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1. pat wrote:

   Ian,

   Gotta disagree with you on this one. My kids LOVE Yo Gabba Gabba (oh and you forgot to mention Low contributed a song…).

   I usually found that shows that try to be “hip” (like Pancake Mountain), are a huge flop with our kids.

   Doesn’t matter if you or I like show, how do the kids react? I’m not a big Wiggles fan, but the kids love that stuff.

   I highly recommend Wow Wow Wubbzy. Brad Mossman, a great singer songwriter from SF, who was in Harm Farm, Warm Wires, writes the music. Really fun stuff.

   Oh, and the old Pee Wee Herman Show DVD’s were a big hit with the kids for awhile. (There is a connection b/w YGG and PWHS, can’t remember it offhand…)

   Posted 24 Sep 2007 at 2:50 pm ¶

2. iancr wrote:

   Kids love Barney and Teletubbies, too, but you gotta keep ‘em away from that shit.

   I think the magic is in the intersection of what you like and what they like. They’d like to watch the Lucky Charms and Barbie commercials over and over, but you wouldn’t let them any more than you’d let them eat Nerds for every meal. By the same token I wouldn’t subject them to the Townes Van Zandt documentary, even though I loved it.

   Given the choice I’d rock that Sesame Street Old School DVD or (as you say) Pee Wee’s Playhouse before subjecting my kids to Nick Jr.’s “Bad Dee-Lite Video for 2007″ aka “Yo Gabba Gabba”. Sorry, that shit is Wack Sabbath.

   I’ll check out Wow Wow Wubbzy. I see they have a Podcast…

   This is all in-theory at the moment, anyway. Zoe’s 17 (too old) and Lucinda just turned 1 (too young), so lets revisit this topic in a year and hopefully there’s a DIY Sesame Street of 2008 podcast. Else we might have to take it upon ourselves like Jim Henson and Frank Oz did nearly forty years back…

   ian

   Posted 24 Sep 2007 at 11:21 pm ¶

3. pat wrote:

   True enough. As parents, we are responsible for filtering what our kids watch (till I think they are about 30…), especially when it comes to sugar bomb cereal commercials and product cross-promotion (though that Malibu Barbi, man, I can really relate…).

   All I can say is thank goodness for Tivo. We’ve trained our son how to fast forward. Now he can’t stand commercials like we do.

   So, Ian, how am I doing? My daughter’s favorite songs (besides all the Wubbzy stuff) are Yellow Submarine and Iron Man (which she’s reclaimed as Iron Kitty). Good? Bad?

   Posted 25 Sep 2007 at 5:46 pm ¶

4. iancr wrote:

   Sounds perfect to me. Try Pharcyde’s “Passin’ Me By” and EPMD’s “You Gots To Chill”. CHILD FAVORITES I tell ya.

   Posted 25 Sep 2007 at 10:56 pm ¶

5. catherine wrote:

   we didn’t get what gabba gabba was doing – but that tag line is pretty catchy.

   don’t know the musicology behind these but – as far as children’s programming – there are well researched shows as to what children respond to and how they learn. barney’s among them. that being said – tv’s a passive medium as it is and the most your kid will get out of it is if you watch with them and talk to them about it (especially at the younger ages). hence – if you can’t keep your sanity during the purple dinosaur – my take is it’s not a great candidate. there’s gonna be a give and take. personally dora and diego are starting to take it’s toll on my nerves but on the bright side sal seems to pick up the spanish and we’re still willing to watch and talk w/ him about it.

   and i too love tivo.

   Posted 26 Sep 2007 at 10:33 am ¶

6. Elissa wrote:

   I grew up on Sesame Street. Loved it. I would watch the same episode in the morning and afternoon. I was hoping my 2 year old would love it just as much as I did, she doesn’t. Instead she loves Spongebob and Yo Gabba Gabba. I personally am a fan of YGG, it gets her up and moving, plus how cool is it that my 2 year old girl can beat box and knows the words to a Aquabats song. My husband and I love the musical guests. As much as we want our kids to like what we like it doesn’t always happen that way. They develop thier own likes and dislikes based on their own personalities. Of course I agree that as parents its our job to monitor what they watch, but YGG is as G rated as it gets!

   Posted 07 Oct 2007 at 4:56 pm ¶

7. Don Smith wrote:

   Wow. I really felt I was alone with the Yo Gabba Gabba thing. While my 10 month old is into the show and it’s entirely staffed by friends of friends or friends of friends of friends, I was taken aback by its desperate need to present 1980s videogames and 1990s rave dancing in 2007. Would I suggest my kids listen to Black Flag? No? then why the Aquabats? Culturally they just try way too hard to present what they like as something kids should pay attention to. Sesame Street had serious educators on-board before launching and bragged how much science they had done on the show. Yo Gabba Gabba does not give that impression. The only, only thing we’ve taken away from the show was the “There’s a party in my tummy” song where some food left on the plate felt left out from the party.

   Mr. Rogers is also a really good bet, no pun intended, but since the character he played on his show is Jesus, it can make for some strangeness. But then again, there’s worse things for kids to see on tv than someone embracing unconditional love.

   Continual props to the Stuckey Family though.

   Posted 15 Oct 2007 at 10:06 am ¶

8. blair wrote:

   hey.
   this was a brainchild of the aquabats.
   and if you’ve ever listened to them, and watched how stupid they act on satge, you’d expect this from them
   its a cool show for kids, and it has a good heart behind it.

   Posted 02 Nov 2007 at 9:09 pm ¶

9. reggie wrote:

   you’re stupid

   Posted 22 Nov 2007 at 10:48 am ¶

10. iancr wrote:

    http://www.bustedtees.com/shirt/yourretarded/

    Posted 22 Nov 2007 at 1:18 pm ¶

11. deb wrote:

    I agree my grandaughter loves yo gabba gabba she learns alot. And for some of you what about Dora she doesnt teach anything except spanish. Thats okay but what about something else. I here so many bad things about yo gabba gabba it makes me sick. I think sores should put them out in stead of us going on the internet so get pay a fortune for the stuff.

    Posted 20 Jul 2008 at 7:12 pm ¶

12. gionn wrote:

    To whoever is making the argument about Aquabats and Black Flag what the hell? The two are practically polar opposites. Both of them happen to play rock tunes but thats as similar as it gets. -_-. “Would I suggest my kids stab someone? No. Than why would I suggest they spread peanutbutter on bread with a butter knife?” To make such a correlation youd have to be so far up your agenda against the show that its blocked all sense of rationalization. How sad. All Yo Gabba Gabba offers is clean fun. Something kids can learn from and dance to. Ohhh No! We musnt let THAT happen though. One watch and theyll want to start bursting out into fits of drunken rage in the sweaty pits of a Black Flag show.

    Posted 17 Sep 2008 at 10:20 pm ¶

13. iancr wrote:

    Biggest difference (IMHO) between Black Flag and The Aquabats is that Black Flag were groundbreaking and incredible and Aquabats are mediocre and derivative. Same as Sesame Street and Yo Gabba Gabba (IMHO).

    My daughter turns two Saturday and we’ve been watching a lot of Sesame Street Old School (even though it’s been deemed “not for children” by our modern times) and woooo boy, it’s good.

    Posted 18 Sep 2008 at 1:41 am ¶

14. jeff wrote:

    What I like about the idea of Yo Gabba Gabba is the fact that it brings in the “Ne Zoo Review” & Sid and Marty Krofft vibe back. This will go down in our kids history as another WTF was that show that had those dudes in costume? Face value its interesting to watch. Yeah nobody has anything on those early Sesame Streets… just like no one has anything on the first 2 Star Wars.

    On thing I hope this does is bring a little more non animated kids shows out on the playing field. Shit… Barney was all the kids had for awhile there.. That was like a Utah birthday party every morning. Sorry people from Utah.

    I have to admit… I used to watch test patterns before Davey and Goliath came on every sunday morning… thats how dedicated or strange I was about morning shows. So something like this got me somewhat excited about the resurgence of what we sorta had.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ySgnifxeQ

    Posted 21 Sep 2008 at 1:05 am ¶

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