I Miss Dora

I miss Dora and Boots.  And I miss Diego and his annoying pet jaguar.  I miss them because I have learned that the alternatives are even worse.

Have you ever seen Wonderpets, the adventures of a baby duck, turtle and hamster?  Its horrible.  It;s so sugary sweet with the lessons that it  rots the brain.  My wife loves it, thinks the lisp the duck has (his name is Ming-Ming) is adorable.  It drives me nuts.

And then there is Ni Hao, Kai-lan, a cartoon featuring Chinese characters.  The backgrounds are beautiful, but the stories are horrid and they are trying to get my kid to start speaking Chinese!  I think China is trying to use this cartoon to start the take over of America.  Characters have names like Ho-ho and Yea-Yea.  It truly is an atrocious show.

But neither of these are as bad as my son’s newest favorite: Max and Ruby.  Max is a toddler rabbit, I guess, and Ruby is his sister.  Max basically spends every episode trying to annoy Ruby and getting into minor trouble.  Ruby scolds him at the end of every episode, but I don;t think he ever learns a thing.  I don’t think there is a single redeeming quality about this show

Thank god he doesn’t like Yo Gaba Gabab- at least not yet.  I’ve watched bits and pieces of that show, and it is bad enough to melt even my 2 year old’s brain.  And what’s up with that big red guy?  You know who am I talking about, the tall one that looks like male genitalia with genital warts.  Totally inappropriate.

So I have learned to appreciate Dora and Diego because they are truly the lesser of two evils.  Decent stories, only minimally annoying characters (though I do want to shoot Boots), and at least they are teaching Spanish, a language they may actually have use for in the future.

Whatever happened to quality children’s programming.  Anyone out there like me, in their early thirties, remember Pinwheel on Nick?  Now that was awesome.

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2 Responses to “I Miss Dora”

1. Jordan Hixon says:

   August 16, 2009 at 1:05 pm

   Idk after hearing the “back pack back pack” song a few times, I found that show very irritating. but still this is from the guy who liked to watch blues clues so I am a little biased.
2. Jen says:

   December 7, 2009 at 3:55 pm

   Max and Ruby…

   You put it so well! It’s true that Ruby scolds him, but have you ever noticed that Max seems to have the right idea about what’s going on from the very beginning? It only takes Ruby an entire episode to figure it out!