#skinnamarink tv

[allisonreader]

It's funny how big of an impact things we watch as we grow up leave.

Like I just read an article interviewing Alyson (last name not remembered) who played Lunnette the clown on The Big Comfy Couch.

My parents and I still quote things from the show. One line in particular.

"Who made this big mess!?"

Then we give blame to who did. Messy hair day, still referred to the person as Major Bedhead. We'll still even reference Molly the dolly.

The Big Comfy Couch is hardly the only thing that gets referenced.

There are still times when (though my brothers don't really know the show) that we reference Skinnamarink TV with Sharon Lois and Bram. Especially some of their songs. (Skinnamarink-y dinky do- I love you. I love you in the morning and in the afternoon. I love you in the evening and underneath the moon...)

Ants in the Pants is another one that still gets a reference at times and that show had some fun music on it. Songs that I still think about to this day.

I still think about Babar a lot, but we don't necessarily reference it, though I do like to pull out (moonmen never kid) at times. I also still think about Theodore the Tugboat and will go and listen to the theme song at times.

And of course there are the classics like Little Bear, Franklin, Arthur and others, but they're not ones that necessarily actually get directly referenced. Though I'm sure that there are many shows that I'm missing.

Anyways that's just my little musing on kid shows.

[taxi-davis]

Sharon Lois And Bram: Skinnamarink

[djbuffwalrus]

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

[catholickedd]

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.

I accidentally added this video of my cat and tumblr won’t let me remove it so here you go i guess

But I’ve heard of that song!! My dad used to sing it to me too. Never heard of the show though

[daddyd0nt]

Okay but the decline in the quality of art aimed at children is appalling. The 90s were full of fun, educational shows with a mix of media (live action, puppets, animation, etc) and good morals. They had conflict in their plotlines and well-rounded characters like in Little Bear, Franklin, Allegra's Window, Skinnamarink TV, I could spend all day naming fun innovative artistic shows I watched in preschool. Even shows for very small children like Teletubbies had a visual budget. Cocomelon is the worst thing to happen to children's media since Dan Schneider, its practically anti-art, its the cheapest ugliest animation mixed with public domain nursery rhymes. Zero creativity went into its creation. It exists not as art, but as a way to farm clicks from ipad babies while expending the absolute minimum effort. It is getting kids used to soulless "art" like AI generates and that genuinely scares me for the future of our culture as an artist myself.

between tiktok and youtube slop, kids these days are subjected to possibly one of the worst media diets in the history of mankind. unlike me who was raised on the same 10 commercials for corn syrup products cycling between variety shows, as nature intended

[daddyd0nt]

[citrusella-flugpucker]

I was a CN hoe, I aint got time for the preschool network crap. I'm 12 years old and my mom let me stay home from school, I'm watching the good shit

((EXCUSE YOU PBJ OTTER AND OUT OF THE BOX (AND MADELINE) WERE FANTASTIC

AND RUGRATS AND WILD THORNBERRYS AND DOUBLE DARE 2000

also catdog but looking back i can’t figure out why))

[ollieofthebeholder]

To address a few things I've seen in the tags/notes already:

These shows air or aired on the PBS Kids network and these shows air or aired on the PBS Kids block on the regular PBS channel; if they aren't on those lists, they aren't included, which is why I didn't have Out of the Box (or The Elephant Show/Skinnamarink TV, or Under the Umbrella Tree, or Eureka's Castle, or a lot of other shows I loved as a small child and still adore today).

Cyberchase was the absolute latest one on this list, and tbf I probably shouldn't have included it because its premier date (2002) was significantly later than the next one on the list (The Magic School Bus, 1994). I actually thought that was the one I had taken off my list for the "OP you forgot my favorite" option, but apparently not.

No, Arthur is not on this list, and that's for a reason. I was trying to give love to some of the less talked-about shows, the ones that didn't run as long. Arthur had a 25-year run before it finally ended last year; other than Cyberchase, which we've already established is an outlier adn should not have been counted, none of the ones on this list ran for more than five. It's in the same category as Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Sesame Street.

I am absolutely not sorry for making you choose only one of these options. I didn't want to choose either. The only reason I did is because even the person who creates the polls can't see the results without voting until the poll concludes.

If you are one of the people who voted for Pappyland, I'm gonna need you to be my best friend effective immediately, because I am SO tired of getting weird looks from people when I bring it up.

Just saw a "What was your favorite PBS Kids show" poll but only one of them was old enough that I actually remembered it sO

Please note that this poll does NOT contain the Big Three PBS Kids Shows: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Sesame Street, or Bill Nye the Science Guy. It also does not include Barney & Friends or Teletubbies. This is deliberate on my part. (I may make a separate poll for them later.)

[effyisms]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH0yQx2e93M)

I loved Skinnamarink TV as kid and this gave chills. RIP Lois,you’ll be missed.

[lyzaeverhalcyon]

“I love you in the morning and in the afternoon, I love you in the evening, underneath the moon. Skinnamarinky dinky dinky skinnarinky doo! I love you!”

RIP Lois Lilienstein 1936-2015 Actress, Musician, UNICEF Spokesperson, 1/3 of Sharon, Lois & Bram 

[songperdiem]

Skinnamarink

Skinnamarink

Skinna marink skinnamarink marink skin na skinna Skinnamarink TV.

[verolynne]

So how was my first week at the new job? A lot of childhood memories!

[ishipzalldathings]

25 Years of Skinnamarink! - TV INTERVIEW

This is amazing <3 how i miss quality children programming.

[kidsinthe90s]