The Sunny Side Up Show

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Sunny Side Up
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The Sunny Side Up Show logo (2007–2009)
Network PBS Kids Sprout
Sprout (9:00 am–12:00 pm)
LaunchedSeptember 26, 2007;16 years ago (2007-09-26)
ClosedAugust 11, 2017;6 years ago (2017-08-11)
Country of originUnited States
Formerly known as
  • The Birthday Show
  • The Sunny Side Up Show
Format 480i (SDTV) (2007–2013) (seasons 1-6)
1080i (HDTV) (2013–2017) (seasons 7-10)
Running time3 hours
Original language(s)English

Sunny Side Up (previously known as The Sunny Side Up Show) is a defunct television programming block which premiered on Sprout on September 26, 2007 [1] [2] and ended on August 11, 2017. Each week, a new theme was introduced, [3] including food, Halloween, animals, construction, fall, opposites, and birthdays. Sunny Side Up aired at 9:00 AM Eastern/8:00 AM Central until 12:00 PM Eastern/11:00 AM Central each weekday morning. The hosts of Sunny Side Up played games, sang songs, told stories, and showed birthday cards or artwork.

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Sunny Side Up was Sprout's morning program. It was produced live every weekday, and hosted by a human host along with Chica, a chicken puppet who later got her own show. Before moving to a "city apartment" set, the show took place on a set dubbed The Sunshine Barn and decorated with farm-themed objects. The hosts were Carly and Tim. Each hosted the show for one week with each week's host being announced late in the previous week. Each week's host introduced programs, read birthdays, led activities related to the week's theme, and read messages sent in by individual "Sproutlet" viewers through the Sprout website. There were daily activities such as "The Good Egg Awards" (renamed "The Kindness Kid Awards") celebrating viewers' accomplishments, and "Sproutlet Stories" allowed "Sproutlets" to tell different stories with different plots, characters, and settings.

The theme tune from 2007 to 2013 was Brand New Day, but from 2013 to 2015 it was Chica's Here.

Some episodes of the show were supposedly archived by IMDb and on-demand services since Sprout rebranded, and few can even be found on YouTube.

Origins and history

Andrew Beecham, Sprout's senior vice president of programming, knew he wanted a live show, so executives agreed that a live show with guest appearances from Sprout characters, viewer submissions, and weekly themes would be perfect for Sprout. [4] The block first premiered on September 26, 2007, two years exact after the Sprout channel launched with Kelly Vrooman and Kevin Yamada alongside Chica the puppet chicken as the first hosts, Sean Roach joined the founding trio of presenters the following year.

On September 25, 2010, to celebrate the launch of the Sprout original series Noodle and Doodle , the block expanded to include Saturday and Sunday weekend morning broadcasts instead of just taking the weekend off and handing over to The Let’s Go Show, another Sprout programming block at the time. It was around the time that the set was remodeled, now featuring a green flower-shaped clock and a red and blue crate.

For several years, The Sunny Side Up Show was taped at the Comcast Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania before moving to 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City in 2014, as Sprout was acquired by NBCUniversal the previous year, in a studio not too far from The Roots' wardrobe rack. Since the move to New York, Sprout started snagging celebrity guest stars to appear on the program after they appeared on The Today Show . [5]

Segments

2007–2015

The block starts with the host and Chica greeting the viewers, and explaining the date and weather, and the day's theme.

The next segment involves birthday cards and wishes. Mr. Mailman, a mailman puppet, would send the cards to the Sunshine Barn.

The next segment involves a different song or dance each day.

The next segment involves the hosts making a craft or cooking a recipe. Based on the app "Dress Chica", during a show that comes on at 10:00 am, the hosts would demonstrate the viewers’ idea of Chica's disguise. Dress Chica was created since executives wanted a game and segment that would help kids get dressed. A Dress Chica app was released by New Wave Entertainment in 2009, alongside "Sprout Player" and "Dress Like Chica."

In the Good Egg Awards, formerly part of the segment "Farm Talk," the hosts would read different awards given to viewers online.

Next, the hosts would do a dance titled the Barnyard Boogie. In 2013, the segment was replaced with a new segment titled Sproutlet Stories, where viewers online could make up three different stories: a pirate adventure, a royal adventure, and a space adventure.

Also, in 2014, a new penultimate segment was added, titled Chica's Choice, where a five-inch spinning wheel would be spun to direct everyone to do something fun.

The next segment involves sharing the remainder birthday cards and wishes.

From 2010 to 2017, the hosts would host the Sproutlet News Report, where viewers could share what they did and how they showed care for each other, with amazing voicemails. & The hosts would close the block by telling viewers to stay tuned for the Sprout Sharing Show and The Good Night Show.

2015–2017

In September 2015, as part of Sprout's new design, the setting was changed to a city apartment.

The birthday cards and wishes were still going, as well as crafts. Temporarily, the Dress Chica, Chica's Choice, Sproutlet Stories and Sproutlet News Report were removed from the block. In 2017, Chica was removed to make way for the Sprout House block.

Cast

Hosts

Recurring characters

Guest stars

The following is a list of television programs from which guest stars originated, and the characters from those programs which appeared on Sunny Side Up:

Programming

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