Culturally deprived child :)

[lesliepear]

Mark and I were talking last night. It's weird to think of things from our childhood Alan's never seen:

- The christmas specials - he'd love Frosty the snowman, I need to get that on DVD
- The cartoons. He doesn't know the Flintstones, or the Jetsons or Bugs Bunny. Must get some of those on DVD's. They always seemed to be rerun somewhere - yet they aren't on basic cable very much anymore (we don't get the add on cartoon network/nickelodeon channels).

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[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

They're not even on the cartoon network! (I know this because the nine-year-old watches the cartoon network a lot!) The older cartoons are on "boomerang" - a channel owned by the cartoon network but only available on digital cable, at least where I am. It's just not right!

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

"It's just not right" is Alan's favorite saying as he jumps on our bed before he goes to sleep!

The cartoon network is filled with Japanese animation - mostly the Pokemon type shows :(

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Planning on taking him sledding and snowman making when we can this winter!

But at 7 PM at night when its dark during the week, we can't :(

[happytootum.livejournal.com]

We watched Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer on CBS last week with the kids. It was their first time seeing it. A few nights later, Santa Claus is Coming to Town (another stop-motion animation classic) was on ABC at 7 p.m. .. I think ABC has a lot of Christmas specials on around that time..they call it their 25 days til Christmas or something..so check out ABC's schedule and see if they have any more of the classic cartoon specials perhaps. We have satellite dish for our TV and we recently added on another 4 dollars/month's worth of channels which included PBS Sprout (24/7 commercial-free children's programming including Thomas, Sagwa, Pingu, Angelina Ballerina, Teletubbies and tons more) and it also included Boomerang which has all the vintage cartoons..everything from The Jetsons to The Flintstones to Huckleberry Hound and all that old stuff.
I did see a DVD set in Walmart a couple of weeks ago..it was about 27 dollars and it had Rudolph, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Frosty, and Frosty Returns (or something like that)..so you might look into that. :)

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Those are 2 of the 3 channels I'd love to get digital cable or a dish for (the other is Noggin). Sadly we face the wrong way for a dish. Maybe I'll look for the DVD though.

[happytootum.livejournal.com]

Yeah we had Noggin already and that's mostly what they watch during the day..or it was til we got PBS Sprout..now we mix it up. Both are pretty much commercial-free. Noggin entirely..and PBS Sprout seems to have one commercial that changes when a new month arrives..it's aired very seldom..it's always for a Huggies product and it's actually amusing..so not so bad. I prefer the kids don't see commercials. Nick Jr. has tons of commercials for toys and so on and if we watch something on there I tend to change the channel over to Noggin for in-between-show-time.

[didjiman.livejournal.com]

We STILL don't watch TV and our kids don't know about those TV shows. Doesn't seem to hurt them interacting with their peers in our area. Of course they know all about the latest Anime and Manga :-)...

[esoterica.livejournal.com]

I received the DVD set of all the old Christmas classics (except Charlie Brown, had to buy that separately) and Evan LOVES Frosty the Snowman. The only problem with the DVD set is the temptation to watch it over and over, when one of the things that made the old Christmas movies special is that you could only see them once a year.

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

the christmas specials are always on. abc or cbs. I saw the previews, sherrie wanted Elijah to watch them, uh, yea right, lol, like he's going to care about rudolf at that age. But, do you have cable? Boomerang network, it's a sub of Cartoon Network. It has allllll those old shows. Elijah loves bugs bunny, etc, etc. They play all of them most of the day.

[(Anonymous)]

OK, Bella's #1 television choice these days, if you let her pick anything, is TOMANDJERRYTOMANDJERRYTOMANDJERRY!!!! They show it either on Cartoon Network or Boomerang (which is owned by Cartoon Network) The only thing that even comes close is the new "Go, Diego, Go!" show. She likes Bugs Bunny, too, but there's something especially compelling about Tom and Jerry.

[njtech.livejournal.com]

there was nothing like spending from 8am till noon on saturdays as a kid watching superfriends (except for the wonder twins, they sucked) looney tunes, and other good toonage. Most toons noawadays are either gross out fests, japanese anime that all lookalike after a while or stuff that s'posed to be witty for kids and adults.

justice league is pretty good, but I shudder at the newr looney tunes characters. THEY"RE EXTREME! bleh!

unfortunately they are very popular with the boys age 6-12.