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Sprout Diner

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Sprout Diner was an early online exclusive webseries created by Sprout. Each episode of it had various guest appearances from Sprout characters, and it was briefly a block during the month of March in both 2007 and 2008.

Premise

"This animated program features the Sprout® family (Brussel, Bean and Alfalfa) and favorite Sprout characters set in the storybook world of PBS KIDS Sprout. In each episode, a different character calls in looking for a healthy meal or the perfect snack, and the Sprout family whips up a daily special, like Noddy’s Apple Car, Bob’s Build-Me-Up Berry Shake or Elmo’s Funny Faced Pizza Pies. Through catchy songs, preschool humor and exposure to viewers’ favorite characters, children will see that healthy eating can be fun for everyone." (link)

Goals

"Sprout Diner introduces preschoolers to the concept of healthy eating. All the recipes used in the program are accredited by KidsHealth, a leading nonprofit children’s health organization with one of the most visited sites on the Web, KidsHealth.org."

Interactive Components

"At SproutOnline.com, parents and preschoolers can download recipes featured on the show, get the nutritional breakdown for each recipe, and even watch episodes of Sprout Diner. There are also online games and activities featuring Brussel, Bean and Alfalfa."

Co-Viewing Components

"Parent and preschooler together choose a dish that was featured on Sprout Diner. The parent goes to Sprout On Demand and selects the related cooking segment for viewing so they can see how the recipe is made."

VOD Components

"Cooking segments featuring Sprout Diner recipes are available on Sprout On Demand. Real kids and their parents are shown making each dish."

Webisode format

Each webisode started with a theme song, followed by Bean calling a character requesting a meal after a hard day's play. Bean then says "Time to create with the Sprout Family!", and Brussel and Alfalfa sing a song. Bean and Alfalfa pitch the idea to Brussel, who makes and comes up with the meal, which he hands to Alfalfa, who gives it to the character on her bike.

Characters

  • Brussel (voiced by Earl Fisher) - A gray-haired man with a mustache who comes up with the meals.
  • Bean - A black-haired Lady wearing a green dress who receives calls from Sprout characters. She is Brussel's daughter and Alfalfa's mom.
  • Alfalfa (voiced by Amber Cotton) - Bean’s brown haired teenage daughter who rides a bike.

History

The interstitial series was first announced in a December 2005 news article when Sprout was planning to produce interstitials about healthy eating, geography, music, and creative storytelling created by Andrew Beecham, Meredith Halpern-Ranzer, and Susan Carden and outscoring production to Los Angeles-based Johnson and Murphy.[1] Sprout Diner was the healthy eating series, launching on September 18, 2006,[2] as part of Sprout's 1st anniversary programming. In addition, the geography series became The Many Adventures of Mr. Mailman, and the music and creative storytelling series aired in between shows when The Good Night Show was on hiatus following the firing of Melanie Martinez.

In light of the show's premiere, Sandy Wax said in an interview:

"We recognize that parents are concerned about what kids are eating these days, so instead of doing a heavy-handed thing-`You must eat your broccoli'-the way we approach it is having them whip up fun little recipes." (link)

The show's second season premiered on March 16th, 2007,[3] and the Time to Create segments were moved to Sprout On Demand.

The series aired at 8:30AM and 11:30AM ET during the unbranded Sprout Mornings block and later at 11:49AM ET during The Sunny Side Up Show. In later years, it aired at 1PM ET during the early afternoon block.

March Menu aired during Nutrition month in March of both 2007 and 2008, which meant Sprout celebrated a month of healthy food-themed episodes of shows. Additionally, Brussel, Bean, and Alfalfa would appear in Preschool Musical the latter year, singing "Holiday Feast."

However, the series stopped airing sometime in early 2010.

Show Meals

This is a list of various characters that called into the Sprout Diner and had a meal made for them. The instructions to make the recipe will be provided on the individual pages. Videos will be in the video section.

An asterisk (*) indicates that the episode is missing.

Season 1

Season 2

Unknown season

  • Star has a nightmare and asks the Sprout family to make him something.

Online

The series had an online presence on Sprout's website, Sproutletsgrow.com (later SproutOnline.com), which was a big part of the series itself.

Notes

  • According to the Sprout Press Room, the program aired four to six times a day.
  • After Sprout Diner was discontinued, several snacks from the show remained up on SproutOnline.com, as well as the Diner stickers on a promotional image for the snack bags from The Good Night Show, while others were rebranded. For example, Boohbah's snack was themed after The Hoobs and later The Mighty Jungle.
  • The "Sprout Diner Cafe" from The Let's Go Show was themed after the series.
  • The voice actors for the various characters that called in reprise their roles like Finty Williams (Angelina Ballerina), Dean Wendt (Barney), Benedict Campbell (Papa Bear), Greg Proops (Bob), Annie Bovaird (Caillou), Ty Olsson (Ord), John Sparkles (Sam), Maile Flanagan (Piggley Winks), Donna Cherry (Jay Jay), Michele Lepe (Nina), David A. Kaye (Noddy), David Sant (Pingu), Simon Shelton-Barnes, John Simmit, Nikky Smedley, and Pui Fan Lee (the Teletubbies), Julie Westwood (Tula), Holly Gauthier-Frankel (Sagwa), Kevin Clash (Elmo), Michael Brandon (Narrator), and Gord Robertson (Zoboo).
  • The Good Night Show is the only Sprout programming block to have an episode. Returning the favor, Nina and Star put Sprout Diner stickers on their snack bag crafts.
  • Big Bird from Sesame Street can be seen on the diner's walls. However, he did not get a snack themed after him.

Gallery

See Sprout Diner/Gallery

Videos

Sources

  1. ↑ Saluting Sprout’s Launch: PBS Sprouts a Kids Triumph (December 5, 2005), Retrieved February 20, 2025
  2. ↑ DeMott, Rick, PBS KIDS Sprout Celebrates First Birthday With Month-Long Bash (August 25, 2006), Retrieved February 20, 2025
  3. ↑ Kaufman, Debra, TelevisionWeek 2007-02-12: Vol 26 Iss 7 (February 12, 2007), Retrieved February 20, 2025
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