"Blippi is as a character and I'm the creative force behind it, but since YouTube is a monster and all of these platforms are really crazy I can't go on the road for many weeks or months at a time." "I won't be on the road, but I am obviously extremely involved with the whole process," he told Billboard ahead of the last tour. Long story short: Having a backup Blippi is the only way pint-sized fans will get twice the Blippi content, something John previously spoke about. According to, Blippi the Musical kicks off in Delaware on July 23, with a note that no doubt hopes to avoid the confusion and backlash from 2019. John will continue to bounce and beep his way through family-friendly attractions in videos to come, with Grimm (or "Flippi," as some commenters have suggested he be called) helming a set-based format that's more in line with the Blippi stage show, which will resume touring this summer. show's original host, Steve Burns, which sparked rumors that Burns had died.īut a spokesperson for Moonbug, which produces the show along with other popular children's programming, assures Yahoo Life that the original Blippi, Stevin John, isn't going anywhere. "This is like when Steve left Blue's Clues when I was a kid," another commenter quipped, referencing the 2002 departure of the Nick Jr. "Who’s this?! This ain’t gonna fly with my kids," a parent reacted to the news, while another wrote, "My 3-year-old said, 'That’s not Blippi.'" "Will the real Blippi please stand up?" read one comment. While the video has already racked up more than 735,000 views, parents have been blasting the Blippi swap on Instagram. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. John typically uploads new YouTube content on Saturdays - with recent videos showing him touring a zoo, taking a circus skills class or schooling kids on the importance of Earth Day - but this weekend saw doppelgänger Grimm greeting kids from a blue and orange set before heading out to an Orlando adventure park. Now, that same stage performer - actor Clayton Grimm - is back as Blippi in a new "Learn with Blippi" series which premiered on Saturday morning.
(Show producers noted that the tour announcement indicated that John would not be performing in the live show, but nonetheless offered refunds to parents who felt blindsided by the switch.)
John, who released the first Blippi video in 2014, came under fire in 2019 when parents realized that a stage performer - wearing his trademark orange eyeglasses, hat, bowtie and suspenders and mimicking his excited, high-pitched voice - would be appearing in his Blippi Live tour rather than John himself. On Friday, the Instagram account for Blippi, the impossibly enthusiastic children's entertainer boasting 12.5 million YouTube subscribers, announced that, "by popular demand," the character would be portrayed by an actor other than original creator Stevin John.
There's been a blip in the Blippi-verse - and some parents are crying foul.
Naturally, we never lost our fascination with the men and women in our industry.Parents were thrown off when Blippi, created by Stevin John (shown here), was portrayed by a different actor. Together, we made our way-more aptly, lurched and rumbled our way-toward a unifying theory of why kids are so wild about garbage trucks.Īuthor ASHLEY FETTERS talks to several experts and the two foremost authorities-kids and garbage-truck drivers. So I asked parents, kids, child-development experts, waste-management professionals, and even the creator of a kids’ show about an anthropomorphized garbage truck for their insights. Why generations of kids have been so transfixed by the trash pickup, though, remains something of a mystery. I, too, had a more-than-passing interest in the garbage truck as a kid with palpable residual excitement, I can remember peeking through the window shutters of my parents’ front room to watch the vaguely menacing robotic arm jut out, snatch our garbage can, and dangle the can upside down over its back while the trash tumbled out.
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