Children's TV

[TheN3rdyOutcast]

Because I live with 3 kids under the age of 10, I am forced to partake in children's shows on a regular basis. Is it me, or have children's shows gotten more ADHD than when I/we were kids. I grew up on Barney, Sesame Street and Blue's Clues.

It seems like today's kid's TV is specifically designed to be fast paced, hyperactive, and overly colorful. It's annoying. Even worse is that every character has an annoyingly obvious catchphrase, everything is a fucking song...

Has anyone else noticed this?

[Typhlosion]

Ooh the song cartoons, how I hated them :lol:

I don't exactly see your point here, there have, most of the time, been cartoons for most kinds of children. I'm sure that Barney had singing. Wasn't Looney Tunes somewhat hyperactive full of catchphrases and clichés? Blues Clues was overly colorful too.

I think it's just a matter of where you're looking for cartoons - there's probably some channel that shows older ones, maybe PBS? Like Brother Bear (the feels!), Rupert, Adventures of Tintin? If you want less hyperactivity I guess Discovery Kids or Nick Jr. has something to offer (Clifford (them feels again), Maggie and the Beast, Oswald). Too colorful? Put some Disney classics!

If you're raising them, you could always burn a DVD/plug your USB into a smart TV/use a motherfucking VHS (I still have 'em) and show your cousins what you want them to be seeing.

Final note: Man, as a kid I loved Battlebots, Pokémon, Disney classics and Silly Symphonies, Hanna Barbera, Nickelodeon oldies like Arnold, CatDog, Rugrats, and ChalkZone, and some of CN's older stuff like Dexter, Powerpuff girls, Jhonny Bravo... Okay I'll stop the list here :lol:

[CosmicNoodle]

Children's TV is insulting to the intelligence of children, yesterday I saw this:

"Can you see the sheep on this picture?"

Fair enough. A challenge to test the ability of a child to find a small object in a cpolorful, confusing, cluttered environment. Helping to develop there cognatove ability, at least on some basic level.
I was wrong, the picture was a plane blue background, with a sheep that took up 90% of the image.

Children's TV should help educate children on topics, introduce thongs such as sexuality and other social issues a a young age, but no, at its current state, its simply designed to turn there brains to mush and keep them glued to a television set, so not to annoy parents who are too busy to actually deal with a child.

That's a small summery of my thoughts on children's TV, feel free to throw rocks at me. But in my opinion, children's TV is being done all wrong.

[Karkat]

Kids tv used to be FAMILY tv. They would throw in jokes and references only mom and dad would get sometimes, but that just doesn't happen anymore, because instead of being an activity that's used sparingly, it's now just a distraction so your kids don't bother you while you partake in your busy life...That doesn't involve them...

[James Dean]

Speaking of Sesame street, all the new episodes have characters doing parodies of popular songs and it gets kinda annoying and innapropriate after awhile, when you think about what the meaning of the original song was. Then do a cover kid friendly version. Smh. That's kind of pushing it, and I guess they think adults don't watch so they won't complain.

[JamesSuperBoy]

I guess its just the trend then these are popular so they make more.

Its maybe even easier to write songs than have some kind of meaningful dialogue etc.

[CharlieHorse]

try MLP it's decent

[Typhlosion]

try MLP it's decent

It still has the flashy colours and the singing OP's opposing, though.

But, yeah, I guess it's decent.

[ComfortableInChaos]

The problem with children's TV (especially compared with when I was a kid and watching it) is how many adult jokes are in it and they use adult language. I was watching Adventure Time on Netflix to see what it was about and they were talking about getting pissed off and they were squeezing their nipples and squirting out coffee on The Regular Show... I mean, I noticed the adult jokes on Spongebob but they don't even show the good episodes anymore so...

I think the shows today are awful. I miss the old ones like Catdog, Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Rugrats, Kim Possible... They all had that charm that the shows today just don't have.

[Dying Ember]

Yeah, they're definitely getting more annoying.

[CrazyPerson101]

Yeah I've noticed that, I've also noticed that cartoons are being "dumbed down", they just don't make cartoons like they used to anymore, they're all different and keep changing and it's getting lazier. take a look at Idk the Bernstein Bears and then look at Phineas and Ferb .... nuff said.

[Babiole]

I miss the old days of slice-of-life cartoons and stuff that I could relate to. Now it seems like cartoons are getting too random and crazy. There's only a few modern cartoons I like.

I do like MLP, but I'm only a casual fan and I don't tell people about it because they assume that I'm a brony because of it (it's not among my favorites). It's seriously got the worst fandom in the world (behind Hetalia and Sonic the Hedgehog).

As for the shows I hate...The cartoon I probably hate the most right now is Breadwinners. Seriously, the animation is hideous, the character designs are even worse, and there's too much juvenile humor. The Problem Solverz also annoyed me because the colors were so freakin' flashy. Not to mention SpongeBob has really gone downhill - the humor is getting too gross and mean-spirited and most of the characters are becoming unlikable (especially SpongeBob, Patrick, and Mr. Krabs - you know something's wrong when SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs are way bigger drama queens than Pearl). And don't even get me started on Fanboy and Chum Chum.

[DeadEyes]

Annoying the SHIT out of me (but fortunately don't have to put with it anymore).