Just when you thought it was safe to turn on the TV without being bombarded by "The Wiggles" my little Princess has found a new, more potent form of Kiddie Crack to get addicted to. THE UPSIDE DOWN SHOW is a pantomime of improvised, imagination games and problems hosted by two hyper-silly lads from the land down-under.
The Upside Down Show stars Shane Dundas and David Collins who portray two brothers who live together in a strange house with a variety of unusual rooms (windy room, sandwich room, bicycle room to name a few). The show is aired here on NOGGIN but Shane and David are supremely Austrailian. They share this house with "Puppet", a striped legwarmer puppet, and the Shmuzzies, little, muli-colored flufballs with eyes. These guys are physical comedy pros and are very physical each and every second of each and every episode.
But it is not the on screen antics of Shane and David as it is the effect this show has on The Princess. She is so into this show she actually "shooshed" me this morning because I was distracting her by asking about breakfast. When not being "interrupted" by daddy The Princess sits en-tranced by this show like it has some super spell that makes kids sit down, shut-up and want to be left alone with Shane and David and Puppet and the Shmuzzies.
I don't know what it is with kids and Austrailians but I think we should import as many as we can and everyone gets a Super-Aussie Kinder Keeper 3000 to entertain, enlighten and enthral the little cherubs. At least for a half hour so we can all get some peace.
Incidently, Shane and David started as "The Umbilical Brothers" and still tour and perform regularly. Their site is a goofy as they are:
http://www.umbilicalbrothers.com/whoswho/index.html
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My 4 year old son also loves the Upside Down Show. Imagination at it's best. Unfortunately Nickelodeon/Noggin have NOT renewed the program for another season, so we only have 13 episodes to enjoy. I do know that the episodes are starting to be released on DVD (PAL format only at the moment for Aussie fans, you can find them on Ebay and such) but the distributor is considering NTSC versions for us here in the States.
Shane and David know not only how to connect with our kids, but with the inner child in all of us.
Same with my kid. But, as with most kid shows, they just creep me out.
No way, they creep you out? I think they are awesome! My kids think they are funny and so do I.
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