Cape Charles

 I’ve been in Cape Charles this week, just as I do every Fourth of July weekend. We just arrived home yesterday. Here are some cool pics!

Highlights? We decorated a golf kart, I had chocolate milkshakes almost every day, we went to the Szalays' rented house and watched Hamilton on Disney+, went to the brewery, and had cocktail parties at our, Aunt Cynthia, and Aunt Mary's rented houses.

Here's something that happened on July 9th. I was swimming in the beach with some family friends. Just then, I got STUNG by jellyfish, and got out crying and screaming. Mom took me back to give me a bath, and gave me vinegar Grandma (the author of "Portrait of a Town" who grew up in Cape Charles) got from Aunt Cynthia's, and Mom gave me some orange juice from a Foodlion. I wore one of her long shirts without pants for a while, and she made me a chocolate milkshake. 

HELLO......HELLo......HELlo.....HEllo......Hello.....hello......

 ECHO.........ECHo.......ECho.......Echo......echo.......

Wiggly Waffle

 

Madeline Fretz - Wiggly Waffle was a programming block that aired on Sprout on weekday mornings before The Sunny Side Up Show from 2009 to 2013. In this block, which aired from 6AM to 9AM ET, The Wiggles, accompanied by their friends Captain Feathersword, JB the Juicebox, and Dorothy the Dinosaur, sang about the day of the week, waking up Jeff, the fifth Wiggle game, Juicebox Picks with JB, telling jokes with Have a Laugh, Saying the Pirate of the Day with Captain Feathersword, Dorothy's Daily Digest, and put Waffle toppings. It also aired on Australia's ABC2 for a short period of time.

It was created because Musical Mornings with Coo, the block that aired two years prior, failed to bring in ratings Sprout executives wanted (although segments continued to air on the Waffle), and also because Playhouse Disney ratings proved the Imagination Movers, a children's band from New Orleans, were more popular with its viewers than The Wiggles, so senior vice president Andrew Beecham and president Sandy Wax from Sprout scooped up the US broadcasting rights to the band's show for Sprout, and announced the band would be hosting their own early morning block and filming it in Australia, the country where they were actually from. (G'day mate!)

At first, the block was going to be called The Wiggly Waffle Show, complete with a behind the scenes video and a music video called "Sprout Around the Clock," a song about Sprout's programming.

In 2012, the band introduced three new members and a new season (series) with them was added to Sprout in the US. Unfortunately, this switch confused preschool viewers, so the block dissolved. The Super Sproutlet Show, which originally aired from 2PM to 3PM ET, moved to the timeslot that the Waffle (and Musical Mornings) originally aired on.

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 Madeline Fretz - I've gottom!

Found these pics recently!

Anyways, I love these pics and glad I found them, since my goal is to preserve Sprout content. ❤️ 

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.