Barney and the K serial

Ok,
first things first, once you become a parent you can say goodbye to
most of your staple soaps on T.V. I mean once the kid is a little older
you don’t want him asking uncomfortable questions so you have to censor
what you watch.

And in my case the minute I touch the remote my
son wants to watch one of his DVD’s. So I have managed to find a middle
path we watch the K soap along with the Barney CD and thankfully my two
year old does not seem to mind. So what we do is the minute the K
serial gets too heavy we switch to Barney and the minute the song on
Barney gets done we switch to the K soap.

So let me recap one of the soaps I recently watched.

Ok
so the dadaji of the house summons the bahu and gives her a long
lecture on the parampara of the house. I heard the lecture for a good
30 seconds but then it started reminding me of the lectures I got as a
teenager from my dad so we switched to Barney.

So on Barney these 3 cute kids started singing ‘One two buckle my shoe with a lovely song and dance routine’.

Ok song done back to soap.

The
poor lectured bahu has tears streaming down her face and she starts
looking at a distance with a popular old Hindi song in the background.

And on Barney the kids start singing ‘Incy wincy spider went up the water spout’.

On
the K soap… The bahu is now in the kitchen making chai-nashta, and
Mom-in-law starts giving her lecture on how well meaning pa-in-law is.
(Belch time to change channels.)

On Barney the cute kids start mixing colors and messing up the place with the song ‘When you mix red and blue you get purple.

The bahu is now crying on bhabi’s shoulder and recounting the lectures she has received. (Tragic)

On
Barney the kids are now eating lunch so you have the lunch song
‘Macaroni, macaroni Mac and cheese three times daily pretty please.’

On
the soap, one strange looking woman is now plotting to ruin the family.
(Why bother all that weeping and lecturing will anyway do the trick.)
She is giving detailed instructions to someone on the phone while some
other family member is conveniently snooping through the door.

On Barney its naptime. The kids are singing ‘I like my yellow blankey in the day and night.’

The Bahu is now traditionalizing herself by lighting a lamp in front on God and singing an arti.

On Barney its time to end the show with Barney singing ‘I love you, you love me we are a happy family.’

My son and I also join in grinning from ear to ear….

This is surely the best way to watch a K soap.

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