I recently completed a nostalgia watch of this. In fact, I did one ten years ago too. Maybe I'll revisit this show every 10 years.
Except it was with this watch that I have now seen every episode. How about that?
While the various shows from my preteen years will always be special to me, admittedly some just become fond memories while others stand the test of time and I can watch them all again.
I respect the premise: there are already so many shows about kids and of course how school dominates their lives. So let's move away from the cliché school storylines and just set it during the weekend.
No matter what the conflicts are, each episode has the inviting warmth of the special time after Friday afternoon and before Monday morning. They use scene cards to make sure you don't forget with the cute approach of having one small thing in the scene appear before the rest follows.
It's a formula, but it leaves so much space for inventiveness with stories that begin and resolve within the space of 60 hours so there's always something digestible about an episode of the Weekenders.
The title sequence will just get under your skin and that goofy dancing...I almost feel sorry for them but it's hard not to be charmed by this vision of pre-teen friendship with 4 individual who, while so different, just have fun together.
They routinely break the fourth wall and it's nice to be in on the fun. Tino usually hosts but the others do it as well. Often using surreal gimmicks like the glasses that help you see the world how a cool kid does and the "horizontal gravity syndrome" being apparently a literal thing.
And yes, it's actually pretty funny. There are some episodes that are somewhat excruciating but you can always skip those.
They are not subtle about the life lesson that can be learnt each episode. Often it is explained in candid terms by Tino's Mom. I don't dislike her as a person or a character but she seems like something of a Mary-Sue. I think the running gag of her bizarre cooking was meant to balance that.
But either way, I invite you to give this delightful show of youthful fun and almost-care-free friendship a chance.
The voice actors do a top notch job, especially Soucie as Tish where the intellectualism is spiced up with the occasional dash of Pubert Farnsworth.
And Lor...How did I only come to appreciate in adulthood just how adorable she is?
Except it was with this watch that I have now seen every episode. How about that?
While the various shows from my preteen years will always be special to me, admittedly some just become fond memories while others stand the test of time and I can watch them all again.
I respect the premise: there are already so many shows about kids and of course how school dominates their lives. So let's move away from the cliché school storylines and just set it during the weekend.
No matter what the conflicts are, each episode has the inviting warmth of the special time after Friday afternoon and before Monday morning. They use scene cards to make sure you don't forget with the cute approach of having one small thing in the scene appear before the rest follows.
It's a formula, but it leaves so much space for inventiveness with stories that begin and resolve within the space of 60 hours so there's always something digestible about an episode of the Weekenders.
The title sequence will just get under your skin and that goofy dancing...I almost feel sorry for them but it's hard not to be charmed by this vision of pre-teen friendship with 4 individual who, while so different, just have fun together.
They routinely break the fourth wall and it's nice to be in on the fun. Tino usually hosts but the others do it as well. Often using surreal gimmicks like the glasses that help you see the world how a cool kid does and the "horizontal gravity syndrome" being apparently a literal thing.
And yes, it's actually pretty funny. There are some episodes that are somewhat excruciating but you can always skip those.
They are not subtle about the life lesson that can be learnt each episode. Often it is explained in candid terms by Tino's Mom. I don't dislike her as a person or a character but she seems like something of a Mary-Sue. I think the running gag of her bizarre cooking was meant to balance that.
But either way, I invite you to give this delightful show of youthful fun and almost-care-free friendship a chance.
The voice actors do a top notch job, especially Soucie as Tish where the intellectualism is spiced up with the occasional dash of Pubert Farnsworth.
And Lor...How did I only come to appreciate in adulthood just how adorable she is?