The Explorer Show

The Explorer Show was a programming block aired on Spring from 2007-2011 (though it wrapped Production in 2010). but returned June 6, 2020 due to Crayola Bear Waffle only airing on weekdays.

## Characters

* Milton - An African-American Man and the main host of the show.
* Strummer - A Male Purple Dalmatian-Basset Mix Puppy who loves playing on stringed instruments. He has a goofball personality when not having his paws on any instrument and sometimes tries mocking Milton, but is a very good listener. His catchphrase is “I’m Open Ears!”. Sometimes He is jealous of Betsy because Milton treats her like a pet and He’s the actual pet of the show whenever He says “Good Girl, Betsy!”.
* Betsy - Milton and Strummer’s Talking Cardboard Double Decker Bus with an animatronic face to help her talk. Her face was brought to life by making her an animatronic bus instead of a real one. Her animatronic was updated to look more happy in 2020 due to the complaints Spring used to get that She looked creepy because She didn’t smile, but her original animatronic Face was displayed at The Nostalgia Museum at Omnitrans Parks & Resorts in Florida.
	+ The other characters that Milton, Strummer, and Betsy meet at the places they go are one-shot and are never seen again after their debut.

## Cast

* Miles Peyton as Milton
* Peter Linz as Strummer
* Victoria Pontecorvo as The Voice of Betsy

## Shows in the Block

### Current

* The Crayola Bears
* Rita & Floof
* Go Odie Go!
* It's A Big Big Region
* Where's Wesley?
* Powerferrets
* Michael's Farm

## History

The block first came in May 21, 2007, as an afternoon block.

Just a year after it came out, in 2008, The Explorer Show was moved to late mornings on every day except for Saturday in order to make room for The Spring Sharing Show.

In 2009, when The Saturday Club name was changed to Pansy’s Club and now broadcasted every morning at 9, The Explorer Show moved to weekend mornings from 6 to 9 AM, which stayed like that till the block’s closure in September 2011, when Weekend mornings from 6 to 9 became unblocked (because Musical Mornings with Melody Mouse is weekdays only and some preschoolers don’t wake up on early mornings on weekends).

But, the closure didn’t last forever when they brought back the block in 2020 due to CEOs’ concernings that they needed weekend hosts when Crayola Bear Waffle wasn’t on. These new adventures were either remakes of old ones, similar to what Nala & Hoots did during the 2012-2015 era, or new places the characters didn’t go during the show’s original run.

## Locations

1. Milton and Strummer’s House
2. Betsy’s Garage
3. Wonder Why Park
4. Spring Diner
5. Music Manor
6. Sandy Beach

## Trivia

* Strummer is considered the third popular from the Spring puppets. Pansy and Hoots are the most popular, Ace and The Spring Sharing Show band (despite their 2014 departure) get fair amounts, Mila and L.O. are somewhere in between, and Wug gets the least merchendise.
* Strummer sounds like Polka Dots from Blue’s Room in the “Fred’s Birthday” and “Power of the Alphabet” episodes.
* Strummer will co-host wirh Annabelle from The Crayola Bears in a new 2021 annual event called Dogsntines Day that will be seen Valentines Day of next year.