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grunge-mermaid · 6 months

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#poll #tumblr poll #children’s tv shows #kids tv #kids shows #Mr dressup #polka dot door #today’s special #camp cariboo #the elephant show #skinnamarink tv #Sharon Lois and Bram #big comfy couch #Theodore tugboat #under the umbrella tree #breaker high #incredible story studios #are you afraid of the dark?#bookmice

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taxi-davis · 1 year

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Sharon Lois And Bram: Skinnamarink

#sharon lois and bram #skinnamarink #the elephant show #1970s #70's #retro #vintage #television #old tv #Canada #canadian television #notsalgiacore #kidcore

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djbuffwalrus · 5 months

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Top five writing tropes ✍️

Okay sorry this took 5 business days to answer, I have so many feelings about this that the question had to marinate a little here we GOOO

In-Universe Recordings and Their Various Uses This is my #1 because formally and textually I think it's really useful to show characters reacting to and experiencing their past. Particularly in audio and visual mediums where it can be harder to get a direct view into character thoughts/emotions, a recording becomes memory-by-proxy, and how the story plays with those memories and events shows a lot about the characters. They can also be a way to showcase the hard, immutable nature of reality -- or the opposite, in the case of many horror works. We live in an age of constant recording, and I think interrogating our relationship to the past using recordings is healthy, necessary, and compelling! One show that I think nailed this is @whatwillbehere, and of course the theme is made more explicit in @re-dracula

Characters Who Haunt Through Their Absence A.K.A. Laura Palmer Syndrome, there's something very true to the experience of grief about being constantly reminded of a character being gone. Lake Mungo, The Night House, Lisey's Story, In Strange Woods, Censor, and many many more have pulled this one off beautifully and all of 'em are an inspiration in one way or another.

Narratives Which Begin At The End And Then The End Recontextualizes The Beginning Okay this one is very specific but when it works it's such a gut punch! Form-wise I think the first Hell House LLC movie crushes this concept, but it's the kind of narrative slight-of-hand trick that works wonders across genres. The Elton John biopick (Rocketman) does something similar just using costuming elements and I think it rules, both because it highlights the arcs that have happened but also because it shows how much care and thought have gone into the work, you know?

That Thing In Horror Movies Where They Play An Old Cartoon On The TV And It Reacts To/Interacts With The Scene I feel like this is self-explanatory. Skinnamarink, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Babadook, etc. etc. etc. have done it and I don't care if it's cheesy there's such a menacing otherwordly quality that this brings to horror. What you're going through is being reflected by children's media. You're fucked. I love it.

The Moment You Realize What You've Done, It's Too Late There's a moment in Talk To Me (2022) where your heart just drops into your stomach because the main character has finally made a decision so reprehensible that there's no coming back from it. They're changed. It's the Black Swan moment, Orpheus looking back, Macbeth emerging from the bed chambers bloodied and shaking, it's shame and guilt on an earth-shattering scale, it's inevitable, it could only have happened through choice, your honor it's a good TROPE

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catholickedd · 7 months

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Well in Canada in the 80’s it was called the elephant show. It had 2 chicks and a dude named “Sharon, Lois, and Bram.” And they had like a person in a giant elephant costume. They sang songs and did basic learning and skits and stuff.

In the early 2000’s (I think) they rebranded it as Skinnamarink TV. Same people, updated elephant costume and a blue cat called “cc copycat” who was sarcastic. it was the same style show really.

The show had a weird theme song that went

“Skinnamarink-y dink-y dink

Skinnamarink-y do

I love you..

I love you in the morning and in the afternoon.

I love you in the evening and underneath the moon..”

Lmao

I don’t remember the show as much but my dad and I used to sing the song together.