I seem to be getting a lot of hits lately but not many comments. I figure they can’t ALL be from the semi-pornographic swimsuit shots. So I’m asking folks to delurk! If you’ve been coming by, give me a shout out and (hopefully) a URL and I’ll stop by to see you, too.
And for those who regularly comment (I love you guys) it’s VENTING DAY! Go ahead and get anything you want off your chest. We all need a moment once in a while to bitch. I’ll start off the festivities by listing a few of my most favorite-to-hate children cartoons that I am forced to listen to for the love of my child. OK, some of them I just flat out banned, but the rat bastards still occasionally sneak their way in. (Nothin’ like being house-bound a few days to remind one how irritating these cartoons can be.)
Dora the Explorer – I just don’t like you. (Though I can tolerate you as June in the Little Einsteins.) And stop shouting! Makes my ears bleed.
Go Diego Go – So. On. Drugs! He and his cousin are just too hyper.
The Doodlebops – Banned. At one point, since Chance likes music so much I decided to give them a try. THANK GOD, he didn’t get sucked into them right away because I can’t stand these people. (Except for Moe, of course, he’s cool.) Dee Dee Doodle makes me hurl.
Johnny and the Sprites – Whenever I watch this show I can hear Simon Cowell’s critiques of "stage camp" and "godawful cruise show" in my head.
The Wiggles – Banned. I can’t even begin. OK, I can… people keep talking about how cute they are… WHAT?!
Barney – Banned, of course. It’s just idiotic. And I really object to it on the principles of poetic meter As in, they don’t seem to understand the concept and I don’t need them teaching my kid to butcher rhythm. I mean, when you can’t even follow the basic meter of a nursery rhyme that you’ve co-opted you’re pretty fucking lame. My God! You can’t even track with "Mary Had A Little Lamb"?! What’s wrong with you people? (Yes, I can get worked up about this. Yes, I am a poetry snob.)
Teletubbies – Unfortunately, Chance, like a lot of kids, is mesmerized by the Teletubbies. Aaaaaand I…. occasionally… let him watch it. Especially when I have a work deadline. I know, I know! I don’t think it makes me a bad mommy so much, as just a reprehensible human being. But don’t worry, I do hate myself.
So what’s been bugging you? – wg
Oobi – banned. Take a class on grammar before you call yourself educational. Jerks.
Camp Lazlo – I can’t even begin to verbalize how much this show grates on my nerves. My nieces watch it, and I am determined that it will NEVER be seen at my house.
i know we are supposed to be venting, but it’s a nice day out so i have a tip for you. any chance you LOVED the muppets growing up? well i did and as goofy as it is, i asked & received for the season 1 of the muppet show DVD set for xmas last year(for myself). steven jr(2) wanted nothing to do with it last year but wow, 2 is seeming to be happy with it! and he requests KERMIT and the puppet show daily. so if you are sick of the crap out there… maybe a puppet show with fozzie ???
Muppets rock!
I’d heard some adults say that BooBah was good to watch when you’re hungover, and … uh, I wasn’t high ….
We are on a steady diet of Muppet movies in our house. My daughter found them on our movie shelf a few months ago, before we really let her watch TV. She has only ever shown interest in our Muppet DVDs and now she grabs one off the shelf any time we are near the TV. If we don’t help her out she will open them and put them in the DVD player herself, which is not quite yet a good thing.
Just today I heard “Piggy, piggy, piggy, piggy, piggy, piggy, piggy, piggy, piggy” over and over again until we put in The Muppets take Manhattan.
Oh, and “Hi”! I’m de-lurking.
I’ll second the recommendations for The Muppets. It makes my heart happy to hear my little man request Kermit.
These people are not venting. Let me help.
Little Bear and Franklin – Banned for being pussies.
I so have to disagree with Sarah. Little Bear and Franklin are my favorites.
And my gosh, what is wrong with the Tele Tubbies? Think alternative families people!!
Thank you Sarah!
Yeah, I don’t like Camp Lazlo either. In fact, I don’t like many of the shows where the cartoons are “ugly”. (I know, I’m such a drawing bigot.) Have you seen Squidbillies (on Adult Swim)? I can’t EVEN begin to get past the horrible graphics.
LOVE Muppets! We have a few of their movies and I have some of the shows on video (need to be transferred to DVD). I tried those with Chance when he was younger and it was a no go. About time to pull those out again! I’m actually kind of hoping that Yo Gabba Gabba show will be more like the Muppets. I heard that they’re supposed to have celebrity guests like the Muppet Show did. I mean, yeah some of the characters look like dancing sex toys but the beats are pretty good. (Or at least, major earworms.)
Um, Godmother… you and I will discuss the Teletubbies later (and don’t try the “gay” argument, that’s not the issue I have!). And I have to go with Sarah on Franklin and Little Bear… I don’t hate them but they’re definitely the “sensitive” kids. Like the ones my son can’t play with because he’s too rough.
We can discuss this over “tea” (whimp) and espresso (ha!) in my room with the big old flat screen and french doors (while I’m watching “sensitive cartoons”). Ahahahaa
Awhile back, my husband was rearranging some furniture and moved the toybox downstairs. To appease the child who didn’t understand that we weren’t throwing out his toys but were moving his entire playroom so he’d have more room, my husband turned on Boomerang and old school Tom and Jerry was on followed by old Scooby Doo. We’ve been stuck on them for the last couple months now.
I have to say, I think those Tom & Jerry creators knew what they were doing when they created a cartoon of nothing but slapstick with very little talking and a classical score in the background. I find it hard to get annoyed with a cartoon when all it is is Bach, Beethoven and Mozart playing in constant crescendos and decrescendos and it’s what I grew up watching.
Vent: I’m really bored at my job. It’s making me restless and disgruntled (and also regretful about not writing for a living – AGAIN!) and I’ve stagnated waiting for the promotion I’ve been promised while the person working that job decides to retire or not. I’ve been waiting 2 years. I know it’s not a vent along the lines of Dora (and thank God mine never got into that!) but it’s still been bugging me.
Andrea, all venting is welcome! I’ve been there on the job front.
Ooooo, WG you don’t know what you’re getting yourself into!
You want some venting? I got some venting for you!
I have 10 days ’til my due date and am so ready to have this little girl make her appearance. (and the first person to tell me to ‘just wait’ til my due date has come and gone with no baby in sight WILL DIE)
The skin on my belly hurts. My ribs hurt. My hips hurt. It hurts when she kicks because she is so stinking strong! I AM TIRED OF BEING SO FRICKIN BIG AND UNCOMFORTABLE.
And I won’t even start on work (yes, I am STILL working)…you’ll thank me for that.
I am so with you on Dora, Deigo, and Barney… I can not stand those shoes. I do not know what it is about them but they just make me skeeve.
Sarah hit the nail on the head. I can actually feel my testicles crawl up into my body when I hear the Little Bear theme.
I only Tivo the kids’ shows I can stand so that I don’t have to put up with the horrible ones. Me and husband both love Between the Lions and Charlie and Lola more than the kid does!
Momma Em, you are allowed to vent as much as you want! I felt that way from about seven months on. Good luck!
Chag, you just made Keen laugh out loud.
Tiffany and Tracy, welcome!
I know, I know: I lurk. It’s just that I am a hyperactive spazoid blogger/blogreader and rarely finish reading an entire post before the phone rings, or they want me to actually work at work, or the baby screeches because she’s not attached to the boobs and she’s too big to nurse at the keyboard anymore.
Ack. So I delurk.
And for rantiness, let me just say: Thank the Gods Emsy doesn’t watch cartoons yet. And Bu, (hubby) if you don’t stop spending 678,945 hours in SecondLife every day I’m going to teach the baby to pee on our modem. Seriously.
The Wiggles cute? Who are these people!!!!!?????
I’m with you on the Doodlebops. I’m seriously just waiting for them to break out some glow sticks and a DJ like some old 90s rave. Seriously.
De-lurking! I have a blog, but I’m keeping it private at this point for just close friends and family.
Our Banned Shows: Barney, Oobi, and 64 Zoo Lane because I cannot stand the repetitive hypnotic theme song that gets stuck in your head for days (“64-64-64-zoo-lane!” Xs infinity)
Current Favorites: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Curious George (and, I actually don’t mind Dora and Diego. I get sucked in like watching a car wreck.)
Thanks to everyone who delurked and to all the regulars as well! I’m making the rounds, slowly but I’ll get there. (Anyone else dealing with the terrible twos? So much fun!)
Delurking to say hi!
Ooh, so with you on the Wiggles. To be avoided at all costs. Oh, love your post on the Summer Smackdown. It’s getting crazy out there!
came over from mom-101 & MD- so, not really de-lurking, just saying hi. our kid is officially 2 now, and while parts of two are awesome, i’m not all about the consistent meltdown over things that i was stupid enough to give her *one.effing.time* (fries? cake for her bday?)
vent: we love curious george and sesame street, great idea for muppets on dvd (loved them as a kid!) but i swear i friggin hate the big comfy couch. like, the inane commentary that comes out of those idiots mouths is enough to make me want to drop kick that b*tch clown across the room. sigh. it’s a bad day when i don’t turn sesame street off right away and that damn first few bars of BCC come on. grr. we don’t have cable and thank god have no access to horrors like the wiggles and dora. praise jesus.
Dude, The Transformers in French make me want to scream and run away. THE VIOLENCE! THE STUPIDITY! THE BARELY LITERATE DRAWING AND LIP SYNCHING of the characters voices.
I cannot, for THE LIFE OF ME, figure out WHY they made an actual movie. ARGGH!
I find the Wiggles to be rather creepy and scary. I just don’t get the attraction there.