Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Am I the only one who wants to tape Ming-Ming's beak shut?

I'm pretty sure most parents looked at that and knew I was talking about Wonderpets.  A show about a duckling, a guinea pig and a turtle that rescue other animals.
Garrett loves the show, he loves just about anything with animals and while I find the teamwork song annoying it does send a good message.  Something about the show just irritated me.  I mean full on I would rather blare an air horn in my ear...

And then it occurred to me, Ming-Ming. The damned duck has an annoying speech impedement. Now, having had a speech problem as a child I don't go around thinking people with speech problems are annoying.  I do find it really annoying when people do it on children's shows just to make the character sound cute.   Every episode she (I think it's a she) says "this is sewious, there's an animal in twouble". 

I've been told I'm not alone and Ben also can't stand the super annoying and fake lisp.  But Garrett loves it, he smiles when it comes on so I guess I'll just have to resort to pretending it's Ming-Ming in my Chinese food.

2 comments:

Corey Bartlett said...

Thank you for the good laugh this morning... and just wait, the annoying song sticks. My kids are now six and eight, and are STILL torturing me with it. ((although it's cute to see them singing it while they are actually cooperating with each other!))

Corey Bartlett said...

Thank you for the good laugh this morning... and just wait, the annoying song sticks. My kids are now six and eight, and are STILL torturing me with it. ((although it's cute to see them singing it while they are actually cooperating with each other!))