ICYMI - The Backyardigans Have the Hottest Song on TikTok
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3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Madison and Rachelle open with High Speed Downloads on two viral stories: the photos of Tessa Thompson, Rita Ora, and Taika Waititi sharing an apparent three-way kiss, and the journey of the woman who live-tweeted her cross-country flight to pursue a man who might be just not that into her. Then they examine how the song “Castaways” from the Nickelodeon show The Backyardigans has become so popular on TikTok that it topped the Spotify Viral 50 chart. Where did this trend begin, and what does it say about TikTok as a nostalgia factory?
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hoi there! |
| 0:03.8 | Anybody? |
| 0:05.3 | Hello? |
| 0:06.8 | Oh, hi. |
| 0:07.8 | It's me, Uniqua, and I'm a castaway on the desert island. |
| 0:13.4 | Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher. |
| 0:16.0 | And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to you, I see why I'm I. |
| 0:19.5 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:20.7 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:23.1 | Today, Rachel, today I have to show you a cursed object, courtesy of my little sister. |
| 0:29.0 | I see cursed objects run in the family. |
| 0:33.1 | It's true. |
| 0:33.8 | This one is an Instagram post that comes courtesy of the official Instagram account of Veggie Tales, which is a children's TV show about sentient vegetables. |
| 0:43.3 | Oh, yeah. And they sing Bob's. It's also a very Christian TV show. Yeah. Oh, propaganda from, yeah, no. Yeah. Yes. |
| 0:54.3 | So there's a cucumber named Larry and I believe a tomato named Bob. |
| 0:59.9 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:00.7 | This particular post is Larry, who is a cucumber. |
| 1:03.8 | Yes. |
| 1:04.0 | And in it, he is chilling. |
| 1:07.9 | The text says just chilling and he's lying with his head atop a pillow. And notably, |
| 1:13.0 | he has two cucumber slices over his eyes. Wait, but he's, uh-huh. Um, and this is the official |
| 1:21.1 | Veggie Tales Instagram account. It is. Okay. Okay, so they're condoning cannibalism? I mean, |
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