Since I have a young child I’m fairly well versed in all the shows on PBS. We don’t have cable or satellite because #1 I’m cheap and don’t see the value and #2 we are trying to save money and pay off debt so we can breed.
I let Emma watch no more than an hour of TV every day (not counting the movies we watch together) in the mornings after she’s gotten ready for school.
I’m pretty cool with MOST of the programs on PBS except for one program which I can’t stand. Its called Caillou and its fucking BAD. I LOATHE IT! The main character is a little boy who clearly needs… I don’t know what he needs but I can’t stand him. I’ve worked in daycares, volunteered with kids of all ages, babysat and I’ve never met a kid like that. It’s like the creators took every annoying quality a child can have and multiplied it by TEN. And his voice…..Shudder…. I mean, I don’t think the kids parents even like him very much. One of the few episodes I ever watched Caillou’s mom took him to work for the morning. Lunchtime came and then his dad came to get him. She couldn’t even handle a full day with him. I bet she was whispering into the phone “Come and get him! He’s so fucking annoying my coworkers are going to throw him down the elevator shaft!” (But kudo’s to whomever had the dad be a SAHD, that totally rocks!)
I don’t know if I have a point other than the fact that Ya, PBS, BARNEY is better than CAILLOU! FUCKING BARNEY!
#1 by Jeri on November 5, 2009 - 11:19 am
I DESPISE Caillou. He’s horrible! We don’t watch it here lest it turn me against children in general.
#2 by nothingwitty on November 5, 2009 - 2:51 pm
Well I swear by ALL THAT IS HOLY that the voice belongs to an adult, trying to sound like a child. If they got an actual child to do the voice it would be not QUITE as torturous…