Besides, berries grow on bushes, not trees.
So, we’re pitting children’s cartoons for not making sense? What’s next? Great Debates: Real Ham vs. Turkey Ham?
Looky here. I can’t get any closer than that from work, but check out the mp3 for “El Hambo” listed under Tapiola Choir.
I just wanted to quote that so it’d appear more than once in the thread. Look me up when you get to hell, JRD, I’ll have a beer waiting for you.
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Cookie, caraoke*, cooky*… there aren’t many 
[size=1]* Just in case it’s not obvious, deliberately spelled wrongly for humorous effect.[/szie]
You people need to stop complaining. So help me God, if they cancel that show, I am going to bring my little ball of sunshine over to your house to stay.
Dora is wonderful, not least because she pisses off my two oldest kids because they can’t get why she’s ‘talking mexican’ all the time.
Hey, that turtle’s name is Kevin!
This quote was taken from the “Seven Seas” song. Dora’s writers force some incredibly stupid rhymes, occasionally- FB
gatoescapado, while at daycare, Aaron runs around, interacts with other kids, learns social skills, and rarely has the need to sit and be quiet. IMO, it’s a hell of a lot better (and healthier) than sitting in front of the boob tube all day.
Robin
Not to let my earlier post suggest here’s nothing to Pit about the show. My ire is frequently drawn by Tico the Squirrel. He’s clearly blind – how else to explain the numerous instances in which Dora and Boots must yell “Para!” to get him to stop to avoid falling boulders, clumbs of mud, or other natural disasters. Yet he always tools about in a fancy rocket-car or other speedy vehicle. The damn creature is a menace to road safety.
No way, Tico’s just too cool with his own schnitz that he doesn’t have time to pay attention to Dora’s schnitz until she yells for his help. 
As for Swiper, I just assumed he’s a minor-level demon (an imp?), and “Swiper no swiping!” is the spell that exorcises him. 
Berry trees?
You know, Dora isn’t just for the kids. That girl has gotten me through more than one terribly hung over Saturday morning. Stumble from bed to couch, turn on tv. The show moves at just the right pace when nothing will quite focus without causing intense brainal pain. And that crazy Boots is a riot.
God, I hate Dora the Explorer almost as much as I hate The Wiggles!
Please guys, stop singing those songs over and over again!
Fruit salad…Yummy, Yummy…Fruit salad…Yummy, Yummy Aaaahhh!!
Bear in the Big Blue House
Bob the Builder
Stanley
Seasame Street
Now those are some good shows!
You know, I kind of always thought the same thing. I mean, you have to say it THREE TIMES…that’s significant.
I really could have done without my kids responding to every setback with that whiny, “Oh, maaaaaaaaaaaaaan,” though.
Now we haven’t had cable for over two years. Ahhhhhhh. Bliss.
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest]
The entire Swiper No Swiping drives me batty.
…OH MAN!!!
Has anyone else noticed that everyone on the show speaks as if the recipient of their oration is a fucking mile away? Conversational tones, people.
And if that fucking baby jaguar gets stuck in a tree or a waterfall again, I want to see dora with a new coat (this from someone who abhors fur coats). Can’t Diego talk some sense into that walking train wreck?
Tico’s a mindlessautomaton. Grumpy Old Troll rules that show!
I love Thomas The Tank Engine.
If you get to high in the instep you will always have a take down in the lesson of Big Fat Humility. Then you will Learn Your Lesson and in the final parting shot, help some else out who went through the same thing as you, but aren’t preachy. Seriously, good videos, good books. I give it a nine point three. Did any of the above make sense?
My son, then four, pointed out, that the only females regularly featured on Thomas the Tank Engine are Clara and Annie ( coaches) who are always cranky.
So there are some rampant sexism going on. along with Sir Topham Hat as the Beefy WASPY overlord, clearly representing the White Guy is always right and Nobility is Always Right.
We have all the Thomas stuff. My IRA is in Thomas stuff. What does my 6 year old carry with him everywhere now? Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! Clearly the Seventh Seal has been broken.
Ah, yes, there ARE things worse than overeagerly didactic Children’s TV. To wit shows that don’t even pretend they’re anything but one gigantic product placement.
If I were chained to a stake next to a TV with Dora The Explorer and her loud nasal screaming voice, I would chew my own foot off to get away.
I’d reply to that, but I’m preparing for that Transformers convention next week.
RJ, you are SO my hero!
heh heh, y’know when I started this thread I was only bitching about soem mindless idiocy in a small section of the show. I had no idea there was this level of general animosity! (but I will admit to being mildly peeved walking to the station with that fucking BACKPACK song in my head ARGH!!! There it goes again!).
Excuse me, I’m just going to stab my head on this sharp pointy object, be right back!
oh, um…