Kids shows you won’t let them have on

[james6546]

I’ve got an 18 month old toddler and am already curating a list of stuff he isn’t allowed to watch (usually because they enrage me). It is virtually all I get to watch most of the time, they could at least make it easier for adults (like bluey, I love bluey).

I’ve got:

- Bing: he just whines all the time, and don’t even get me started on Pando, the little prick.
- Vida the vet: I just can’t stand her cutesy cutesy voice and all I can do is picture an adult voice actor doing it.
- Fireman Sam: the really badly animated one, it’s frankly terrifying.
- Peter rabbit: every episode is the same and the animation is shocking. Don’t get me started on the oversinging in the music.
- Yakee Da: I don’t even need to explain this one (with a whizz pop bang).

There are probably more on my list, but these are the ones I either turn off or leave the room. My wife doesn’t like peppa pig, but I think it can be funny at times.

Any others?

[Some Gump]

Totally agreed on bing.
Moral takehome for the kids: whine like a tt until others help you out.

I'll volunteer mike the knight.
Gist if every story: mike acts like a.lazy / selfish / spoilt little arse, then downs tools. His mates bail him out, everyone praises mike.


Others can go die in a fire purely because they're annoying - like night garden / anything with that mr tumble chap in.

[Jordie Barretts sock]

The answer is obviously the box set of Camberwick Green, Chigley and Trumpton. Followed by Mary Mungo and Midge.

[stinkyspanner]

Bing and that pathetic pedo enabler that's always hanging around him.
Fireman Sam, Norman is an idiot

[essayer]

In Bing, what happens to all these animal-children when they grow up? No sign of them. Concerning.

[Hub]

Blippi - American Timmy Mallet on acid whose vocabulary mainly just consists of "whoa"

Pretty much anything on YouTube - left to their own devices they will gravitate towards all sorts of home made rubbish

stinkyspanner said:

Bing and that pathetic pedo enabler that's always hanging around him.

Flop - yeah, he's a flop parent. So soft - "oh dear, you pissed your pants because you didn't go to the loo when you needed to,oh nevermind". "You stole from the shop? Oh nevermind it wasn't your fault" etc

[Radec]

In the night garden.
Random weirdness galore.

A blimp with a tit on the front and a runaway train.

Upsy Daisy who goes everywhere with her bed and lifts her skirt up with a cord pull, you got Iggle Piggle with his blanket always kissing her and ready to have his way.

Most of the other characters are just as weird with daft names that do random st.

Yakka Dee actually helped my kid with his speech so will let that slide.

Edited by Radec on Thursday 21st March 13:16

[james6546]

essayer said:

In Bing, what happens to all these animal-children when they grow up? No sign of them. Concerning.

Maybe that’s another series where Bing hits puberty and melts into a brown sack.

[Big Pants]

Horrid Henry.

It's the best part of twenty years now, but I swear our then 6 and 4 year olds saw him as a role model.

Behaviour improved immensely once Henry was banished from the watchlist.

Noisy ginger tt.

[Jamescrs]

I'm a little bit out of this now as my youngest is almost 7 but In the night garden was the worst for me, the little family of characters made out of old wooden pegs or similar used to drive me mad, couldn't stand it hen they were on.

[dundarach]

Mine are 12 and 14 now, however

I still watch Peppa Pig, it's awesome!

Fireman Sam annoyed me as it's always friggin Naughty Norman!

However I really miss, Miss Hoolie

[AC43]

My kids are late teens now but both were mesmerised by Teletubbies and In the Night Garden - as was I at times.

It was Dora The Explorer that had me throwing bricks at the TV. The most shrieking high-pitched nasal over-exited American voiceover known to man. fking unberable. I could last about 3 seconds of it.

[lufbramatt]

james6546 said:

essayer said:

In Bing, what happens to all these animal-children when they grow up? No sign of them. Concerning.

Maybe that’s another series where Bing hits puberty and melts into a brown sack.

I think the Bing children are being raised in a Under the Dome/Truman Show/Matrix type environment and when they reach a certain age their organs are harvested. The "parents" are androids designed to give them enough of a believable reality so that their bodies don't shut down, like in the Matrix.

in the night garden - I'm convinced this is the hallucinations/fever dreams of the blue guy in the boat as he dies of dehydration. The characters are all people from his life (the big ones are his wife/parents etc and the little ones are less important people).

Was never a fan of the series that were obviously designed as vehicles to sell merchandise- Paw Patrol, the new Fireman Sam with the dire animation, new Thomas the Tank Engine with 2d animation etc.

Used to like Ben and Hollies little Kingdom. Like peppa pig but better storylines and some good hidden adult jokes. Bluey is great and current favorite in Kiri and Lou- New Zealand claymation with Jermaine from Flight of the Concords. Some good songs.

[Tim330]

james6546 said:

I’ve got an 18 month old toddler and am already curating a list of stuff he isn’t allowed to watch (usually because they enrage me). It is virtually all I get to watch most of the time, they could at least make it easier for adults (like bluey, I love bluey).

I’ve got:

- Bing: he just whines all the time, and don’t even get me started on Pando, the little prick.
- Vida the vet: I just can’t stand her cutesy cutesy voice and all I can do is picture an adult voice actor doing it.
- Fireman Sam: the really badly animated one, it’s frankly terrifying.
- Peter rabbit: every episode is the same and the animation is shocking. Don’t get me started on the oversinging in the music.
- Yakee Da: I don’t even need to explain this one (with a whizz pop bang).

There are probably more on my list, but these are the ones I either turn off or leave the room. My wife doesn’t like peppa pig, but I think it can be funny at times.

Any others?

Peter Rabbit, you used to be able to change the language on Netflix to the US version, only Mr Todd the villainous fox kept his British voice.

[essayer]

Big Pants said:

Horrid Henry.

It's the best part of twenty years now, but I swear our then 6 and 4 year olds saw him as a role model.

Behaviour improved immensely once Henry was banished from the watchlist.

Noisy ginger tt.

We had exactly the same two years ago! Banned instantly. Felt quite dated anyway. Now they watch Minecraft YouTubers

[Tom8]

We banned commercial TV for our daughter. No ads which was a good choice. Only issue is, come birthdays or christmas she has no idea what she wants.

My wife also banned Peppa Pig as apparently she is a brat and not what we want our daughter learning.

Many may knock the BBC but CBEEBIEs is generally very good and very educational. Octonauts and GoJetters particular favourites which she still likes now at 8.

We don't allow any Youtube unsupervised and we minimise American stuff just because of their awful English.

[ChevronB19]

lufbramatt said:

I think the Bing children are being raised in a Under the Dome/Truman Show/Matrix type environment and when they reach a certain age their organs are harvested. The "parents" are androids designed to give them enough of a believable reality so that their bodies don't shut down, like in the Matrix.

in the night garden - I'm convinced this is the hallucinations/fever dreams of the blue guy in the boat as he dies of dehydration. The characters are all people from his life (the big ones are his wife/parents etc and the little ones are less important people).

Was never a fan of the series that were obviously designed as vehicles to sell merchandise- Paw Patrol, the new Fireman Sam with the dire animation, new Thomas the Tank Engine with 2d animation etc.

Used to like Ben and Hollies little Kingdom. Like peppa pig but better storylines and some good hidden adult jokes. Bluey is great and current favorite in Kiri and Lou- New Zealand claymation with Jermaine from Flight of the Concords. Some good songs.

Agreed. My daughter is 13 now, but Ben and Holly had some genuine humour that was cross generational. It’s got some genuine thought behind it.

Also agree about In the Night Garden.

Iggle Piggle: come down from bad acid, whole series are his dreams
Upsy Daisy: complete slutbag
Makka Packa: extreme OCD
Tombliboos: god knows

It’s sort of the modern(ish) Magic Roundabout (and yes I know they were revoiced from French with a totally different ‘script’ by Emma Thomson’s dad)

[Discendo Discimus]

Peppa is pretty much banned from ours, Peppa is a prick to her mates and she's not that nice to her parents either.

My daughter (just turned 3) is obsessed with dinosaurs. So we tend to stick on absolutely anything that has "Dinosaur" in the title.
Her favourite is the Brachiosaurus. I had never heard of the Brachiosaurus, it was always Diplodocus back in my day.

I wish she liked Bluey because it's as enjoyable for parents as it is the kids, but nope she won't have it.
We're now getting on to Rubble & Crew (excruciating if you work on building sites) and Paw Patrol.

[Jungleland]

Agree - Bing is dreadful. The moaning little..

Yaka Dee - yeh that song intrudes into your soul doesn’t it.

I’d love to ban Paw Patrol - awful cheesy humour. Nothing in it for adults whatsoever.

Prefer the stuff where they learn some stuff - Octonauts, Go Jetters, etc.

Bluey is brill, neither of our two are that fussed for it. Think we like it more than they do.

[essayer]

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