OMG Godwin, Fred ROCKS. :)

maulrat1967: And yes my "clown problem" is deep seeded and continues on to this day.

Tell me when I start getting weird here.

Do you think the "clown problem" is a Gacy thing?

I was stunned to learn that other people than me had a hate/fear of clowns. I feel a need to attack them to this day, which I know is ridiculous and that the guy in the suit is just some scmuck who doesn't know he's scaring a certain percentage of the audience. I had just assumed that if you plotted up clownophobes you would get a batch of kids from Cook County born in the late 60s.

I understand that this was a list of shows that are still currently being aired. I know Barney still plays on PBS around me, and that should get honorable mention as well.

Also, honorable mention for Make Room For Noddy. This is a show about a town of mixed dollish characters, and Noddy is some kind of elf, like a Santa-elf. Most of the episodes seem to center around two goblins that always trying to rip people off.

LazyTown: Not a bad show, but every time I see Stephanie scrunch up her eyes while she talks, I think about what a biatch she probably is in real life.

Wonder Pets: My son's personal favorite. There is some kind of tension between Tuck and Ming Ming though.

Dora: The map is irritating, but its the backpack that creeps me out. This thing vomits out multiple items constantly, and what Dora doesn't need, he eats again, happily mind you. Why does Swiper always want to steal stuff, just to chuck it on a big pile of similar looking objects?

However, Dora is nowhere near as annoying as Diego. Anyone who has to sit through that godawful Action Pack song knows what I mean.

Biff_Steel

zappaisfrank:

My 2 yo son wants to watch superbabies over and over and over. It's disturbing. But I've noticed lots of rainbow imagery in all of the Dora episodes I've seen; I'm surprised one of the fundie charlatans hasn't swooped in on this (and the slack-jawed huckleberries with their whole "Hispanics are destroying our kulture" should be on this as well).

There probably are redneck households who don't allow Dora because of the hispanic connection. My daughter knows lots of spanish words because of it, and I don't see the harm. Fundies are losing their influence, I think. They're starting to be viewed as the wingnuts they are.

When I was a kid, the creepy shows where HR Puff N Stuff. (The talking flute freaked me out). Buggaloos gave me the willys as well.

As an adult in the 80's (college age) the BEST kids TV show?

Xu-Xu!

We need pics of Xu-Xu

RInewsPhotog"Today's Special" for the win.

Dude, I watched that show all the time. I tend to be met with blank stares whenver I mention it, though, and I haven't seen it since I was a little kid, so I can't properly gauge its creepiness.

Wiggles, though... I mean, they're wearing uniforms that look they were cast off from the original Star Trek series.

I know the Wiggles are a bit creepy, especially the Captain Featherguy... but they have THE BEST kids music and are somewhat entertaining, even for adults. It's like the Beatles for kids.

Also, I have to mention that I've watched all the shows on the list and a lot of them are bizarre, but you all are looking at them from an adult point of view. The shows in general are well done and very educational and I see nothing wrong with them. Childrens programming has leaped ten-fold in quality from when I was a child. I mean, kids don't see any senseless violence in these kinds of shows. When I was a kid, sure there was Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers... but there was also shows like Bugs Bunny... gee, lets see how many times Elmer Fudd can shoot Daffy in the head with a shotgun at close range.

When you think about it, the stuff most of use grew up with was senseless and violent. Kinda explains a lot of the bush-supporting people these days I guess.

Best Kid's Show on right now is Jojo's Circus. My 17 month old daughter can't get enough of it.

Dora should be higher on the list. My big beef with her is that she YELLS EVERY G*DDAMN THIS SHE SAYS. "HOLA!! SOY DORA!!"

I must add to the support for Backyardigans. The music is very listenable. The animation is quite good, especially the dance choreography. The stories are active and interesting while being completely non-violent.

Writer of TFA is in danger of karmic rebuke for listing Mr. Rogers. Fred be(en) da man.

Where is Hilarios House of Frightenstein? Who can forget the dancing werewolf. Or Puppets that Kill?

ccudmore: Where is Hilarios House of Frightenstein? Who can forget the dancing werewolf. Or Puppets that Kill?

Frack. Between you and maulrat you are screwing up my whole day. I might as well go home for all teh flashbacks.

was it me, or did that witch (The Gristly Gourmet?) look a lot like geddy lee?

stpickrell:
My little brother liked "The Big Comfy Couch" reruns in the late 1990s and I liked watching Loonette the Clown (Alyson Court was over 20 in every episode) doing clock stretches.

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

I loathe Lazytown. towatchoverme is absolutely right...it's borderline pedophilic. It's as if they're always a split-second away from a Stephanie panty shot; like they're teasing the audience. So very wrong. That, and Robbie Rotten looks like Bizarro-world Jim Carrey with Jay Leno's chin grafted onto him.

Finally, Melaine from PBS Kids Sprout needs stabbed in the face (can't find a pic).

Theatre Stephanie is street legal...

Hot Fudge
I think it was a local show in the Detroit area. Brrrr.

SCUBA_Archer
No list is complete with Davey and Goliath. Particularly the episode where he lost his ice skate in the lake.

Spooky - That's the very same episode I saw the other day. Dreadful, I seem to remember.

Alright, while I'm on the God-TV subject, I saw a soul-crushingly awful children's show on one of those channels the other weekend. It showed a cartoon telling of a biblical parable warning of the dangers of lying. It then cut back to the studio where a way-too-nice blonde woman sat talking to two puppets with New York accents.

They discussed the cartoon and its moral for several minutes, her doing the talking and the puppets being the dullest things to appear on television since static. Seriously, there were no wisecracks, no jokes, just a puppet saying "Yeah, uh... I told a lie once... It was bad... I, uh... I forget... I think I said I'd done my homework when I hadn't... Yeah..." This built up to the puppet telling us a rhyme which helped us to remember to always tell the truth. It was something about how angels don't lie and that's how they can fly. It then cut to another puppet pretending to be a DJ.

It hurt to watch.

2006-05-04 10:07:22 AM Nineinchnosehair [TotalFark]

Submitter is waaaaay off on Higglytown Heroes. Any show with a theme by They Might Be Giants (yes, even Malcolm *shudder*) gets at least a limited free pass.

All-time creepiest, hands down, has to be the Outerscope puppets from Vegetable Soup.

ylikone
Childrens programming has leaped ten-fold in quality from when I was a child. I mean, kids don't see any senseless violence in these kinds of shows. When I was a kid, sure there was Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers... but there was also shows like Bugs Bunny... gee, lets see how many times Elmer Fudd can shoot Daffy in the head with a shotgun at close range.

When you think about it, the stuff most of use grew up with was senseless and violent. Kinda explains a lot of the bush-supporting people these days I guess.

With all due respect, you are full of shiat up to your eyeteeth.

I watched the original Looney Tunes cartoons as a kid for hours at a time, and I hate GWB and am not a gun freak. Your over-generalization is insulting.

Those cartoons are amazing. The artwork, the music score, the stories, they are classics. It's a shame they've been so watered down through the years by the whimpyness bridage in the name of political correctness and a hyper-sensitivity to cartoon violence. It disgusts me. I would much rather have my child develop a sense of humor watching Bugs than turn into a babbling moron from watching Teletubbies.

Dora is so god damned loud that the commercials are a aural break. You don't even have to turn it up when my wife vacuums.

I was one that thought I wouldn't expose my kids to these shows, but the Wiggles "Big Red Car" DVD is a 45 minute respute from a whiny 23 month old that is too hard to pass up.

LazyTown is cool, and Backyardigans is good, I don't know about the others. Stop looking at me like that, I have little cousins! I also miss 3-2-1 Contact.

towatchoverme:
Backyardigans: "Uniqua?" Aren't there enough patently absurd, made-up, african-american names out there already? Why encourage the madness?

I hate to break it to you, but all words and names are made-up. Someone made up every name there is. The only reason a name like Shaniqua is absurd to you is because you don't know people who look like you with it. I know people whose parents made up their names and nobody tells them how absurd they are. I also know people from other countries whose names might sound weird to your xenophobic ears but they mean something just the same. So please GFY.

towatchoverme

The truth is even funnier, Steve went to sing Punk.

http://www.steveswebpage.com/

No list is complete with Davey and Goliath. Particularly the episode where he lost his ice skate in the lake.

No, the worst Davy & Goliath is the "Easter Special" where his grandmother DIES!

/had me blubbering uncontrolably for hours after I first saw it way back when.

I'll give the wiggles a pass - took the kids to see the live show, and they actually play live a good bit of the time...

and they played AC/DC, and it almost kinda rocked...a little bit, anyway.

/shoot me now.

zappaisfrank:


With all due respect, you are full of shiat up to your eyeteeth.

I watched the original Looney Tunes cartoons as a kid for hours at a time, and I hate GWB and am not a gun freak. Your over-generalization is insulting.

Those cartoons are amazing. The artwork, the music score, the stories, they are classics. It's a shame they've been so watered down through the years by the whimpyness bridage in the name of political correctness and a hyper-sensitivity to cartoon violence. It disgusts me. I would much rather have my child develop a sense of humor watching Bugs than turn into a babbling moron from watching Teletubbies.


Thanks for the enlightening response, exhibit A. Nobody turns into a babbling moron from watching Teletubbies. Nobody fails to gain a sense of humor from watching these shows. BUT, I assure you that kids did grow up with a sense of apathy when it comes to senseless violence from shows like Bugs Bunny.

But believe what you want. You are part of the problem.

Oh, and I forget to mention, before you call me out for just hating Bugs Bunny... let me say I don't! I actually own a few DVDs of them because I really like them. They are appropriate if you are mature, but not for little kids.

NYMoogle: The only reason a name like Shaniqua is absurd to you is because you don't know people who look like you with it.

Thank you! These are the same people who don't have a problem with the most retarded misspellings of names like Katelynne or Bryttanie or Madisyn or whatever yuppie name they've been told is cool this year.

Hate is the new tolerance!

Tri-State kids will remember Bob McAllister on Wonder-rama! You could win a Ross Apollo Five-speeed!

Dear God, I think I have a female clown fetish...

/Am I the only who finds the Doodlebug clown chick hot?
//And the Big Comfy Couch chick?

Stupid thread. Now my mind is playing a mega mix of "We go up up, turn around...What's gonna work? Teamwork!...Ooma's his sis, he's big, she's small...Here in Higgleytown, we all jump around...Swiper, no swiping! Swiper, no swiping!".

I guess it's better than Novocaine for the Soul invading my headspace like it was yesterday.

And, I will say, nothing is funnier than your 3 year old grabbing Mr. Potato Eyes, putting them between her fingers, and being Oobi.

Dad: Katelin, you and Kaetlyn take Caitlin to play at Qu'atelyn's house, OK?

Katelin: What about Kaytlen?

The doodlebops are racist. Ever notice how they keep an african-american lady in the closet? Only to bring her out to tell a joke or have her sing? Then back in the closet she goes.

/I worry about my son's mental health...

I find this guy a little TOO laid back, if ya know what I'm sayin'.

My vote goes to Dudley, the one functioning arm/ecoterrorist,
dragon.

//"trash...too much muthafarkin' trash..."

towatchoverme

That'll teach you to point out the obvious!!!

Not really creepy but just odd was Hilarious House of Frightenstein. They have been showing it on the DriveIn channel in Canada for the last few months.

Gigglesnort Hotel was easily as weird as any of the top ten and 10x as creepy.

"xalres...come play with us. We're hungry for YOUR SOUL!"


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!

Sweet holy mother of Zombie Jesus, BURN THEM! BURN THEM AND SEND THEM TO HELL!!!!

/rolls up in a fetal ball and weeps

Those cartoons are amazing. The artwork, the music score, the stories, they are classics. It's a shame they've been so watered down through the years by the whimpyness bridage in the name of political correctness and a hyper-sensitivity to cartoon violence. It disgusts me. I would much rather have my child develop a sense of humor watching Bugs than turn into a babbling moron from watching Teletubbies.

I thought that way too, until I showed my 2 year old a few Looney Tunes shorts I have on DVD. And grew increasingly less comfortable. There's endless hitting, smakcing, and punching. Which isn't the end of the world, but not behavior I'm interested in showcasing.

And then they started pulling out guns...

The doodlebops are racist. Ever notice how they keep an african-american lady in the closet? Only to bring her out to tell a joke or have her sing? Then back in the closet she goes.

Dude, they're not racist, they're protecting her from being found.

ylikone
Thanks for the enlightening response, exhibit A. Nobody turns into a babbling moron from watching Teletubbies. Nobody fails to gain a sense of humor from watching these shows. BUT, I assure you that kids did grow up with a sense of apathy when it comes to senseless violence from shows like Bugs Bunny.

But believe what you want. You are part of the problem.

The problem are people who want to santize the world for their children's protection.

I have a four year old, and she loves Bugs, Tom & Jerry, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, many old classic cartoon shows. I have not had any problems with her reacting in a negative way to any of these shows. Why? Because she doesn't just sit there for hours on end starting at the idiot box with no parental involvement. Interestingly enough, even at four years old, she knows that what happens on TV isn't real. How is it that she can grasp this concept and other kids can't?

You come across as a major liberal nanny. Whether that was intentional or not, I'm not sure. I consider myself to be liberal, but it's attitudes like this that make me reluctant to say it out loud for fear of being lumped in with people who think like you do.

Hebalo: I thought that way too, until I showed my 2 year old a few Looney Tunes shorts I have on DVD. And grew increasingly less comfortable. There's endless hitting, smakcing, and punching. Which isn't the end of the world, but not behavior I'm interested in showcasing.

And then they started pulling out guns...

They are a window to a time in which we weren't such pussys.

Actually, I can't beleive I didn't think of THIS before:



CHCH had ambition back then...

ylikone: BUT, I assure you that kids did grow up with a sense of apathy when it comes to senseless violence from shows like Bugs Bunny.

But believe what you want. You are part of the problem.

a) Congratulations on turning a perfectly good thread about childhood trauma into a cartoon violence threadjack

b) Do you have something to back up that baseless assertion, beyond your own hunch? Because it's all the fault of TV and cartoons. Geesh.

ylikone

Oh, and I forget to mention, before you call me out for just hating Bugs Bunny... let me say I don't! I actually own a few DVDs of them because I really like them. They are appropriate if you are mature, but not for little kids.

Hebalo

I thought that way too, until I showed my 2 year old a few Looney Tunes shorts I have on DVD. And grew increasingly less comfortable. There's endless hitting, smakcing, and punching. Which isn't the end of the world, but not behavior I'm interested in showcasing.

And then they started pulling out guns...

Ok, you both have pointed out something I was taking for granted as part of this discussion...

No, for really little kids, they probably are not appropriate.

Yeah, Pufnstuff and all the Kroft shows were exceedingly creepy. The Bugaloos, Lidsville, Land of the Lost and oh that friggin Electrowoman and Dynagirl. The Kroft Brothers screwed us all.

elendilmir and Haruko_Haruhara

Thanks for saying what I wanted to say only doing a better job of it.