Dude, don't you even know anyone with little kids? TV show intended to teach logical reasoning -- the initial host was very strange, and was replaced by someone less strange but duller.
Blue's Clues makes for some fucked television. Easily the most surreal children's programming made readily available to Americans since the Teletubbies.
It wasn't the same shirt - I saw one where he had a whole wardrobe full of em.
I used to like how Steve spent long moments with a blank face waiting for the television audience to yell 'a clue!'. It just made it look like his reactions were slowed way down and he couldn't collect his thoughts. That and the way he spent all the time saying 'woah' while wandering around crudely drawn trippy locations listening to acid reggae. If he'd been a bit less neat he could have stepped straight out of The Big Lebowski.
My son lost interest when Steve 'went to college' and Joe came along.
On the subject of strange stuff in kids' shows, I assume everyone's seen this.
Okay, apostropher, I stand corrected. I had repressed my memory of Boobah.
For those too lazy to follow the link, Boobah depicts a world in which mutated candy-colored lard people communicate with each other entirely in fart noises. As such it is a sort of natural artistic evolution from Teletubbies, although not quite as grimly apocalyptic.
Boobah depicts a world in which mutated candy-colored lard people communicate with each other entirely in fart noises
Perfect. I also love the mute wide-eyed weirdo's who function as family surrogates, like grandpa.
Any boobah reference for me is also permanently enriched by Dooce's use of "what your parents do when you're watching boobah" as her favorite reference to, well, you know.
This sounds weird...I'm kind of wishing I'd never heard of it. Do I know any people with little kids? Hm...well, I've met the mysterious Alamedia, and there's one editor at the Prospect with a young son, and then . . . hm . . . maybe not. But two colleagues are about to have babies.
Matt, you're telling me you made it through college without coming down off of a high/buzz at 3am, blearily turned on the TV, stumbled onto cartoon network, and become hypnotized by Blue's Clues??
But wtf is Blues Clues?
Posted by Matthew Yglesias | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 7:17 AM
Dude, don't you even know anyone with little kids? TV show intended to teach logical reasoning -- the initial host was very strange, and was replaced by someone less strange but duller.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 7:36 AM
Blue's Clues makes for some fucked television. Easily the most surreal children's programming made readily available to Americans since the Teletubbies.
Posted by Iron Lungfish | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 9:04 AM
but steve wore the same shirt every day. that was kind of gross...
Posted by mina | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 9:40 AM
Kind of gross, or kind of awesome?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 9:45 AM
The Backyardigans are better.
Posted by joe o | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 9:51 AM
It wasn't the same shirt - I saw one where he had a whole wardrobe full of em.
I used to like how Steve spent long moments with a blank face waiting for the television audience to yell 'a clue!'. It just made it look like his reactions were slowed way down and he couldn't collect his thoughts. That and the way he spent all the time saying 'woah' while wandering around crudely drawn trippy locations listening to acid reggae. If he'd been a bit less neat he could have stepped straight out of The Big Lebowski.
My son lost interest when Steve 'went to college' and Joe came along.
On the subject of strange stuff in kids' shows, I assume everyone's seen this.
Posted by Anthony | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 10:06 AM
the most surreal children's programming made readily available to Americans since the Teletubbies
Not even close.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 10:17 AM
anthony,
There was a real rainbow TV show. That clip was never shown on TV but was made for a party.
Posted by joe o | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 11:02 AM
Okay, apostropher, I stand corrected. I had repressed my memory of Boobah.
For those too lazy to follow the link, Boobah depicts a world in which mutated candy-colored lard people communicate with each other entirely in fart noises. As such it is a sort of natural artistic evolution from Teletubbies, although not quite as grimly apocalyptic.
Posted by Iron Lungfish | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 11:37 AM
Teletubbies and Boobah were created by the same woman, so, I'm not sure how much you can really seperate them.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 11:46 AM
"separate"
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 12:02 PM
IL, that is, bar none, the best description of the nigh indescribable Boohbah I have ever read. I'm still laughing at it.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 12:44 PM
Boobah depicts a world in which mutated candy-colored lard people communicate with each other entirely in fart noises
Perfect. I also love the mute wide-eyed weirdo's who function as family surrogates, like grandpa.
Any boobah reference for me is also permanently enriched by Dooce's use of "what your parents do when you're watching boobah" as her favorite reference to, well, you know.
Posted by cw | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 1:17 PM
This sounds weird...I'm kind of wishing I'd never heard of it. Do I know any people with little kids? Hm...well, I've met the mysterious Alamedia, and there's one editor at the Prospect with a young son, and then . . . hm . . . maybe not. But two colleagues are about to have babies.
Posted by Matthew Yglesias | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 1:26 PM
Matt, you're telling me you made it through college without coming down off of a high/buzz at 3am, blearily turned on the TV, stumbled onto cartoon network, and become hypnotized by Blue's Clues??
Christ, what do you kids do at Harvard?
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 1:40 PM
I apologize for having mixed my verb tenses. (Count to 10 and breathe, grammar-nazis)
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 1:41 PM
Michael, at Harvard, they NEVER COME DOWN.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 1:44 PM
oh, crap.
Posted by mina | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 1:47 PM
shit, they are etter than us!
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 1:51 PM
*sigh*
[b]etter.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 1:52 PM
Harvard, bastion of giving out A's to everyone that it is, does not provide cable television. to anyone. no matter how much they pay for it.
Posted by tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 1:57 PM
Free A's and no TV? dude! Better than LSU, where you are forced to pay for mega-package cable TV, even when you don't have a TV.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 1:59 PM
They're not free. They come at a cost of $30,000 a year.
Posted by tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 2:04 PM
Damn, I'm sure I could bribe my profs for much less than that.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 2:18 PM
also, isn't blues clues on one of the Nick channels, not cartoon?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 04- 7-05 7:10 PM