AVFC_Hitz Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 Have a word Mooney. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 Both of my kids have chicken pox. They're both in 'kin scratching agony and, as a father, I can't do anything to ease their pain. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 16, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 16, 2022 1 hour ago, hogso said: Fireman Sam?! My years of familiarity with kids' TV would be: 1956 - 1965 (my childhood) 1989 - 1992 (my kids' childhood) 2017 - now (my grandkids' childhood) If a programme falls outside those years, I may have heard of it, but I probably won't have seen it (especially if it wasn't on BBC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 1 hour ago, mjmooney said: My years of familiarity with kids' TV would be: 1956 - 1965 (my childhood) 1989 - 1992 (my kids' childhood) 2017 - now (my grandkids' childhood) If a programme falls outside those years, I may have heard of it, but I probably won't have seen it (especially if it wasn't on BBC). 1989 to 1992 is absolute prime Fireman Sam time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 17, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 17, 2022 11 hours ago, bobzy said: 1989 to 1992 is absolute prime Fireman Sam time. Well I never saw it. Maybe it was a weekday thing when I was at work and they were with childminders. I only really got to watch kids' TV with them at weekends. Don't recall them ever mentioning it, either. Maybe they considered it to be a boys' programme? Dunno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 I didnt watch it as a kid, I was more Thomas, under the trapdoor, count ducula, ducktales and a bit of postman pat With those phases Mike you must have missed the pokemon cartoon? Golden era of before school TV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 17, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 17, 2022 Just now, villa4europe said: I didnt watch it as a kid, I was more Thomas, under the trapdoor, count ducula, ducktales and a bit of postman pat With those phases Mike you must have missed the pokemon cartoon? Golden era of before school TV We never had the TV on before school. They were into Pokemon, though. And your first list definitely rings bells for my kids' era. Probably also all that He-Man, Thundercats, Power Rangers stuff, too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 3 minutes ago, mjmooney said: We never had the TV on before school. They were into Pokemon, though. And your first list definitely rings bells for my kids' era. Probably also all that He-Man, Thundercats, Power Rangers stuff, too. Yeah he man was more my older brother but definitely thundercats, I was the more turtles than him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 7 minutes ago, mjmooney said: We never had the TV on before school. They were into Pokemon, though. And your first list definitely rings bells for my kids' era. Probably also all that He-Man, Thundercats, Power Rangers stuff, too. Same. My daughter was very much into Pokémon. Wouldn’t dream of putting the television on before school, I wouldn’t have moved her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted December 17, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 17, 2022 My daughter goes through phases of watching various YouTubers. So much of it is dross. Proper mind rot. Spoilt kids soliciting for likes and subscribers by being ever more inane and loud. I’d genuinely rather watch an hour of Bing whinging. That applies to a lot of them - not all of them. Fortunately she’s taking a bit of a break from it at the moment and she’s been watching a couple of Australian kid friendly sitcoms on Netflix, which for what they are, are actually pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 17, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 17, 2022 26 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said: My daughter goes through phases of watching various YouTubers. So much of it is dross. Proper mind rot. Spoilt kids soliciting for likes and subscribers by being ever more inane and loud. I’d genuinely rather watch an hour of Bing whinging. Oh, Bing is paradise compared with the favoured choices of the two year old GD. Cocomelon, Gabby's Dollhouse, Blippy, Baby Shark. Kill me now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted December 17, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 17, 2022 (edited) 14 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Oh, Bing is paradise compared with the favoured choices of the two year old GD. Cocomelon, Gabby's Dollhouse, Blippy, Baby Shark. Kill me now. Mummy mummy ow eh ow make my boo-boo better now not long to go now, Mike, until you have to suffer shrimp glockenspiel on continues play , here is a look into the future Edited December 17, 2022 by Follyfoot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Just now, Follyfoot said: Mummy mummy ow eh ow make my boo-boo better now They try and make that fit into 4 syllables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 16 hours ago, mjmooney said: I assume this is a kids' TV show I haven't encountered yet. This is peak Mooney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 17, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 17, 2022 49 minutes ago, El Zen said: This is peak Mooney Thanks. Remind me to interrogate you on the last half century of popular culture sometime, to see if you have any blind spots. FWIW, I've certainly heard of Fireman Sam, but having never watched it, I couldn't identify it from a cartoon still of a generic kid, with no other clues. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 2 hours ago, villa4europe said: I didnt watch it as a kid, I was more Thomas, under the trapdoor, count ducula, ducktales and a bit of postman pat With those phases Mike you must have missed the pokemon cartoon? Golden era of before school TV It was aways the Turtles before school for us, and weirdly we used to watch the old-old episodes of Neighbours that were on UK Gold. In the winter the 3 of us children would sit one in front of the other in front of the 2 bar electric fireplace in the living. No central heating then. Later on used to have one of these in the hallway. Gas bottle in the back 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 (edited) 32 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Thanks. Remind me to interrogate you on the last half century of popular culture sometime, to see if you have any blind spots. FWIW, I've certainly heard of Fireman Sam, but having never watched it, I couldn't identify it from a cartoon still of a generic kid, with no other clues. You know I’m really just man-flirting with you, buddy Edited December 17, 2022 by El Zen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 17, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 17, 2022 Cocomelon is utter horse shit. Unfortunately Jack loves it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Mr Bean was always the programme I could put on the TV and they’d both sit down and watch it nicely. It was like cheat mode really. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted December 18, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 18, 2022 22 hours ago, villa4europe said: I didnt watch it as a kid, I was more Thomas, under the trapdoor, count ducula, ducktales and a bit of postman pat Absolute classic. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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