No bath for JZ tonight, as they decided they didn't want the baby monitor off that long. Maybe in the morning.
We watched animal planet shows tonight.
My reviews:
Badgers: Dishing the Dirt Terribly padded. They used the same footage over and over, and worse, the script reiterated the same points ad nauseum. And they were stupid points like, "How does the badger put it all together to survive? It has the instinct to lunge..." Also the entire narrative was an anthropomorphized: badgers are grumpy because other predators are always scarpering off with their food.
Vastly less entertaining than Meerkat Manor where we were twisting our handkerchiefs in concern for poor Tosca the Meerkat, driven from her pack for the crime of being a subordinate female who had the audacity to bear a litter. She kept lurking about the perimeter hoping to be let back in. JZ kept comparing Tosca to Wesley, with the meerkat matriarch, Flower, as Angel. Kudos to brave Shakespeare the meerkat who knew better than to leave the kits with the doofy teen meerkats who got distracted by shiny stuff, abandoned their posts and got lost.
Let's Leave It To the Real Beavers: Better because social animals just make better film than solitary curmudgeons like badgers. Plus, baby beavers! Who'd be so stupid as to do a badger doc without baby badgers? Plus points for following the local Canadian citizen who disliked the trapping practices that killed off beavers when they dammed up culverts and worked for half a year to find an ecologically safe and sound solution. Minus points for extensive gratuitous shots of the Oregon State Beavers football team and cheerleaders in the rain. Minus points for continuously mispronoucing Oregon as "Ora-gone."