I love this. My kids are 9/11/13y and were all BIG paw patrol fans in their preschool years, the youngest having been indoctrinated by his oldest bro since birth. However my youngest had a prolonged bit that lasted for a year where he pretended he had no idea what paw patrol is; he only recently admitted to me that it was a bit. His dedication was impressive.
I share this story to give you hope. And to remind myself that my kids’ current media obsession (Fortnite) ALSO won’t last forever.
"Daniel Tiger sees himself in an episode of the original Mr. Rogers show, leading to an existential crisis about the nature of inherited trauma and puppet consciousness." Ha! Love your dark deep dives. Reminds me of one of my favorite Friends moments when Phoebe is on a dinner date with this guy, "I write... Erotic novels, for children. They're wildly unpopular." Our entire family had a love affair with Curious George. We could all watch it for hours, and it's where I learned all I know about composting.
We were pretty broke when we had our kid so cable TV was an intermittent luxury I indulged in usually around a major sporting event. The internet, streaming services and smartphones did not exist. We had it easy. And I was very opinionated about TV slop. If I picked Chloe up from our duplex neighbour and they'd been watching Barney in a darkened living room drinking liquid sugar beverages I'd be somewhere between a rage and a funk for several hours. Our friend Gary made VHS tapes of Sesame Steet and we rented stuff from a great and now extinct video store. Chloe saw 9/11 unfold at her Gramma's when she was 8 and I didn't see the footage for years. It's great that you and your kid can bond over the genius of Buster Keaton. It speaks to the universal and possibly indestructible appeal of physical comedy and stunts that crosses generations and language barriers.
Okay, so I LOVE Bluey and I'm sorry they hurt you. Bluey is our favorite in this house. BUT! I have survived Diego, The Wiggles, and Cocomelon so I will help you out here. There ARE good things for them to watch. You can buy DVD sets called Sesame Street Old School that are from when I was a kid (early 80's.... the BEST). Fraggle Rock. The Muppet Show. Old school Muppet movies. Movies from my childhood: Labyrinth, Goonies, Flight of the Navigator. These are all things that won't make you want to gouge your eyes and ears with a spoon. Also cartoons from the 80s are UNHINGED and awesome.
Oh! And you have a boy..... DVD sets of Mighty Machines! And another DVD called Twenty Trucks. We wore those things out when our son was little.
i am giggling with delight at your description of the binoculars game. that's the kind of stuff my dad used to do all the time when we were kids. wilder is so lucky to have a silly dad!
the adult show i've been rewatching recently is broad city. i've probably seen it four or five times, but it never gets old to me. the jokes stay interesting and sort of gain new meaning the more i watch it. plus, it's one of the few shows that wrote a satisfying ending to the story rather than stretching the characters into unrealistic parodies of themselves for the sake of more seasons.
For a long time my child only watched Cars movies and shorts, Finding Nemo, and Finding Dory. I expect these will be known nostalgically in our family history as the Nemo Cars years.
Recently, at daycare, he has encountered Blaze and the Monster Machines and StoryBots, and I’d prefer these creatures hadn’t entered my home. He can’t stop talking about both of them and asking me to tell the story of what happened in these cartoons.
2. there should be an entire genre called "japanese babies prove american babies are pussies." shows where the japanese toddler crosses busy highways safely to make a trip to the grocery store to purchase his own diapers with the pennies he has found by industriously searching through the couch cushions. i have seen an actual video of something similar but an entire genre makes sense.
3. NOT an awful show but you MUST show wilder (and ej!) turbo toy time. my baby boy (19) has been watching this show for years. it is truly worthwhile as andy the dad and ryden the son play with toys and skateboards and new babies are born and pets are introduced. and there is a lot of laughter. you're welcome.
4. hmm
5. i feel i qualify here even though I have five kids. best show i have binged recently was young sheldon. still haven't seen the final season but the first five (six?) are just wonderful.
6. hmm
7. sorry not sorry i have so much to say you can't be the only one that gets to say it all and this post was one that again justified the price of admission. you should set it up so that at renewal, one can choose to pay full price instead of the birthday rate.
I’d like to see my A2-4 pledge of $0.77, a half-eaten bag of Veggie Straws, and these two Lego blocks that I just stepped on, go toward a gritty re-telling of Paw Patrol. A version written and directed by Christopher Nolan where we explore Ryder’s painful past, witness the devastating family trauma he overcame to become (what Dax Shepard refers to as) “an emancipated teenager”, and learn how he built his inexplicable techno-empire. Is it a futuristic scenario where all of the pups are frighteningly advanced robots from Boston Dynamics? Is Adventure Bay really just the result of nuclear Terra-forming on Mars? And will this movie make history using groundbreaking new technology to reanimate the corpse of Philip Seymour Hoffman in order to play the role of Mayor Humdinger?
Two words: Peppa. Pig. I watch with my grandson (we both love it) and then he starts speaking with a British accent. Grandpa Pig looks just like my husband.
It's the price you must pay for bringing them into the world. My children watched hours of "Barney", including the Christmas special videos, and their favorite video was a version of "The Little Engine that Could". I can still recite parts of it...Oh, and they loved Power Rangers.
On the upside, they have grown into creative and considerate adults who appreciate art and literature.
Oh, they didn’t move after all when your family did? That’s bad!
“We’ll see.”
The better question is why there’s not a Bluey for adults, the answer to which is probably: it’s still Bluey, mate.
Don’t be an Elizabethan complaining you can’t enjoy Shakespeare just because you happen to be marrying your son’s mother after killing his father/your brother.
I would definitely go to this film festival but I think we need some Werner Herzog.
As to non-horrible children’s TV … for me most of the annoyance is around the horrible, ear-stabbing soul-killing sound/voices. Pingu and Shaun the Sheep were mainstays around here, and old British-version Teletubbies. Yo Gabba Gabba was pretty good too, and Octonauts.
If he's into Keaton, the guy made a whole lot of good films in the '20s like that.
Disney was once the A24 for kids, but it has abdicated the throne. Whereas Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon are being held hostage by the Jenga corporations that own them. So this thing could easily fill a void...
holy fuck did you see david lynch just passed away :(
Yes wtf I’m gonna be blamed
Seriously, he read this and was like oh god—☠️
I love this. My kids are 9/11/13y and were all BIG paw patrol fans in their preschool years, the youngest having been indoctrinated by his oldest bro since birth. However my youngest had a prolonged bit that lasted for a year where he pretended he had no idea what paw patrol is; he only recently admitted to me that it was a bit. His dedication was impressive.
I share this story to give you hope. And to remind myself that my kids’ current media obsession (Fortnite) ALSO won’t last forever.
Love your A2-4 programming ideas
That kid is a genius Incredible bit
"Daniel Tiger sees himself in an episode of the original Mr. Rogers show, leading to an existential crisis about the nature of inherited trauma and puppet consciousness." Ha! Love your dark deep dives. Reminds me of one of my favorite Friends moments when Phoebe is on a dinner date with this guy, "I write... Erotic novels, for children. They're wildly unpopular." Our entire family had a love affair with Curious George. We could all watch it for hours, and it's where I learned all I know about composting.
Hahaha
We were pretty broke when we had our kid so cable TV was an intermittent luxury I indulged in usually around a major sporting event. The internet, streaming services and smartphones did not exist. We had it easy. And I was very opinionated about TV slop. If I picked Chloe up from our duplex neighbour and they'd been watching Barney in a darkened living room drinking liquid sugar beverages I'd be somewhere between a rage and a funk for several hours. Our friend Gary made VHS tapes of Sesame Steet and we rented stuff from a great and now extinct video store. Chloe saw 9/11 unfold at her Gramma's when she was 8 and I didn't see the footage for years. It's great that you and your kid can bond over the genius of Buster Keaton. It speaks to the universal and possibly indestructible appeal of physical comedy and stunts that crosses generations and language barriers.
“Somewhere between a rage and a funk”perfectly describes parenting
Okay, so I LOVE Bluey and I'm sorry they hurt you. Bluey is our favorite in this house. BUT! I have survived Diego, The Wiggles, and Cocomelon so I will help you out here. There ARE good things for them to watch. You can buy DVD sets called Sesame Street Old School that are from when I was a kid (early 80's.... the BEST). Fraggle Rock. The Muppet Show. Old school Muppet movies. Movies from my childhood: Labyrinth, Goonies, Flight of the Navigator. These are all things that won't make you want to gouge your eyes and ears with a spoon. Also cartoons from the 80s are UNHINGED and awesome.
Oh! And you have a boy..... DVD sets of Mighty Machines! And another DVD called Twenty Trucks. We wore those things out when our son was little.
What the hell is a dvd
Jk lol but we don’t have a dvd player!!
#3: My 14-year old, when he was a toddler, LOVED Yo Gabba Gabba.
Check it out. It’s trippy 😂
i am giggling with delight at your description of the binoculars game. that's the kind of stuff my dad used to do all the time when we were kids. wilder is so lucky to have a silly dad!
the adult show i've been rewatching recently is broad city. i've probably seen it four or five times, but it never gets old to me. the jokes stay interesting and sort of gain new meaning the more i watch it. plus, it's one of the few shows that wrote a satisfying ending to the story rather than stretching the characters into unrealistic parodies of themselves for the sake of more seasons.
I haven’t ever watched that show they !! Maybe I should
For a long time my child only watched Cars movies and shorts, Finding Nemo, and Finding Dory. I expect these will be known nostalgically in our family history as the Nemo Cars years.
Recently, at daycare, he has encountered Blaze and the Monster Machines and StoryBots, and I’d prefer these creatures hadn’t entered my home. He can’t stop talking about both of them and asking me to tell the story of what happened in these cartoons.
Hahahah awwww
Sounds cute until you’re awake at 5:55 and your kid is jumping on your stomach whisper-shouting “Tell Blaze, mom, tell Blaze!”
1. do i ever
2. there should be an entire genre called "japanese babies prove american babies are pussies." shows where the japanese toddler crosses busy highways safely to make a trip to the grocery store to purchase his own diapers with the pennies he has found by industriously searching through the couch cushions. i have seen an actual video of something similar but an entire genre makes sense.
3. NOT an awful show but you MUST show wilder (and ej!) turbo toy time. my baby boy (19) has been watching this show for years. it is truly worthwhile as andy the dad and ryden the son play with toys and skateboards and new babies are born and pets are introduced. and there is a lot of laughter. you're welcome.
4. hmm
5. i feel i qualify here even though I have five kids. best show i have binged recently was young sheldon. still haven't seen the final season but the first five (six?) are just wonderful.
6. hmm
7. sorry not sorry i have so much to say you can't be the only one that gets to say it all and this post was one that again justified the price of admission. you should set it up so that at renewal, one can choose to pay full price instead of the birthday rate.
Spoiler alert for young Sheldon : in the last season he gets old Sheldon
Thank u Susan for the kind words
I’d like to see my A2-4 pledge of $0.77, a half-eaten bag of Veggie Straws, and these two Lego blocks that I just stepped on, go toward a gritty re-telling of Paw Patrol. A version written and directed by Christopher Nolan where we explore Ryder’s painful past, witness the devastating family trauma he overcame to become (what Dax Shepard refers to as) “an emancipated teenager”, and learn how he built his inexplicable techno-empire. Is it a futuristic scenario where all of the pups are frighteningly advanced robots from Boston Dynamics? Is Adventure Bay really just the result of nuclear Terra-forming on Mars? And will this movie make history using groundbreaking new technology to reanimate the corpse of Philip Seymour Hoffman in order to play the role of Mayor Humdinger?
Two words: Peppa. Pig. I watch with my grandson (we both love it) and then he starts speaking with a British accent. Grandpa Pig looks just like my husband.
I really can't wait to see Milk Time. When will it be out?
It's the price you must pay for bringing them into the world. My children watched hours of "Barney", including the Christmas special videos, and their favorite video was a version of "The Little Engine that Could". I can still recite parts of it...Oh, and they loved Power Rangers.
On the upside, they have grown into creative and considerate adults who appreciate art and literature.
It's going to be okay🙂
Oh, they didn’t move after all when your family did? That’s bad!
“We’ll see.”
The better question is why there’s not a Bluey for adults, the answer to which is probably: it’s still Bluey, mate.
Don’t be an Elizabethan complaining you can’t enjoy Shakespeare just because you happen to be marrying your son’s mother after killing his father/your brother.
I would definitely go to this film festival but I think we need some Werner Herzog.
As to non-horrible children’s TV … for me most of the annoyance is around the horrible, ear-stabbing soul-killing sound/voices. Pingu and Shaun the Sheep were mainstays around here, and old British-version Teletubbies. Yo Gabba Gabba was pretty good too, and Octonauts.
If he's into Keaton, the guy made a whole lot of good films in the '20s like that.
Disney was once the A24 for kids, but it has abdicated the throne. Whereas Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon are being held hostage by the Jenga corporations that own them. So this thing could easily fill a void...