It's Amazing What Kids Absorb

  For some reason, the girls have been on a big Muppets kick lately. This suits me just fine as I like watching them, too and tthere are times when I just can't watch another episode of  Dora the Explorer. Sometimes it's a little difficult to explain some of the humor and gags to my preschoolers, like why it's okay for Miss Piggy to fight and Waldorf and Statler to heckle from the balcony. However, it's totally worth it to hear them seriously intone, "Piiiiigs iiiiinnnnn Spaaaaaaace!" And they love the "Mahna Mahna" song from the first season.

I have a few of those 3-episode compliation DVDs, including the Halloween-ish one with Alice Cooper, Vincent Price and Marty Feldman. I remember watching the Alice Cooper episode when I was a kid and being confused as to why a guy would be called "Alice".  I now appreciate what my mom must have gone through as I have to explain the makeup and soul-selling and why he looks like he's scary but he's really a good guy.

I didn't realize they'd been absorbing other parts of the episode as well.

The four of us were in the car one morning and the girls started singing together in the back.  A and I listened for a minute then A said, "Are they singing 'School's Out'?"

Yes. Yes, indeed, they were.