You like ships. You don't seem to be looking at the destinations. What you care about is the ships, and mine's the nicest.

Kaylee ,'Serenity'


Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


DavidS - Aug 17, 2010 7:43:41 am PDT #18377 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Doesn't she also feel that way about Billy, of Billy & Mandy (as well as Grim)?

Exactly. I had the same problem with the dad on Jimmy Neutron, a show that I thankfully no longer have to watch.

They lie and are constantly disrespectful.

I'm trying to think of kid shows that have respectful kids. I guess iCarly because she does respect and like her big brother.

But the lying is pretty much endemic to the genre as narratively the kids need to dissemble to do the things they aren't supposed to do. I think it's related to the Dead Mom syndrome in kid lit. A properly functioning family inhibits too many narrative possibilities.

OTOH, it makes me appreciate The Mighty B! more since it's a show that features girls who aren't interested in boys, are driven by accomplishing new things, have smart likable adult characters (who aren't boring and generic) and is still very funny. Go Amy Poehler!


Jesse - Aug 17, 2010 7:45:06 am PDT #18378 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I know! That was the movie, right?

Oh, is that right? I had literally no idea.


§ ita § - Aug 17, 2010 7:45:12 am PDT #18379 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That was the movie, right?

It was also referred to in the pilot, I think.

???

Yeah, the whole Arizona thing probably doesn't matter to them, I guess. Never mind, oh, any of the other immigration-related foofurrah.


Jessica - Aug 17, 2010 7:51:34 am PDT #18380 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'm trying to think of kid shows that have respectful kids.

Dinosaur Train! But that's aimed at a much younger demographic. Tween shows pretty much have to have clueless parents and kids getting away with shit, I think.


tommyrot - Aug 17, 2010 7:55:37 am PDT #18381 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

38 Photoshop Disasters

I think my fave is the black woman with the white belly.


Tom Scola - Aug 17, 2010 7:56:12 am PDT #18382 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I'm trying to think of kid shows that have respectful kids.

Avatar: The Last Airbender


Steph L. - Aug 17, 2010 7:58:01 am PDT #18383 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

OTOH, it makes me appreciate The Mighty B! more since it's a show that features girls who aren't interested in boys, are driven by accomplishing new things, have smart likable adult characters (who aren't boring and generic) and is still very funny. Go Amy Poehler!

I gotta watch that. Chatty!co-worker keeps talking it up. Plus it has Mod Wolves!

They continue to be full of crap.

Yeah, I don't get these:

Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.

Uh, no they aren't. I mean, date-wise, they COULD be, but no, they aren't.

A purple dinosaur has always supplanted Barney Google and Barney Fife.

1. Who the hell is Barney Google?

2. I think college freshman are more likely to associate the name with Barney from the Simpsons.

Bud Selig has always been the Commissioner of Major League Baseball.

Boo, hiss! t /Cincinnatian


Tom Scola - Aug 17, 2010 8:00:48 am PDT #18384 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, originally Barney Google, is a long-running American comic strip, created June 17, 1919 by Billy DeBeck


lisah - Aug 17, 2010 8:03:19 am PDT #18385 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

The Mod wolves are from the Mighty Boosh which is not a kids show. Also doesn't really have any smart adults...it is pretty awesome though!


Steph L. - Aug 17, 2010 8:04:41 am PDT #18386 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

The Mod wolves are from the Mighty Boosh which is not a kids show.

Wait, "Mighty B" isn't just hip slang for "Mighty Boosh?"

Why would there be 2 shows with such similar names? Silly teeveeland.