I don't know what Dinosaur Train is but it sounds pretty cool.
Are you suggesting that Hawaii's incorporation into the audience has affected the direction in which programming has moved?
What did she think about Downton Abbey?
If you want to watch TV shows, there are a lot of them on PBS.
I'm affirmatively into Martha Speaks. I like it how Martha stays friends with the dogs who can't speak.
Dinosaur Train is proof that even in children's TV, the producers are all on cocaine during program development.
It's not just a train with dinosaurs. It's a train with dinosaurs that travels through time. Because having two types of dinosaurs that were separated by hundreds of millions of years appear side by side is something that you need to explain and the existence of a train that goes through a time portal isn't.
Dinosaur Traaaaaaaaiiiinnn! Dinosaur Traaaaaaaaiiiinnn!
The theme song is so damn catchy.
It's science because they have a real paleontologist do one minute of science at the end.
Speaking of kids and science, this morning my son was watching a documentary about aliens and the cover-up surrounding them. Apparently, Forrestal was killed because he wanted to tell the public about aliens.
It's good to start kids out on history at home because schools only teach "social studies" and miss all of this.
We've grown out of watching that stuff, but yeah, there was a hell of a lot of pro-reading propaganda a few years back. I wonder how much of that was a reaction to Bush-era education policy?
I guess things have changed and tech is the thing, now that Cookie Monster is shilling for Apple.
Bring back the David Mamet Children's Hour.
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YES. I loved Square One as a kid. Also Reading Rainbow and 321 Contact. It felt like they had a decent balance of STEM/humanities types of show.
I was almost too old for it, but Wishbone was also an awesome show, as it involved a gentle children's introduction to famous literature and bestiality. No Judgment, PBS.
Dinosaur Train is great. The kids were into Odd Squad for a while and it's fine. Phineas and Ferb (however you spell them) is genuinely funny.
Phineas and Ferb are good. But not science.
I liked Between the Lions. Did it not run for very long?
Between the Loins was probably not a kid show.
17 I did too. It used to come on after Charlie Rose reran in the afternoon and I'd leave it on when it came on because there was nothing better on way back in my unemployed days.
A time tunnel, Moby, please. Why no, I'm not still wincing after 15-hour train trips that included plenty of shrieking this phrase as we went through West Virginia, why do you ask? (Not to mention that Selah named all the Amtrak and Subway trains after Thomas characters and would shriek "No, don't go!" when they'd leave the station.)
I've been even more amused by what Netflix enables. Mara used to watch Masha and the Bear in Russian on YouTube and now the dubbed version is one of Selah's favorite favorite Netflix shows. We had a Rastamouse book and then watched all the episodes available and now they're gone from Netflix, which causes periodic mourning. Odd Squad was a surprise to me. In regular school life All STEM All the Time is definitely a trend, but literacy is obviously still important too.
Between the Loins
That's basically where my mind was when we used to watch Hi-5. Pathetic, I know, but it's unfair to show such hot women to an exhausted, haggard father of twin toddlers.
To be clear, the feeling was less "I'd hit that" than "My life is over."
The woman who got fired fromThe Good Night Show was something. Especially when teaching kids yoga. Also, Vanessa Doofenshmirtz.
Also, if you seem them live, the back-up dancers for The Wiggles.
I've been even more amused by what Netflix enables. Mara used to watch Masha and the Bear in Russian on YouTube and now the dubbed version is one of Selah's favorite favorite Netflix shows.
We also watch Masha the Bear and far too much Jessie, AIHMHB. Embarrassingly, Jessie is growing on me. It's so identical to the sitcoms that I grew up on that it somehow makes me feel like my children are sharing something from my childhood.
That's basically where my mind was when we used to watch Hi-5.
Seconded.
Ugh, I've allowed Jessie because transracial adoption plus one of the only little black girls with natural hair on a mainstream kids show, but blech. I'm a grump.
It is no worse than Full House or Facts of Life! I can't tell if that's comforting or depressing.
Also, what's great about the transracial adoption is that we don't know which kids are the transracially adopted ones. The one who looks like Neb? The blonde? Probably not but who knows!
The actor who plays Luke is actually biracial, though I'm not sure whether the character is supposed to be. And Zuri is from an unspecified African country, I believe, which doesn't explain her sassy head-wagging retorts. And poor Ravi....
Prob has some of the same writers as Full House or Facts of Life. Those Disney channel shows are where the old hacks go to live out their years.
Charles in Charge, RT! And it's been canceled and the three kids who aren't Luke are on a spinoff show. Thanks, Wikipedia!
Though as I write this, Selah has wrapped a piece of yarn around her foot and is pretending this is her new dog. I may allow screen time but I haven't failed completely.
Also that lizard is fucking awesome. If you don't like that fucking lizard on Jessie, fuck you
Don't worry; I've never complained about the lizard!
32.last is that so? That's kind of neat actually.
37, 32 idea for show. Writers room of those old hacks now writing for a PBS-type kids show. Recycling old plots and ideas from their glory days.
Dinosaur Train is of course also about adoption, though of a T. rex by Pteranaodons.
Charles in Charge is one of those rare shows where the porn-parody name is the same as the original. Also, The A-Team.
Also: there was a Clifford TV show? I can imagine few things more awful. I hated that fucking dog. In an ideal world of children's literature, Clifford and the Berenstain Bears would meet à la the Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat, with similar results.
And Dinosaur Train. Maybe it's not so rare.
40: AIHMHB, even at the time while I was a tween I found the "I want Charles in charge of me!" theme song uncomfortably suspect along those lines.
I had a college roommate who would watch it every day for reasons that weren't at all creepy because Nicole Eggert is the same age as we were. Or something.
I would be willing to help with a Kickstarter or similar for Dinosaur Train: The X-Rated Parody.
Once again I say unto you, Tigre, buy this perfume.
Did you know that I had the novel adaptation of Charles in Charge? I think it was the pilot episode. Also there was an entirely different family in season 1, and in the book.
I banned my youngest from watching Jessie, it was far too annoying. And Victorious because everyone on there is horrible. http://danschniedershouldbeashamed.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/dan-schneider-should-be-ashamed-of.html?m=1
I sort of miss those days though. Kid D has has just finished her third viewing of Friends.
Did the writers of Mathnet previously write police procedurals, I wonder.
NMM for hours and hours to Tony Conrad.
51: Because resuscitation/revivification is in the works?
I was just reminiscing about Square One and 3-2-1 Contact today, while Mr. Robot has been digging up old episodes of The Electric Company.
My kid has graduated to watching all YouTube all the time. He claims he doesn't even like television, though he does watch The Flash with us. We are most of the way through the first season. Trouble is, he gets excited about The Flash, then goes and hunts down a bunch of spoilers on YouTube.
Because some of their urchin friends have been raised without boundaries, and because they just turned into teenagers, my daughters have become obsessed with, God help me, The Walking Dead. This despite my not even having a TV. I don't recommend it for small children. Or any children, or anyone, really.
Those Disney channel shows are where the old hacks go to live out their years.
This explains so much.
Oh hey, Iris told me this morning that a friend of hers from school (who is studying a brass instrument I believe) now wants to be an entertainment lawyer when she grows up. I totally pseud-dropped RT.
That's an oddly specific career goal for someone at that age.
I told my teacher in 5th grade--to mess with him--that I wanted to be a lawyer for the criminally insane.
What did one testis say to the other?
"The work is hard but I feel that I'm making a vas deferens."
"Does this guy masturbate a lot, or what?"
'"Essential but still somehow just in the way"' is a good way to put it.
"Can't he find somebody with less shaky hands to do a vasectomy?"
"If his aunt had us, she'd be his uncle!"
Those Disney channel shows are where the old hacks go to live out their years.
It's weird how there are all these comedy cliches that now appear only in entertainment for people born less than 15 years ago. The cartoon rich person or farmer or boat captain on these shows are the same stereotypes you saw on Here's Lucy.
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Jesus McQueen, I'm planning on ordering the Sturgill Simpson album that you recommended a couple of days ago. I'm also probably going to get Dori Freeman's album.
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69: I see it as being part of the cultural immersion process - here is where you learn your tired old tropes. Plus, they're not tired the first time you see it.
I'm sad to see that #oddsquadgoals doesn't seem to have taken off as much as I'd hoped it would have.
Also: there was a Clifford TV show? I can imagine few things more awful. I hated that fucking dog.
Louis CK has your back.
And if you haven't heard the bit he does on reading his daughters Tom Sawyer it's also good. First two and half minutes or so of this clip.
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Oh shit, heebie, look at what kind of role model you're giving your kids!
Maybe they just figured she could afford it.
I'm walking home because I don't have that kind of money.
Maybe you should try auditioning for a kids' TV show.
I'm not allowed within 500 yards of Selma Gomez.
I started to type "Selma Gomez" into Google and a search suggestion came up that ended in Gomez so I clicked on it. It turned out to be a search for Selena Gomez.
I then typed out Selma Gomez. Google: "showing results for Selena Gomez", click to be shown results for Selma Gomez.
I then put "Selma Gomez" into quotes and searched that. Top of the result set was all photos of Selena Gomez.
What did you do to Selma Gomez, Moby, to make her so obscure?
Wait, I got that wrong. No quotes around "Selma Gomez" is mostly Selena Gomez, even after you tell Google you weren't searching for Selena. With quotes it's mostly Selmas.
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Woo hoo Warriors (and Curry passed 400 3PM)!!
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As a point of comparison Jordan hit 581 three pointers over his entire career (regular season). Curry hit 402 this season.
Over 90% on free throws, 55% on 2pters, and 45% on 3pters, while scoring 30 a game. It's insane.
That was so fun.
Also, I have to admit, Kobe's farewell game was pretty great. And he went out on an assist! Ha ha.