eternally chaotic

We recently added an addiction to our morning routine.  Well an addiction for Jacob and Isaac, and maybe perhaps, although she wouldn’t admit it, and might only participate with her head under a blanket, Piper.  This addiction is a cartoon series called “World of Quest“.  After finding this on Netflix and streaming it through Tivo for some initial “will they be interested” type of screening, the boys fell in love with the show.  And for good reason.  The World of Quest is tantamount to our childhood where classics like He-Man, She-Ra, Thundercats or Voltron (at least the lion version anyway) were the gold standard to action packed, story based, Saturday morning heroin – complete with poptarts, dry cereal and sunny-d.

The show is no longer in production and only three seasons were produced but that hasn’t stopped the kids from watching each of the twenty-six episodes over and over.  The interest is significant enough that both Jacob and Isaac have asked, and thus been shown, how to access Netflix over the Tivo to start an episode.  Looking for season three I found that the show is based on a web-comic that grew into a graphic novel that was picked up and produced by Cookie Jar Company and aired by WB4Kids.  Should their interest remain high a graphic novel sounds like a good gift recommendation for Santa.  There are now two graphic novels that make up or continue the story.  Hopefully another studio will pick up where WB4Kids left off and continue producing and airing new content.  The kids love it and I hope they get to see the series run to the conclusion of the story.

I still restrict much of what the girls get to watch on television, limiting shows to mostly pre-screened movies and a few shows on the Disney Channel or Sprout.  The past favorites have been Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Handy Manny, Goodnight Show, Wonder Pets, and the like.  Recently, I don’t even really know how, perhaps Tivo loves us more than we know, a show was recorded that Piper, Violet, and I, loved.  Phineas and Ferb, another Disney show that airs on Fridays with plenty of reruns throughout the week to fill up the queue, is about summer break where two brothers think up fun stuff to do each day using their super wit, great imagination, cooperation with friends, and access to unthinkable tools to build their super sized creations all the while their sister Candice tries, futilely, to bring their activities to the attention of their parents.

There are plenty of other elements of the show to keep the story fun and interesting, including Perry the Platypus, Phineas and Ferb’s pet, who is a secret agent working to keep the evil plots of  Dr. Doofenshmirtz in check.  The evil doctor is my favorite character, his plots are hair brained and wacky and equal in proportion to that of the brothers, only with poor, but funny, planning and execution.  The show is funny, entertaining (even for me), thoughtful, imaginative and fun.  What used to be the girls asking to what Mickey Mouse has recently turned into something refreshing and new and perfectly appropriate for both their ages.