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fictionadventurer · 10 months ago

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Guide to PBS Kids writers:

This is an early episode of a quality animated show and is one of the most hysterical things I've ever seen on children's television = Joe Fallon

This is an early episode of a quality animated show and is very funny = Ken Scarborough

This episode has strong, vivid and realistic female characters = Kathy Waugh

This is an episode of an animated show that has undergone a notable quality drop where the characters get lessons preached at them and seem to exist only in a very narrow urban upper-middle-class worldview = Peter K. Hirsch

This is an episode of that show that has undergone a notable quality drop but the characters are believable and I'm actually laughing at several really good jokes = Ken Scarborough

#arthur #curious george #adventures in babysitting #curious george came on and the niece was living for it #and i think i was having more fun than she was #it was the donut episode #which i'd seen snippets of before but apparently not the whole thing #it was a riot!#george accidentally orders a thousand donuts and solves the problem by just eating the last zero #he wonders how he's gonna solve the problem of the hundred boxes and he just #takes one box of donuts and books it!#and gets chased down the street by a crowd of cheerful donut-bearing bakers #and then i see the next ep is credited to joe fallon so i look up who could have written the donut one #sure enough it was joe!#it's amazing how reliable this is #and this came after experiencing several surprisingly funny late episodes with ken's name attached #and as for pete #i've got rants about that man's worldview #i don't think he's stepped outside a city in his life #under his reign we get an episode about a little free library #on the renkins farm #i repeat #a little free library posted ON A DIRT ROAD!#you could not have made a DUMBER choice for such an episode #half of the show is set in a city!#it would have made sense there!#you've even established there's a largish country town nearby at this point in the show #that would at least make more sense #but this is downright boneheaded

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