My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
- Henry Rollins
Batman has one. Superman doesn’t. Fred Flinstone does. Bugs Bunny does (whether Daffy wants to admit it or not.. he’s a sidekick).
I want a sidekick. Not a minion though, I don’t need someone daft. But a good authentic sidekick. Like an assistant that dresses up and appears at will to do my bidding. Or we collaborate at night to set things right with the land and then we wave our hands in humbleness while people repeatedly thank us. Someone who will laugh at all my jokes. Maybe my 4yr old counts as a sidekick? She does like to dress up afterall. She needs me for her own survival. And she laughs at everything I do.. no matter how stupid.
Huh. Revelation there. That’s nice.
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
– Walt Disney
Disney movies are great and all, but really they follow the same formula. Main character loses parent, overcomes obstacle to become some sort of leader, fall in love with another leader’s son/daughter, happily ever after, The End. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about not reinventing the wheel, but the parental loss is just too dramatic and I don’t want to expose that to my little one all the time. So we change up our movies or TV shows.
The Chipmunk Adventure. Now that’s a movie! You have the Chipmunks, the Chipettes, awesome scenery, bright colours, vivid characters, great musical numbers, and just fun to watch. My 4yr old absolutely loves it and watches it daily. And when I mean daily, I mean 4 times a day.
That’s not including all the episodes that we watch of The Smurfs, David the Gnome, and The Adventures of the Little Koala. Yea, it’s a throw-back to my own childhood, but mine was pretty memorable and content and I want hers to be as well.
Batman has one. Superman doesn’t. Fred Flinstone does. Bugs Bunny does (whether Daffy wants to admit it or not.. he’s a sidekick). 
