Psicovip dreams of aliens from a planet called Pallara, where they have a thing for shoes. You could call it a fetish.

Minivip is back on the couch, recounting an inadequacy dream to the shrink. He gets his portrait painted, the offer of a taste of a plastic banana, and an introduction to the shrink's brothers. All for €80.

The Piccolo Coro Antoniano sing a Christmas song with quotes from English and German favorites.

The children's choir sing Una notte senza età [A Night Without Age], composed by Gianfranco Fasano, with lyrics by Mario Gardini.

The Bologna-based children's choir, the Piccolo Coro dell'Antoniano, sings a Christmas song.

The vain queen's wickedness has its limits.

The classic Brothers Grimm fairytale with some fun changes in Italian. The wicked queen's rhyme for the mirror is different, and when one of the dwarfs beholds Snow White, he exclaims, "Mamma mia."

The vocabulary review is dedicated to passato remoto verbs in the third person singular!

Kindness triumphs over looks in this tale of love. The Beast does, however, turn into a handsome Prince.
Practice some passato remoto verbs in the vocabulary review!

Beauty and the Beast is a French 18th century fairy tale. It was written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Her tale, which is as long as a novel, has been adapted numerous times. This nice retelling of the tale is more dependent on the Walt Disney Company.

The youngest piglet was right all along. Being a kind soul, he forgave his brothers.

In this telling of the late 19th century British fairy tale, the wolf is bad but not big.

"The Little Mermaid" concludes with a happy ending if you're a 19th century poet, as Andersen was. The vocabulary review focuses on verbs in the passato remoto.

Dixieland is left in the dark because Mister Sun has overslept. It's up to Dixi to go and wake him up. The vocabulary review features third person verbs in the passato remoto tense.

Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" is translated as "La sirenetta" in Italian. The Italian term sirena covers both mermaids (part fish) and sirens (part bird).

Dixi toys with the idea of being a bear. That's before he realizes that it would mean missing out on his daily breakfast cookies.