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TELEVISION REVIEW: "Big City Greens", on @DisneyChannel 
You might have recognized by now that I'm far behind the times when it comes to animation, and TV in general, and that could explain why it took me four years to watch just one episode of #MiraculousLadybug and just over one year to watch my first episode of #TheLoudHouse.
At first, I only knew about this show #BigCityGreens because it was (and is) often tweeted about by @candyrandyj. My interest in this show spiked over the weekend after I looked at its plot summary (which I can resonate with strongly, as I said Saturday evening) . . .
. . . after I found out that it made @FozzieBear the first of the Muppets to voice a character on a cartoon anywhere in this world to the best of my knowledge, and after I saw this fanart of Cricket, which made me want to look up clips of his singing.
Cricket, the lead character of the series, has a beautiful singing voice which makes me surprised he hasn't gotten a record deal yet. And the series, which the organization renewed for a second season on the proprietary @DisneyChannel, is very good too.
For the uninitiated, the program is about a Southerner (Cricket is him) who takes his family to the big city. It was created by the Houghton brothers, Chris and Shane, the former of whom lends both his speaking and his singing voices to the lead character.
The other members of his family are his sister Tilly, who is voiced by @RedHerington (I originally thought @LaraJillMiller was doing her voice mainly because the two women sound fairly identical to one another), his sister, farmer Bill, voiced by Bob Joles . . .
. . . and his grandmother, not named in the series, but nonetheless voiced by @Shmartemis from #ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia, which aired on the @FXNetworks, which are currently co-owned with the @DisneyChannel.
In the first episode of the series, young Cricket tries to impress the neighbors of his neighborhood by launching a chicken into outer space by tying the chicken to a rocket ship. His attempts at doing that (mostly) result in the chicken flying back to the surface of the Earth.
Undaunted, he eventually tries flying several chickens from a band made out of a pair of pants; this results in a scenario that seems like it came straight out of @AlfredHitchcock's 1963 thriller #TheBirds. He ultimately succeeds after he flies one with a blue helmet hard enough.
The episode that follows is "Steak Night", in which Cricket finds himself on a subway, intent on bringing a gift-wrapped box of steak from the Wholesome Foods market to his farm. While there, he encounters a street dancer, who Cricket mistakes for a robot.
It then occurs to him that he left the box of steaks where the street dancer was. He is determined to retrieve it, even battling a robot who determines it to be a suspicious package. Just when he's about to wield the box out of its hands, he's pulled away from the tracks . . .
. . . and the robot, bolts and all, is run over by an incoming train. The episodes are very entertaining. I enjoyed the humor in them, which is derived from the common misunderstandings a Southerner might have when it's the first time he's been in, for instance, New York . . .
. . . and I also liked watching the young lead character leaving his spirit intact through every disaster that his plans seem faced with. This show had on me the same effect the 1989 drama #SteelMagnolias had on my mom: it made me homesick for the South.
You can see the episode reviewed here on @YouTube:
