Where The Wild Things Are

An article by Don Quixote    1 Comment

Dafyd, Jace and I are all big fans of Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. I’ve probably said the words, “Rumpus, rumpus, rumpus, rumpus, rumpus, rumpus,” at least 10,000 times.

I didn’t really recall the book from my childhood, but when Todd McFarland released toys of the book, well, I was hooked and so where the boys. I love reading to my kids, though I’m sure I don’t do it as often as I should, but I try to read to them when they stay the night, and sometimes we even sneak it in before trips to Toys-R-Us. Right now we are working our way through Lemony Snicket and they really seem to be enjoying that (I believe Kara is working on Harry Potter with them).

Read to your kids, every chance you get.

But I digress.

So, any how, Wild Things, yes, we like them… blah, blah, blah.. oh yeah, that’s where I was going. So Wild Things; you can imagine my joy when surfing through Netflix options I found and animated version of Where The Wild Things Are. I placed it at the top of my queue and rushed through finishing watching the last disc of Berserk (a great little Anime – Jon, Ben you need to check it out). Things worked out wonderfully and I had a copy waiting for the boys to watch with me this past weekend.

We slapped it into the DVD player and we were off and away. Amid building Star Wars Lego toys (oh you cannot call them Legos. Don’t believe me? Well head on over to http://www.legos.com and this is what you’ll find, “The word LEGO is a brand name, and is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our products as LEGO bricks or toys and not LEGOS. By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud, and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you!”) and playing with Pokemon, we watched.

The DVD comes with three different options: Where the Wild Things Are, Nutshelle Library (Alligators All Around, Chicken Soup with Rice, One Was Johnny, and Pierre) and In The Night Kitchen.

Surprisingly enough after having watched the Nutshelle kids, I recalled that I had indeed read them before, but Night Kitchen was new to me.

But hey, it’s Maurice Sendak, what can be so wrong with that.

Well it turns out that in the Night Kitchen little is one step away from child porn. Here’s the opening sentence, “DID YOU EVER HEAR OF MICKEY, HOW HE HEARD A RACKET IN THE NIGHT AND SHOUTED AND FELL THROUGH THE DARK, OUT OF HIS CLOTHES PAST THE MOON & HIS MAMA & PAPA SLEEPING TIGHT.”

Yes, that’s right, little Mickey fell out of his clothes, and sure enough there was his Mr. Hello animated on my 61” TV. I was in shock to say the least. The boys didn’t notice, because well, they’re boys, but wow. Wondering where the Wild Things are? Well they are tumbling into a giant bowl of cake mix with 3 large men who are looking for milk.

Crazy stuff.

No point to this entry really… just thought I’d share.