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.