The Wonder Pets

While digging on the Anthony Bourdain video below, I ended up on his blog and he has a post about kiddie tv, including some smack-talking on my old slice, The Wonder Pets:

On the other hand, I resent that the painfully animated WONDER PETS has an unholy grip on my daughter's affections. And I count the days until she tires of these cloyingly cute little cut outs, seemingly reassembled and animated from scraps of magazine photographs. Is it possible to hate an animated character? Personally hate them? Because my loathing for guinea-pig Linnie and turtle Tuck is exceeded only by my fervent hope that one of these days, the disgustingly cute duckling, "Ming-Ming" will get sucked into a lawnmower or a fan, ending her reign of terror over my household. And if my little girl grows up pronouncing her "l"s as "w"s--as the disgusting Ming Ming insists on doing in a misguided attempt at cuteness? I will hunt down the producers of this show and do them terrible violence.

I mentioned the Wonder Pets in KICKED NUTS AND THE WONDER PETS: MY LIFE a few years back; a post I didn't even realize at the time could've been called The Manny: A Day in the Life. Also, might have been the first use of the The Manny Tapes photo.






"Oh we're not too big, and we're not too tough, but when we....heeeeeeeey, are you hard????!!?!!"