The Sunny Side Up Show


Sunny Side Up is a defunct television programming block which premiered on Sprout on September 26, 2007 and ended on August 11, 2017. Each week, a new theme was introduced, including food, Halloween, animals, construction, fall, opposites, and birthdays. Sunny Side Up aired at 9:00 AM Eastern/8:00 AM Central until 12:00 PM Eastern/11:00 AM Central each weekday morning. The hosts of Sunny Side Up played games, sang songs, told stories, and showed birthday cards or artwork.
Sunny Side Up was Sprout's morning program. It was produced live every weekday, and hosted by a human host along with Chica, a chicken puppet who later got her own show. Before moving to a "city apartment" set, the show took place on a set dubbed The Sunshine Barn and decorated with farm-themed objects. The hosts were Carly and Tim. Each hosted the show for one week with each week's host being announced late in the previous week. Each week's host introduced programs, read birthdays, led activities related to the week's theme, and read messages sent in by individual "Sproutlet" viewers through the Sprout website. There were daily activities such as "The Good Egg Awards" celebrating viewers' accomplishments, and "Sproutlet Stories" allowed "Sproutlets" to tell different stories with different plots, characters, and settings.
The theme tune from 2007 to 2015 was Hello, Hello, but from 2015 to 2017 it was Chica's Here.

Segments

2007-2015

The block starts with the host and Chica greeting the viewers, and explaining the date and weather, and the day's theme.
The next segment involves birthday cards and wishes. Mr. Mailman, a mailman puppet, would send the cards to the Sunshine Barn.
The next segment involves a different song or dance each day.
The next segment involves the hosts making a craft or cooking a recipe. Based on the app “Dress Chica”, during a show that comes on at 10:00 am, the hosts would demonstrate the viewers’ idea of Chica's disguise.
The “Good Egg Awards” we’re introduced in 2009, and the hosts would read different awards given to viewers online.
Next, the hosts would do a dance titled the Barnyard Boogie. In 2013, the segment was replaced with a new segment titled Sproutlet Stories, where viewers online could make up three different stories: a pirate adventure, a royal adventure, and a space adventure.
Also, in 2014, a new penultimate segment was added, titled Chica's Choice, where a five-inch spinning wheel would be spun to direct everyone to do something fun.
The next segment involves sharing the remainder birthday cards and wishes.
In 2011, after the show What's Your News?, the hosts would host the Sproutlet News Report, where viewers could share what they did and how they showed care for each other, with amazing voicemails. In 2014, an animated Chica visited the characters from the show Astroblast!, which can be found on demand. In 2015, the Sproutlet News Report involves a clip of a CGI-animated Chica visiting the characters from Ruff-Ruff, Tweet and Dave. The hosts would close the block by telling viewers to stay tuned for the Sprout Sharing Show and the Good Night Show.

2015-2017

In September 2015, as part of Sprout's new design, the setting was changed to a city apartment.
The birthday cards and wishes were still going, as well as crafts. Temporarily, the Dress Chica, Chica's Choice, Sproutlet Stories and Sproutlet News Report were removed from the block. In 2017, Chica was removed to make way for the Sprout House block.

Cast

Hosts

The following is a list of television programs from which guest stars originated, and the characters from those programs which appeared on Sunny Side Up: