[Brian,
Saturday July 16, 2005 at 11:07am]
Mash Ups, Parenting Style
I haven't really listened to any deliberate mash ups, but I hear them all the time.
There's a man,
Comin' round,
Taken names,
With our Handy-dandy notebook!
Johnny, meet Blue. Blue, Johnny.
So the first half dozen episodes I see are "The New Guy", and I think - Damn, this guy is really cheesy and over-the-top, no wonder people don't like him as much.
But then I see a few epiosdes with the much-beloved Steve, and I discover that all of the cheese (the songs, the choreography, etc.) originated with Steve! And he doesn't do it as well...he, shockingly, underplays it. So while the New Guy is very broad, he fits the material better than Steve, and now I miss him since I'm now watching Blue's Clues at least a dozen times a week!