A good friend of mine is married to a guy from Sweden. After a few rounds of aquavit, we got to talking about TV shows we watched as kids. Sid and Marty Krofft came up, of course, as did Alphabet Soup and Romper Room. Then Ola, the Swede, mentioned something about a show with a big pancake.
"A big pancake?" one of us asked, assuming that something had gotten lost in translation.
"Yes," Ola said, "a big pancake. It would come alive and become a magical world with creatures that crawled around on it. There was also a sick little boy whose blanket was the pancake. And a magician."
Which just goes to show you. TV for kids is always trippier than adults can imagine. As evidence, I merely point to Yo Gabba, Gabba, Boobah and all of these shows that the Times (U.K.) rounded up from around the world.
