A new PBS kiddy show, Boobah, is going to get the little tykes up and moving. A mini aerobic workout, you might say.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/19/apontv.boohbah.ap/index.html
Good for them! But they scare me ALMOST as much as Teletubbies. I think the music will be a bit unsettling as well. But if it keeps the little ones active, I say GOOD!
LOL. I had similar thoughts when I saw them. I also imagined myself as a child moving along with them, knocking down lamps and catching heck…
Do those characters talk like human beings? I have decent tolerance for kiddie shows even if they don’t appeal to the adult in me, because kids are, quite frankly, different. But I despise the Teletubbies, because the way they “talk” is terrible. Those are PRIME LANGUAGE SKILLS YEARS that Teletubbies wastes by talking nonsense.
Boohbah looks ridiculous, but I won’t consider it to be objectionable unless they have Teletubby-like speech impediments.
We’ve had Boohbah over here in the UK for about a year now and it’s one majorly weird programme. If I remember correctly they don’t speak English. I might be wrong though because I can only stand to watch it for about 5 minutes before I have to turn it off. It gives me a headache. Not to mention the pretty colours I see for a minute or two afterwards.
The Boohbah website is truly weird, innit?
I seem to remember reading a synopsis of the show somewhere in which they stated that the Boobahs enable the children to control the adults, or something like that. Hmmm :dubious:
Nope. If I remember correctly they don’t speak, just bounce around a lot.
With respect that’s crap. This show was very popular in the ’50s and ’60s and the same complaints were expressed then. I used to watch it myself all the time when I was three or four and had no problem differentiating between the nonsense language spoken by the characters and the real language spoken at the breakfast table.
A whole generation of kids used to enjoy working out what Bill and Ben were saying and I recall being mystified when adults complained that there might be a problem on the horizon. They were flowerpot men; their best friend was a singing dandelion. How would you expect them to talk?
If kids have badly developed language skills today, it’s not because the Teletubbies have poor enunciation, it’s because parents don’t have proper conversations with their kids.
Be afraid; be VERY afraid.
This is strangly addictive.
Oh, my! I don’t think my 4-year-old needs to watch this show! Bad enough that she loves the Teletubbies! Also, I definitely don’t have problems with her not moving around enough; my problem is getting her to sit still!
It’s not only the Boohbahs themselves that are weird. Each show features a sketch involving a “family” made up of various ethnicities. There is no talking apart from an announcer who occassionally explains what’s happening in an expressionless voice (a bit like the BBC guy who reads the football scores). For example, Grandpapa is standing on a beach and arm armchair suddenly materialises. Announcer: “It’s an armchair”. A figure appears on the horizon. “Somebody’s coming”.
My two-year old loves it, and he’s the intended audience, so who am I to criticise? At least it’s not Barney.
When they first aired here this past Monday, misskid3 watched the first show of the marathon and got excited. I didn’t much care for it, but, I, like many other mothers, use morning PBS programing to get stuff done around the house. ( Or post here 
). The second show came on, and she was still excited telling me that Boobah was on again. By the third show, she decided she didn’t like them, because they were “ignoring me” ( her way of saying annoying me ).
She did not want to watch it yesterday, she played a game instead.
Truly, I do not know how important this is, as I seem to recall that British kids’ programmes such as “Bill and Ben” and “The Clangers” did not exactly speak comprehensibly. In fact, “Bill and Ben - the Flowerpot Men” seemed obsessed with their friend “Little Weed”, which might also be a concern. 
And I grew up able to speak, and, oh boy, so did my brothers - one of whom will NOT shut up!