See, back when I was in fifth grade, one of my classmates was a mixed boy named Julian. He always made me laugh. One day, our science class was postponed because our teacher was at a meeting. Me and Julian were the only people in the room. So I walk over to Julian, and he's watching The Zula Patrol on an iPad. Now, I had heard of this show before and I vaguely remembered it, but what drew me in was the way Julian described the show to me as. "Talking asteroids, talking planets, talking hilarios!" So I decide to sit down and watch with him. The episode was "Case of the Missing Rings," and we somehow found Neptune with construction tape around it hilarious. We also watched "Family Feud" and died laughing at the dried-up Earth; we somehow concluded that the Earth had no underwear ("because it ate all of Mars' spaghetti," added Julian.) And then we watched "Take Me to Your Ferret" and cracked up at the dancing ferret. When my teacher got back from her meeting, she told us "You gave yourselves your own 30 minute science lesson about planets!" and that made us feel proud of ourselves. The "Talking Hilarios" became a regular topic of discussion between me and Julian afterwards, and we watched two more "talking hilarios videos" afterwards; the episodes being "What Goes Up Must Come Down" and "Round and Round We Go." Afterwards, we largely forgot about it. This was 2012.
Fast forward to 2019. I have a delayed opening for school, and I'm sitting there watching TV while waiting for my bus to come. Since no other channels were working, I was watching channel 22, a local PBS affiliate. After a show with Tim and Eric levels of acting, I flip through the channel guide and find out what comes on afterwards is none other than The Zula Patrol. And indeed, I got to see the Talking Hilarios for the first time since 5th grade. Now, the videos Julian and I watched cut out the theme song, so this was my first time hearing it. It got stuck in my head for the entirety of the bus ride to school. I actually kinda like it, for the instrumental and the lyrics "Way, way out where the planets meet the moon-a; sing and shout till you find yourself on Zula!" I've tried to find out where Julian is now and contact him to tell him I saw the Talking Hilarios again, but to no avail.
I actually don't really care for this show, but it's nostalgic in my eyes thanks to when Julian and I watched it back in 5th grade and basically MySTed it. BTW, the show I'm currently hooked onto also contains "Patrol" in its name -- Doom Patrol! Yep, I wanna get into Joivan Wade's pants... forget I said that.
