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Sunday
Oct192008
Saturday Afternoon Live
Take two mildly bored kids + one long weekend + a fondness for mysteries + a dash of Monty Python = this kind of wacky but fairly entertaining Five Minute Mystery (the first little bit is fuzzy and then it gets better).
My take away observations:
- my kids choose the least attractive spots of our house for their filming locations (I mean really, kids, the basement rec room--dumpy and it DOES smell--and storage room?)
- our camera cannot handle action genre films
- Louie the dog does not like it when you pretend to kill one of our household members (good to know)
- we don't have very much food in our food storage...I'll have to work on that.
- left to their own devices, two mildly bored kids can come up with some good stuff (I only helped do the titles later but they filmed it all without any help)
- "make believe" play becomes acceptable again for preteens when there's a camera involved
- it's very disturbing to hear your son say "sleep well my dead girl..." in a Hannibal Lector voice. I had to take it out...it was too creepy.
- there's a hole in the ceiling is my very favorite part, complete with an accent of some sort
Sunday, October 19, 2008 | tagged M, S, bit of silliness really, this one's for the grandparents | 7 Comments 
Reader Comments (7)
at first i thought it was a big mockery of christie... with the poison ivy and all.
i liked "you are no match for my kung fu skills" or maybe she said "you are no match for the kung fu girl" either way, very entertaining. and the monty python clip was great.
your kids are so diablolical. scary. but cheerfully so.
That was delightful.
I LOVE their ingenuity and dramatic skills! My kids are constantly creating dramas and attempting to make movies {someimtes they're "sweded" [Be Kind, Rewind]}-- I love it and hope they don't stop any time soon. Long live creative play.
WE LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT
Jessica has watched it 3 times already! You have two very creative kids there. They obviously had lots of fun making the film. Please tell Maddy that Jessica also likes making fun films with her camcorder.
Lindsay
Oh we have that small chest of wooden drawers from IKEA too!
Yeah, I wondered if it was going in my direction, too, with the poison ivy reference. Thank goodness it didn't.
I really ought to not watch these things with my kids around. They will watch it a million times and still beg for more.
Maddy adores Christie but had no idea she had a bout with poison ivy.
Just pure coincidence :)
My kids just watched it with me and gave it the Philly Thumbs Up!
Isaac loved watching the video, and I was pretty impressed as well! I keep trying to get Isaac to write back to Sam, but Isaac hates writing. Maybe he will type one...