What's cuter than Muppets ...?
While flipping around the channels the other day - something I hardly ever do anymore, thanks to TiVo - I ran across a horrifying cartoon: A Pup Named Scooby Doo. I only saw the "I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids!" denouement, but I got the gist of it: the adventures of the pint-size kid version of Fred, Daphne, Shaggy and Velma (who had bug-eye glasses even as a ... six year old? Eight year old? Bizarre ageless midget ... ?)
I always like to imagine the pitch meeting where someone proposes the "___Babies" version of whatever piece of entertainment product is feeling faded and tired. I believe it all started back in the 80s:
Executive number one: "Sure, Muppets are cute, but they could be cuter."
Executive number two: "You know what's cuter than Muppets? Babies!"
Executive number three: "That's it! Muppet BABIES!"
And a horrifying trend was born.
I think of this whenever I remember a certain trip to Paris with my friend Amy (that story will be next.) At one point we found ourselves in a hotel where the television had three channels, one per language - English, German and French.
The English-speaking channel was C-Span. Ugh.
The German-language channel was showing ten-year-old reruns of General Hospital.
"Sie sind die Liebe der Frau I am meisten in der Welt, Bobbi Spencer. Ich liebe nicht Laura! Warum riecht die Krankenschwesterstation?"
And on the French channel? Bébés De Muppet.
"Kermit, nous a laissés s'échapper de la pépinière et devenir célèbres et nous marier !"
"Mon Dieu, Piggi!"
So, what's next?
Designing Women Babies
Murphy Brown Babies
Ally McBabies
Law & Order & Babies
Grey's AnatoBabies
Survivor: Cook Islands: Babies
Before They Were "Friends" They Were "Baby Friends"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Babies
Alias: Babies
BabyStar GalactiBabies
I always like to imagine the pitch meeting where someone proposes the "___Babies" version of whatever piece of entertainment product is feeling faded and tired. I believe it all started back in the 80s:
Executive number one: "Sure, Muppets are cute, but they could be cuter."
Executive number two: "You know what's cuter than Muppets? Babies!"
Executive number three: "That's it! Muppet BABIES!"
And a horrifying trend was born.
I think of this whenever I remember a certain trip to Paris with my friend Amy (that story will be next.) At one point we found ourselves in a hotel where the television had three channels, one per language - English, German and French.
The English-speaking channel was C-Span. Ugh.
The German-language channel was showing ten-year-old reruns of General Hospital.
"Sie sind die Liebe der Frau I am meisten in der Welt, Bobbi Spencer. Ich liebe nicht Laura! Warum riecht die Krankenschwesterstation?"
And on the French channel? Bébés De Muppet.
"Kermit, nous a laissés s'échapper de la pépinière et devenir célèbres et nous marier !"
"Mon Dieu, Piggi!"
So, what's next?
Designing Women Babies
Murphy Brown Babies
Ally McBabies
Law & Order & Babies
Grey's AnatoBabies
Survivor: Cook Islands: Babies
Before They Were "Friends" They Were "Baby Friends"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Babies
Alias: Babies
BabyStar GalactiBabies
posted by crumblord at 7:32 PM
7 Comments:
We can always adopt.
You forgot Jerry Springer Babies (cause you know there are a LOT), Oprah Babies (the new religion!), and perhaps most horrific of all..... Rachel Ray Babies!!!
Agggh! My eyes, my eyes!!!
That would be ... Rachael Rabies.
Deal or No Deal or Babies?
Wheel of Babies
I would say America's Next Top Model Babies, but you can bet that show is filming right now somewhere.
See, and here I thought I was being all clever with my incessant "Look! It's Jim Henson's ______ Babies!"
Sigh.
Look! It's Jim Henson's Cigar Babies!
You just know there's a website devoted to this.
Buffy babies? ... Be still my heart ... What would be better than Buffy fighting the forces of darkness from her Johnny Jump-Up and saving the world before naptime? And tweaking canon a bit and having Giles hanging around Sunnydale as Ripper?
My fave baby shows are up on my blog. Thanks for the premise...
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