The Christmas Experiment: Hours 5+6: Christmas Kid Crap

Because I need to watch some stuff that I am in no way, shape, or form the target demographic for.

My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas: For the record, I am a fan of My Little Pony: friendship is Magic. It's not perfect but it's cute and fun. A Very Minty Christmas came from a period between the current MLP and the classic. It's not very good.

One of the things about the new MLP is that each pony has their own distinct personality. No danger here. Everyone is pretty much the same.  It's also so very saccharine. I feel like I might like it if I was a young girl/boy but this just doesn't work. The only pony with any personality is the OCD one who almost ruins Christmas. She's also obsessed with socks because... sure?

Long story short: OCD Pony breaks a candy cane that's going to lead Santa to Ponyville. She goes to the North Pole to lead Santa to Ponyville. The other ponies go to save their friend. Blah blah blah friendship-cakes. Also, hugging your friends makes your socks glow. There, I just saved you all a rather boring hour.

Wild Kratts: A Creature Christmas: I've never seen this show. It's on PBS and is intended to teach kids about Wild Animals. It starts with a couple of middle aged, live-action brothers teaching us about reindeers... until they change into super-powered animated teenage brothers with the same voices.

From there, it gets weird. It could have just been a Christmas Special about the Kratts and their friends getting ready for Christmas. Instead, super-villains and not just super-villains but super-villains with one of the strangest and most awesome plans ever! They're kidnapping baby animals, putting them in Christmas Ornaments, putting them on a giant metal Christmas Tree where people will be astounded and then be astounded to buy cookies, toys, and clothes. It's complicated, insane, and I kind of love it.

I give this thing major credit. It makes it seem like it's going to be your standard, "Their hearts grew three sizes that day" resolution but turns out the villains are genre savvy and imprison the heroes on a deserted island. That's... actually kind of smart! But they're not smart enough to just break the heroes fancy tech so it gets recovered and they save the baby animals so... good for them?

After that, we're back to live-action stuff with middle-aged men. The Musk Ox is kinda awesome.

It's technically educational though I'm not 100% sure it's the most educational thing I've seen on PBS kids but it's still better than anything with Elmo. To hell with Elmo. Grover 4 Life! Back on subject, it's still not bad. Not meant for me but when I was a kid, I might have enjoyed it.

Notable Commercials: I am starting to feel like Disney Infinity has gone too far.

Non-Viewing Thoughts: I am always so grateful that pizza places are open on Christmas Day. I was going to do frozen pizza but laziness tends to win out in these situations.

Late Christmas Ideas: I wouldn't mind vests that allow me to transform at a moments notice.
  
Tally:
Mountain Dews left: 12
Amps left: 2
Coffee Left: 2 Bottles
Pumpkin Pie Left: Whole Pie (Not Even Baked Yet)
Sanity Rating: (1 being A happy Rabbit, 10 being A Platypus on a bad day): 2