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Full disclosure – thanks to a 12 year old minidisc recorder finally and unexpectedly giving up the ghost, I had to change this from the Q&A format I’d intended. If you’ve been a fan of cartoons at almost any point over the past 25 years, chances are you’ve heard her voice in something. I was lucky enough to get to talk to Kath Soucie, who voices Dusty the Saw in advance of the special events about her work on the show and her fantastic career voicing animation and video games. Sunday October 4th will see Playhouse Disney air a special family reunion/road trip episode. No word just yet on when we get the new episode this side of the Atlantic, but I’m sure they won’t leave us hanging too long.īut the really big news from Sheetrock Hills is that for one night only, Manny is going primetime. These will be have various celebration themes – birthdays, Cinco de Mayo, Quinceañera (Hispanic Heritage, remember?), New Year’s Eve – and at the end of it all a mini-marathon and a brand new episode on September 18th. To promote Hispanic Heritage Month, Disney Channel in the US will be showing a week-long marathon of Handy-Manny episodes starting on September 14th. The target audience is very definitely pre-schoolers, though – this isn’t something you’re likely to turn back on once the kids are in bed, but it is one of those rare ‘little kids only’ shows that you won’t be annoyed at having to watch with your little ones. I’ve described it to friends without kids as ‘Bob the Builder’ meets ‘Dora the Explorer’ – it’s aimed pretty much exclusively at pre-schoolers – it tackles all the essential lessons of teamwork, cultural diversity, friendship, manners and even basic Spanish. They live in Sheetrock Hills, where they solve the locals’ building, maintenance and sometimes moral dilemmas. But the signs are good: the computer games on the flashy 'Handy Manny' Web site (disney.go.com/disneychannel/playhouse/handymanny) are every bit as good as, and possibly better than, those on the 'Bob' site ().Ī diligent adult can improve her time on Manny's Pac Man-like Fix-It Fetch over the course of, say, half an hour, while it is absolutely impossible to beat the house on Bob's 'difficult'-level Bingo clone, Spud & Pickles.‘Handy Manny’ is about, well, Manny Garcia, a bilingual Hispanic handyman and his all-singing all-dancing tools – Dusty the Saw, Pat the Hammer, Rusty the Monkey Wrench, Squeeze the Pliers, Stretch the Tape Measure, Felipe and Turner the Screwdrivers, and in later episodes, Flicker the Flashlight. It's too soon to predict whether stores will soon be stocking 'Manny' tool kits in the same numbers that they stock 'Bob the Builder' merchandise. 'Handy Manny' is a great idea, if not a new one.

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(But TV series have an arc don't expect anything to happen before the third season.) Lopart, and Kelly, the redheaded proprietor of the local hardware store, who clearly has a yen for Manny. Manny's perfect character might become annoying if he weren't performed by the 'That 70's Show' star (and Lindsay Lohan ex-boyfriend) Wilmer Valderrama, whose casual delivery helps to dilute Manny's tendency toward preachiness.īeyond his toolbox family, Manny's friends include his accident-prone neighbor, Mr. In the series premiere Turner and Felipe get themselves stuck together fighting over a bottle of glue. Mostly this series is concerned with the usual life lessons: sharing, cooperating and always covering your work surface with newspaper before using glue. The Latino flavor of 'Manny' is more than a gloss, but less than an overriding theme. Each 11-minute narrative features a few Spanish words (although hardly enough to merit the word bilingual, which is sprinkled throughout the show's press material) and Latin music, with a theme song written and performed by Los Lobos. Tromping through the pastel town of Sheetrock Hills (part East Los Angeles, part Candyland), Manny repairs community centers, citizenship trophies and, occasionally, attitudes. Manny Garcia wears his Hispanic identity as proudly as he wears his sturdy brown boots. 'Handy Manny,' which has its debut on the Disney Channel's educational bloc with back-to-back episodes today, is a natural fit for preschoolers who've had their fill of Baby Einstein but find Bob the Builder a bit too, well, WASPy.

Modest, reliable and hard-working, Handy Manny is the kind of handyman you find only in dreams or in the doubly idealized world of animated children's television. Disney Channel, today at 10 a.m., Eastern and Pacific times 9 a.m., Central time.

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