anymore. Sigh.
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This is the first show my son fell in love with. He didn’t even care about TV until a few months ago when I came across the Wonder Pets. My husband doesn’t watch it (he has now that I got Zachariah the DVD for his birthday), so he laughs at me when I sing the song or reference something from a show. (That cracks me up when they try something different with their celery.)
When my son eats celery, he says “Wonder Pets” over and over the whole time. I always have to say “Yes, just like the Wonder Pets eat” before he’ll stop. And if I sing “What’s gonna work?” he’ll reply (in a pretty good singing voice for his age) “TEEEEAM WORK!”. It’s the cutest thing.
See? You’re not the only one. Can we start a recovery program?
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My favorite is the unicorn episode!!
I am a Wonder Dork too!
Around here, we’re known to sing a snipit of the song from the episode where they save the butterfly…
“…..I can only drink juices or whatever.”
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Oh we love the Wonderpets. Ming Ming has a lisp because the little girl who plays her had a lisp when she auditioned for the role and when the show went in production they asked her to keep speaking that way even though she’d grown out of her lisp.
Hmm… perhaps I know too much about this particular subject.
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The theme always gets stuck in my head. I had issues with the puppy needs to go potty one. Though it was pretty suspenseful there at the end if they were going get him out to go on time.
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I’ll just say that the when my cell phone rings you will hear:
The phone, the phone is ringing…..
The phone, we’ll be right there…..
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When they did the prime-time special on Blue’s Clues, where they switched from Steve to Joe, I not only taped it “for the kids,” I watched it while it was on. And CRIED.
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I really hate the wonder pets and their collective lisps! Although I will admit, the song is catchy!
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izzy loves the wonderpets and at 2 she can sing the whole song. it’s a cute cartoon and yes, the kangaroo one is kinda sad. izzy also loves max and ruby. it’s okay, not one i like to watch, but hubby hates that cartoon. has even threaten to write a letter to the producer…now that’s some serious contemplations are cartoons!!
izzy’s most favorite cartoon is wow wow wubbzy. not many people ever know what i am talking about, but it’s cute. she asks for it all day. of course its one of those cartoons that has nothing out for vhs/dvd and that leaves us waiting all day for it to come on.
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I hate Wonder Pets. LOL We used to watch them in the morning…but thankfully he gets up later and we miss them now. We just watch Micky Mouse Clubhouse, Handy Manny, and Tigger and Pooh.
And we talk about those cartoons the same way…”Oh, I haven’t seen this one before..I like it…”
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We secretly watch the Wonder Pets at our house, too. I even argues with them over the episode where the calf gets caught in a tornado and gets stuck in a tree. I scoffed and said, “If there really was a tornado, then that tree wouldn’t still be there.” Because the tree was the implausible part, not the talking, driving, singing baby animals.
So, I’m a dork, too. Do we get a special hat for this club?
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Yup. That’s all of us with the Little Einsteins song. And we all get up and dance while we sing along. I LOVE that song!
I need therapy.
And- I love the lisp on Wonder Pets!! Love it!
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Oh- while I love the Wonder Pets lisp,
I HATE HATE HATE Handy Manny and his “accent”. What is that anyway!!
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Wonder Pet, Wonder Pets, we’re on our way!
To save the baby dolphin and save the day!
Or something like that…
We’re Backyardigans fans here
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Ah, let me count the number of times I’ve sung “What’s gonna work?” to get my son to help me clean up…
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really???…they ate CELERY???…you did spoil the ending for me…way to go.
yep…we like the wonderpets too.
except right now…with a 4 year old girl…she’s into the barbie movies. you know…the ones where barbie ACTS in different roles…why, there are even outtakes at the end (or as stella calls them, the take-outs…hmmm, do we eat out too much?) i can’t believe that i actually laugh when barbie’s cell phone goes off during a “scene”. ha ha. or the elephant’s cell phone…ha ha ha. and i know all of the songs…beat that.
yes…my name is jen and i’ve officially joined the kid-brain, dork-club too. are you handing out membership cards?
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Good lord. Dylan sings the WP song CONSTANTLY and then puts different words to it and sings them to the tune/melody/whatever of the WP song. It’s funny and cute until it gets annoying. And anytime I ask him to do something he says “OKAY, Ming Ming!”
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We love the Wonder Pets! You’re not a dork… well… never mind.
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As I type, my sick little guy is watching the Wonder Pets save a bee. My littlest was Ming Ming for Halloween. My middle child was Tuck–for the second year in a row.
Don’t even get me started on the Wonder Pets.
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I’m with you Jen. wonder pets is a big hit in our house and I’ve seen the Joey episode with celery on the barbie - duck speech impediments and all. Seen the one with the asteroid about to obliterate them and the monkey in outer space? A personal favorite.
I’m feelin’ ya …
~Jef
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Yup, wonderpets. Gotta love them! At least they eat healthy snacks!
My DD loves them, Word Girl, Mr. Rogers, Dora, Diego, Mai Ling etc. But she mixes it up between Nick Jr and PBS Kids. I have gotten her hooked on Old School Muppets too (Just found “The Muppet Movie” for $1.50 at the resale store! cha ching!)
Could be worse I suppose….
I’m president of the “Little Einstein Dorks” if anyone wants to join my club!
I think i’m moving up in the world…when my oldest was young I was a Blues Clues Dork, then with my son I was a Drangon Tales Dork, so now I know a little about classic art and music.
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Oh I love the cow stuck up in the tree from the tornado. Best episode ever!
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yeah, remember the days when we thought road rules real world challenges were cool??
who needs mtv??
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We never watch, but we have The Wonderpets Save the Beetles! set to DVR. Because they love The Beatles.
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Scary how insidious all those little cartoons are and how they suck you in so effortlessly.
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The WonderPets lyrics are completely addictive! I’m also a big fan of Max & Ruby, mostly because my 3yr old looooves it and the music is soothing to me. The super annoying part that ruins it is that he wanders around hollaring a single word like “Mine!” or “Candy!” for hours on end. Plus he calls my youngest son “Max” constantly … in Ruby’s voice.
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Stumbled on your blog and am laughing at your stuff. Good reads. And while I don’t mind Wonder pets the song gets stuck in my head for hours. So I am the weirdo at work humming the theme under my breath.
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What’s gonna work? TEAMWORK!! What’s gonna work? TEAMWORK!!! Always gets R in a better mood. Until they’re crunching on that celery and she realizes the show is over.
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huh.
what should I feel that Ive never heard of them!
M.
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OH my. I haven’t laughed so hard in awhile. HA!
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I guess we are super dorks because we are still watching Barney at our house. My husband and I had an involved conversation about who is inside the dinosaur costumes. We’re assuming Barney is an adult, but what about Baby Boy, Riff, and BJ . . . tall children, small adults . . . we’re not sure. This conversation carried over into a discussion of Teletubbies in which my husband said, “Well with the tubbies, everything is just done to scale so they could be any size . . . ”
I think becoming Wonder Dorks would actually make us less dorky!
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I’m so glad Cordy has lost her love of Wonderpets. They were cute, but eventually I couldn’t take it anymore. The caterpillar episode was the tear-jerker for us.
Now, we can tell you all about Wubbzy.
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I love that you have a family routine - time together. Hey, even if it is watching kids cartoons!
And you should stand proudly and proclaim your dorkiness!
Are you as super excited about the new “Beetles” episode as we are? I mean it’s ALL NEW. I think we belong to the same goober club you & Tate do.
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We are like that, too. With Handy Manny and Spongebob.
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i love wonderpets.
i just hate that stupid speech impediment. HATE.
*blushes* I totally know the song and the kangaroo episode.
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My husband and I love the butterfly one…
“Hey!”
“Hey!”
“How’s it goin’?”
“Okay.”
We sing it to each other all the time.
Dorks?
Yes.
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I sing the wonder pets theme song when our phone rings… Add me to the crazy-train of LURVE for the WPs!!!
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You totally spoiled the cliffhanger… now I know it all works out in the end. I was hoping this was the day that ming-ming fell to her demise.
KEEP BELIEVING
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Wait til they are old enough for Jimmy Neutron…is it bad that ocassionally the mom character reminds me of myself?
The Wonder Pet’s came out right before our son was born. We had to take four airplane rides in one week when he was four months old and singing that song over and over to him was the only thing that kept him from crying. We will forever love The Wonder Pets!
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I lost my cool years ago, I watched Sponge Bob before I had kids. Now we discuss why little bear doesn’t wear pants and how the Wonder Pets never get caught by the kids, teachers or janitor when they leave their cages.
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Ah, the Wonderpets! We even had to make the fly boat in my house!
My boys love Wubbzy, Handy Manny, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and those crazy Bunny Town bunnies. We used to get to watch Jimmy Neutron all the time, but he, sadly, has been replaced by Spongebob (who drives me batty!)
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I swear if the WP episode saves the cow, up in the tree comes on television one more time, I may just have to ban it from my house. They are quite the gang.
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I have only watched a couple of shows, my little one has outgrown most cartoons. But maybe since the COOL kids watch it, I should check it out. Only you blew the ending for me!!! We still watch a lot of cartoons around here and the baby is 8.
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We’re like that with Handy Manny. Some with Mickey’s clubhouse, but we have extensive discussions about Handy Manny. We’re both pretty big fans.
These darn shows have such catchy tunes that they get into your head until you hear them day and night…help, stop the noise!!!!
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I want to get “Wonder Dork” put on a tshirt.
Totally.
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My FAVORITE WonderPets is when they help the puppy tinkle, pee pee, urin-8 - and then celebrate with a stalk of celery because there’s nothing better than a stalk of celery after a good pee. Their (awesome) words, not mine.
Do you find that the engines on Thomas are a little mean? I totally do.
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When Elliot is gone for the weekend, sometimes I watch Treehouse by myself. How sad is that? I especially love Max and Ruby. Those two crack me up.
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Oh … those Wonder Pets drive me nuts! But they provide peace (albeit brief peace) in my home
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We’ve had many a tantrum over the Wonder Pets. At least we now have a PVR, so we don’t miss any of them!!
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This…is..SEWIOUS…….
Don’t worry….I cried when I watched “Meet the Robinsons”. At our house…we “Wow Wow Wubzy” until we can’t Wow any more…..
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We like the Wonder Pets too, but I was a little disturbed by the puppy having to pee-pee.
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I know Wonder Pets, I know Little Einsteins, I know Handy Manny. Unfortunately my 2-yr-old who doesn’t really talk yet says Sponge Bob. I wish I could get the older ones to stick to wonderdorkiness. I really prefer Wonder Pets to Sponge Boob. We could use a little more TEEEEM Work around our place.
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Oh yes, my girls love the Wonder Pets. Although Becca is more of a Backyardigans fan - and I have to admit that I’ve listened to the CD in the van from time to time, even with no kids present…
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John TOTALLY walks around singing the Wonder Pets songs and I get all concerned for the animal in trouble.
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Suddenly I’m having BIG flashbacks to a certain Saturday with certain bottles of wine.
I must figure out how to upload that video and embarrass us.
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I adore the wonder pets!
I don’t allow Spongehead or Bratz in our house along with a multitude of other cartoons due to content but i adore the WonderPets and encourage the viewing of them daily!!!!!
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i just have to laugh, we have only very recently descovered Wonder Pets around here and im constantly going around going “Team Work” blah
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OMG! My husband and I LOVE the Wonder Pets. We have a five month old and discovered them a couple months ago–I go around singing the theme song all the time. Our Wonder Dorkiness has led us to give the show Season Pass importance on TiVO!
Nothing is more hysterical than my husband, Sportacus……
Jen
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