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Wishbone fans!

The documentary What's the Story, Wishbone? begins airing on PBS stations tonight and through June! Check your local PBS station for airdate and time, because it's different for each station (Mod Wanda has to wait for the eighth).

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Because everyone should see Wishbone in a party hat.

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PBS Viewers Like You bumpers (1989-1999)

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Wishbone episode 6 - The African folktale of Baba and Wana.

While African people are enslaved in America, Baba and Wana hide out in the woods and slowly tend the magic wisdom plants, eventually growing enough to concoct a special medicine. While Wana (Wishbone) distracts one of the slave owners, Baba administers the medicine to the slaves. With its aid, they are able to fly into the air and escape. This wisdom, coupled with the spirit of freedom, remains with the African people to this day.

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Wishbone playing Anansi the Spider, an African folktale. Anansi wants to be the wisest in the world and sell his wisdom for profit. So he steals all the wisdom plants and stuffs them in a hollowed gourd. He wants to take them up to the top of the tree, but can’t because the gourd is backwards and getting in his way. A young girl helps him straighten it out so he can finish his theft. When he gets to the top, he realizes that he is an idiot for not being able to figure that out on his own. He feels bad. So he lets all the wisdom fall back down to the people below where it can be shared for free. The end.

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Every single Darcy ever.

firawren

The single greatest Darcy ever:

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Psychic: *reads my mind*

My mind: What's the story, Wishbone?/What's this you're dreaming of?/Such big imagination/Of such a little pup/What's the story, Wishbone?/Do you think it's worth a look?/It kind of seems familiar/Like a story from a book/Shake a leg now, Wishbone/Let's wag another tail/Sniffing out adventure/With Wishbone on the trail/Come on Wishbone/What's the story, Wishbone?/What's the story, Wishbone?/What's the story, Wishbone?/What's the story, Wishbone? (WOOF!)

Psychic: What the fuck.

lauralot89

Very sad that Wishbone never had a Dracula episode

Picture it: either the dog is playing Dracula and wearing a cute little cape, or else he's Jonathan Harker and the poor guy playing Dracula has to terrorize this little dog

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They made a book version, though! After Wishbone ended, the tie-in novels continued for a few more years. The Dracula one was one of the last ones released and wasn't sold for that long, so it's pretty rare.