On Friday, I posted a clip of Billy Bragg singing to a dancing Canadian lobster. (Nova Scotian, to be more precise). I allowed as how I would like to know more about this dancing lobster fella and Canadian kids’ TV in general, and an obliging commenter over to the Angry Black Lady Chronicles helped me out – check out her knowledge and prodigious Google-fu here. Bottom line for our purposes? Dude’s name is “Captain Claw.”
You might well imagine that armed with this information, I proceeded to the YouTube. Whereupon I found the following piece of sheer delight: Captain Claw singing the undeniably catchy “When You’ve Got to Go” song.
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I know, right? Score one for Canada, baby!
And here’s the other thing: While I am coming to learn that Canada is not always and forever the bastion of compassion and sanity that American Democrats tend to believe it to always and forever be (see: Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews and his contention that if you don’t like unlimited governmental electronic snooping you’re “with the child pornographers“; see also: Fraudulent election day robocalls intended to discourage voter turnout), I do find it very hard to believe that any American producer of children’s television would ever be allowed to depict a character peeing his bed. Which, let’s face it, is a genuine concern of actual children the world over.
So score two.
Plus, bonus: Dancing, singing shrimp.
Score three.
corkingiron
/ February 28, 2012It’s a particular Canadian obsession, rooted in the universal childhood trauma of snowsuits…
emilylhauser
/ February 28, 2012Ha! (Read: Where’s the damn “like” button in this place?!)
caoil
/ February 28, 2012While I am far too old to have enjoyed the modern Kids CBC, I am definitely a product of CBC children’s programming in the 1970′s. I am the person you see today because of Mr. Dressup (and Casey and Finnegan), and the Friendly Giant (and Rusty and Jerome) and there will never be a day I’m not thankful to have had them.
Darth Thulhu
/ February 28, 2012That was seriously awesome.
Is Captain Claw perhaps related to Doctor Claw of Inspector Gadget fame? One turns to a life of cartoonish archvillainy, and the other sings and dances for the children of the world?
socioprof
/ February 28, 2012I’m in the ecstatic throes of pottytraining. My life’s soundtrack is now complete.
emilylhauser
/ February 29, 2012(I somehow thought you might like it!
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Mark
/ February 28, 2012Why does a lobster have lobster traps on his boat? That’s dark, yo.
emilylhauser
/ February 28, 2012O_O
I didn’t even notice that. Dude! This has taken a very disturbing turn.