{"id":193,"date":"2010-11-01T17:42:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T00:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/2010\/11\/01\/%e2%80%98wow-wow-wubbzy-wubbzy%e2%80%99s-christmas-adventure%e2%80%99-in-re-release-for-this-holiday-season\/"},"modified":"2010-11-01T17:42:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T00:42:01","slug":"%e2%80%98wow-wow-wubbzy-wubbzy%e2%80%99s-christmas-adventure%e2%80%99-in-re-release-for-this-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/2010\/%e2%80%98wow-wow-wubbzy-wubbzy%e2%80%99s-christmas-adventure%e2%80%99-in-re-release-for-this-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! Wubbzy\u2019s Christmas Adventure\u2019 in Re-release for this Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wubbzy_Xmas_200x281.jpg\"<\/a>Taken in one 70-minute sitting or viewed in single installments, this collection of six Wubbzy adventures from Anchor Bay is silly enough to engage young viewers while never talking down to them. The underlying message throughout is that friends help each other, and the point is clearly made through actions and dialog that move each story along, rather than by any pedantic narration.<\/p>\n

These adventures, as the DVD title states, all revolve around Christmas-time celebrations of Wubbzy, Widget, Walden and their other friends in Wuzzleburg. Credit Wubbzy\u2019s creators with acknowledging there are other holidays celebrated around the same time of year, but there is one technical discrepancy: The Jewish menorah shown in one episode is the standard seven-branched one rather than the special nine-branched one used for Chanukah.<\/p>\n

Snow ushers in the winter season, and in \u201cSnow Day,\u201d Wubbzy and friends respond to the first snowfall each in his and her own way: Wubbzy goes sledding, Widget invents a super snow shovel, and Walden builds a perfectly executed snow sculpture of a polar bear. When Wubbzy accidentally destroys Wally Polar Bear, he and Widget immediately set about to rebuild it \u2014 and we cheer for them as they send Walden off on a series of errands in hopes of finishing it before he discovers the disaster. Walden eventually does discover what\u2019s going on, and matter-of-factly modifies his plan so the same thing won\u2019t happen again. After all, accidents will happen.<\/p>\n

In \u201cO\u2019Figgity Fig Tree,\u201d Widget gets the job of decorating the big Christmas tree in Wuzzleburg\u2019s town square. Wubbzy gets excited about trying to make it brighter, and they blow out the generator. When he steps up to apologize to all the disappointed townsfolk for causing the problem, they respond by contributing their own special decorations. With everyone\u2019s help, and unflagging good cheer, they end up with the best Christmas tree ever.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Snow Shoo Shoo\u201d is a mystery in which Wubbzy, Widget and Walden search for the missing creature with the help of a special gadget from Widget that goes Sherlock Holmes two better: It\u2019s a magnifying lens AND a flashlight AND a ball-point pen. And adults can chuckle with the kids when Wubbzy, told to be on the lookout for anything unusual, sees his tail through the lens and comments that his tail is bigger than it used to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cDash for Dolly\u201d not only promotes the value of homemade gifts over off-the-shelf ones, it\u2019s full of project examples and ideas an astute adult could do with his or her own kids. The focus is always on giving, not getting, and in \u201cGreat and Grumpy Holiday,\u201d caring for one reaps benefits for all. Not all gifts have to be material things, either, as \u201cThe Super Special Gift\u201d relates.<\/p>\n

And what would a Christmas story be without Santa Claus? Jolly old St. Nick makes his special appearance in the DVD\u2019s bonus episode, \u201cThe Super Special Gift.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recommended for ages 2 to 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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