Slumped on the couch with the kids

My connection up here is so tenuous that randomly strolling through the web has been replaced by watching bad TV. Most of the bad TV I'm watching is kids TV, because Max and Talia need to distracted or Papa will go crazy. Mama is working twelve hour days right now, so I've got these little guys to manage all day. Sticking them in front of the evil mind-control device all day for a couple of weeks won't irrepairably corrupt them, will it?

I'm learning the names of all the trains on Thomas the Tank Engine. For some reason my kids find this show fascinating.

Barney is as bad as I thought it would be. Worse actually. If you were to imagine a show that a totalitarian society would use to turn the next generation into good little worker drones, Barney would be it. It's ghastly, but I can't find the energy to get up and get the remote.

Boobah is absolutely wonderful. There's nothing like it. We're all completely entranced by it. I'm going to have to write a longer piece on the magic of this show sometime.

There's some really bad Can-con kids shows out there. Really, really bad. Ants in your pants comes immediately to mind, but there's others. Brrr! Your tax dollars at work. Timothy goes to school is pretty good though.

Sesame Street seems to have really gone downhill. The show seems to be more about celebrity cameos and in-jokes for the parents and has forgotten the kids. Mine pay little attention to it. And what happened to the street scenes?

The Berenstain Bears (wasn't it the Berenstein bears when I was a kid?) is not as bad as it looks. The stories are pretty good, but I really hate the animation.

Okay, Boohbah's on now, so I gotta go.

Posted by Bruce Gottfred at September 2, 2004 10:04 AM | TrackBack