Today there was an article on the news about a kids TV programme called the Ooglies. It portrays animated food 'characters' interacting with each other.A mum had complained about a particular episode in which a finger of toast soldier wielded a non animated butter knife to decapitate an animated egg character
The BBC have defended the programme and twitter is split down the middle.
I was minding six yr olds a while ago when a prog came on called the 'annoying orange' which is an American series of the same ilk. I was quite put out to watch the fruit and veg in that , are shown stabbing each other in 'the eye', it shows presumably the kitchen owners knife coming down and sawing across the fruit with 'appropriate gunge oozing out, whilst the fruit screams and resists ....and so on . I switched off because I thought it was highly unsuitable and desensitizing somehow.
Whatever happened to Muffin the Mule , Andy Pandy and Bill and Ben !! Far more suitable in my opinion. I cringe to think of litte toddlers watching the likes of the above ,with their brothers and sisters. Somehow these fruits and veg that have human eyes and teeth and voices etc make it just not the same as Tom and Jerry and other animated characters bashing each other.
My younger son, at the age of 4 was told by his older brother of 6, he would turn into the incredible hulk if he ate his peas and green beans.
I never managed to get a green vegetable past his lips ,ever again, even though he didn't remember the reason why he wouldn't eat them.
One of the children who killed little Jamie Bulger had watched his mother chop up chickens from a tender age.
All these things go towards twisting the thought process, and the more gentle programmes the children watch, the more beneficial they are, in my thoughts. It teaches them how to care and share, rather than to be angry, bully and intimidate. Some of those children's tv programmes are pretty disgusting for the age groups, and everything they view teaches them something.
If you teach a dog to bite, it will bite because they can't reason. Neither can children 'reason' before a certain age..
I've got to agree with Venice and Granny I think the tv for toddlers which I watch now with my two year old is terrible, apart from Peppa Pig ,that's ok. I think it's a generation thing and to the younger ones we're considered outdated. Got to agree watch with mother and Andy Pandy ragtag and bobtail much much better. I've also noticed a lot of the progs for little ones all American and Canadian accents. Bring back some good old as you say Granny gentle to...
Ha yeah she can be. It's funny now every Time we see a pic or a toy of Peppa ,I say whose that and he shouts Peppa and includes the grunt. Hope he grows out of that, lol...
Did you all watch to the end of the annoying orange though ? Cant believe anyone would think its good viewing for tots to see something appearing to have its brains pulled out and looking scared whilst its friend stands by watching with also a scared look on its face. Its just unecessary gruesomeness.Its like prog makers are pushing the limits on trying to make horror films for little ones.
The Orange thing is purile and banal crap ! The worst of what gets washed up on these shores from the other side of the pond. Not the slightest bit funny or entertaining. If idiots are sitting their young offspring down in front of this utter bilge, then Heaven help us all ! Sometimes, I really DO despair.
After about 3 minutes of it I lost the will to live. Pass the sickbag............
That was a load of rubbish,I'm glad my kids are older sat through enough kids programmes when they were small.My youngest daughter was scared of big cook little cook,she couldn't understand how the small one was small,hard to explain he was normal size it was camera work.
Back in the 70's "Rainbow" might have shown something like Zippy with a rubber arrow stuck to his forhead after an errant shot by Bungle. All kinds of slapstick comedy back then, even for kids, which was fine.
Back in the 70's "Rainbow" might have shown something like Zippy with a rubber arrow stuck to his forhead after an errant shot by Bungle. All kinds of slapstick comedy back then, even for kids, which was fine.
Double entrendes galore in Rainbow, in hindsight. Who remembers 'Master Bates' from Captain Pugwash?? I certainly did not realise any inappropriateness / connotation as a child in the late 70s/ early 80s.
Likewise, I see no 'ISIS style beheadings' of a cartooned egg by a butter knife. Just what it is?? Boiled eggs get their tops cut off. Maybe the Ooglies could have portrayed the egg getting the top of its 'head' bashed in by a spoon, instead? Would that be considered a-kin to 'extreme violence'??
With saying that I watched a documentary a while ago, screened on R.T. It was about how (mainly) boys are de-sensitised to violence and aggression- one bit I remember is how Action Man Dolls today are portrayed as big, grossly dis-proportionate muscly looking articles as opposed to 70s Action Man dolls that were basically (Barbies) Ken dolls with moveable eyes!! Video games etc came into the equation too. Trying to find the link......
That 'Annoying Orange' was just wrong, on so many levels. I would not sit through THAT with my grandaughter and I very much doubt that her parents would either!!!
Master Mates and a Pirate Willy, characters like Seaman Staines, Roger the Cabin Boy and Master Bates just did not exist on board the Black Pig pirate ship.
as for kids copying tv shows, how many of us old guys ran around in our coat with the top button done playing batman or doing the crane kick from karate kid on your mate or playing as The A team.
You can see why the Americans are such a bellicose country, and why their citizens are so trigger-happy. Being brought up on this sort of stuff, it is not surprising they end up with such a distorted view of the world.
When we think about how many peadophiles have been connected to the BBC, this gives a whole new meaning to Rainbow. Was it produced before everyone had double meanings for everything or afterwards ?
No. It was meant as a little in-joke and shown to friends of the people who worked on the show. The interesting thing is, Rainbow was actually made by the same people who made the Carry On movies, which explains a lot about the sense of humor. lol
I'd guess this episode was put together for the "Happy Christmas VT" tape that used to be put together unofficially and behind the scenes every year.
The tape preceded the "blooper" or out-take films that are quite common these days, whenever a presenter made a mistake during a recording they often used to say "happy Christmas VT" knowing the VT (video tape) department would add it to their collection.
The tape usually came with some pornography added on the end.