 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| Boo! Can you find Boo! It's all you've got to do. Are we the only parents who hope that one day Boo won't be found and the show will vanish as a result? Boo! is another brutally cheap CBeebies offering. The animation looks like its made from free clip art supplied with a cut-price graphics package - you know the sort - you see them in supermarkets in white packaging. The creators use these graphics to provide us with a series of camp offerings that look like they come from a Village People video - the moustached construction workers being a particular favourite in our house - it's no surprise to discover that Justin of Something Sinister fame is one of the voice "talents". The premise is simple. In each of the cheap scenes, all your pre-schooler has to do is locate the small fat creature known as Boo. Along the way, we encounter a series of other characters, all doing their best to avoid bumping into Boo. There's Laughing Duck (presumably laughing at the fact that this show ever got commissioned), Sleeping Bear (don't worry Sleeping Bear - the programme has the same effect on us) and Growling Tiger. If your child thought finding Boo was easy, then they ain't seen nothing yet. The second half of the show unleashes a series of mind-numbingly straight-forward puzzles that our pet budgie could solve, never mind our daughter of 18 months. Still, at least on the morning of writing this, Smokey introduced the show dragged up as Susie Sweet from Balamory, so all was not lost. Back to Parents Guide to Kids TV |
| This article was written by Duncan Conner. When not annoying television executives, he runs Bus Stop Toy Shop and sells some great toys for kids of all ages. Why not have a glance around the main Bus Stop Toy Shop website while your here? Better still you can sign up to our monthly newsletter (details at the top right of every page) and keep up to date with the very best in toys. If you enjoyed the article, you can share it with others from your blog/facebook/twitter/bebo/myspace/etc by copying and pasting the following code: <a href="http://www.busstoptoyshop.com/boo">A Parent's Guide to Boo!</a> |