Friday, March 15, 2019

I miss He-Man

My goal right now is to teach my daughters how to play hide and seek by the time they go to college. Seriously. It's hilarious to play with them because I tell them to count to 20 and they count to 6, and then they laugh uncontrollably in the hiding place they've chosen, which is the same one they've chosen the last 3 turns. College is a good goal.
There's a bill out right now to switch over to daylight savings all the time. It's finally getting a voice. It was interesting because Fox 13 ran a story about it. A representative down in Provo wanted this bill, and she kept getting told it was frivolous and a waste of time. That's incredibly annoying. After Fox ran the story, I think there was a huge backlash of people because suddenly the bill got a hearing and passed, so it may be on the ballot to vote. That would help winter time a lot. Hopefully it's finally over.
There's a lot of horrible kids shows out there, and my daughters seem to like most of them. They love Super Why. It's a PBS show about kids that live in a library with super powers, but the lamest super powers ever. The voice actors are pretty horrible. Wyatt, who becomes Super Why, has a Super Duper computer, but it's tethered. If it's a super duper computer at least let it be wireless. Otherwise call it the old computer I found in my mom's basement. That would be a better name for it.
Recently they've started to watch a Netflix original called Little Monsters. It's about a preschool for monsters children. Here's the issue. During the show they change from their monster form into their human form like 50 times. I'm not kidding. It's every 2 minutes they each have to go back and forth. There's one girl with blue skin and dreadlocks who can see through and walk through walls, and it took me 3 episodes to figure out she was a zombie. They had lunch, and she wasn't eating the flesh of the living, which I found odd. The thing about the changing back and forth every two minutes is there parents don't change their appearance. Before the kids can go home they have to change into their human form, but the parents pick them up in their monster form. Wouldn't that be a cause for alarm? Frankenstein's monster in a car with a little boy would probably raise some eyebrows. One of the kids is a dragon for some reason, and his mom flies to the school to pick him up, then flies off with him in his human form. I think that would freak people out.
The worst has to be Llama Llama. It's based on the book Llama Llama Red Pajama. The book is cute, but holy crap this is the worst show ever. It's about Llama Llama who is a 6 year old llama and lives alone with his mom. The mom isn't married, and she wears a power suit from the 80's. I'm pretty sure shoulder pads are drawn into it. He doesn't have a dad, and they never reference why, but I've made up a back story for that. It's pretty dark. I keep waiting in every episode for his mom to finally snap. Maybe next season.
His friends are pretty strange too. Theirs Nelly Nu, who I keep forgetting if she's a boy or a girl. Her mom is the butchest mom I've ever seen drawn. She's more butch than the dad is. He's got a giraffe friend with social anxieties, and goat friend that's a bully. In one episode they actually call him a bully goat. A lamb friend that always wears a suit and does experiments, and in one episode he was in a bike race and put a sail behind him to make him go faster. It didn't work and I threw stuff at my TV. In one episode the giraffe with social anxieties invites everyone over to see her new swimsuit for some reason. Then they decide they should all go to the beach. To celebrate this momentous decision, they put their arms out and fly around the yard. I'm still trying to figure it out. The police man is a flamingo for some reason too. There are rhino twins who for some reason have never said a word. I have a dark backstory about them.
Another one they love is Sofia the First. Mirinda has been watching this for a while, and Priya likes it now too. It started out as a fish out of water story. The king falls in love with a single mom and the village and marries her. It never mentions where her husband or his wife went, but again I have a dark backstory for that. I might have to submit some fanfiction to the writers of the show. As a result of the wedding Sofia is now a princess and she has to figure out how to be a princess and still be herself. The first few seasons are cute, and the music was pretty good. I think we're on season 5 at this point. Now she is a guardian of another planet, rides a flying unicorn, and her amulet can make her do stuff like turn into a purple dragon. I wish I was making this up.
I do like Peppa Pig though. That is a quality show. I'd probably watch that if I didn't have kids.
I appreciate you letting me get that off my chest. At least I can entertain myself during the 3rd hour of the Llama Llama marathon by making up dark backstories. Man I'm glad spring is coming and we can get outside.
I don't really have any recommendations this week as I've been too busy watching crappy kids shows. If you have any recommendations for me I'd love to hear them. Just know if any of them are Cafe Rio I will mock you.
And Captain Marvel is really meh. C-

7 comments:

  1. These terrible kids shows are transmitting subliminal messages to the viewers. some of the messages are to wake up sleeper cells. Be careful if your daughters turn around with a blank stare and go all kung-fu on you.

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  2. I never thought about any of that! I'm forever in your debt

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  3. There are a lot of crappy shows out there but I'm sorry, I have to disagree with your evaluation of Llama Llama. I dream of having the patience of mama Llama. Worst kids show obviously goes to caillou. Shoot me dead. But you should definitely check out odd squad. Fun and quirky.

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    1. She's patient, but ridiculously patient. There's sometimes when you kind of want her to freak out at Llama Llama. I've heard that about Caillou and have stayed away from it. I'll check out the odd squad

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  4. Entertaining as always. Stop watching those darn shows- they’re messing up your brain. Have you ever seen Max and Ruby? That was my girls’ favorite. Don’t ever watch Caillou...his voice will follow you everywhere. For food, I recommend The Mandarin in Bountiful. Tell me when you’re going and that will give me a reason to get to eat there! Yuuuum.

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    1. My niece used to love Max and Ruby, and it was agony watching it. They look like polygamist rabbits to me. I love the Mandarin! We're always up for that place!

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