Dora on Sprout?

Here's something very weird I notice about this video with the Sprout logo.

https://vimeo.com/20036320

It includes Sesame Street, The Berenstain Bears, and Thomas & Friends, but it also includes Dora the Explorer, which never aired on Sprout. Also, listen closely and you'll hear an instrumental version of The Let's Go Show song "My Favorite Color is a Rainbow."

Sprout Diner

 

Madeline Fretz - Sprout Diner was an early online-exclusive webseries and one of Sprout's first few original series. 

It was created because in the early 2000s, childhood obesity became a big issue to the public and being obese can be very dangerous.

Of course, Sprout is a children's channel that cared about children's health, but in September 2006 it decided to crank it up to 11 by launching a miniseries called "Sprout Diner," which was about three characters named Brussel, Bean, and Alfalfa, who ran a diner somewhere in the "storybook world" of Sprout.

In each webisode, Bean would receive a phone call from a character asking for something healthy. She and Alfalfa would pitch it to their father and grandfather (respectively), Brussel, who would cook the recipe and Alfalfa would deliver it to the character on her bike. These segments aired on TV on The Sunny Side Up Show when it launched.

There were webisodes also available on-demand and in a digital podcast called "Time to Create," in which a real-life family would cook the recipe shown earlier.

The recipes were also available online, and were accredited by the company KidsHealth.

It was also briefly a block in 2008, known as "Sprout Diner March Menu," which was a month of healthy-themed episodes of shows.

The diner disappeared by September 2008, but the characters continued to be seen in Preschool Musical on a Stick the same year.

On-Demand!

 

Madeline Fretz - Many people thought Sprout originated as a linear channel that launched on September 26, 2005. Well guess what? It actually originated on Comcast on-demand in April 2005. According to Sprout president Sandy Wax, launching the brand on-demand first was a good way to let it out.

Sprout On-demand offered 55 hours of programming in both English and Spanish.

Certain shows were put in a category called "Children's Favorites" and eventually in their own categories.

The Sprout channel officially launched to the public in September that year. The "on-demand" idents designed by Primal Screen remained up until January 2006, when they were replaced by the linear channel's idents, also designed by Primal Screen.