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Carly, Sean, Chica, Kelly, and Dennisha

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Sean, Kelly, Kevin, and Chica in 2009.

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Emily Borromeo, Carly Ciarrocchi, Tim Kubart, and Kaitlin Becker.

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The Sunny Side Up Show was a programming block created by SproutSunny Side Up aired every weekday at 9AM to 12PM (noon) ET each weekday morning.  It was produced live every weekday, and hosted by an adult host along with Chica, a chicken puppet co-host, who later was granted her own show, The Chica Show. Like Sprout's other blocks, Sunny often featured viewer-submitted content, similar to the PBS show ZOOM, which never aired on Sprout. As of 2009, The Sunny Side Up Show received over 830,000 submissions.[1]

Premise[]

"Starting September 26, rise and shine each weekday morning from 9am-noon ET with The Sunny Side Up Show—LIVE from the Sunshine Barn! The Sunny Side Up Show is a place where preschoolers and their parents gather to share, laugh, play, and prepare for the day ahead."

From the Sprout Press Room:

"Each weekday morning, The Sunny Side Up Show greets preschoolers and their families as they rise and shine and prepare for the day ahead. In this live broadcast, hosts Kelly, Sean, Dennisha and Liz alternate weeks and create a warm and welcoming environment where families can gather to share their local weather, birthdays, and even show and tell with Sprout®." (link)

Goals[]

From the Sprout Press Room:

"The Sunny Side Up Show balances playful, spontaneous fun with interactive learning and creates a welcoming environment for preschoolers and their parents to spend some morning time together. In addition to introducing children to educational concepts through weekly themes, the concepts of calendars, day of the week and weather are reinforced on a daily basis. Through birthday card submissions and other interactive activities, creativity and craft skills are exercised."

Interactive Components[]

"SproutOnline.com is the forum through which viewers interact with the live broadcast and an integral element of The Sunny Side Up Show. Submission of local weather reports, birthday cards, artwork and contest entries takes place through the website. SproutOnline.com also includes age-appropriate interactive games featuring Chica."

Co-Viewing Components[]

"Requests for viewer submissions and strong interactive components encourage parents and preschoolers to spend time together during The Sunny Side Up Show. The urgency of a live broadcast gets families excited to tune in together to view user-generated birthday cards and crafts and participate in contests and other special activities."

What Kids Learn About[]

"Play, Learning, Sharing, Creativity" (link)

Segments[]

During program breaks, Chica takes part in entertaining activities. These brief activities, generally assisted by the hosts, emphasize the week's theme.

  • Sproutlet Weather Report - Always shown at the start of each broadcast, the hosts read weather reports viewers sent in via SproutOnline.com, Usually three were shown. At first, these were shown on the pink toaster or the computer screen, but in 2013, they became shown through the barn's window. On weekends, the hosts would also show "Sproutlet Activity Reports."
  • Tell Chica - Viewers sent in messages to the hosts relating to the week's theme, who would read them on-air usually during split-screen credits. Originally, the segments used a printer with paper with the Sunny logo on it, but in 2013 were now read on the Sprout Pad.
  • Birthdays - The hosts usually sang a birthday song and read viewers' birthday cards and wishes delivered by "Mr. Mailman" in between programs, with a name scroll at the bottom of the screen. The wishes were first shown on the Computer Screen and later on the Sprout Pad. The Birthday segments were often featured at least three times in each broadcast, and during the "Today's Birthdays" segments on The Good Night Show, as well as on weekends when the block wasn't on, at least until 2010. The Birthdays aired at 9AM ET and 11AM ET, and at night at 6PM ET and 7:30 ET.
  • Dress Chica/Dress Up with Chica - Chica wore outfits designed by viewers. An app based on the segment was released in 2009.
  • Chica's Choice - The hosts and Chica would spin a wheel to play a game.
  • Barnyard Boogie - Viewers would dance with one of the hosts in animated bodies and the viewer's cropped head from an uploaded photo, similar to the Fifth Wiggle segment on Sprout's Wiggly Waffle or PICME. Dropped in 2013.
  • Sproutlet Stories - Viewers would make up a royalty, pirate, or space adventure story online starring Chica and one of the hosts and see them live on TV. Added in 2013 and dropped in 2015.
  • Sprout Today/Sproutlet News Report - The hosts read about special things happening to viewers. The segment was originally called Sproutlet News Report, but then became Sprout Today in 2013 and was shown by pre-recorded footage of a crowd.
  • Good Egg Awards - Chica and the hosts give out "Good Egg" awards to viewers who have done something kind or good to the earth. In later segments, the hosts would go out in the real world and give awards to locals. Renamed "Kindness Counts Awards" in 2015. Originally, this was part of a segment called "Farm Talk."
  • Do It Together (D.I.T.) - Chica and the host would make a craft or a recipe with instructions usually available on SproutOnline.com.
  • Draw With Chica - Chica and the host draw something on a blackboard, usually based on a picture sent in by viewers.
  • "Molly Manners" - A weekly question game starring a cartoon sheep who would ask questions about proper etiquette.
  • Silly Time - The hosts would read viewers' jokes.

History on Sprout[]

Origins[]

In Britain, the country where Sprout's senior vice president of programming Andrew Beecham was actually from, children's channels had adult presenters fill the gap in between shows by doing preschool-friendly activities and showcasing content submitted by viewers. When Sprout launched and Beecham became its SVP of programming, The Birthday Show and The Good Night Show brought the UK channels' presented formats to America. According to Betsy Oliphant, Beecham wanted a live show out of the presented format introduced two years ago on Sprout and in the UK, so Sprout executives talked about creating a live show where the hosts could showcase viewer-submitted content and have guest appearances from characters. Previously, Sprout only went live through a 2007 Mother's Day broadcast hosted by Kevin Yamada that featured bottom-of-the-screen scrolls of mother's day messages.

Team Sprout also felt it was important that their then-new live show connected with morning activities and would have the hosts show the day and viewers' weather and represent how children play in their spare time. They played around with names before settling on "The Sunny Side Up Show," after thinking about breakfast and eggs.  Since preschoolers are learning to get dressed by themselves, they wanted to create a segment and game that modeled that, which became Dress Chica. Sandy Wax said that the block was a throwback to classic children's shows (The Magic Garden, Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room, Howdy Doody) with modern sensibility.[2]

2000s[]

Premiere[]

The block, along with Musical Mornings with Coo, was first announced by Sprout on September 9th, 2007, with a pilot being released later. Both Musical Mornings and The Sunny Side Up Show first appeared on Sprout's schedule on September 26th, 2007 (the channel's 2nd anniversary). At that time, Sprout was available in 35 million homes.

2010s[]

The Sunny Side Up Show was shown regularly on Sprout each weekday until September 2010, when weekend editions of the block superseded The Let's Go Show. Additionally, the set was revamped and Noodle and Doodle, Sprout's first long-form original series, premiered.

In 2013, Kelly announced she was leaving the show, so Sprout held a Host Hunt contest. The winners ended up being Emily Borromeo, who started hosting in 2014, and Darryl Williams, who started hosting the recurring segment Dial Darryl. Additionally, Kaitlin Becker and Long Island-based kindie singer Tim Kubart started hosting at the end of the year.

Revamp[]

For Sprout's 10th anniversary in 2015, the show saw a setting change from the Sunshine Barn to an apartment somewhere in the city. The last broadcast in the Sunshine Barn was on September 18th and a road trip arc would occur until the 26th. In addition, certain segments were either removed or renamed, several new segments such as Sit and Sip were introduced, new shows were added to the schedule, and more celebrity guests were tagged. Despite the setting change, Sunshine Barn videos, even those from the Philadelphia era, were still available on SproutOnline.com for some time. It was around this time that Sunny Side Up music videos were posted to Sprout's YouTube channel, including "Who's Gonna Dance?" and its follow-up "Days of the Week."

Cancellation[]

On August 14th, 2017, Sprout House (later Snug's House) premiered and the block dissolved three days prior on August 11th (a day before School of Roars premiered), mainly because the live-formatting was too much for the crew to handle. Hosted by Sunny Side Up alum Carly Ciarrocchi with an orange dog puppet named Snug and a man named TJ, Sprout House is pre-recorded, although it is sporadically live (usually on holidays when its target audience was home from school), and its set, which allowed for more camera angles, resembled a "tiny house movement." Even though Sprout started to downplay her by this time, Chica still appeared in a few segments such as "Chica at School."

A playlist made by Universal Kids Preschool of some of the show's classic clips was available, but as of 2022, most of the videos are either unlisted or private.[3] However, most of them are listed as being clips from Snug's House. According to a Sprout fan on Discord, song segments aired on Universal Kids for some time.

As of 2022, fans are constantly searching for old segments through websites like Wayback Machine archives of YouTube videos.

Production[]

Once a year, hosts, associate producers, "Chicateers," and other people united to discuss weekly themes, starting with holidays, seasons, and preschool events. Afterwards, the crew looked at different topics of preschoolers' interests, set up a calendar, and assigned a team to develop each week's content. The team also went to schools for probably every six weeks to observe

The host and associate producer worked on a three-week cycle, with the first week serving as a prep week. After watching the following week's episodes, the crew decided on how to tie them into the week's theme, thought about the shows in the theme's context, and tried to pull out ideas preschoolers could pick up on. On Tuesday, the host and associate producer pitched their ideas to producers and an educational consultant enhanced segments to include additional learning opportunities. Afterwards, crew members listened to ideas to make sure that they were educational and age-appropriate, then spent the rest of the week tweaking ideas and putting everything together. On the second week, hosts were live on air from 9AM to noon, rehearsing their first link at around 8:40. While the first show of the day aired, Chica and the hosts prepared and rehearsed, on-air for about forty minutes over the course of three consecutive hours. During the third week, the associate producer helped produce the show in the control room.[4]

Cultural impact[]

Celebrities[]

The cast and crew of The Sunny Side Up Show originally rehearsed and recorded material in a Haddon Heights studio, eventually moving to the 24th floor of the Comcast Center in Philadelphia. With NBCUniversal's 2013 acquisition of Sprout, operations moved from Pennsylvania to New York and The Sunny Side Up Show started filming in 30 Rockefeller Plaza by Tonight Show house band The Roots' wardrobe rack.[5] As a result, celebrity guest stars started appearing on Sunny after The Today Show, thus encouraging parents to watch along with their kids. Guest stars from over the years have included performers such as Boyz II Men and The American Authors, gymnasts and athletes such as Simone Biles and Laurie Hernandez, and actors and actresses such as John O'Hurley and Patrick Warburton.

Additionally, parodies of pop culture and famous artists such as Queen B (Beyoncè) were utilized.

Cast[]

Hosts[]

A slate of adult hosts fill the gap in between shows, teach children educational themes through fun games, songs, crafts, and recipes, and showcase content submitted by viewers via the web. Unlike most children's shows, The Sunny Side Up Show was, for the most part, unscripted, and hosts acted like real people, playing themselves and using their real names.

  • Carly Ciarrocchi was a host for the show from June 4th, 2012 to August 11th, 2017. She went on to host "Sprout House."
  • Grammy award winner Tim Kubart was introduced to the block during the 2013 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade as he replaced Sean Roach, He hosted the show from December 30th, 2013 to August 11th, 2017.
  • Chica was a chicken puppet who co-hosted Sunny Side Up with Emily, Carly, Tim, and Kaitlin. Before moving to a city apartment, she lived in The Sunshine Barn. She had a voice that resembled a squeaker. Her character had been part of the show from 2007 to 2017. She also made occasional appearances in the Sprout Control Room. Chica was voiced by Forrest Harding. Chica's name is roughly Spanish for "girl" or the feminine version of "small".
  • Kevin Yamada was an original host of The Sunny Side Up Show. Yamada joined Chica and Kelly Vrooman as hosts, and the birthday cards and crawl of viewers' names became features of the new program. He played games, sang songs, and did activities sent in by viewers with Chica in the Sunshine Barn. Kevin's last appearance on the show was on December 25th, 2009, where he explained his impending departure from the show by telling viewers that he was moving away to the great big city and not playing with Chica in the Sunshine Barn anymore. He played the character of Ricky on the daily The Sprout Sharing Show until the show ended on May 11th, 2014; his Sunny Side Up hosting duties were assumed by new host Dennisha Pratt on December 31st, 2009.
  • Liz Filios joined the show on November 1st, 2010 and left the show on June 4th, 2012. She was replaced by Carly Ciarrocchi.
  • Sean Roach joined Kevin and Kelly as co-host of The Sunny Side Up Show in 2008. His last appearance on the show was December 13th, 2013. He left to focus more on his art. He still hosts reruns of Noodle and Doodle. He was replaced by Tim Kubart.
  • Kelly Vrooman was one of the original two hosts of the show. She played games, sang songs, and did activities sent in by viewers with Chica in the Sunshine Barn. Vrooman announced she was leaving in July, which called for the Host Hunt, and her final appearance as a host was on December 20, 2013. She performed Patty the Pig from The Sprout Sharing Show and starred in The Chica Show. She rejoined the show only for Thanks for Giving Week 2014. She was replaced by Kaitlin Becker.
  • Dennisha Pratt made her debut on December 31st, 2009, replacing Kevin. She has been on maternity leave during her time on the show twice, being replaced by Nina as a host the first time. Her last show was on June 13th, 2014. Afterwards, she was replaced by Emily Borromeo.
  • Kaitlin Becker was introduced during the 2013 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade as she replaced Kelly Vrooman. She began hosting on January 6th, 2014 and stopped hosting on May 19th, 2017.
  • Emily Borromeo joined the show as a host on June 23rd, 2014, replacing Dennisha and left on June 29th, 2017.
  • Darryl Williams was the host of the segment "Dial Darryl."

Recurring characters[]

  • Mr. Mailman was a cartoon character who used to appear on The Birthday Show and on The Sunny Side Up Show during Birthdays, where he would deliver birthday cards. He also appeared in a short-form series titled The Many Adventures of Mr. Mailman.
  • Rico was Chica's cousin who made occasional appearances.
  • Mrs. C was Chica's mother who made occasional appearances, usually for Mother’s Day or Valentine's Day, but usually known as Chica's Mom. She later moved to The Chica Show and was given a new necklace instead of her old yellow one, but that's a whole other story.
  • Chica's Nana has made occasional appearances, usually for Grandparents' Day.

Guest Appearances[]

The Sunny Side Up Show often had guest appearances from characters of shows and programming blocks on Sprout. According to Forrest Harding, executives and crew members tried to book a guest a few months before their appearance, due to their schedules filling up quickly. Team Sprout usually prepared that content a little and reviewed it, then rehearsed around 7:30. During appearances, the guest would take phone calls from viewers. After they had a show with a special guest, there would be a meet and greet or photo op for employees and their kids.[6]

  • Barney & Friends:
    • Barney appeared in the 2007 Thanksgiving special with Nina and Chica as well as the 2009 St. Valentine special with Sean Roach and Chica. He also appeared on the show on August 17th and 18th, 2010 with Kelly Vrooman and Chica to promote Dinosaurs Week. He also appeared on the show on Valentine's Day 2011 (February 14th, 2011) with Sean and Chica. Barney appeared on The Sunny Side Up Show on November 22nd, 2011 with Liz and Chica, to receive calls from Sproutlets who have been doing something kind.
    • Riff has also appeared on The Sunny Side Up Show on March 31st, 2011 with Liz and Chica during "Friends Week," in honor of Season 10 episodes of Barney & Friends on Sprout.
  • Sesame Street:
    • The first guest was Big Bird (performed here by Matt Vogel), who appeared in the show's pilot episode.
    • On February 14th, 2008, Prairie Dawn showed up to help make Valentine's Day cards, share Valentine's wishes, and take viewer calls with Kelly and Chica. :"Join Kelly, Chica and special guest Prairie Dawn from 9am-noon and again at 3-6pm ET for Sprout's Special Valentine's Day Delivery Celebration LIVE during The Sunny Side Up Show. Call Kelly, Chica & Prairie Dawn LIVE today from 3-6pm at (877) 91-CHICA - your call may be on Sprout! And don't forget to send us your preschooler's Valentine message for the one they love -- it may be on TV!" (link)
    • On April 24th, 2008, Oscar The Grouch joined Sean and Chica for a special week long celebration of Earth Day. During this appearance, a technical mishap occurred as Sprout executives were counting down to go to air, and as a result, Caroll Spinney was unable to hear his musical backing track to “I Love Trash.” It was a tense moment for all of us. His wife Debi was also in the control room, and she calmly got on a headset and told him not to worry. Since he could hear her, she would sing it and he could simply accompany her. Shannon Reitz gathered the props for "I Love Trash" and had Spinney sign her sneaker. On February 28th, 2014, Oscar appeared again to help celebrate "Oscar Weekend" with Dennisha and Chica. He returned for another "Oscar Weekend" on February 21, 2015 with Kaitlin and Chica. This was the final time a Sesame character guest-starred on the block, because the airing rights to the show expired later that year.
    • On December 31st, 2008, Grover visits The Sunshine Barn, and will help sing in the New Year in a morning countdown. Super Grover also makes an appearance. Super Grover also appeared on January 1st, 2009 to celebrate a "Super New Year's Party" with Kelly and Chica.
    • On December 15th, 2009, Elmo appeared live from 9 am to noon with Sean and Chica. According to Sprout's Andrew Beecham, he couldn't get anyone better to get viewers into the holiday spirit.[7] During this appearance, he played a game show about colors and sang songs such as Blue Kazoo Blues and Menorah Lights. He also appeared live from 9 am to noon on November 30th, 2010 with Kelly and Chica (as well as hosting Elmo's Movie Merry-Thon)[8] and December 13th, 2011 with Liz and Chica (before hosting another Movie Merry-Thon).[9] In the latter year, his puppeteer got hit by a dreidel.
    • On January 4, 2012, Abby Cadabby appeared live from 9 am to noon with Liz and Chica both for "Weather Week" and to promote Seasons 40-42 airing on the channel.
  • LazyTown:
    • Sportacus guest-starred on July 27, 2012 with Sean and Chica.
    • Stephanie appeared on the show on May 27th, 2013[10] with Kelly and Chica.
  • Noodle and Doodle: Noodle McNoodle.
  • Pajanimals:
    • On August 27, 2012, Squacky appeared live from 9 am to noon with Dennisha and Chica. He also appeared for Fall week in 2011 with Kelly and Chica.
    • Sweetpea Sue also guest-starred to make Valentine's Day cards with Sean and Chica.
    • Granny Pearl guest-starred on the block once.
  • Ruff-Ruff, Tweet and Dave: The titular characters and Hatty the Hamster guest-starred on the block in 2015 to promote their show with Emily and Chica. A Sprout Today short was also aired featuring a CGI version of Chica among the characters from the show.
  • The Sprout Sharing Show: Patty, Ricky, Curtis E. Owl, Reginald, Otis, and the Stage Mice have appeared on this block. Patty also joined Liz and Chica for a pajama party in 2010.
  • The Good Night ShowNina and Star showed up on the set sonetimes, usually for Sprout's Scrambled April Fun Day. They also learned a sink or float activity with Kelly and Chica. Nina also guest-hosted several times. She appeared for Thanksgiving with Barney, on May 31st, 2008, to promote a new season of GNS on September 21, 2009 ("New Adventures" week) (around the time Dennisha auditioned), and for Fairy Tales Week in November 2011. Star guest appeared in 2010 where Kelly showed him and Chica some crazy space robot moves, and he also played Captain Twinkle on Space Barn.[11] Star joined Liz and Chica for a PJ Party in 2010.
  • The Let's Go Show: Miles from The Let's Go Show appeared on this block once.
  • Sprout Control Room: Meeka (a recycled version of Banjo from The Let's Go Show) and M'Goats guest-starred on July 12th, 2014 for the premiere of Astroblast!.
  • The Chica Show: Mr. and Mrs. C, Chica's parents, made occasional appearances on the show. Mrs. C was even a recurring character on Sunny before that (see above).
  • The Super Sproutlet Show: Bean guest-starred on the show on February 14, 2012 with Liz and Chica, to celebrate the debut of her programming block, The Super Sproutlet Show.
  • Zerby Derby: Zack guest starred once to promote his show with Tim and Chica, and sang a song to the tune of "The Wheels on the Bus."
  • Other - See The Sunny Side Up Show guest stars

Programming[]

The Sunny Side Up Show was aimed at kids staying home from school, and included shows that offered a learning opportunity to viewers.

Merchandising[]

A plush toy of Chica was available as early as the Sprout birthday sweepstakes in 2010. According to Lisa O'Brien, once Chica dolls sold out, Sprout executives knew they had something special on their hands and created The Chica Show.[13]

In 2013, Sprout and CafePress launched Shop Sprout, a website in which people could shop for Sprout show-related merchandise. Plush toys, backpacks, and shirts, amongst other items, utilizing Chica were sold on the Shop Sprout website.

The cast hosted Let's Grow, a series of two videos released by HiT Entertainment. Kelly and Chica hosted Lend a Helping Hand, which was about helping others, while Sean and the latter hosted Safety First, a video about being safe.

Hosts have made live appearances at the likes of the Comcast Center, Idlewild and Soak Zone, the Please Touch Museum, and Sesame Place and have appeared on NBC10 Philadelphia and Wake Up with Al. In 2012, Sprout characters and hosts started appearing on a themed float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which had a replica of the Sunshine Barn.

Notes[]

  • On The Good Night Show, leftover birthdays aired in a program called "Today's Birthdays," which also aired on weekends until 2010.
  • Whenever Super WHY! aired on the block, it lasted for one hour, due to segments where the host and Chica danced to the show's theme song, and due to commercials and Sunny Side Up segments airing during the show.
  • When The Good Night Show broadcast live for the premiere of Astroblast!, the broadcast was filmed in the Sunshine Barn because the You And Me Tree never existed or was not adapted for live airings.
  • During the winter season from 2010 to 2016, the show would be renamed "The Snowy Side Up Show" (later "Snowy Side Up") It was around this time the hosts wore winter clothes in the rather indoors Sunshine Barn.
  • For Halloween 2016, the show was renamed "Spooky Side Up."[14]
  • The series had its own digital podcast on iTunes, launching in 2009.
  • The original theme, "Brand New Day," was replaced by "Chica's Here" in 2013, once NBCUniversal acquired all of Sprout.
  • The block seldom aired on timeslots other than 9AM-noon, such as Hooray for Mother's Day or Sprout's Scrambled April Fun Day (where it aired during The Good Night Show's usual timeslot during the latter stunt).
  • The guests from shows would reprise their roles. These included Matt Vogel (Big Bird), Dean Wendt (Barney), Michele Lepe (Nina), Milton Barnes (Miles), Fran Brill (Prairie Dawn), Caroll Spinney (Oscar the Grouch), Eric Jacobson (Super Grover and Oscar the Grouch), Kevin Clash (Elmo), Stacia Newcomb (Star), Michela Dietz (Riff), Magnus Scheving (Sportacus), Chloe Lang (Stephanie), Catherine Missal (Bean), Leslie Carrara-Rudolph (Abby Cadabby), Jennifer Barnhart (Chica's Mom), John Kennedy (Mr. C), Kelly Vrooman (Patty), Kevin Yamada (Ricky), Brendan Gawel (Curtis), Victor Yerrid (Squacky), and Sarah Lyle (Sweetpea Sue).
  • When Teletubbies aired after the block, the camera cut to the show right away rather than fading to black as a transition.[15]
  • Before the name change to Sunny Side Up in 2015, the block was called "Sunny Side Up" in a promo for Noodle and Doodle, stating that the show aired during "Sunny Side Up Weekends."
  • The series reached 1,000 episodes on April 22nd, 2011.

Criticism and Controversy[]

Multi-platinum Grammy Award-winning artist Faith Evans appeared on the show on Tuesday, December 2, 2014, but due to angry parents complaining on Facebook that her shirt looked like a cigarette package, Sprout apologized and deleted the YouTube video of her appearance.[16]

External links[]

References[]

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