A few quick facts for you before you read this post: 1. My mom used to do/say the same things so I come by this honestly 2. I used to be smart.
My kids basically watch two genres of shows: PBS and Disney Movies. And so they are in the background when I am trying to get stuff done. While I am half listening to them I find myself thinking about and analyzing them. Things like:
*Professor Wiseman (originally a man in the book series) and the Man with the Yellow Hat are totally seeing each other (special birthday presents, dinner dates, come ON!)
*The Man in the Yellow Hat probably wants to marry her but she's too focused on her career for a real relationship
*That explains why he keeps that dreadful monkey around-it's a surrogate child because he can feel his biological clock ticking.
*And speaking of parents-who the heck are Steve's (or maybe it's Bill-I can't tell them apart?!?) The boy so obviously needs a father figure.
The super-readers just bother me from beginning to end but my pressing question is WHERE ARE THEIR PARENTS? I am all for kids finding out the answer for themselves but honestly. Do we really need 20 minutes of Goldilocks and the Three bears for Whyatt to figure out that he should say sorry to his brother for messing up his room? Common sense anyone?
But their dance moves are awesome
And Arthur....why are some people aardvarks/dogs/monkeys/bunnies/whatever and some people are still humans? What's that about?
And why if Muffy's dad is a used car salesman does everything about them scream "old money?"
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5 comments:
You are hilarious!
Ha ha, I love your "analytical" posts! My kids don't know much about the PBS characters because I can't stand them anymore... but I loved Arthur & Clifford when I was a kid. Disney movies and/or Playhouse Disney are pretty much all my kids know and I analyze those ones! Rachel has discovered Dora thanks to her cousins, but I tried really hard to keep her out of our house!! Oh well, at least those shows give us time to clean the house, right??
Why can Arthur and all the other animal characters talk, but Arthur's dog Pal can not?
Do the servants on Beauty and the Beast have to eat? Do they go to the bathroom? The beast obviously eats, where do they get his food? Who goes out to the market? If he's a Prince, why does the nearest town have no clue about his existence? When the servants became human again, do they find it irritating that they have to eat/drink/go to the bathroom again? If he's been under the enchantment for 10 years, that means he was put under when he was 11, which, I don't think it's very fair to force someone to find their true love in the years from 11-21, maybe 17-27 would be easier. But this all might just be me.
I totally loved this and also Amanda's comments (I've thought the same thing). I felt sorry for the prince, because although he was heartless, he was rather young. And why was he so heartless, anyway? You'd think he'd have had better training, being royalty and all.
This was a great post, Em. (and truth be told, I'm still doing all of this with Olivia and her cartoons. I ask her strange questions about her show, and she looks at me blankly and then starts singing the theme song at the top of her lungs instead of answering me...
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