Yo Gabba Gabba: You must admit, Jack Black could fit right in on this show. And he's going to do it, too.Jack Black is going to be on Yo Gabba Gabba. If Jack Black were going to be on any show that caters to toddlers, Yo Gabba Gabba is a likely choice, as it caters both to toddlers and tripping college students. In both cases, I guess, it's Teletubbies for the 21st century.
This isn't Jack Black's first foray into entertainment for kids. My kids loved him in Kung Fu Panda. They expressed less of a preference for his costar, Angelina Jolie. The fact that both of them have made their careers in movies that were violent or R-rated or both was completely lost on my children, but not on me.
What drives celebrities to kid fare, after the jump...
Of course they wanted to be in Kung Fu Panda; they have kids. When Angelina Jolie's toddlers want to know what mama does at work she wants to be able to show them Kung Fu Panda, not Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
Lots of movie star parents do this. Julia Roberts was in Charlotte's Web. My favorite example, though, is Sharon Stone. She narrated 13 episodes of HBO's Harold and the Purple Crayon series in 2002. Basic Instinct and Casino just aren't the way you want to introduce your small children to your profession. Truthfully, I think Harold and the Purple Crayon is a great choice on Sharon Stone's part. The books have a sweet, sincere charm that really worked for my kids.
Plus, Harold's Trip to the Sky (1957) includes one of my favorite outdated jokes. Harold finds himself in a desert at night, bored. Then "... he remembered how the government has fun on the desert. It shoots off rockets." So Harold takes a rocket to the sky, where he meets a Martian that looks like it belongs on...Yo Gabba Gabba.
No word on whether the Martian had the voice of Jack Black.
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