Sunny Side Up Show

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The Sunny Side Up Show is a television programming block introduced in September 26, 2007^[1] on PBS KIDS Sprout. Each week, a new theme is introduced (shown on the web page) ^[2], including food, Halloween, animals, construction, fall, opposites, and birthdays. The Sunny Side Up Show starts at 9:00am Eastern Time each weekday morning and has a puppet co-host, named “Chica”. The host of the Sunny Side Up Show plays games, sings songs, tells stories, and shows birthday cards or shows artwork. Barney has made guest appearances on the show, such as the Thanksgiving show, 2007 and Prairie Dawn in the Valentine’s Day show, 2008.

[edit] Hosts

Kelly, portrayed by Kelly Vrooman, is a main host on The Sunny Side Up Show, which premiered on September 26, 2007. Along with co-hosts Chica, Kevin and Sean. They introduce programs and lead themed activities.

Chica is a chicken puppet who co-hosts The Sunny Side Up Show with Kelly, Kevin and Sean. She lives in a building called The Sunshine Barn, and has a voice which resembles a kazoo. Her character was introduced on the aforementioned premiere of The Sunny Side Up Show.

Kevin, portrayed by Kevin Yamada, was the original host of The Birthday Show. This segment, which originally aired several times daily, featured birthday cards sent in by parents for their children. Kevin would read these birthday cards as a list of "Sproutlet" birthdays scrolled along the bottom of the screen. The Birthday Show began in a short format, but was expanded to a fifteen-minute segment where, along with birthday cards and the crawl of viewer birthdays, Kevin would feature footage of an individual "Sproutlet's" birthday celebration. Often, the activities shown in these segments had some tie-in to Sprout shows--for example, children playing Zoboomafoo Bingo (where animal pictures were used instead of numbers) or creating an "Angelina Ballerina" party favor. On September 26, 2007, The Birthday Show was absorbed into The Sunny Side Up Show with Kevin joining Chica and Kelly to display birthday cards and offer birthday wishes.

Sean, portrayed by Sean Roach, is the newest host added to The Sunny Side Up Show.

Mr. Mailman is a cartoon character who delivers cards and mail. Originally a part of The Birthday Show, the character was then featured in The Many Adventures of Mr. Mailman. He still performs his original role, delivering birthday cards on The Sunny Side Up Show.

Nina, portrayed by Michele Lepe, is the current host of The Good Night Show. She also makes occasional appearances on The Sunny Side Up Show .

Miles is the host of the The Let's Go Show. He also makes occasional appearances on The Sunny Side Up Show.

Barney is a two hundred million year old purple dinosaur, who comes to life through a child's imagination from Barney & Friends. He also makes occasional appearances on The Sunny Side Up Show.