Oh, you're a wonder.

We've been watching a lot of Wonder Woman lately. I got Wendy the DVD set for her birthday, and we've now watched about four of the episodes. The lead is played by a wonderfully cheesy Lyle Waggoner, who in the first episode crash lands in a tropical paradise populated only by buxom young women in white tennis skirts. No wonder I spent my adolescence in a state of constant erection.

Of course, now we watch for another reason entirely. My girls are digging the feminist-light message and the kick-butt action. They've been running around the house now for a week, wearing wristbands and deflecting pretend nazi bullets. Emme loves it when Wonder Woman beats up the mean guys and throws them in the trash; Sophie just thinks she's super-cool. And with lines like "Where I was raised, I was taught that women can do anything a man can do," I suppose she's not such a bad influence.

And as many times as I hear the theme song, I can't seem to get tired of it. It must have been arranged by the same guy who did the Rocky movies, and the lyrics are seriously cool:

Wonder Woman!
Wonder Woman!

All the world is waiting for you
and the power you possess
In your satin tights
fighting for your rights
And the old red white and blue

Wonder Woman!
Wonder Woman!

Now the world is ready for you
and the wonders you can do
Make a hawk a dove
stop a war with love
Make a liar tell the truth

Wonder Woman!
Get us out from under, Wonder Woman

All our hopes are pinned upon you
and the magic that you do
Stop a bullet cold
make the axis fold
change their minds and change the world

Wonder Woman!
Wonder Woman!

You're a wonder, Wonder Woman!