Human-sized frogs are probably dangerous too.
That is a perfect description of that shit. The “Brown Acid” of children’s TV.
My kid watched Dragon Tales. So stupid. They always got into some dangerous situation every episode. But the thing is, they could fly. So, you know, they could just fly away. Problem solved.
When I was a kid, I thought Mr. Rogers was a Complete Dork. And don’t get me started on those horrid puppets!
I can’t say ‘worst’, but Weinerville (1993) was. . . different.
Mickey Mouse Club House: Ugh! Horrible annimation, annoying songs, stupid story lines. Dreck. I’d mention some show that aired when I was little thing is I don’t remember what it was called. A lady stood on set, and pretended all sorts of stuff. I found it boring. It came on after the Captain, such a sad comparison.
[NB: not a response to @ Sylvanz’s post above]
John Dillermand and his extra-long, prehensile dick?
There’s an even stranger children’s show with live-action people in horrible costumes from, IIRC, some Eastern Bloc country but I can’t find it now.
With the actual acid of children’s TV being H.R. Pufnstuf
I had an H.R. Pufnstuf metal lunch box.
I still think Barney is the worst from what I have seen. I haven’t seen some of the others mentioned like Teletubbies.
No-Pufnstuf was the Mary Jane of children’s TV.
The brown acid of children’s TV was Lidsville.
I guess the name even implies weed. I know I watched Lidsville as well ,but Pufnstuf stuck with me more.
Oobi.
It was hands, sans puppet costumes. Googly eyes. The live action hands talked and interacted.
It was uber Oobi psycho. Dozie, early morning airing watching with my kids on NickJr. I was really afraid it could seriously harm me. Gahhh!
Barney did “The Toothbrush Song” a number of times. But this one I’m halfway surprised they didn’t want to reshoot, starting at about 1:00, even though I doubt that the targeted audience would have thought anything weird about it.
Much as Mister Rogers allowed this moment to go to air:
(Context: he was singing the third verse of “Where Is Thumbkin?”)
Yeah, not bad storylines, but weird animation.
I used to do a pretty good Mr Rogers imitation.
Since the show was taped and shown to censors way ahead of going on air, I would need some confirmation.
We sang it that way in early grade school. All adults had to know of the common meaning, and yet, there we were, flipping the bird.
At 0:41:
I did enjoy watching an episode or two of iCarly with my kids and I found it amusing enough. There were a couple other similar shows that I thought were moderately funny as well, though I can’t think of them offhand.
There’s something about those Disney and Nick shows that I’m not a fan of though. In most of them, the kids are smartasses and the adult figures are mostly stupid or incompetent and the kids are always trying to get one over on them. My sister-in-law ended up banning these shows from her daughters because of their behavior after watching them.
But I don’t think I would call those shows the worst children’s television series. @Thing.Fish knocked it out of the part with the first comment with Caillou. There are a lot of other garbage shows out there though, jeez we make a lot of crap for our kids.
Same. And ditto Spongebob. I wasn’t so crazy about watching the same Sponge eps over and over, like my son could, but when there was a new one, I was very happy.
I actually really liked Spongebob. Probably more than iCarly, but, again, not enough to watch it on my own, but I never minded watching it with my daughter.
Creeped me out too. It was the only show BANNED in our house.
Aside from the “Twilight Zone for toddlers” vibe, was the fact that it was, well, actually for toddlers. There should not be TV shows whose target demographic has not achieved its second birthday. Just, no.
Barney is another thing-- the target demographic is older. More like three, and he teaches things like cleaning up your toys. My son used to sing the clean up song when he cleaned up his stuff, and he was really very good about picking up his stuff (still is). I do not like Barney, but I have never been Barney’s target demographic. It’s a little like criticizing Brokenwood Mysteries because 3-year-olds don’t like it. My son liked Barney when he was 3, and seeing him enjoy it was good enough for me. And I could get some stuff done.
Thank goodness for those shows that were adult-watchable. Like Pixar movies. Thank goodness for Cars, How to Train Your Dragon, Finding Nemo, and so many others I saw with my son, and enjoyed.