# nuh nuh nuh nuh... nuh nuh nuh nuh... Elmo's World **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 12, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-elmos-world/585176 "2011-06-12T00:50:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-elmos-world/585176/81 "2016-10-21T00:23:59Z")
Thanks for the earworm. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-elmos-world/585176/82 "2016-10-21T15:35:01Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > **Yo Gabba Gabba** is a show that reminds me of what smoking pot is like. I wonder if watching while stoned would amplify it or cancel it out. Have you ever seen “The Hoobs” [The Hoobs - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoobs) ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-elmos-world/585176/83 "2016-10-21T17:11:54Z")
> [@Elemenopy](#): > > My 3.5 y.o. used to love Yo Gabba, and it honestly never bothered me. However, she has discovered Youtube which means the TV never (theoretically) is off. Her favorite requests: > > Masha and the Bear: some Russian cutsie thing, not too bad > Some Filipino-sounding mama making things with Playdoh (kill me…) > Pretty bad Indian nursery rhymes with animation. I think they must be graphic design projects. > The worst: Let’s open up Kinder Surprise Eggs (real or fake) WTF??!!! These things have 8 million views. > > How could I forget: Peppa Pig!! Now she has a vague London accent and asks me if she can sit in the trolly at the supermarket. Oh God, yes to all of this. Mine went through a phase of these absolutely horrible nursery rhymes or songs (“Brother finger, brother finger…”) from various overseas locations. The worst was “Johnny, Johnny” in an angry Arabic voice… “Johnny Johnny!!” “Yes poppa?” “EATING SUGAR?” “No poppa!” “ARE YOU LYING??” “Yes, poppa!” “ **HA HA HA HA HA!!!** ” And the friggin’ egg openings and toy unboxings. All with some guy in a knockoff Spider-Man costume because… ? Peppa Pig is fine. Real Peppa Pig, produced by the Peppa Pig people. But then there’s a thousand bizarre knock-off involving Peppa Pig and Spider-Man or Marvel heroes or who knows what with horrendous animation and voices. And these come up as suggested viewing so he’d watch a legitimate Peppa Pig episode and then wind up in Russian Peppa Pig bootleg hell. There was nothing offensive about them (aside from the trademark theft and production values) so I hated to be like “No” if he wanted to watch it but… yeesh. ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-elmos-world/585176/84 "2016-10-22T20:27:20Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Oh God, yes to all of this. Mine went through a phase of these absolutely horrible nursery rhymes or songs (“Brother finger, brother finger…”) from various overseas locations. The worst was “Johnny, Johnny” in an angry Arabic voice… > “Johnny Johnny!!” “Yes poppa?” “EATING SUGAR?” “No poppa!” “ARE YOU LYING??” “Yes, poppa!” “ **HA HA HA HA HA!!!** ” > > And the friggin’ egg openings and toy unboxings. All with some guy in a knockoff Spider-Man costume because… ? > > Peppa Pig is fine. Real Peppa Pig, produced by the Peppa Pig people. But then there’s a thousand bizarre knock-off involving Peppa Pig and Spider-Man or Marvel heroes or who knows what with horrendous animation and voices. And these come up as suggested viewing so he’d watch a legitimate Peppa Pig episode and then wind up in Russian Peppa Pig bootleg hell. There was nothing offensive about them (aside from the trademark theft and production values) so I hated to be like “No” if he wanted to watch it but… yeesh. The worst are the Frozen games with disgusting subject matter such as pregnancy or brain surgery. ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-elmos-world/585176/85 "2017-04-17T23:50:06Z")
Reading Rainbow was a good show. You never saw LeVar Burton (Geordi on TNG) do anything freaky to anybody or anything. He just read stories… promotes reading, that’s what it’s all about. He doesn’t tell jokes to a talking toilet unlike Pee-Wee’s Crack… oops I mean "Play"house. Zooblie Zoo was another good show. But Ben Veren didn’t go around acting like he was on any crack. You don’t see him pop up at some random school and start hugging kids and singing “I Love You” to them. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-elmos-world/585176/86 "2017-04-18T02:59:52Z")
> [@Sarabellum1976](#): > > Max & Ruby: > > (every episode) > > Max wants to do something. It’s something stupid, not permitted, destructive, or mean. > > Ruby tells him not to do it. > > Max does it anyway. Hilarity ensues. > > Happy ending! Max is congratulated and rewarded for his bad behavior. > > Roll credits. > > Such a bad show. As a librarian who has worked with kids for decades I have come into frequent contact with Max and Ruby. Ruby is the prototypical bossy older sister; I have always maintained that Max needs a good butt whuppin’. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-elmos-world/585176/87 "2017-04-19T00:34:16Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > IIRC, Elmo is said by the writers to speak in third person because he’s 3, and 3 year olds often speak in third person. > > Wait 'til she discovers Caillou. You’ll be all kinds of nostalgic for Elmo when you’re inundated with \*that \*whiny little bastard. My husband works with a guy that has a two year old. He was just saying the other day how that Caillou bastard drives him crazy, we have a teenager and my husband remembered the pain. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-elmos-world/585176/88 "2017-04-19T00:44:48Z")
My husband still reminds our teen sometime that Barney was forbidden in our house. She was 2 or 3 when the toy, Tickle Me Elmo, came out and we got her one for her birthday. We turned it on, it started moving, and it freaked her out. She climbed up on the couch and sat there all day. Are the Teletubbies still on? Everytime that was on, which we tried to make rarely, I felt like I was doing psychedelic drugs. ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-elmos-world/585176/89 "2017-11-05T16:00:23Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > Yikes, Caillou scares me. Every time it’s on and I glance at the screen I think there’s a dream sequence going on or something. I try to avoid it. I watched Caillou a few times. Yeah… the funding credit sequence was the only thing that scared me for some reason… I love Boohbah and Blue’s Clues (the ones with Steve) and I’m fifteen. I watch Cowboy Bebop and I’m still going around singing “We are looking for Blue’s Clues!!!”? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-elmos-world/585176/90 "2017-11-05T16:42:25Z")
I introduced my young kids to the Boxcar Children Series. They are like Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys but intended for younger kids. > **[List of Boxcar Children novels](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boxcar_Children_novels)** > > This is a list of Boxcar Children Novels. > The first nineteen books in the series were written by Gertrude Chandler Warner, the series's original author. Subsequent books were written by others after her death in 1979. > { It was in my elementary school’s library. I made a point to take my kids to the library and borrow these wonderful books. It’s a double winner because the kids got their library card and were introduced to all the books in the local library’s children’s section. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-elmos-world/585176/91 "2017-11-05T17:25:24Z")
No kids, but I’ve seen\* Caillou \*a couple of times. I think that he has been dropped on his head. A lot. On the other hand, I like _Peg + Cat_. ---
**Author:** ![Zetetic\_Skeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Zetetic\_Skeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zetetic_Skeptic)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-elmos-world/585176/92 "2017-11-06T14:23:11Z")
They aren’t coming out with any new shows, but when my son was younger, he really enjoyed The Backyardigans. It was very tolerable compared to everything else out there. Oh, and Phineas and Ferb too, but that might be when yours is a little older. Good luck! At least it’s not Teletubbies or Barney!!! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-elmos-world/585176/93 "2017-11-08T01:49:03Z")
I find it amusing how many BANNED posters there are in this Zombie about kid’s shows. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-elmos-world/585176/94 "2017-11-08T02:12:12Z")
Well most of the shows here aren’t on as much since universal bought out sprout and is trying to make it a generic nickelodeon “universal kids” Although 2 or so years ago you could tell pbs was pulling out of the channel because 1 they have multiple pbs kid stations and 2 it was replaced by horrible totally generic euro cartoons like the jungle bunch and talking vehicle shows … The half hour sesame street on hbo family might as well not exist… its just the mid 00 sesame street with out elmos world they even took out the in between murray bits … and animation like the fairy school stuff … The cringe worthy show ive seen is tim and topsy … the grandmas dog episode , blech [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-elmos-world/585176.md?page=4)