Inspired by this thread. I used to love watching PBS as a kid, never mind the guilt trip of knowing that my mom wasn’t sending WQED any money.
I watched Sesame Street, Electric Company, and ZOOM in my formative years. My mother thought the shows were to young for me after I turned 10 but since I have a brother six years younger than myself, I got to watch all of his shows, too. He was from the era of 3-2-1 Contact but he missed ZOOM and Electric Company. Thanks to him I got to stretch my PBS viewing until I was 14. Then he started watching He-Man and She-Ra. Oh, well.
??What do you mean “when did I quit?” I stopped watching preschool type shows (polk a dot door, mr. rogers etc.) at about six. But my roomates and I watched Batman Beyond as 18-19 year old college students. Even today at age 23, I’ll still pause and watch a few minutes Fairly Odd Parents or Spongebob if I come across it while channel surfing.
My name is Kate. I’m 31 years old, and I still watch PBS programming for children.
“Hi, Kate”.
A few years ago, back when I didn’t have any cable and watched a lot more TV (interesting how I watch less and less the more “choices” I have) I would wake up every day before work to Zaboomafoo and Between the Lions.
Now the schedule doesn’t match up to my bleary-eyed attempts at greeting the day, but I do still get a fair amount of entertainment from it all.
I was a mainstream cartoon junkie when I was a kid too, but I can’t stomach any of the stuff that the networks spew at kids these days.
I guess I was about 10. I’m from the Captain Kangaroo generation. By the time I had heard of Sesame Street, and we had a UHF-receiving TV to pick it up from the station in Buffalo, I was nearly an adult. So I’ve still never seen an episode of it. I remember when the single of “Rubber Duckie” came out, but we had no frame of reference for the show, because it didn’t air in our country. I watched all the WB and Popeye and Hanna-Barbera and Harvey cartoons, and Spider-Man, but was out of the demographic by the time of Scooby-Doo and episodic cartoons based on, or similar-to comic books became the norm.
I remember still thinking Astroboy was cool when I was 12. (Well, he was cool. But puberty must have happened sometime around then, and I soon put away what I thought were childish things.
As teens, we would watch Mr Rogers Neighborhood for kicks, to make fun of it.
(Especially the opera.)
I don’t watch TV much at all anymore, unless the younger one (16) calls out ‘hey mom, you have to see this’ (it could be something on MTV, the History Channel, the Daily Show, whatever.)
But when the kids were little, I always watched with them, and unabashedly memorized many Sesame Street segments, Little Bear stories, and later, exciting episodes from He-Man.
Quit? You’re kidding, right? I’m 30 and I watch cartoons all the time. I was extremely disappointed in the 90s when I learned that the major networks (NBC, CBS and ABC) either cut down on their Saturday morning toons or eliminated them altogether. Fortunately Cartoon Network and the WB picked up the slack.
IMHO, one of the best kids’ shows of all time was Blue’s Clues. I watched that all the time when I was in law school.
I watched exactly one episode of Sky King and gave up on TV. I think I was maybe eight or nine at the time. I listened to kid shows on radio for many years and formed my own mental image of how the characters looked. To me, whoever those clowns on TV were, they weren’t Sky King and his little buddies.
I never liked live-action shows as a kid. I hated Sesame Street and I was scared of Mr. Rogers. Even as a young child I knew there was something weird about him, and as I got older I realized he had the demeanor of a child molestor.
As for cartoons, though . . . well, I don’t watch the ones that are directed at kids (One Piece, Kim Possible) but I love the all-ages ones. I think Spongebob is one of the best shows on tv right now, period. I also like all the animated Batman shows (including Batman Beyond) and all the straight-to-video movies, although the latest one with Dracula has some pretty weak character designs.
You never quite quit altogether. The other day, while channel surfing, I ended up on Cartoon Network and watched two very funny"too violent for today’s easily- scarred modern kids" Tom’n’Jerry classics.
Oh, I forgot about those. I’ll not miss The Roadrunner or Bugs Bunny if I notice that they’re on, and I think I like Tom & Jerry now more than I did as a kid.
I’d probably still watch Speed Racer if I ever saw it on, too.
I meant PBS shows. I still watch cartoons. **The Simpsons ** is a cartoon, right?
I’m a WB junkie. Bugs Bunny, Animaniacs, Batman:TAS, Hysteria!, all that stuff. I also like Kim Possible and some of the Adult Swim lineup. But as for Sesame Street, et al, I haven’t seen them in years.
About 10ish. Once I got my nintendo, I never watched tv again. It extends to present day. I rarely watch tv and can be found clunking away on my computer the vast majority of the time.
I stopped watching preschool type shows (polk a dot door, mr. rogers etc.) at about six. But my roomates and I watched Batman Beyond as 18-19 year old college students. Even today at age 23, I’ll still pause and watch a few minutes Fairly Odd Parents or Spongebob if I come across it while channel surfing.