Dumbing Down Children's Programming
Now you can tell I'm really off my rocker... but I think this is a topic worth mentioning.
When I was a wee toddler, I watched good shows... chiefly Sesame Street.
This real-world, well-established in reality television show taught children good stuff they should know, such as:
how to talk
numbers, letters
use your imagination
where ernie is
interpersonal skills
cokies are good to eat
elmo's fish dorothy is smart
The show doesn't use a lot of surreal animation or any hypnotic sounds and images, it is just straightforward, real-world fun, learning basic skills, and meeting freindly, down-to-earth characters. The show has been around since the 60's, and its longevity proves its worth as quality children's programming.
Witness a new arrival on the PBS scene, a curious television show with a childish, immature name, "Booh Bah".
I have some better, more accurately descriptive names for this show; they are too gross to be named here. E-mail or IM me if you'd like to know. This show is a disgrace to quality children's programming; instead of being a fun, real-world show which teaches kids pertinent stuff, it simply mesmerizes them with hypnotic, psychadelic CGI, surreal sounds, and crappy editing. Yes, folks, this is the dumbing down of children's programming. There is little dialogue, just these wobbling hairy boob-like blobs dancing, flying, and making fools out of themselves. Features of the show include children blowing (yes, folks, blowing) while being harassed by the blobs, the blobs flying by expulsion of a gas through their rear end (accompanied by flatulent noises), subliminal pro-homo propaganda, and random people playing nasty tricks on each other. This show, folks, is the dumbing down of childrens programming, designed to distract and mislead from the world rather than to enhance it, or keep the kids occupied while mommy and daddy are in the bedroom not sleeping, to quote a popular sit com (you should be smart enough to figure out which one). Booh Bah, I'll re-iterate, is a distraction, rather than a learning experience. E-mail me if you'd like the protest letter I sent to PBS.
Yes, folks, we need change, so write your local public television station. God speed poncho!
When I was a wee toddler, I watched good shows... chiefly Sesame Street.
This real-world, well-established in reality television show taught children good stuff they should know, such as:
how to talk
numbers, letters
use your imagination
where ernie is
interpersonal skills
cokies are good to eat
elmo's fish dorothy is smart
The show doesn't use a lot of surreal animation or any hypnotic sounds and images, it is just straightforward, real-world fun, learning basic skills, and meeting freindly, down-to-earth characters. The show has been around since the 60's, and its longevity proves its worth as quality children's programming.
Witness a new arrival on the PBS scene, a curious television show with a childish, immature name, "Booh Bah".
I have some better, more accurately descriptive names for this show; they are too gross to be named here. E-mail or IM me if you'd like to know. This show is a disgrace to quality children's programming; instead of being a fun, real-world show which teaches kids pertinent stuff, it simply mesmerizes them with hypnotic, psychadelic CGI, surreal sounds, and crappy editing. Yes, folks, this is the dumbing down of children's programming. There is little dialogue, just these wobbling hairy boob-like blobs dancing, flying, and making fools out of themselves. Features of the show include children blowing (yes, folks, blowing) while being harassed by the blobs, the blobs flying by expulsion of a gas through their rear end (accompanied by flatulent noises), subliminal pro-homo propaganda, and random people playing nasty tricks on each other. This show, folks, is the dumbing down of childrens programming, designed to distract and mislead from the world rather than to enhance it, or keep the kids occupied while mommy and daddy are in the bedroom not sleeping, to quote a popular sit com (you should be smart enough to figure out which one). Booh Bah, I'll re-iterate, is a distraction, rather than a learning experience. E-mail me if you'd like the protest letter I sent to PBS.
Yes, folks, we need change, so write your local public television station. God speed poncho!
posted by Chris at 11:40 AM
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