Episode Details

Say What?! is the news comedy show for kids aged 5 to 10, where three real, strange, true stories get the absurd comedy treatment. Today: a town in Wisconsin has thrown a giant cheese party every other year since 1914, and the parade is led from the front by actual cows, who set the pace for everybody behind them. There is yodelling, there are enormous horns that rest on the ground because farmers once used them to call each other across mountains, and there is a cheese quiz. Then a penguin puzzle: for more than a hundred years everyone thought one kind of penguin was a single big family, and scientists have just worked out there are four different kinds, one of them brand new and never named before. Nobody spotted it because they all wear exactly the same outfit, white front and black back, like a school photo where everyone has the same jumper. And two fourteen year old friends, Izzy and Susy, swam almost thirty kilometres across a whole piece of sea in six hours and twenty eight minutes, the youngest people ever to do it. Our favourite part: Susy is slightly younger, so she let Izzy climb out of the water first, which made Izzy the youngest ever for about ten seconds. Pip, Grump, Brad and Vera take it from there. New episodes Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

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