![]() ![]() Sascha notes with a chuckle to WDIV's Christy McDonald that Parker has learned that using 'Poop' rather than 'outside' can be more effective because it creates a sense of urgency. Sascha says the word her dog uses the most is 'Poop,' but she says that she sometimes presses that button when she simply wants to go out to play. ![]() What is Parker Posey's Most Frequently Used Word? Sascha says she currently has buttons for about 113 words and Parker Posey knows most of them. The words essentially communicate the dog's basic needs like outside, poop, play, fridge, and all done. Parker Posey communicates by stepping on audio buttons that correspond to certain words or phrases. She says she learned the technique from the Book 'How Stella Learned to Talk' by Christina Hunger. Sascha has a series of pads, each containing numerous audio buttons laid out on the floor in her Ann Arbor Home. Parker Posey is a two-and-a-half-year-old rescue dog who has learned to speak using audio buttons from a company called Fluent Pets. (You probably noticed we introduced the dog first, and yes, that was intentional.) Sascha Has Taught Parker to Talk - Sort of The retooled show came complete with a new theme song, which described its star as, “The Mega Mack Daddy of Ecology.” New episodes continued until 1995 when the show moved its reruns over to the Turner-owned Cartoon Network.Or are we? We'd like you to meet Parker Posey and her owner Sascha Cransnow. They did, and the show became one of the top-rated cartoons of the early ’90s.Īfter three seasons, Hanna-Barbera took over animation duties, and the show was retitled The New Adventures of Captain Planet. Whoopi Goldberg, Ed Asner, Sting, Elizabeth Taylor, and too many more to mention all pitched in for the cause, working as cheaply as guild regulations would allow.ĭespite its talent roster and good intentions, Captain Planet and the Planeteers would never have succeeded if the kids didn’t watch. In addition to the marketing might of Turner himself, the show gained additional support from several Hollywood stars, who lent their voices to the show’s heroes and villains. The DIC-produced series debuted simultaneously on TBS and in wide syndication in 1990. The Captain had enough special abilities to foil the show’s eco-unfriendly villains, but as he constantly reminded the kids at home, “The Power Is Yours!” To that end, each episode of Captain Planet and the Planeteers ended with a 30-second “Planeteers Alert,” which taught kids lessons on recycling, vegetarian diets, and other planetary protection measures. When all five rings were united, the Planeteers could conjure up the earth’s most powerful defender, the blue-skinned Captain Planet. Gaia gave each Planeteer a special ring, in which the elemental powers were held. ![]() ![]() African Kwame was given the power of “Earth.” North American Wheeler held “Fire.” Asian Gi controlled “Water.” From the Soviet Union, Linka represented “Wind.” Rounding out the group was South American Ma-Ti, who wielded the power of “Heart.” Naturally, there was a funny animal, a monkey named Sushi. In A Rickonvenient Mort, the early 90s cartoon Captain Planet and the Planeteers gets the Adult Swim treatment, and Rick and Summer indulge in a little end. To help her cause, Gaia recruited five youngsters from around the globe, giving each an elemental power. The series came from an original idea by media mogul Ted Turner, who developed the program for his TBS Superstation cable network.Īs the opening narration explained, earth spirit Gaia needed to purge the earth of greedy polluters like Hoggish Greedly, Looten Plunder, Dr. Striking a blow for ecology, fighting “polluting perpetrators” wherever they were found, Captain Planet and the Planeteers brought the environmental movement to the cartoon world. ![]()
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