The Backyardigans - Movers & Shakers

Eight is great, but the music is getting weirder
This is the eighth DVD in the series, and includes four episodes from Season Two of the brilliant children's television series, The Backyardigans.

1. Movers of Arabia

2. Cops and Robots

3. Sinbad Sails Alone

4. The Best Clowns In Town

1. Movers of Arabia (Tyrone, Pablo, Uniqua, Austin)

Tyrone is a Sultan

And he's got a cave of stuff

He needs a team of movers

'cause the job is really tough

A genie in a bottle helps

To speed the job along

They have to learn to say "I wish"

Whenever things go wrong

2. Cops and Robots (Tyrone, Uniqua, Pablo, Tasha)

Two cops patrolling outer space

Must stop an evil scheme

When robots storm a factory

To start a new regime

3. Sinbad Sails Alone (Tyrone, Pablo, Uniqua, Tasha)

Tyrone is a sailor

And he's going on a quest...

Surf Music, Mambo, Jug Band Tunes and Circus Songs!
My son has about a dozen Backyardigan DVD's and videos. He loved Movers and Shakers so much, that it he watched it several times a day for a week! It even re-awakened an interest in his OTHER DVDs, so he pulled those out and watched them, too.

Movers & Shakers features four episodes:

Movers of Arabia - Movers Pablo and Uniqua move Sultan Tyrone's magical things to groovy surf music. But can they do the job without using up Genie Austin's three wishes? This surf rock episode (think Beach Boys!) includes the songs I Am the Sultan, Movers of Arabia, I Wish, and The Genie Bottle (sung to the tune of Take Me Out to the Ballgame).

Cops and Robots - It's a space chase set to jug band music, as Cops Uniqua and Tyrone try to stop Bad Bots Pablonator and T-900 Tasha from turning the galaxy's robots bad! (My son *especially* loved this episode because we had bought the super-cool Cops and...

My son's favorites
These episodes are scheduled to air on Nickelodeon starting Monday, March 19th (10:30AM ET).

Surprised that the DVD wasn;t released before the air dates for these episodes. The Legend of the Volcano Sisters was released at least 2 weeks before those episodes aired.

My son loves this show. Every episode sets him off on his own adventures. Highly recommended for sparking imaginative stories in youngsters.

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