Kids Shows Suck Today

[Klarinette]

Kim Possible, anyone? Grrrrr.

I think a lot of the content of the shows reflects the shortening attention span of today's youth. There are some that are based around learning (Dora the annoying Explorer, for example), but for the most part... it's like they're just on for the sake of killing time and keeping your kids out of the way while you make dinner or something.

I miss Sesame Street.

The main point of cartoons are to be entertaining. Like I mentioned on an above post, people have different tastes, so lets not get into much about that.

Cartoons aiming at kids (specifically children above five years-old) know that kids have more interests today than they did ten years ago. Y'know, video games? The reason it seems for killing time is that computers, cell phones, and video games are occupying their time. I mean Kids Shows are competing with video games and computers for children interest, so the educational value of the program goes down as their fun and interesting value goes up.

(Here's an interesting point about Dora the Explorer: It is for extremely young children who needs things repeated at them to hold their attention. To be exact, children around three years-old; it is a niche show like that. Unlike other Kids Shows, it is not trying to appeal to a larger demographic. No older kids or preteens. Heck, most children six and up are sick of it.)

Your opinion of the matter is actually the fact of the matter. Today Kids Shows, and by kids I mean over five years-old, are more aimed for senseless entertainment (like most video games, hmm) than actual intellectual pursuit. Odd right?

That's... kind of a downer, actually. *shrug* Oh well. I'll just take solace in the fact that I actually learned stuff while watching TV as a kid. I really miss Sesame Street now.

And as for Dora, I'm all for teaching little kids different languages and I don't mind the repetition, but does she have to yell? I mean, really. Indoor voice.

 

[senorcromas]

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The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack exists. Your argument is invalid.

I once spent an entire friggin' day just watching this show.

His complaints are Six Hundred Times MORE valid because of that damn show!

OT: Digimon was the perfect kids Anime, and Medabots probably was as well. I don't remember it too well, or last night. Who's house is this anyway?

Calumon: I was on TV! Then Jack told me to get off it.

Them's fightin' words!

also, I thought Digimon was lame.

Spoiler: Ahem

Calumon: I'll fight you! Put 'em up!

Must... resist... urge... to troll...

GRAH!
I WILL KICK YOUR NIPPLES OFF, CALUMON!

 

[mjc0961]

That might have something to do with the fact that you're not a kid any more and when you combine that with taking off your nostalgia glasses, stuff is going to be pretty lame.

This. Kid shows always sucked. They seemed better when we were kids because we were kids.

 

[_Janny_]

I remember there being a gerbil song. But I can't remember the words. >.<

Unless you were being sarcastic:

It's Doc Gerbil's world, it's Doc Gerbil's world, it's Doc Gerbil's world...

The incredibly infectious song is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am3i4tzURGY

 

[jamesworkshop]

Anyone else notice this? I remember when I still watched kids shows, and they actually tried to teach kids stuff. What was cool was that these shows still appeal to me now, because they were designed to be shown to both kids and their parents, who would get little adult jokes thrown in.

But now, now kids shows just suck! I find that a lot of them are an insult to intelligence. They seem to not realize that kids can be smart. So you have absolute shit shows like Animal Mechanicals, or the show with the retarded talking dog doing utter bullshit that has no relevance or morals to speak of.

Anyone here remember Arthur? The show with the anthropomorphic animal children? Yeah, it was great back when I was a kid. But now, the newer episodes are just pathetic. I can't find anything appealing about this whatsoever.

Why do kids shows suck?

its because they were not "kid shows" they were family shows as in to be watched by different age groups.
Animanics did it better than anyone.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

I was serious on the not funny part, but everything else was a joke. Maybe I should be more careful of what I type.

If that's your only problem, well, your millage may vary. I found (and still find) Bill Nye to be very entertaining, if not laugh out loud funny. If you're interested in "do it at home" science and maybe a little education, you could do a lot worse than Bill Nye.

 

[ottenni]

All i have to say is Super Hero Squad. Best hidden adult jokes i have ever seen in a kids show.

That and Cat Dog. I miss Cat Dog.

 

[x_the_eliminator]

you know what's a good show, Venture Bros. let's just have our kids watch that. There, now we're all happy.

 

[faceless chick]

i think me still watching cartoons has kept me in the loop longer.
i have to say thanks to cartoon network for showing the old cartoons on tv while i was a kid, and watching things in chronological order- the 1st mickey mouse b&w cartoons on tv, then the disney movies, then old hanna barbera cartoons, then the newer cartoon cartoons and the 90s ones, then 90s-00 anime.

it kind of gave me the feeling of the animation "flow" and i formed a less biased opinion about these cartoons.

yes, i tend to find cartoons these days kind of moronic, though i'm not cutting the old ones any slack either.
some were indeed terrible and sometimes i asked myself why i even liked them (like captain planet), while some were obvious rip-offs i let slide when i was a kid (biker mice from mars, anyone?)

anyway, i do understand why kids these days like what they see,kids like EVERYTHING that's on tv. what upsets me is that they don't show the old cartoons anymore.
kids have no actual selection of cartoons to watch from and choose a serious favorite.

it's like letting your child listen to only 3 songs all his life then ask him to say which song is the best out of 3000 picks, 2997 of which he's never heard of.

 

[Hazy]

That might have something to do with the fact that you're not a kid any more and when you combine that with taking off your nostalgia glasses, stuff is going to be pretty lame.

You'd be surprised, take Animaniacs. I never watched it as a kid, I didn't even know about it, so there's no possibly way I could be nostalgic about it. When I watched it recently, I loved it, I absolutely loved it.

I think the reasons they were better in the old days were that they were aimed at adults as much as kids, and they weren't clearly being run by committee over what's 'acceptable' for the tykes.

Completely and utterly this.

Take another one, Courage the Cowardly Dog:
You could never, ever, EVER show this today.

The mixture of pedophilia/psychotic undertones today would make parents break out in a cold sweat.

Back in the 90's? They showed this shit all the time.

pedophillia? i thought it had more of a beastiality feel since he did mostly animals.

I always interpreted the very petite and innocent look of Fred's lover to symbolize the youthful innocence of a child, and in turn, to that of a pedophile's love of a minor.

But to each their own.

 

[vento 231]

I don't like how they are censoring everything know, the cookie monster can't eat as much cookies anymore because of the child obesity, Yosemite Sam can't shoot guns, Speedy Gonzales is a "stereo type" I want good cartoons back on!
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ej1mn2CyaOYV9M:http://www.pixelbath.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/cookie-monster-wtf.jpg

 

[Dapper Ninja]

Hey! Guess what? Kids shows have always sucked. Why? Because they're made for kids. If kids like them, who the hell are you to say they shouldn't because shows were better 'back in the day' when you would watch X-Men. As someone who was obsessed with feeling nostalgic for several years, I went back and watched pretty much every show I loved as a kid. And you know what? They were all fucking. Terrible. The 90s did not have really good cartoons just because you grew up then.

Honestly, Kids Shows also sucked when we were young. We just didn't realize.

Batman says you're wrong. Who are you to disagree with the Goddamn Batman?

the line has to be drawn when we have the cookie monster becoming the vegimonster....its a crime against childhood.

...No. I refuse to believe this. No. No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no NO! You are lying! Lying! No matter how stupid moral guardians are, they could not have possibly decided to do... that to Cookie Monster. It's... just...

Spoiler: Just...

 

[Broken Orange]

I think that kids shows these days suck because we are not kids. The ones that don't suck are family shows (i.e. animaniacs).

 

[CrashBang]

As a child growing up in the early 90s I spent my days watching Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, VR Troopers, Beetleborgs and, slightly later, Spongebob Squarepants, Fairly Odd Parents, Pokemon and Digimon (I still watch Spongebob and Pokemon to this day and I turn 20 in 3 weeks)
I feel so sorry for the kids of today who missed out on all those amaaaazing shows

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Anyone else notice this? I remember when I still watched kids shows, and they actually tried to teach kids stuff. What was cool was that these shows still appeal to me now, because they were designed to be shown to both kids and their parents, who would get little adult jokes thrown in.

But now, now kids shows just suck! I find that a lot of them are an insult to intelligence. They seem to not realize that kids can be smart. So you have absolute shit shows like Animal Mechanicals, or the show with the retarded talking dog doing utter bullshit that has no relevance or morals to speak of.

Anyone here remember Arthur? The show with the anthropomorphic animal children? Yeah, it was great back when I was a kid. But now, the newer episodes are just pathetic. I can't find anything appealing about this whatsoever.

Why do kids shows suck?

I wouldn't bash Animal Mechanicals, it's pretty big in Canada (but yes compared to kid shows of the 90s it does suck) we had Popular Mechanics for kids!

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Did anyone here watch Thomas the Tank Engine as a kid? Remember that show, how awesome the trains were? How cool it was with all the little miniature electric trains running around on awesome sets?

That was 90's Thomas.

This is the abomination it has become.

CGI ruins it completely.

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! OH GOD! TURN IT OFF!

...(Cough) Anyway... Kids shows, and just about anything "made for kids" (with the exception of Pixar films) is that they don't even try, they just throw a bunch of colorful shiny things on screen with content that is so politially correct and safe it makes me want to puke. In the 90's, the old Looney Tunes, and other similar stuff could entertain the adult and child viewer while insulting the intellegence of neither. Don't believe me? Youtube Animainacs, you won't believe what they got away with/what content you didn't catch on to when you were a child.

 

[Piorn]

I don't know about your countries, but some time ago, they banned Teletubbies in germany, because little kids started to talk weird.

And it's true, nowadays, no show seems to have any educational value. Children aren't young humans anymore, they are just little larvae that need to be protected because the universe revolves around them.
/sarcasm