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True story, honestly im excited to hear the new season of Futurama is great!

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Paw Patrol is copaganda for toddlers. Learning bad words from Bender is less harmful than getting indoctrinated by it.

[–] SuzyQ 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Got a call from the school when my oldest was in kindergarten... "Your child just yelled 'bite my shiny metal ass' in the library." I was proud and embarrassed at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can I also be proud of your child?

[–] SuzyQ 6 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Unironically, Bluey.

Best show on television. Fight me.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bluey sets an unrealistic expectation for how much child chef food a parent will eat.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Bluey sets an unrealistic expectation ~~for how much child chef food a parent will eat.~~

FTFY. I can't keep up trying to be Bandit

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Just remember, the show is 7 minutes long. These are highlights of the day, where they spend less than ten minutes focusing on play and pretend.

But yeah, that dog is amazing.

And if I have to pretend one more time that my hand is Shaun the emu, I think I may lose my mind.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Do you have bum worms too

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yup. My wife and I have seen every episode.

We don’t have kids. We just love it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Fight me.

Can we do a Blueyathon instead, so we can see all the foreshadowing they've secretly been doing all along? Take the Winton foreshadowing of his dad bumping into the mom of one of the other kids at a store...

spoilersome two episodes before it's even revealed that they like each other, and then even later THEY are the people that sell their house (with a pool) that the poodles end up buying instead of Bluey's house, because Winton's dad moves out of his house to live with the other mom!

It's such a good show.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

So what have deadpool

You guys been futurama

Watching AEW

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Scissor me, Daddy Ass!!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

X-Men 97 justified paw patrol

[–] TheMightyCanuck 34 points 2 months ago

No way I'm letting my kid watch copaganda

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I've been trying to carefully navigate this. Got her into Totoro when she was really young, like 20 months. Then a little after 2 we started watching Spirited Away. She loves them. I can't always control what she watches but I'm gonna do my best to imbue some of my tastes into her.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Try treating it as family time. Like i know they say minimize screen time but cuddles and time with family makes good memories.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

We have "family film nights". We all have dinner together, then get out some beanbags, on the floor. We then all watch a film together, cuddled up on the beanbags.

The films are ones our daughter hasn't seen, and can often push her boundaries. E.g. we watched "Monsters Inc" together. She was a little bit scared, but with mummy and daddy there, she loved it.

It's definitely one for building memories together. We are too often distracted, even when present. Having dedicated family time makes a huge difference.

Oh, and she also doesn't watch much paw patrol, even when around friends. Apparently "Daddy doesn't like it" is quite enough to put her off it. A classic "respect over fear" situational win for me.

On a side note. The screen time correlation goes away, when you correct for the child's parenting and lifestyle situation. It's not "screens are bad" but that kids in worse situations watch more TV, etc. The causation is backwards.

[–] Kecessa 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The main characters' age in Ghibli movies give you an idea of the minimum age of the audience... So Ponyo and Totoro are for young kids, Spirited Away isn't... Grave of the fireflies is the exception, no one is ever ready for that...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I watched Grave of the Fireflies and couldn't shake the feeling of "half the problems he's facing are his own fault, and his little sister is being dragged down with him"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Iirc it's based on a real experience, so that's probably true. I haven't seen it in forever, nor do I intend to, so I say probably because I don't recall all the nuance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I tried the same thing. I had my daughter watch Spirited Away when she was maybe 6. It traumatized her. She was scared of us turning into pigs and being left alone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Ngl I was scared of it as a kid too. Totoro is a waaaay safer entrypoint

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Ironic neither Power Rangers nor Teletubbies are on this list

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Paw Patrol is a very fascist show meant to teach fascist ideology to kids, just so you know: https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/22/health/thomas-tank-engine-paw-patrol-fascist-cartoon-strauss/index.html

This isn't a criticism, it's easy to for stuff like this to slip past parents' radar. But I'd strongly recommend switching to a different show.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've went through the article and it's ckickbait at best, garbage at worst.

Regarding paw patrol, the criticism is that the child is a white male and a mother that complains that in a two pup mission on an episode she saw the two pups were male.

Are you really telling me that is the boy was Japanese then the show wouldn't be fascist? Or a single chromosome would make it ok?

There's real fascism running around but somehow that's overlooked in favor of calling fascism to everything else.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The reality is that the gender and race of the main character has little to do with it being fascist. What makes it fascist is that it depicts the cop as the most important and trustworthy member of the team.

A lot of fascism exists in greed and indifference and with only a little bit of ideology. I am pretty liberal in my view, but I think there are a lot of problems in the way people on the left look at things. Yeah, the GOP is racist, but its also a hive mind and easily guided with the right hand. But although the GOP primaries where basically pointless the two loudest voices where the son of an immigrant and a woman.

All they had to do was agree that immigrants are bad and the status que is good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The reality is that the gender and race of the main character has little to do with it being fascist. What makes it fascist is that it depicts the cop as the most important and trustworthy member of the team.

Then this article disagrees with you because it only focused on the race and gender. I'm not versed enough in paw patrol to know if it's the most important member of the team, most of the time they have to solve everything through collaboration of each expertise.

Everything else you said it's not relevant to this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Not sure if it is fascist. It is certainly neoliberal propaganda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnwBXQ9OXwA

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

All Elite Wrestling

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

If you ever liked pro wrestling, you are missing out by not watching All Elite Wrestling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can confirm. I used to watch Justified, now I spend my TV time trying to subtly convince my toddler that Chase isn't the best Paw Patrol pup.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Ours has decided that she's no longer a princess, she's now Skye. I think mommy was Everest and I'm Rubble. It's funny, because I always associated myself with Rubble the most, particularly after watching the Mighty Movie where Rubble goes "what, did you think I was going to watch the space thingy of a lifetime without snacks?" (exact wording may differ; I have to watch it in Estonian)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Chase is copaganda.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Bluey and GTO