First watch this video
When I was a kid this was one of my favorite shows and I stilled remembered it enough to find a video clip. But after watching it again, I realize how creepy and weird it is. First off, the characters are hard to describe, I don't think you can even call those costumes, it's just so bizarre. They look some what rubbery and have hints of human characteristics that make them even more uninviting. Also the video clip is only part on of the episode and already started off a little scary for a little kid to watch, which is what age the series was aimed for. The first couple minutes show the grandmother telling a scary story about the baby's 2nd birthday and how he was going to be a terrible two. The scene gets dark and in the background there are flashes of lightning, the standard setting when a scary story is being told. It's kind of ridiculous but I would think that a little kid would be scared. Also, there's a part where the baby is using a sling shot and shooting a bottle at the TV, laughing like a physco and then breaking the TV. Aren't kids shows supposed to set some kind of an example? All I'm getting from this show is that it's okay for kids to be selfish on their birthdays, yell for presents, break things, and chase after their family with a car if they don't get their way. Not exactly a good example to be set for children.
But then again, I have seen worse kids shows, ones that should never be shown to children.
Watch this
Why was this show ever made?! Yes it was banned, and for good reason. Once again the characters are creepy looking. Clay-Animation it kind of cool, but these characters are disproportionate and always have a scared expression. Also this whole episode deals with adult themes. An angel named Satan does not seem like a good character for a children's show, the voice makes it extremely weird. The show also displays the "angel" smoking, which I'm sure you wouldn't want your children watching. The show goes on to describe humans as worthless and greedy,and then shows natural disasters killing the clay humans.
Then there is a monster thing who tries to stab one of the characters. All of these scenes and events in the show are apparently the thoughts of Mark Twain. This kind of show with lost children suffering from bad events caused by the thoughts of Mark Twain would make no sense to a child watching the show. It would just scar them for life.
Children's shows are supposed to be happy and positive and teach kids lessons. Not scare and confuse them. I remember the good old days when kids watched Rugrats, and Clifford and even Sesame Street. Now that's all changed and the only Rugrats I see is All Grown Up, which isn't even close to as good, Clifford isn't even played anymore and Sesame Street characters were changed to be healthy. Cookie Monster is now veggie monster and teaching kids is more exaggerated and obvious. The shows that teach children are annoying and only aimed at really young kids who can't vocalize how obnoxious the show is. Shows like Dora, just to name one, repeat the same words over and over and try to interact with the children watching them, but to me it just seems like the creators are trying to hard. There's not a lot of different plots for different episodes to keep children interested and they are all pretty much the same: Dora has to get somewhere but needs help from her map. It all gets to be pretty repetitive and boring.
I miss the good kids shows. To be honest I would probably still watch Rugrats if it still aired. It was one of the best kids shows in my opinion and never got boring. Every episode was a new adventure. Not to mention, it didn't force healthy habits on you or make you talk to the TV.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Awkwardness
The 98 PXY white party at the dome was on Sunday night, and it was... awkward. Maybe it was just me but I didn't realize what it was going to be like. So I walk in with my jeans and white hoodie (since it was only like 30 degrees out) and realized that the whole night was going to be awkward.
The party was aimed for ages 13 to 19 I think and I've never been more annoyed in my life. There were so many girls walking around in tank tops and short-shorts and the skimpiest clothes they could possibly have. I don't know how their parents even let them out of the house. To me at like 13 or 14 you shouldn't be dressing like that and grinding with random guys you don't know. It's disgusting and if it were my kid i would probably kill them.
I'm about to sound like an old lady, but kids these days seem to be growing up faster. I remember when i was younger I was wearing clothes with cartoon characters on them and wasn't worried so much about how I look. But now girls seem to be buying the designer brand clothes sooner and obsessing over boys at like 9 years old. It just kind of bothers me that kids don't get to enjoy their childhood for as long and at a young age they start worrying about looking good for and impressing other people.
Back to feeling awkward... if I knew what the party was going to actually be like, I would have dressed way different. I think I was like the only one dressed in jeans and a hoodie. Not to mention me and my friends were like the oldest people there. There ended up being more of the younger group and we really didn't know any of the people except for a few. Over all, I was a little disappointed with the night, but what can you do.
I'm jumping around a lot, but still on the topic of growing up to fast, have you ever seen the show Toddlers and Tiaras? It's actually very interesting but at the same time I find it ridiculous. If you don't know what it's about, it's a show on beauty pageants for little girls as young as an infant but the key stars of the show are usually 5 years or older. I find it hard to believe that a little girl would one day randomly want to be in beauty pageants, the parents must have forced the kids to do it at one point. I find it kind of sad that young girls are already being told to always look pretty and are held up to unrealistic expectations. The girls on the show at their young age are already getting spray tans, wearing more makeup then most people I know, getting their hair done, and spending hundreds of dollars on an outfit for a pageant. I don't understand why the parents are okay with spending all this money for their kids to be told that they are not good enough to win a pageant or to just win a trophy. Also if a girl wins a lot of pageants she might turn out overly confident and a girl who can't win any might have self-esteem problems later on in life. I just think the whole thing is a bad idea and i wouldn't want my kid to be apart of something like that. It doesn't celebrate being unique and the winners of the pageants usually have the same specific look that caused them to win.
This little girl looks scary! She looks like a china doll and it's just not realistic. Little girls aren't supposed to look like this and their parents are spending a lot of money to make their kid look fake and creepy. Also in the show, one of the girls was crying and really upset because she didn't want to get spray tanned and the mother pretty much forced her to. Another girl had just gotten her hair done and she was spinning around and playing like a little girl should and the mother or coach or whatever started yelling at her and told her she wasn't aloud to move until her performance because it would mess up her hair. If the kids decided they wanted to do it on their own, that would be a different story. But they should never be forced to do something like a beauty pageant. They should get the chance to enjoy being young and be able to be treated like a normal kid instead of constantly having people judge them or always having people in their face with makeup and fake nails.
The party was aimed for ages 13 to 19 I think and I've never been more annoyed in my life. There were so many girls walking around in tank tops and short-shorts and the skimpiest clothes they could possibly have. I don't know how their parents even let them out of the house. To me at like 13 or 14 you shouldn't be dressing like that and grinding with random guys you don't know. It's disgusting and if it were my kid i would probably kill them.
I'm about to sound like an old lady, but kids these days seem to be growing up faster. I remember when i was younger I was wearing clothes with cartoon characters on them and wasn't worried so much about how I look. But now girls seem to be buying the designer brand clothes sooner and obsessing over boys at like 9 years old. It just kind of bothers me that kids don't get to enjoy their childhood for as long and at a young age they start worrying about looking good for and impressing other people.
Back to feeling awkward... if I knew what the party was going to actually be like, I would have dressed way different. I think I was like the only one dressed in jeans and a hoodie. Not to mention me and my friends were like the oldest people there. There ended up being more of the younger group and we really didn't know any of the people except for a few. Over all, I was a little disappointed with the night, but what can you do.
I'm jumping around a lot, but still on the topic of growing up to fast, have you ever seen the show Toddlers and Tiaras? It's actually very interesting but at the same time I find it ridiculous. If you don't know what it's about, it's a show on beauty pageants for little girls as young as an infant but the key stars of the show are usually 5 years or older. I find it hard to believe that a little girl would one day randomly want to be in beauty pageants, the parents must have forced the kids to do it at one point. I find it kind of sad that young girls are already being told to always look pretty and are held up to unrealistic expectations. The girls on the show at their young age are already getting spray tans, wearing more makeup then most people I know, getting their hair done, and spending hundreds of dollars on an outfit for a pageant. I don't understand why the parents are okay with spending all this money for their kids to be told that they are not good enough to win a pageant or to just win a trophy. Also if a girl wins a lot of pageants she might turn out overly confident and a girl who can't win any might have self-esteem problems later on in life. I just think the whole thing is a bad idea and i wouldn't want my kid to be apart of something like that. It doesn't celebrate being unique and the winners of the pageants usually have the same specific look that caused them to win.
This little girl looks scary! She looks like a china doll and it's just not realistic. Little girls aren't supposed to look like this and their parents are spending a lot of money to make their kid look fake and creepy. Also in the show, one of the girls was crying and really upset because she didn't want to get spray tanned and the mother pretty much forced her to. Another girl had just gotten her hair done and she was spinning around and playing like a little girl should and the mother or coach or whatever started yelling at her and told her she wasn't aloud to move until her performance because it would mess up her hair. If the kids decided they wanted to do it on their own, that would be a different story. But they should never be forced to do something like a beauty pageant. They should get the chance to enjoy being young and be able to be treated like a normal kid instead of constantly having people judge them or always having people in their face with makeup and fake nails.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Introduction
I had nothing to really blog about so I'm just gonna go with this: random things my friends do. Most people probably wont find this funny because a lot are inside jokes, but I'm always laughing at stupid, funny, and embarressing things my firends do or say.
Since each post has to have a certain length, I will also be writing about any thing and everything. New movies I've seen, music, funny clips, books, and concerts/events that might be happening.
Lets start off with this... I've finally seen Paranormal Activity, even though it came out forever ago and no one really cares any more. To be honest I found it very funny. Everyone said it was so scary and realistic (one of my friends even cried) and Aloma just told me she couldn't sleep because of it, but I just found it different. It's not like the average horror movie with the creepy music playing in the background and things constantly jumping out at you. One of the few scary parts was when Micha was thrown into the camera but other then that I only jumped one other time and it was because my friend hit me and yelled to try and scare me.
The part where Katie was crawling over her boyfriend did remind me of the Exorcist. The Exorcist is probably the scariest movie I've seen and I think the original is supposed to be even worse. But really, the way she went down the stairs on her back is not normal. People are not supposed to move that way and I couldn't look at stairs for months without seeing that picture in my mind.
Since I'm on the topic of horror movies, I will just continue. The first horror movie I ever saw was the ring. That was the worst experience of my life. I wasn't even able to watch the whole movie and ended up hiding my face with a pillow and crying. For a long time after that I was scared of the bathroom because of the thing with water and the well and stuff, so basically I made someone stay upstairs whenever I took a shower. After that I stayed away from horror movies... until my friends dad made me watch one at a birthday party. We watched Christine, if you've never heard of it, it's just about a possessed car that took control of the schools nerd and turned him into something like a badass emo kid. Then the car was after some boy who stole the emo kids girlfriend and it was just completely unrealistic and weird, but caused me to get addicted to scary movies.
A lot of people think that horror movies are all the same and really dumb, but I love them. They're entertaining and a lot of fun to watch with a group of friends, especially when you sit around laughing and making fun of them. My DVR is usually filled with movies everytime a marathon comes on and I love it when around Halloween time they play movies constantly.
So I really didn't have much to write that's related to random things my friends do so I probably should have named my blog something else. Next time I will try to remember a funny thing that someone said or put one of my favorite YouTube clips up.
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