Max and Ruby is the only show on Treehouse that we won’t let our kids watch. Our 5 y/o daughter is quite bossy enough with her 2 y/o brother, and after she watches that show she gets worse.
Agree with everyone else about the goofiest theme song ever, and Max giving the “bitch” look being hilarious. I’ll also rave about the Backyardigans, it and Bear in the Big Blue House are my favorite kids shows, and my wife mocks me when I get stuck in front of the TV just like the kids do.
That show is weird… but they play it in the mornings right before (or after) In The Night Garden on Australian TV. That makes it look brilliant. Holy crap, In The Night Garden, I would pit you if it didn’t make me seem like a giant douche*. Half an hour per episode, and nothing. Happens. Ever. And about half to two-thirds of each episode is reused in each and every episode. Gah! My eyes! My brain! I wish it had ads - that would give me something to look forward to. I also hate it how my niece loves it, so I wind up watching it. 
*Not really. I’m not that petty.
Ruby is unrealistically patient. Any big sister whose parents aren’t around would punch Max in his fucking rabbity nose at least once an episode for being obnoxious and constantly interfering with Ruby’s projects. Shit, my big sister used to punch me in the nose when my parents *were *around.
Fortunately, ITunes also has old-school shows like Scooby Doo, which our daughter loves.
Moved to Cafe Society.
Hear! Hear! I don’t get the Ruby hate. Max is constantly doing something to hose her over, but she never gets mad, even on the eighth trip to his bed to change his pajamas or something. And he never gets called out for doing it, either.
I was the baby in my family, but even I think that Ruby needs to give him a good smack.
RR
More fuel for the fire, no matter which way it burns.
And Max rules. Ruby is an oppressive little fishwife.
I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Max and Ruby. My little guy was a little slow at putting sentences together. At 25 months he still hadn’t made a two word sentence. At the same age, he fell in love with Max, another little guy who didn’t say too much. My son’s first two word sentence was “More Max”. Six years later, he’s amazingly articulate, but it had to start somewhere.
I looove In the Night Garden. Makka Pakka and his dirty little sponge and those giant bouncing flowers and Upsy Daisy’s eternal cheerfulness and those wacky Tombliboos with their trouser escapades and the proportionally-challenged Ninky Nonk and the forever farting Pinky Ponk and poor Iggle Piggle living in a canoe, I love love love it.
I would rather spend the rest of my life strapped to a chair watching Max and Ruby than ever see another episode of the Wonder Pets. I want to cook those fucking things and then throw them out without eating them. Especially Ming Ming. Ming Ming must die.
Great, now I have the fucking theme song stuck in my head.
FWIW,
Rob
If nothing else, Max has got the coolest toys ever invented on this or scary-parallel-bunny planet. That freaking lobster should be used by the military, it is so smart. What I would not have given as a child for a plush spider that can launch paint balls 100 feet. And have you seen his ant farm? Those little fuckers follow orders.
“What’s gonna work? Teeeeamwork!”
Yes, I do have a 4-year-old; why do you ask?
That sounds seewious.
I love Wonder Pets. There was an episode the other day where Tuck said something was serious. Needless to say, Ming Ming complained that he stole her line.
“Wonder Pets, Wonder Pets, we’re on our way
To help the baby animal and save the day . . .”
The Backyardigans still rule over all children’s TV series, though.
RR
Ruby’s a bitch. Max is obnoxious. Where the fuck are their parents? Etc. etc. Still miles better than Wonder Pets (or worse yet, Hip Hop Harry).
Backyardigans, however, rule. Their music is like crack.
Ooo, now that I think about it, this is a perfect place for this particular nitpicking rant I’ve had in mind.
Backyardigans Mission To Mars episode (Warning – Open Spoilers!):
So our intrepid astronauts discover the source of the mysterious “boinga” transmissions – Martians! As the group enters the Martians’ home, Mommy Martian chides baby Boinga that “you’re supposed to be in bed.”
However, minutes later, they all sing the Almost Everything Is Boinga Here song, which includes the following:
Wait, wait, wait! If you sleep in “boinga”, and not in beds, then why did you tell Baby Boinga not five minutes ago that he was supposed to be in bed? Foul! Damnit, I demand perfect continuity from my children’s television!
Right, but Max is 3, and given that rabbits reach maturity at about 6 months, he really shouldn’t need as much looking after as he does.
My son and I spend a half hour a day in front of the Imagination Movers. Their songs are a notch above the typical Wiggles/Barney fare, but it still lowers my IQ.
Anyhow, nothing mentioned thus far is one tenth as bad as the Doodlebops. Sweet Moses that is some powerful suck.
When my mother-in-law was visiting, she saw an episode of Yo Gabba Gabba. Her only comment? “They don’t pay that boy enough to wear that outfit”.
The guy who draws the little cartoons? Kinda weird. I saw him on something else awhile ago, turns out he’s pretty famous for something-or-other, but damned if I can remember what it was.
Is Caillou still on Treehouse? I HATE Caillou. We don’t let Jimmy (four years old) watch it, because it makes him whine and be a little brat. I get my Canadian content where I can down here, but Caillou can go suck eggs.
I understand some of these words.
I had thought Canada was through apologizing after Celine Dion and Bryan Adams, but… We’re really, really sorry about the Doodlebops. Really.
Thank you, Ginger. It was very nice of you to apologize. That being said, Canada still has a lot of suck left to produce if it wants to be mentioned in the same breath as the US. I mean, we gave the world H.R. Pufnstuf - the scariest kids show ever made.