Monday, January 30, 2012

Today’s post is about the kid’s show Bassie & Adriaan.  It’s apparently an elderly couple consisting of a clown and a trapeze peformer. They do various things. The budget for this show is approximately 12 euros per day. 

They seem to be a long running media team in the Netherlands. I have seen reference of them performing as far back as 1975. I don’t really understand the point of their show or what is going on. Or why the hell anyone would want to watch a clown and a dude who dresses crazy driving around in a very old ferrari. But, then again.. I find clowns to be quite unpleasant and there seem to be many Dutch / Belgian shows with clowns. 

Overall, the show seems pretty ok.  They seem to really love educating people about mundane things (most of the stuff that I forget to teach my kids are mundane).  So, watching this show in the morning is a good reminder that despite some of the crazy ass stuff my kids know, they need to be taught lots of regular everyday things as well.

Here’s a segment on some place called “Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTTUGu7FvEw

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