You think the show is bad I thought it would be a good idea to buy the Blues Clues Big Musical Movie for my bys 2 1/2 and 1. The songs are so insipid and they stick right in your head
Hmmmmm how about some toat… mmmm Toast is the most
You can do any thing tat you wanna do yeah yeah yeah yeah
and the horrible Hey Hey Shoobidy yay Beep Bop Bay!!
They watch it over and Over at least once a day!!!
If it wasn’t summer they’d be watching all day long!!
I’m going Frickin insane!!!
I nannied for a couple tykes last summer. We watched Blue’s Clues three times a day, twice on Nick and once on Noggin. It was the only show that I could stomach out of the whole slew of kids’ programing. By the end of the summer I just had to shout out “Mail time!” or some other obscure line from the show and the three year old would burst into song. Very cute, I thought.
By the by, Arden Ranger’s link to CNN said Blue was a boy! The outrage! One of the few female roll models on kids’ TV today! Arrg! Little Bird takes her meds
I think Steve is really cute, in a dorky way. He left Blue’s Clues because he “didn’t want to be Krusty the Klown”. Really, those were his exact words. I saw them quoted in Entertainment Weekly. I think the heavy merchandising got to him.
& I remember Telefrancais. We used to watch it in French class. I thought it was entertaining.
And may I add…
Go go, Power Rangers!
You Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers!!!
Oh, good god…I may have to kill you, gobear. When I was in college, my roommates decided that Bananas in Pajamas was extraordinarily funny and watched it all the time. I detested it, and so for my birthday they bought me a stuffed Banana in Pajamas that sang the song when you squeezed his hand… Bananas…in Pajamas
Are coming down the stairs
Bananas…in Pajamas
Are coming down in pairs…
Bananas…in Pajamas
(something something thing)
Oh, how I hated that thing. I sent it home with my mother, and discovered, to my horror, that she had given it to my Grandma who had Alzheimer’s. It entertained my Gram to no end but the downside was we all just had to sit and listen to that frickin’ song over and over and over and over…
shudder
Also, as I have said before, I have a disgusting lust for Steve and used to be a regular Blues Clues watcher. Nothing makes you feel more like a dirty old woman than watching Steve skip around in his khakis singing, “We just got a letter…” I too, have visions of him doing naughty things, only he’s always wearing the stripes and khakis.
Someone asked what could be worse than The Land Before Time series----Alvin and the Chipmunks. They made a movie called The Chipmunk Adventure that my daughter watched daily from ages 3 to 5 and then sporatically. Those damn things spoke and sang in those terrible, terrible voices. Her dad and I would whisper in the dark about destroying the tape, late at night while she slept, but we were afraid, very afraid. Blue’s Clues is nothing compared to those terrible voices.
It’s not the movie itself, Chikki–it’s the fact that there seems to be an unending string of them (what are they up to now, LBT-VI?) and that they’re ALL so…so…
Banal.
That’s the only word for it. Relentlessly banal. Oh, sure, LBT-I wasn’t too bad, in a goofy, eye-rolling, saccharine sort of way, but subsequent outings–
*[squeals of glee from Don Bluth and Amblin Entertainment]
[“hey, lookie, everybody, we got ourselves a FRAYAN-CHIIIZE!!”] *
there are 7 land before time movies now,
Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure
III: The Time of the Great Giving
IV: Journey Through the Mists
V: The Mysterious Island
VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock
VII: The Stone of Cold Fire
I gave up after the fourth or fifth movie, i do not doubt the 7th sucks horribly.