Here are a few things we’re likely to hear from Baguette right now:
And the kicker:
We knowing, Baguette. We knowing.
“Elmo!”
“Say ‘please.’”
Silence.
“Baguette, ‘please’ is a nice way to ask for something you want. Say ‘please’ and you can watch Elmo.”
Silence.
“I know you can say ‘please.’ I’ve heard you do it before. Say ‘please.’”
Silence.
“Okay. No Elmo.”
Silence. Baguette then throws herself across my lap, as if to say, “If I can’t get my way, I will make it impossible for you to do anything but hold me.”
Time passes. Baguette gets up and decides to eat yogurt.
“Squacky!”
“Say ‘please.’ You can watch Pajanimals if you say ‘please.’”
“PEAS!”
Well. I guess we know who’s really important in the Henson pantheon. And I’d just like to point out: we won.
Now we just need to win 999,999 more times.
Photo by magnusfranklin, via Flickr.
So Baguette has a deep and abiding love for Pajanimals. That means that when I saw that there was a new season planned, I thought, “Great! More than a dozen in rotation.”
Wrong. We’re two episodes in, and this is a completely different show. The Pajanimals have become frenetic, as if they’d broken into a Folgers factory. They sing and dance at a highly accelerated rate pretty much guaranteed to wake up any child you’re trying to teach about bedtime. And for some reason that hasn’t entirely been made clear (maybe it’s a dream?), they visit some magical cloudland where they learn to fall asleep with the help of an English-accented Bedtime Bunny, who may be a bit narcoleptic. Although considering how frenzied their energy is, I find it not only implausible, but a bit maddening how quickly they pick this up.
But I do like that Bedtime Bunny they’ve introduced. Where can I get one?