Sunny Side Up Show
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The Sunny Side Up Show is a television programming block introduced on September 26, 2007 on PBS KIDS Sprout
. Each week, a new theme is introduced (shown on the website), including food, Halloween
, animals, construction
, fall
, opposites, and birthdays. The Sunny Side Up Show starts at 9:00am Eastern/8:00am Central each weekday morning. The host of the Sunny Side Up Show plays games, sings songs, tells stories, and shows birthday cards or shows artwork. The show has a puppet co-host, a chicken named Chica. Barney has made guest appearances on the show, such as the Thanksgiving
show, 2007 and the Sesame Street Muppet Prairie Dawn
appeared as a guest on the 2008 Valentine’s Day show.
's morning program. It is produced live every weekday, and hosted by a human host along with Chica, a puppet. The show takes place on a set dubbed The Sunshine Barn and decorated with farm-themed objects. The hosts, Kelly, Sean, Dennisha, and Liz. each host the show for one week with each week's host being announced late in the previous week. Each week's host introduces programs, reads birthdays, leads activities related to the week's theme, and reads messages sent in by individual "Sproutlet" viewers through the Sprout website. There are daily activities such as "The Good Egg Awards" celebrating viewers' accomplishments, and "The Barnyard Boogie", which showcases a viewer animation created that day on the website. These animations are shown at the end of each morning and feature an animated version of the human host dancing with an animated Chica.
PBS KIDS Sprout
PBS Kids Sprout is a U.S. digital cable television channel, video-on-demand service, and website providing PBS Kids shows and original programming for preschoolers and their families...
. Each week, a new theme is introduced (shown on the website), including food, Halloween
Halloween
Hallowe'en , also known as Halloween or All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night before All Saints' Day...
, animals, construction
Construction
In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking...
, fall
Autumn
Autumn is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter usually in September or March when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier....
, opposites, and birthdays. The Sunny Side Up Show starts at 9:00am Eastern/8:00am Central each weekday morning. The host of the Sunny Side Up Show plays games, sings songs, tells stories, and shows birthday cards or shows artwork. The show has a puppet co-host, a chicken named Chica. Barney has made guest appearances on the show, such as the Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Thanksgiving is celebrated each year on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. In Canada, Thanksgiving falls on the same day as Columbus Day in the...
show, 2007 and the Sesame Street Muppet Prairie Dawn
Prairie Dawn
Prairie Dawn is a fictional character, a rather mature seven-year-old Muppet girl on the children's television program Sesame Street. She is similar in appearance to a character from the Anything Muppets. She is famous for writing school pageants for her friends, mostly Ernie and Bert, Herry,...
appeared as a guest on the 2008 Valentine’s Day show.
Hosts
The Sunny Side Up Show is PBS Kids SproutPBS KIDS Sprout
PBS Kids Sprout is a U.S. digital cable television channel, video-on-demand service, and website providing PBS Kids shows and original programming for preschoolers and their families...
's morning program. It is produced live every weekday, and hosted by a human host along with Chica, a puppet. The show takes place on a set dubbed The Sunshine Barn and decorated with farm-themed objects. The hosts, Kelly, Sean, Dennisha, and Liz. each host the show for one week with each week's host being announced late in the previous week. Each week's host introduces programs, reads birthdays, leads activities related to the week's theme, and reads messages sent in by individual "Sproutlet" viewers through the Sprout website. There are daily activities such as "The Good Egg Awards" celebrating viewers' accomplishments, and "The Barnyard Boogie", which showcases a viewer animation created that day on the website. These animations are shown at the end of each morning and feature an animated version of the human host dancing with an animated Chica.
- Kevin is portrayed by Kevin Yamada. He was an original host of the show and had been the sole host of The Birthday Show, a short-form daily feature celebrating "Sproutlet" birthdays. During this show, Kevin would showcase a birthday-party activity and announce viewer birthdays by reading the homemade birthday cards sent in by family members. Meanwhile, a crawl ran across the bottom of the screen displaying the names and ages of other viewers celebrating a birthday that day. On September 26, 2007, The Birthday Show was absorbed into The Sunny Side Up Show. Kevin joined Chica and Kelly as hosts, and the birthday cards and crawl of viewers' names became features of the new program. Kevin's last appearance on the show was on December 25, 2009, where he explained his impending departure from the show by telling viewers that he was moving away to the great big city and not playing with Chica in the Sunshine Barn anymore. In reality, Yamada will remain at Sprout to voice the character of Ricky on the daily Sprout Sharing ShowSprout Sharing ShowThe Sprout Sharing Show is a programming block on the PBS KIDS Sprout cable channel. The show premiered on August 6, 2008, airing on weekday afternoons in the time slot formerly occupied by the Let's Go Show. It features three new programs which encourage viewers to send in photos, videos,...
; his Sunny Side Up hosting duties were assumed by new host Dennisha Pratt on December 31, 2009. It is unknown why.
- Kelly is portrayed by Kelly Vrooman. She is one of the show's two original hosts.
- Sean is portrayed by Sean Roach, another host of the show.
- Dennisha is portrayed by Dennisha Pratt. She made her debut on December 31, 2009, replacing Kevin.
- Liz, portrayed by Liz Filios, joined the show on November 1, 2010.
- Chica is a chicken puppet who co-hosts The Sunny Side Up Show with Kelly, Sean, Dennisha, and Liz. She lives in The Sunshine Barn, and has a voice which resembles a kazooKazooThe kazoo is a wind instrument which adds a "buzzing" timbral quality to a player's voice when the player vocalizes into it. The kazoo is a type of mirliton, which is a membranophone, a device which modifies the sound of a person's voice by way of a vibrating membrane."Kazoo" was the name given by...
. Her character has been part of the Sunny Side Up Show since its premiere in 2007. Her coloring is vaguely similar to the PokémonPokémonis a media franchise published and owned by the video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996. Originally released as a pair of interlinkable Game Boy role-playing video games developed by Game Freak, Pokémon has since become the second most successful and lucrative video...
Torchic. She also makes occasional appearances on the Sprout Sharing Show. Chica is now adapted into a plush available at amazon.comAmazon.comAmazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
. However, several comment complaints on the amazon.com website about the Chica plush were about a dog squeak toy sound instead of Chica's squeak.
Guest hosts and other characters
- Nina, portrayed by Michele LepeMichele LepeMichele Lepe , is a Hispanic actress who spent her early childhood in England and grew up in San Antonio, Texas. She became the new permanent host of PBS KIDS Sprout's The Good Night Show playing the role of "Nina" the Goodnight Guide....
, is the current host of The Good Night Show. She also makes occasional appearances as guest host on The Sunny Side Up Show .
- Mr. Mailman is a cartoon character who delivers cards and mail. Originally a part of The Birthday Show, the character was then featured in The Many Adventures of Mr. Mailman. He still performs his original role, delivering birthday cards on The Sunny Side Up Show.
- Patty is one of 3 hosts on the Sprout Sharing Show. She is portrayed by a brown paper bag heavily decorated to be a pig. She makes occasional appearances on the Sunny Side Up Show.
Shows
- Roary the Racing CarRoary the Racing CarRoary the Racing Car is an animated children's television show that currently airs on Milkshake! on Five and Nick Jr. in the United Kingdom, PBS Kids Sprout in the United States, Treehouse TV in Canada, Discovery Kids in Latin America, and Nick Jr. and ABC2 in Australia...
- Barney & FriendsBarney & FriendsBarney and Friends, also referred to by HiT Entertainment as Barney the Friendly Dinosaur, is an independent children's television show produced in the United States, aimed at children from ages 1-8...
- Super Why!Super Why!Super Why! or The Reading Adventures of Super Why! is a CGI animated show developed by Angela C. Santomero and Samantha Freeman Alpert. The TV series is produced by New York City-based Out of the Blue Enterprises and Toronto-based DHX Media through its Decode Entertainment division. The show...
- Fireman SamFireman SamFireman Sam is a Welsh animated children's television series about a fireman called Sam, his fellow firefighters, and other townspeople in the Welsh town of Pontypandy . The original idea for the show came from two ex-firemen from Kent...
- Dive, Olly, Dive
- Play with Me SesamePlay with Me SesamePlay with Me Sesame is a children's television series spun off from Sesame Street, featuring Sesame Street characters such as Bert, Ernie, Grover, and Prairie Dawn. In the United States, from April 1, 2002 until September 2, 2007, the show has aired on the Nickelodeon-owned preschooler television...
- Thomas & Friends
- Fifi and the Flowertots
- Dragon TalesDragon TalesDragon Tales is an American animated pre-school children's television series chronicling the adventures of two siblings, Max and Emmy and their dragon friends Cassie, Ord, Zak, Wheezie, and Quetzal...
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