THAT is the Muppet video my 3-year-old most wants to see. She’ll have me do a Youtube search on “Mahna Mahna” and pick out one video after the next, commenting on the relative merits. (“That one has a baby as the Mahna Mahna guy. This one looks like it’s in a garage. That one is the old one.”)
ETA: At this rate, I suspect it’ll be her doctoral thesis. Something in media studies or sociology. Unless I can turn her into an engineer.
Quoted for truth. Caillou is just plain awful.
But it’s still not as bad as…
Max and Ruby!! Dear Og!
I disagree. My wife and I both found Max and Ruby to be at least tolerable. But Caillou…I can’t tell you how glad I am that it’s been 3 years or so since the Firebug last watched Caillou. It wasn’t even a matter of quickly getting tired of it; I couldn’t stand Caillou from day 1.
I’m just a kid who’s dumb
Each day I suck my thumb,
I’ll turn your brain numb, I’m Caillou.
Does she go on GirlsGoGames.com and play the Frozen flash games? I mean, “Anna Brain Surgery”, WTF?!
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.
I got my kids into Mega Man after showing them the PBS cartoon…
Oh and that PS1 game where he goes to the party at the end.
I also got them into Bakemonogatari.
I got to meet “Elmo”, meaning Kevin Clash. He was a black man about my height and seemed like a nice guy. Like most puppeteers he wanted to do more “adult” stuff but was happy with the money and prestige Elmo gave him.
He said that he kind of fell into the role when they gave him the Elmo puppet and had him do it and Elmo just took off.
He mentioned “Tickle Me Elmo” where he went in and recorded the laugh but never dreamed how well it would sell.
If you’re interested in Kevin Clash, Netflix has a great documentary called Being Elmo which is all about his story. He’s a fascinating guy. The doc was made before his sex scandal and subsequent ouster from the Street.
Is is Cantonese. She spoke more than just counting, but usually it was counting like one, two, three (yap yee sam in Cantonese).
Let’s fight ignorance on Blue’s Clues Steve aka Steve Burns. Here’s the wiki page: Steve Burns - Wikipedia
The thing that bugs me are the people who do childrens programming and just see dollar sings.
Years ago Captain Kangaroo refused advertising that wasnt healthy and wholesome for kids. Mr. Rogers also cared about the kids first and so did Buffalo Bill of Howdy Doody.
ELMO’S EYES! At least it’s not Teletubbies.
I looooooove Spongebob. However, you should wait until your kids are older to watch that. Stuff like this… thing might give them nightmares. I speak from experience.
How old are you?
How do you explain this?
I was faking my age back then, as do most underage attention whores on the Internet. I was 12. I don’t do that anymore. My old stuff makes me cringe.
This has to be one of the best posts I’ve seen on the SDMB!
All right, let’s get back to the OP.
Now I think Sesame Street is just a straight up ghetto. A cool ghetto, though. You got Big Bird strolling around like he owns the place. Oscar the bum who lives in a trash can. The Count was nothing but a hustler… wearing that cape and glasses and always counting… it’s just a subliminal message of how much money he’s gonna make that day. Cookie Monster should be in some rehab center for his “cookie” problem… I think there is more to the story there. But all in all, they behaved and taught us how to count and spell, so they’re one of the most beloved gangsters out there. And Ernie and Bert, if you think about it, were the first acceptable gay couple on TV 
Elmo skipping around like a school boy or girl… yeah what was Elmo?
Oh, I’ve got this: show the kid Toonami. Especially if it’s a girl. You might regret it, though, because if they start having a crush on TOM it’s your fault.