Thursday Thirteen: Kids Shows That I Really Miss

Now that there is a bay-bee in the house again, it's reminded me of the things my other kids loved when they were little. When Natalie was a baby, she scremed non-stop any time that I put her down until Dave's sister suggested a Barney tape. It was just a lot of songs from many different episodes, but that, a VCR, and her bouncy seat allowed me to load the dishwasher in peace. Fortunately, the big purple dino is still around and hopefully still will be by the time Alexis is old enough to appreciate him. However, there are a lot of shows my older kids enjoyed that are gone now. Hopefully, I can come up with 13 of them:

1. Nick Jr's Blue's Clues with Steve-Once he "went to college" the show was never the same. I never dreamed about kissing Joe.
2. Disney Channel's Stanley-Cute little kid and lots of animals, such a fun show! Nothing they've come up with recently has come even close to it.
3. Disney Channel's Out of the Box-True my sister and I called it "out of the closet" and mocked it the entire time it was on, but Juliet, Natalie, and Victoria loved it. Not that any of the 'trauma teens' would admit that now.
4. Disney Channel's Bear in the Big Blue House-It was made by the Jim Henson Company. 'Nuff said.
5. Animal Jam-Ditto to the above, but I can't remember what network carried it and it seems like they only made about 3 episodes. We danced and danced to that one.
6. Nick Jr.'s Maisy-OK, the giant mouse and her weird animal friends kind of annoyed me. But it was the first show Natalie asked to watch and she was about 2. Who can resist that?
7. Nickelodeon's Rugrats-I didn't care for the animation at first, but the "little sprouts" grew on me. I remember Selena and I taking Natalie and Tristan to the movie while Dave was deployed and I think we wanted to see it more than they did.
8. Nickelodeon's The Wild Thornberries-If I liked the Rugrats, I LOVED this one. Tim Curry voiced Nigel Thornberry. Good stuff.
9. Disney Channel's Kim Possible-I adored this show. I watched it without the kids. I still would if it was still on TV.
10. The Original Electric Company-When Noggin was brand new, it ran old episodes of Sesame Street and Electric Company. I didn't appreciate it fully as a kid, but I really liked it the second time around. The new one is OK, but it will never compare.
11. The Muppet Show-I mean the original series here, but the new one from the 90's would be OK too. Pretty much anything with Kermit...which sadly excludes the current epsiodes of Sesame Street.
12. Bob the Builder-This may still be on air, but Tristan quit loving it years ago and Caroline and Elisa didn't care for it. I wonder if Bob and Wendy ever got together?
13. Eureka's Castle-This was shown in reruns in the early days of Noggin. It was pretty much the cast of Bear in the Big Blue House BEFORE Bear in the Big Blue House. Natalie and Tristan loved it and I would sit there queasily pregnant with Caroline and enjoy the stillness for 20 minutes.

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