# Parents - which kids' shows did you HATE? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [July 9, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103 "2021-07-09T16:23:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/1 "2021-07-09T16:23:04Z")
The opposite of this thread: [Parents - which kids’ shows did you like?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-like/945989) I don’t have any children myself, but I know a lot of parents and for some reason (I’ve never seen it myself) they pretty much universally despise **Caillou**. Which shows do/did your kids watch that you _hate_? ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/2 "2021-07-09T16:30:25Z")
My kids like the “[Total Drama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Drama)” shows for some unfathomable reason, and I can’t stand them. They’re like a more or less kid friendly cartoon satire of reality shows. They’re horrid; maybe I’m too old, maybe I don’t get the joke, but I can’t abide those shows at all. Most of the other shows they’ve liked in the past have been ok. Lots of them have not been quite my speed, but that’s mostly because they’re aimed at small children, not forty-something men. Otherwise there’s nothing wrong with them. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/3 "2021-07-09T16:32:23Z")
Barney the purple dinosaur, we’d watch and feel sorry for the human child actors. So cheesy and fake. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/4 "2021-07-09T17:04:38Z")
When my nephew (now 27) was a toddler, he was completely enraptured by Barney. And then my brother and sister-in-law took him to the live shows where he was scared of the life-size Barney in person. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/5 "2021-07-09T17:12:03Z")
HR Puffin Stuff Sigmund and the Sea Monsters The Land of the Lost Stingray ( You sing that ‘Marina’ end credits song I Will hunt you down…) Run, Joe, Run! ( That dog is having a flashback. I Told you not to feed him 'shrooms. ) Kukla, Fran and Ollie. ( I have no idea what was going on under that stage, but a dollar says it was a lot more entertaining than the show.) Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/6 "2021-07-09T17:18:19Z")
Teletubbies for sure. What the hell was in that “Tubby tuss-turd”? ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/7 "2021-07-09T17:34:50Z")
Teletubbies creators must’ve been on a club drug binge when they came up with that shit. So strange and oddly hypnotic. The bunnies hopping around on artificial turf under a big head baby sun. The big box monitors all of it is disturbing af. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/8 "2021-07-09T18:02:59Z")
**Barney** is the instant answer for me. Horrible show with kids that looked like they were part of a suicide cult. I hate every aspect of that one. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/9 "2021-07-09T18:34:48Z")
Thomas the Tank Engine ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/10 "2021-07-09T20:32:01Z")
If you think Teletubbies was bad (And it was, along with that Effing Purple Dinosaur), you will need a large amount of mind altering substances to understand In the Night Garden. I never hated Caillou per se, but man, if he was my kid… ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/11 "2021-07-09T20:37:52Z")
Barney the Dinosaur was pretty terrible. Caillou wasn’t so bad. ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/12 "2021-07-09T20:51:00Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > they pretty much universally despise **Caillou** Caillou should die in a fire. I hated watching that stupid show with my kids. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/13 "2021-07-10T00:10:06Z")
Cocomelon - Really cheap animation and amateur singing. Mind numbing stuff. Little Baby Bum - See Cocomelon. Barney is pretty bad. I respect the Wiggles for what they do, but I can’t watch it constantly the way I can with, say, Pepper Pig. I don’t hate The Wiggles but they get an honourable mention. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/14 "2021-07-10T00:40:02Z")
Don Adams tried his best, but I **HATE** “Inspector Gadget.” “Wowzers,” my ass! ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/15 "2021-07-10T00:43:03Z")
> [@FinsToTheLeft](#): > > > [@DCnDC](#): > > > > they pretty much universally despise **Caillou** > > Caillou should die in a fire. I hated watching that stupid show with my kids. > [@Anyone else freaking hate Caillou?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-freaking-hate-caillou/661080): > > I’ll try to keep this out of the Pit. But if it goes it goes. Any of you know about this [Caillou](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caillou)[peckerwood?](http://becausemollysaidso.com/2012/01/30/caillou-sucks/) I have a 3 1/2 year old Grandson and he loves this slop. When our kids were growing up the worst we had to deal with was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. First of all, is Caillou on Chemotherapy or what? Why does he have Charlie Browns haircut? And his overly mellow mom and pussywimp dad. How much Valium are they on a day? Nobody with little kids is that calm all the time. But the v… ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/16 "2021-07-10T04:12:11Z")
Dinosaur Train bugs the heck out of me. It’s _dinosaurs_. On a _train_. I’m not a parent, but my nephew loves that show. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/17 "2021-07-10T11:56:24Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > The Land of the Lost This. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/18 "2021-07-10T13:29:57Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Barney the purple dinosaur, we’d watch and feel sorry for the human child actors. My (then-preschool) kids loved Barney. But even at that age our youngest once turned to me and, as he was singing some inane song along with the TV kids, said “Those kids are going to look back on this and be really embarrassed.” ---
**Author:** ![Obeseus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbce88/32.png) [@Obeseus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obeseus)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/19 "2021-07-11T06:18:53Z")
The annoying voices of Fairly OddParents. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103/20 "2021-07-11T12:05:25Z")
> [@digs](#): > > “Those kids are going to look back on this and be really embarrassed.” Wow - precociously aware. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-which-kids-shows-did-you-hate/946103.md?page=2)