Luckystott

2005-02-22 - 3:04 p.m.

Freddie and I have a new favorite show.

It is such a good show -- and not just because JoJo is a supreme goddess who whips parents and children into shape with proper schedules and discipline.

Oh no.

We're in it for the unpredictable and downright hysterical toddler antics that are caught on tape for all the nation to see.

It all started a few weeks ago when we first started watching the show. A harried stay-at-home mom was trying to balance raising twin girls along with her full-time, 40-hour work week. Naturally, the four year old girls weren't having it.

As mom was trying to take a call from work: Cutie #1 runs into the room and yells:

"Nanny Nanny Boo Boo!"

Literally taunting her own mother.

We should have been horrified.

But we laughed. Oh, how we laughed.

Freddie: "Did she just say NANNY NANNY BOO BOO? I have a question -- where she learn that? Because that's, like, THE most universal thing a kid can say...I've heard kids in KENYA say the same thing! Who teaches them that?"

The next week, we watched a little boy throw a tantrum when he was put in time out for misbehaving. The nervous father was trying to "get down to his son's level" and "use a low, firm voice" to explain to the child why he was being punished. Ah, but the kid wasn't having it. He could sense his father's nervousness and he knew he had the power. He waited until his father was done explaining the punishment ("Do you understand me?") and then dropped the bomb. The kid - age three, by the way -- calmly looked his father right in the eye and quielty declared:

"Poo Poo"

Which sent us into gales of laughter.

"Dude..." I directed to Freddie, "You realize -- we can't laugh like this when we discipline our own kids! It really tears down the effectiveness of the time out if you give them a response."

"I know -(gasp!) - I know" Freddie replied. "It's just so SO funny when it's not your kid!"

Our favorite "Supernanny Moment" takes us back to the first scenario with the twin girls. The other twin, Cutie #2, was having difficultly staying in her bed at night. She was being disciplined with the silent treatment by her parents after the third attempt at being tucked in, as per Jo's instruction. (The parents are supposed to ignore the child's manipulations and silently put them back into bed every time they get up. No requests granted. Eventually the child learns they have no choice but to go to bed.) At her fifth attempt to get her parents attention, Cutie #2 runs into the living room and screams:

"Butt PIE!"

Yeah. Hi. Me and Freddie? We laughed so hard we rolled across the floor.

Aaaaaaand "Butt PIE" has become an intregal part of our vocabulary ever since.

"What's for dinner?"
"Butt PIE!"

"I'm sorry. I'm a butt PIE."

"I hate TimeWarner Cable and their Butt PIE customer service. They are the buttiest butt PIES in the whole world."

We can't put a finger on why that hit our funny bone so hard. Perhaps it was the little girl's total package (adorable looks + devil's spawn attitude) or maybe it was her four-year-old little girl way of putting "Butt" with "pie" to make the perfect curse word (Imaginative, if anything!)

But whatever it is -- we've been having so much fun with the word "Butt PIE" -- especially since Freddie is from West Texas where the word "Pie" is stretch out to full capacity, like "Paaaaai-eeeee-yuh"

Try it. It's fun. Butt PIE!

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