Bare Bear
TV rots the brain. I never thought I'd say that given how much tv I used to watch but then I would never have thought that the channel that is on most in this house is Nick Jr. A fantastic channel for a toddler which has helped her to count, sing and edutain her but for anyone who has reached voting age it drfinitely rots your brain. Or at least it feels like that when you have seen the same episodes of thesame programs so many times even you can start to speak along with the characters.
To stem the rot whenever i am watching a programme with my daughter I have to look beyond what would be obvious to her and think about some subtext in the show. Something the writers are outting in that would go beyond what a two year old would think. Or maybe I'm just imaging that. probably but at least it helps when it is repeat number 23. Though even that has become annoying.
An example is Little Bear Stories. On the surface a nice cute cartoon starring a cute little bear and all his animal friends. No violence just stories of imagination and friendship. Unless of course you look deeper. The most obvious thing is that little bear is naked in every single episode. Okay so he is a bear. And bears have fur. Yet he lives in a house with Mother Bear and Father Bear who are both dressed all the time like characters out of Little House On The Prairie (God I hated that show). All his relatives that come to visit are wearing clothes. All the pictures of his parents as little bears themselves show them wearing clothes. So why is he never wearing clothes? For some bizarre reason that drives me potty every time i see that show.
Plus the fact that every single animal in it, no matter what it is, can speak and talk and think just like us. Which makes me think that either every character in the show is a vegetarian or there is some very dark scenes we don't get to see. They had a duck talking about giving Little Bear chicken soup one time which is almost cannibilism. And just imagine Mother bear going out to get some eggs and the hens screaming 'Don't take my babies, you monster!' If you think the things through that actually appear in kids cartoons they are potentially the most violent things on TV. Forget the Sopranos, ban Little Bear stories.
Or maybe I just think too much about these things. Probably.