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MightyMage
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posted September 07, 2007 08:19 AM |
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Well what do you know...
That's what I had to say a few days ago when Nick Jr. premiered it's latest mind warping children's show, Yo Gabba Gabba. Those of you who are unfamiliar with Nick Jr. should know that they are responsible for such children's shows as Blue's Clues, Dora the Explorer, Go Diego Go, and a crap load of others but this new one takes the cake. I'm not going to talk much about that because this thread is here to discuss what is coming in October which I will get to in a moment. As far as Yo Gabba Gabba is concerned, imagine a large pot. Now throw in that pot a few pieces of Seseme Street, PeeWee Herman, Barney, BooBa, and some heroine soaked grapes sprinkled with crack cocaine. It comes on at 10:30 or 11:00 AM so park your kids in front of the TV and enjoy. 
Now, what's coming in October is far more interesting. Anyone here know who Dora the Explorer is? Yes?
If you still don't know then forget it. Leave this thread and go do a google search.
If you are already familiar with the 10 year old Mexican Explorer who wanders forests, mountains, lakes, the north pole, and other places all the while teaching Spanish and dancing with a talking monkey then you will be pleasently suprised at the new spin off.
Meet Kai-lan, the star of Ni Hao, Kai-lan
The idea apparently came up while working on Dora's World adventure. The Chinese character, Mei, was so popular the idea was to base a show around her. However, the producers at Viacom insisted that yet another "Dora knock-off" would fail in the ratings and would most likely be overlooked so the project was pulled and re-worked. Now introducing Kai-lan, the 10 year old Chinese-American ready to go on adventures with Ye Ye (I'm assuming that's her grandfather) and teach Mandaran Chinese to children young and old.
I actually like this idea and no offence intended to our Spanish speaking members (coughPecucough) but I'm am getting sick of the Spanish language. It's everywhere. I want to see something different. Hell, I live in Michigan which borders Canada. You would think the French language (or at least the Canadian version of French) would be pushed but what do we get? SPANISH!
So I welcome Kai-lan. If anything it will be better for kids than that goofy ass Yo Gabba Gabba. (plus maybe I can learn a few words to say to Iris )
...And if any of you are wondering why I know so much about Children's shows, My mother runs a Home Daycare and since I'm still poor and living at home I get the pleasure of seeing these strange things.
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TitaniumAlloy
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posted September 07, 2007 02:45 PM |
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And that's how the cookie crumbles...
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posted September 07, 2007 03:23 PM |
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Blue's Clues, Dora the Explorer, Go Diego Go
these ones sound like gay shows
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Geny
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posted September 07, 2007 03:28 PM |
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And you must be our expert on gay shows.
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posted September 07, 2007 03:59 PM |
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OInly when you'll accompany me Geny. 
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Geny
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What if Elvin was female?
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posted September 07, 2007 04:10 PM |
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Edited by Geny at 16:11, 07 Sep 2007.
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I'm not the one claiming to know how gay shows sound.
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posted September 07, 2007 08:46 PM |
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Edited by Consis at 20:54, 07 Sep 2007.
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Open A Can Of Worms?
I too am well-versed in all things children-related. This includes childrens television shows as well. I am not proud of the fact that I can recite from memory the script lines to almost any Disney movie. I have three children and I have raised them all. I am fully emersed (and versed) in this strange world of entertainment whether I like it or not.
Let's talk about Dora the Explorer. This is my daughter's favorite television show. She is 3 years old and is potty trained. You may wonder why the hell I would include such a detail. My answer, you have no idea how significant an achievment that is. We are talking right up there with world peace and winning the lottery. My scholastic interest lies in the English language. I talk to people about Dora quite a bit actually. It is my opinion that this tv show is targetting children of a very specific audience and age. I believe the purpose of Dora the Explorer is to teach English-speaking U.S.A. children to learn Spanish. This show is targetting children in their early years when their speech is only just beginning to form. It is a well-known scientifically proven fact that children of this age are the most capable of learning to speak different languages. I personally feel very strongly that Dora the Explorer ought to be teaching Spanish-speaking children to speak English, instead of what it's doing.
This new similar Mandarin-Mei tv show is probably attempting to do the exact same thing that Dora does. They probably want to try and teach children of that golden age to speak Mandarin Chinese instead of English. I would see it as yet another attempt to teach American children to speak something other than English. However, in my travels across this country there is nothing that comes even close to the impact and almost dichotomous influence of Spanish.....but not just any Spanish you see. We're talking about the Mexican form of Spanish, which is actually a seperate dialect from the original European Spanish language. If it were the original Spanish then people might not have such a problem with it, but it isn't original Spanish which is pervasive in every corner of this country. It is the same language of our most unstoppable illegal immigrant population. Mandarin Chinese really only has any significant body of orators here with me on parts of the west coast, mostly northwest. And those parts are highly localized. The greatest problem with the Chinese culture is no different from the greatest problem of its language: the high degree to which the people wish to close themselves off from the rest of the world. That language poses no threat what so ever, nor does any other foreign language come anywhere even within the same ballpark of a threat to our native language as with the Mexican version of Spanish. I have spoken with a school teacher of more than 20 years about this very subject. Here is what he says, "Spanish will never be made our second language! It will never happen! But if you don't speak spanish then that cuts you off from 50% of the jobs in this country."
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