Saturday, January 28, 2012

Thoughts on Children's TV.

More specifically, Catholic children's tv shows.   I am horrified.  One show seems to have a bagel/doughnut (not sure which, honestly) in a box, with a slightly creepy guy who is the human host.  And they were singing a lovely little song about O-B-E-Y.   *shudder*

The next one was EVEN worse.   Puppets.  But not just any puppets.  Nun puppets, sacristan puppet, Father puppet, interacting with child puppets.   The puppets were not even synched with mouths moving for speech.  The "Sacristan" was shown as dumb, and the other puppets laughed at him.  THIS is a Catholic children's show?

Or else we have the real nun, who is syrupy sweet and showing the angelic little darlings how to look things up in the catechism.

Ok.  First of all, get some folks from Sesame Street conceptualizing the shows.   Have a little acid in with the sweet...  kids these days are very savvy in many ways.   Have a show with an I-pad that talks to God or something.