They thought every permutation of superhero had been done, from Bananaman to the Fonzz, but they were wrong. Somewhere under Paris, a brainstorming session took place, one that would change us all forever.
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Some weeks later toys began to appear in supermarkets, little figures in half-pot yoghurt cases: Strawb, Lem, Pina, Peachie and Squash. The Five of them together were apparently the Yoghurt Vat Kids! The back story went as thus:
"Apparently the results of illegal cloning experiments that took place behind a dairy company front, each of the Kids had a special yoghurt power, that they would use to defend liberty and embrace justice in the Probiotic Age! Armed with their gifts, and well developed intestinal fortitude, they would face down the horrors of evil restaurateurs and their nemesis Captain Moustache while plumbing the mysteries of their own existence."
People were amused and even a little tickled by the preposterousness of the idea, thinking it a blatant ripoff of the existing Power Rangers concept but little did they know what those brainstormers in Paris, those cads Jean-Pierre Grimaud, Stanley Tedwin and Ernst Lopner, had really in mind. Soon, and inevitably, a cartoon emerged onto screens all over the world, which predictably lasted less than a full season before vanishing off screens in a rush. It seemed the Yoghurt Vat Kids had failed.
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Two years after the last episode of the Kids premiered in North America there was a sighting of a mysterious incident in Madrid. A man with a strawberry patch on his sleeve was seen plummeting from the Heavens and subsequently breaking up a mugging before soaring back to his unknown horizon. The following week, a woman emblazoned with the Squash was seen in Copenhagen emerging from the water with a young child that would otherwise have drowned. What was going on?
No one drew connections with 'Yoghurt Vat Kids' for a few months, after numerous sightings of all five heroes and even a sixth with the badge of the banana. People were concerned, feathers were ruffled, and dairies were looked at as suspiciously thereafter as they should have been before. People began to have conversations about the 'Probiotic Age' and what it might mean in the world as they knew it. Finally, a threat to the world emerged that only the Yoghurt Vat Kids could confront as a group. It did not involve a comedically moustached Swiss maniac, but it would raise questions that would last for years to come.
Most of all those questions? 'Why are the Yoghurt Vat Kids'?
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Some weeks later toys began to appear in supermarkets, little figures in half-pot yoghurt cases: Strawb, Lem, Pina, Peachie and Squash. The Five of them together were apparently the Yoghurt Vat Kids! The back story went as thus:
"Apparently the results of illegal cloning experiments that took place behind a dairy company front, each of the Kids had a special yoghurt power, that they would use to defend liberty and embrace justice in the Probiotic Age! Armed with their gifts, and well developed intestinal fortitude, they would face down the horrors of evil restaurateurs and their nemesis Captain Moustache while plumbing the mysteries of their own existence."
People were amused and even a little tickled by the preposterousness of the idea, thinking it a blatant ripoff of the existing Power Rangers concept but little did they know what those brainstormers in Paris, those cads Jean-Pierre Grimaud, Stanley Tedwin and Ernst Lopner, had really in mind. Soon, and inevitably, a cartoon emerged onto screens all over the world, which predictably lasted less than a full season before vanishing off screens in a rush. It seemed the Yoghurt Vat Kids had failed.
*
Two years after the last episode of the Kids premiered in North America there was a sighting of a mysterious incident in Madrid. A man with a strawberry patch on his sleeve was seen plummeting from the Heavens and subsequently breaking up a mugging before soaring back to his unknown horizon. The following week, a woman emblazoned with the Squash was seen in Copenhagen emerging from the water with a young child that would otherwise have drowned. What was going on?
No one drew connections with 'Yoghurt Vat Kids' for a few months, after numerous sightings of all five heroes and even a sixth with the badge of the banana. People were concerned, feathers were ruffled, and dairies were looked at as suspiciously thereafter as they should have been before. People began to have conversations about the 'Probiotic Age' and what it might mean in the world as they knew it. Finally, a threat to the world emerged that only the Yoghurt Vat Kids could confront as a group. It did not involve a comedically moustached Swiss maniac, but it would raise questions that would last for years to come.
Most of all those questions? 'Why are the Yoghurt Vat Kids'?
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