I Know I’m 5 Years Behind

I have never until this moment seen Dora the Explorer. What an odd show.

Does the whole “Dora asks the children out in TV land a question and then waits for the answer” thing work? Cause in the absence of any preschoolers it’s just an awkward silence in our house.

Also, I think the show is not bilingual because of any wish to help children learn more languages but because when you’re writing songs it seriously increases your ability to make rhymes if you use two languages. Assuming you don’t use English and, y’know, Russian.

“Come on/let’s go/Vamanos!”
or
“Come on/let’s go/ препятствуйте нам пойти!
(according to an online translator. May actually mean: “Give me a Dr. Pepper” for all I know.)

Peep and the Big Wide World, on the other hand, which M. Gecko has been telling me about for a squidzillion years, is indeed very cute and funny and features a purple duck. Today, he built a SNOW DUCK! (The purple duck, not M. Gecko. As far as I know.) I built a snow duck once.

Yes, I’m 32. Shut up.