#children's shows

[bemusedlybespectacled]

because I sound like an absolute lunatic when I talk about the shows I watched as a kid and have no gauge for what normal children watched (because we didn't have cable and I wasn't allowed to watch most adult shows until I was 13)

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Just because...

[arconinternet]

Stoppit and Tidyup - The Complete Series (Video, 1988)

You can watch this entire charming and bizarre British animated series here.

[princesssarisa]

Reading advice for writers on how and how not to write Jewish characters, and looking back on my '90s childhood, I think there were at least two shows that had pretty good representation.

First of all, Rugrats.

Yes, Tommy Pickles' family is interfaith, and they celebrate Christmas and Easter. But it never comes across as just an excuse to make Tommy "goyische in all but name." His Jewish grandparents are prominent, funny, likable supporting characters. The original show had a Passover special and a Hanukkah special, and more recently, the CGI reboot had a Purim special. Nor, if I remember correctly, does the family practice any Christianity apart from the holidays. Instead of being Christians with just a few token Jewish trappings, this interfaith family is basically Jewish except that they celebrate Christmas and Easter in secular ways. And apparently (though I've only read about it), the sequel series All Grown Up has the 11-year-old Tommy explicitly identify as Jewish, not half-Jewish... as he should, since his mother is the Jewish parent.

Also, coming from an interfaith family myself, I loved the fact that Tommy was "like me." And I love the mere fact that, even within an interfaith context, the show has the protagonist himself be Jewish rather than a supporting character. Especially because the supporting cast includes Chuckie Finster, a red-haired, glasses-wearing, nebbishy, neurotic boy – yet he's not Jewish, while protagonist Tommy, who has none of those traits, is.

Then there was The Puzzle Place, a PBS puppet show that revolved around six friends of different ethnicities, which included a Jewish girl, Jody. I think it did pretty well where she was concerned.

The show's holiday special pointedly averted the "Jewish character celebrates Christmas with their friends because it's fun" trope. Besides teaching her friends about Hanukkah, Jody also made it clear that she didn't celebrate Christmas and didn't want to, and she resisted her Norwegian-American friend Ben's attempts to "help her" join in the Christmas festivities. Another episode, revolving around different kinds of bread in different cultures, took place at Passover and had Jody unable to eat the fry bread that Apache boy Skye brought for everyone to try. A lesser show might have had her break down and have some in the end, but she didn't, she just agreed to try some the next time he brought it. She also explained Passover to the other kids, gave them all matzo to taste, and even sang the hamotzi before they ate it. In another episode, where the theme was "growing up," she told her friends about b'nai mitzvah, and in another, which was about dealing with death, her dad talked about sitting shiva. Yet her Jewishness didn't define her either; other episodes where she was the protagonist dealt with universal issues, like facing a bully or coming to terms with her parents' divorce.

These are things you don't see in every kids' show.

[intothestacks]

Adventures in Librarian-ing

I have been entrusted with a quest by one of the Kindergarten teachers: get some Bluey books for the library, as one of her students is insistent that they NEED Bluey books when they go to the library.

Apparently, they went nearly a month without taking anything because they're so insistent on the need for Bluey books to read.

[eltystuffs]

💛Laa-Laa💛

Laa-Laa is ready to take on the world, one dance at a time 😌 Underneath her tutu, she has a very sparkly belly screen just like her friends! I'm sure you're able to tune in every once and a while to see an interesting broadcast ���‍♀️

She'll be available to purchase by the end of September and will be shown at Friday the Furbteenth from the 13th-*22nd!

[magpiemagica]

COMMON PBS KIDS W!!

Carl the Collector, their new series about a raccoon boy who like to collect things, stars an autistic boy in the lead roll. Alongside that, he also has a fox friend on the spectrum.

Carl's voice actor is also autistic and there are autistic people present every step of the production process.

This is such a win for disability representation in children's programming. Honestly, I'm not surprised. PBS KIDS has always been a strong ally to our community and even the autism episodes from a while ago like in Arthur still hold up pretty well. Their commitment to kindness and respect does not go unnoticed!!

(Long Side Note: This relates to my fear surrounding my fear of Project 2025, a multi year plan created by The Heritage Project of the American GOP/right wing party. This plan is facist in nature (I recommend doing your own research, I am not saying this lightly) and one of its plans would be the abolishment of The Department of Education (Section 3, Part 11, page 319) You know the ones that help fund PBS Kids? This is rationalized by fear of the "inappropriate political indoctrination of our children" with an emphasis on “traditional families” and “rejecting gender ideology and critical race theory”. Critical race theory is the societal discussion of race and ethnicity btw. Same with "gender ideology". I usually don’t get political on my blog because it is supposed to be my happy place. So much shit is happening internationally and nationally right now that I want a place where I can just rant about stuff that's less serious, you know? But I feel like I need to bring this up when talking about PBS.

The United States is a multicultural country. Seeing a diverse group of kids on TV isn't indoctrination and people existing in a way different from you isn't a personal attack. It's just how people exist. Families speak multiple languages. Kids can be raised by a single parent, a mom and dad, or two moms/dads. People are different from each other; they have different physical features, wear different clothes, have different voices, and navigate their lives in different ways. And that is what makes humanity so vast and special. Kids deserve to see people who look like them, act like them, and have backgrounds like them on screen. And people who don’t represent them as well. I don’t like to “stan” companies or organizations. However, PBS Kids is putting in the work to bring comfort and education to children all over the country and I think that's pretty awesome. You can tell by watching these shows the care that was put in and I really hope that PBS Kids is still around by the time I graduate college. I would love to work there. PBS Kids brought me so much joy as a kid, growing up with shows like Super Why, Sid the Science Kid, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Dinosaur Train, and of course, Sesame Street. I hope children today are having that same experience with these shows <3)

[echologname]

Hehe, I put them on a spin cycle 😜

I downloaded the frames for I used to make the GIF from here:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DBEvPmFOrH2/?igsh=dWg4c2FoNWl6c2o3

[paddysnuffles]

Comparing the Avatar live-action actors and their cartoon counterparts (3/?)

Suki

Azula

Mei

Ty Lee

Jet

| Part 1 | Part 2 |

[balthazar-sketti]

"Eureeka's Castle" intro, 1990

[brazilspill]

I love that the villain in the 90's Brazilian children's show Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum was a sleazy realtor who wanted to gentrify the neighbourhood.

And the realtor looked like this:

And his name was Doutor Abobrinha, which literally translates as "Doctor Pumpkin". (In Brazil "abobrinha" is slang for "lie", so it was a name implying he was a liar and not to be trusted.)

[kpop-bbg]

[number1spongebobfan]

Blue the Puppy, Scoop the Digger, and Thomas the Train wish you a happy new year.

[arconinternet]

Li'l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers (Videos, 1997-1998)

The epic serialized French-Australian cartoon. You can watch it all here or on its official YouTube channel YouTube here (playlist accidentally omits episode 4).

This. Show. Has. EVERYTHING. The Australian outback, a supposedly haunted mine, a chemical element controllable by human thoughts, and the apparent secret child of Elvis Presley!

You can read articles about the series here and here.

[beyondchildishness]

If the Justin House Characters had Twitter/X accounts

[sunflowers-and-ice-cream]

I'm looking for a show I used to watch as a kid but don't remember much

I don't remember much of it but the protagonists were some puppets and a guy.

in one episode the guy was exchanging gifts with a girl (I don't remember if it was christmas or a birthday or something but it was probably christmas) and the puppets saw that and wanted to celebrate too. but they didn't know the presents were boxes filled with things so they just made a very beautiful box for their human friend. and later they were sad to discover that they had to put something in it but he loved it anyway.

in another episode I remember for some reason their fruit had colors they weren't supposed to have and the puppets were all very confused by that.

also the scenes I remember were in a beautiful garden/balcony/outside space that belonged to a house I think and it was filled with flowers and plants and stuff and I remember that it looked kinda cluttered and had that magical vibe.

that's all I remember sorry, it's not a lot of information but if someone recognized the show pls tell me the name of it! thanks!! <3