Must... kill... Dora!
#21
I'm glad to hear your sister is coming home. That's great news.
Back in the 90's when my kids were that age they had Blues Clues. Steve Burns was the closest my kids had to a Fred Rogers.
My pre-teen son occasionally watches the new Speedracer. I can't stand it. I picked up a DVD of the 60's original when the movie came out a few months ago for him. (The clerk laughed at me when I bought it.) Holly Crap, there's a fatal car crash in the opening credits. Great cartoon. It's like an old Elvis movie.
Back in the 90's when my kids were that age they had Blues Clues. Steve Burns was the closest my kids had to a Fred Rogers.
My pre-teen son occasionally watches the new Speedracer. I can't stand it. I picked up a DVD of the 60's original when the movie came out a few months ago for him. (The clerk laughed at me when I bought it.) Holly Crap, there's a fatal car crash in the opening credits. Great cartoon. It's like an old Elvis movie.
1.) Remakes of pre-90s children's shows NEVER work. Think Ninja Turtles, Transformers (has anyone SEEN that new crap being passed off as Transformers), Loony Toons, etc.
2.) Dora the Explorer:
Fence. River. FREEDOM! Fence. River. FREEDOM! Fence. River. FREEDOM!
That's alls I gots to say about that.
#22
Dora has never tickled my loins. The show is not educational at all nor is it entertaining. I hate the backpack song(cause I used to watch my cousins and they would scream PACKPACK, PACKPACK!) Also, when I was on spring break a few years ago, I turned on nickelodeon to waste time while I was hung over. Dora was on talking about 3 toed sloths. Apparently they make the sound of "EEE, EEE". Folks, the only sounds they make is the rustling of leaves, thud of falling out of said tree, and crunching of bone when a leopard gets them.
Whatever happened to the cartoons that didn't care about anything but entertainment? Gimme some good ol' spoongebob.
Whatever happened to the cartoons that didn't care about anything but entertainment? Gimme some good ol' spoongebob.
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I can almost halfway tolerate the backpack song. The map song, on the other hand, makes me want to get in my car, drive nonstop all the way to the home of Mark Weiner at 102 West Ln. in Stamford Connecticut, go into the house in the early hours of the night, and beat him to death with my ******* crutches while his wife Sandra and their three children look on in horror.
For those of you who don't have small children, the map song goes as follows:
"I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'M THE MAP!" (repeat)
I'm not exaggerating.
Whatever happened to the cartoons that didn't care about anything but entertainment? Gimme some good ol' spoongebob.
I just can't stand the repetitiveness of this Dora stuff.
Unfortunately, I don't think we're quite ready for Schoolhouse Rock just yet, but I'll be keeping that ace up my sleeve. OTOH, since I've been here I have exposed the family to the miracle of bittorrent and the nearly infinite supply of old, forgotten media to which it is a gateway. The idea that you can download something off the computer onto a DVD and watch it on the TV is still settling in with them. They'll fully grasp how it got onto the computer in the first place it about the same time that Grandma gives up and admits that those nice young fellas from Texas actually did go to the moon.
Anyway, thanks to that miracle we've done some Yogi Bear, some Snagglepuss, and a touch of Jetsons. Somehow the old Hanna-Barbara clan just aren't connecting with her. On the plus side, my sister damn near fainted when I handed her a DVD containing last week's episode of Smallville (08x01) which she missed.
"How is this out on DVD so soon?"
"It isn't."
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In this episode, all the characters went bowling. At one point, the main character, Mac, is walking through the alley, and in the background standing at the counter were animated versions of The Dude, Walter, and Donny from The Big Lebowski. The sheer awesomeness of that almost made me fall out of my chair!
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