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.
but steve wore the same shirt every day. that was kind of gross...
Kind of gross, or kind of awesome?
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.
the most surreal children's programming made readily available to Americans since the Teletubbies
anthony,
There was a real rainbow TV show. That clip was never shown on TV but was made for a party.
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.
Teletubbies and Boobah were created by the same woman, so, I'm not sure how much you can really seperate them.
IL, that is, bar none, the best description of the nigh indescribable Boohbah I have ever read. I'm still laughing at it.
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??
Christ, what do you kids do at Harvard?
I apologize for having mixed my verb tenses. (Count to 10 and breathe, grammar-nazis)
Michael, at Harvard, they NEVER COME DOWN.
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.
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.
They're not free. They come at a cost of $30,000 a year.
Damn, I'm sure I could bribe my profs for much less than that.
also, isn't blues clues on one of the Nick channels, not cartoon?