#children’s shows

[kiwisandpearls]

I love it when discussions about how we should be consuming things other than kids media suddenly derail into making fun and judging people for consuming media that’s for a younger age demographic that’s so cool so fun so amazing so

[demonicsparkles]

The amount of nostalgia this gave me 😍

[finlaure13]

‘Mr. Dressup: The Magic Of Make-Believe’: A Canadian Children’s Entertainment Icon Takes Centre Stage In Documentary Trailer

By COREY ATAD. Published: 7 Sep 2023 2:54 PM

“Keep your crayons sharp.”

On Thursday, Prime Video debuted the trailer for the new Canadian Amazon Original documentary, “Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe”.

The film looks back on the story and legacy of Ernie Coombs, the iconic children’s entertainer best known to Canadians as Mr. Dressup.

Featuring interviews with Michael J. Fox, Eric McCormack, Graham Greene, the Barenaked Ladies, Jonathan Torrens, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Andrew Phung, Bruce McCulloch, Scott Thompson, Bif Naked, Peter Mansbridge and Yannick Bisson, the doc explores the impact “Mr. Dressup” had on generations of Canadians.

As seen in the trailer, the film also looks back on Coombs’ beginnings in children’s television with fellow icon Fred Rogers, and their strong friendship.

“Ernie never forgot a child within him, and that informs everything that he does with children,” Rogers says in a clip from an archival interview.

Born in the U.S., it was Rogers who convinced Coombs to come up to Canada to work with him, producing TV shows for kids.

Coombs would launch “Mr. Dressup” in 1967. The show was immediately successful, though there was a scare soon after, when “Sesame Street” premiered and some wondered wether the Canadian show would be able to stay afloat amid the American competition.

But Coombs persevered, and the show continued airing until its final episode in 1996.

Coombs became a Canadian citizen in 1994, and in he was named a Member of the Order of Canada.

“Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe” premieres Oct. 10 on Prime Video.

[mo-mode]

Percy seeing an old satyr that is a completely different race than his best friend and saying with his whole chest “Man, Grover got really old” is the FUNNIEST FUCKING THING IN THIS EPISODE FIGHT ME I AM RIGHT

[evitachristine]

While the looks part is relative, I have to say, kids shows definitely portray the victims as more similar to real life bullies while bullies to real life victims.

I remember it always being like:

This is our main character! X is nice and kind and everyone likes them and has a lot of friends!

(Apart from nice and kind, it is basically the description of a typical bully)

And this is the villain, who doesn’t like our main character, is mean, no one likes him and has zero friends!

(Apart from being mean, which depends, this is basically a description of an ostracised victim of bullying)

I remember watching SO MANY kids shows that had this kind of trope.

One of the most recent examples of this is literally Miraculous Ladybug. Marinette is being picked on by Chloe, but Chloe has like one friend and no one likes her while Marinette is basically friends with the whole class.

If this was a real life situation, I’d say Marinette would be the bully. OR she would stay the victim, but wouldn’t have that many friends, while Chloe would be actually popular.

The bullies are popular and get along with a lot of people, because they 1) can have psychopatic or narcissistic tendencies which charm people 2) people are friends with them to avoid being their next victim.

While I understand why the creators are building their shows like this - the main character needs to be both relatable and also someone kids can aspire to be, and even victims can relate to them - this trope can also be damaging. Kids don’t see what the bullies are doing, they see the pattern that happens in their class - thus, the outcast with little to no friends is the “villain”.

I can easily imagine a little girl who’s being bullied being told “you’ll be Chloe because no one likes you” in a game, or as a pick on.

I’ve probably got fans of ML raging against me now.

On TV, bullies are usually physically unattractive, counter culture, intellectually impaired, or mentally ill. The victims are usually the main characters, who are normal in every way and are who the average person finds relatable.

In real life, it's often the opposite. The bullies are usually normal people who the average person finds relatable, and the victims are usually physically unattractive, counter culture, intellectually impaired, or mentally ill.

If a TV show portrayed bullying accurately, it would be considered "woke garbage".

[brucie-baby]

the fact that alfred was the one to put up jason's memorial is so important to me

[vanessagillings]

Since the show's been announced, here's my piece for Gallery Nucleus' Over the Garden Wall Tribute show, opening in LA November 2nd!

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

[nightbirdz]

It’s a bit unrealistic how Toph never made any counterfeit coins once she learned to metalbend

[demonio-fleurs]

To me, what is so fantastic about One Piece Fan Letter is the emphasis on the way the Straw Hats have created these connections in the lives of people they have never met. The ending scene, with all the hands putting together the puzzle pieces, and the way that all these connections came together in one dazzling way-- I loved that. I teared up at that. Wherever the Straw Hats go, they leave behind all of these puzzle pieces for people to put together and create bonds that would not have existed had the Straw Hats not shown up!

And it also just... Makes me so in love with the concept of the world after Luffy becomes King of The Pirates. I know that Oda has the final chapter planned in his head, and I doubt we will really see the long lasting effects of Luffy achieving the title of Pirate King + his dream, and I really do not want a sequel series ala Boruto or Yasahime, but.... I want to see a world in which children believe they can become a Brave Warrior of the Sea thanks to Usopp, I want to see more children look at Nami and realize they don't NEED to have a Devil Fruit or Haki or muscles to have adventures. I want to see the next generation of the One Piece world believe so strongly in their dreams, that they set out to accomplish them.

One Piece Fan Letter really opened the door, I think, for more and more stories about the "regular" people in the world of One Piece, the people you don't see in the arcs because they're the nondescript background characters, and how the Straw Hat Crew has changed them. And I want that. To me, that is fantastic.

[btoon-alba]

Wally not knowing how to hug vs Julie loving giving hugs 🫂

This is not ship art Btw, they are just cute

[91vaults]

the most annoying trope when I was a kid in almost ALL the media was the “smart” kid would just stuff every sentence with “big” words as a shorthand for intelligence and the normal charachters would just be like “huh??” No you can’t trick me cartoon i know exactly what that character is saying and trust me i’m not that smart I just have a decent vocabulary. And like that’s not even how “smart” people talk, they know where to use certain words for emphasis or they will say “complicated” words im. wry specific contexts (like medical or technical jargon) they don’t stuff their sentences to sound as complicated as possible

[animusrox]

[90's Sitcoms]

[crippledanarchy]

When you call "influencers" what they are, freelance marketers, it makes the phrase "mommy/family influencer" sound just as dark as it is in reality.

They are using their children to sell you things. Some of these people intentionally have children solely in order to use them as marketing devices.

They aren't harmless or wholesome. They are expanding and normalizing new and different forms of familial abuse to a worldwide audience

[mo-mode]

The Biblically Accurate Trio in TLT

[lenbryant]

Mr. Rogers fights racism.

In 1969, when Black Americans were prevented from swimming alongside whites, Mr. Rogers decided to invite officer Clemmons to join him and cool his feet in a pool, breaking a well known color barrier. Mr. Rogers breaking Color Barriers💙🖤💙🖤.