Anonymous
Post 07/18/2013 06:15     Subject: s/o: What other kids shows do you over-analyze ?
Why did Marc Brown even bother to make Arthur and his friends animals? They do everything people do and never make mention of the fact they are animals! Don't know why this bothers me so much.
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2013 00:46     Subject: s/o: What other kids shows do you over-analyze ?
I thought Lisa and gaspard were bunnies! I also don't like how they're the only 2 animal families in all of Paris. I mean, wouldn't that be weird? Like, how could there be some animals that live among humans and pay rent and go to school, but the other 99.9% of animals are wild?
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2013 00:44     Subject: s/o: What other kids shows do you over-analyze ?
Anonymous wrote:Why is little bear naked? His parents, grandparents, and Emily all wear clothes.


Good question. On a related note, we have a potty training book from when my husband was a toddler. The young elephant graduates from diapers to training pants to underwear. Meanwhile, his parents wear a dress/shirt but no pants or underwear at all. Hmmmm.
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2013 00:08     Subject: s/o: What other kids shows do you over-analyze ?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Another one of my pet peeves: animals having pets. Mickey Mouse is a mouse that talks and wears pants. However, he owns a dog? That barks and has a collar? Either animals can talk, or they can't. There shouldn't be a hierarchy of which animals can own other animals.


Another one with this contradiction is Gaspard & Lisa. G&L are dogs behaving like people in Paris. If all the characters were dogs (or at least other animals), that would make sense -- but lots of other characters (including their classmates at school) are human. And then some of the humans around them have pet dogs, who are leashed and don't speak. WTF??


oh yes! That one disturbs me! In one episode they were getting a puppy.
Why couldn't they just let them be human? This is so weird!
Anonymous
Post 07/18/2013 00:01     Subject: s/o: What other kids shows do you over-analyze ?
Anonymous wrote:Another one of my pet peeves: animals having pets. Mickey Mouse is a mouse that talks and wears pants. However, he owns a dog? That barks and has a collar? Either animals can talk, or they can't. There shouldn't be a hierarchy of which animals can own other animals.

+1
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2013 23:04     Subject: s/o: What other kids shows do you over-analyze ?
Anonymous wrote:Dora the Explorer.

The exhortations to "help her" by pantomiming or shouting something just don't make sense. The puzzles she has to solve in order to progress to the next thing also: MAKES NO SENSE!!!


And where are her parents?!?!
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2013 23:02     Subject: s/o: What other kids shows do you over-analyze ?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Another one of my pet peeves: animals having pets. Mickey Mouse is a mouse that talks and wears pants. However, he owns a dog? That barks and has a collar? Either animals can talk, or they can't. There shouldn't be a hierarchy of which animals can own other animals.


It is not even consistent within the dog species. Pluto is a pet dog who barks etc, but Goofy is a dog who talks wears clothes and drives a car. Very disturbing.


I was listening to something lately-wait wait font tell me podcast I think?-that discussed this, and the answer is that animals who wear clothes can talk and have pets, and animals that don't, can't. So goofy wears clothes, so he can talk and Pluto doesn't so he's Mickey's pet.

The alphabet soup going to Martha's brain really bugs my husband too.


Yes, that was Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist, who checked with Disney (following the demotion of Pluto) who brought this important information to the world. I just love that.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2013 22:32     Subject: s/o: What other kids shows do you over-analyze ?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Noodle and Doodle gives me the creeps. I think all the people on Sprout are just weird. Also Nina from the Good Night Show is anorexic and wants children. Ok, obviously I'm showing I am the weird one here


Can't stand Noodle and Doodle. I can't understand why my kids like watching it. In fact, I don't really like any of the people on Sprout and the Chica show is like nails on a chalkboard to me - it is all so uncreative and creepy. Now, I think Nina from the good night show has been looking kind of chunky lately. I think she is already a mom and think she looks pregnant.


I've thought for a while now that she looked kind of pregnant. Always stays the same though so I don't think she is. How many of those godawful pj sets does she have??
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2013 22:18     Subject: s/o: What other kids shows do you over-analyze ?
Anonymous wrote:Dinosaur Train. The dinosaurs proudly proclaim they're carnivores. But they never acknowledge that the meat they are eating are actually their fellow train riders.

Yes. Dr. Scott the Paleontologist is so concerned about teaching kids about science and nature. There is no way a teranadon (sp?) mother would raise a tyrannosaurus baby, and just say "we're all creatures." Stick with science or don't.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2013 21:04     Subject: s/o: What other kids shows do you over-analyze ?
DJ Lance on Yo Gabba Gabba...are those creatures really there? Are those trippy songs really playing? Or is he just one Day-Glo orange bedecked, acid tripping hippy?
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2013 20:39     Subject: s/o: What other kids shows do you over-analyze ?
We watch Bob the Builder episodes on Netflix/Amazon Prime. I really wonder about Bob and Wendy's relationship. Is it truly platonic? There was one episode where they were camping and they slept in separate tents. They just seem to get along so well and they've worked together for a long time too. No loving at all?!
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2013 20:39     Subject: s/o: What other kids shows do you over-analyze ?
Do WordGirl's parents really know she is WordGirl and they just pretend they don't konw?
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2013 20:22     Subject: s/o: What other kids shows do you over-analyze ?
Anonymous wrote:Dinosaur Train. The dinosaurs proudly proclaim they're carnivores. But they never acknowledge that the meat they are eating are actually their fellow train riders.


Yes!! Too funny.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2013 20:19     Subject: s/o: What other kids shows do you over-analyze ?
Why are there only 9 ppl in all of lazytown?

Why does Tom get to go to treetopolis?

Why does Noddy who seems elementary school age live alone and drive?

Admittedly entertained by most of Sprout.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2013 19:28     Subject: s/o: What other kids shows do you over-analyze ?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Bubble Guppies gets so meta sometimes. Everything they do is as if on land, but it's underwater. But sometimes they do water things, like ride in a boat... under water!!


YES!!!! That bugs me too! Or when they have a wind storm. I'm like, WHAT ARE YOU DOING BUBBLE GUPPIES????


Lol!!! My DH said EXACTLY the same thing last week. How do you spend a day sunning at the beach when you live underwater?