Emmet Otter
With the challenge freshly issued to fashion a story that fits in a bucket, I can't help but think of my favorite bucket story "Emmet Otter's Jug band Christmas"
Ok, so it was a wash tub, these were otters, so to scale it was a bucket.
If you haven't seen it, you should. It is a Henson version of the "Gift of the Magi." at least that is how I take it.
Kermit even makes an appearance.
I am a fan of the guy playing the jug, and of course the Riverbottom Gang.
This leads me to a comment on the great disparity of quality television for kids when I was a kid and that which my children watch. When I was little, every Saturday morning, I would get up at 6am, park myself in front of the TV, and watch about 4 hours of great cartoons and kids shows. In the week day evenings we had more cartoons and some live-ish action things, like the "Muppet Show".
Today, there are no good cartoons on Saturday morning, only cheesy kid directed sit-coms and some really lame Anime. The evenings are even worse, more sit-coms and lousy attempts at variety shows.
I am truly afraid that the next generation, the generation of my children will not understand the concept of Cartoon Physics. They will not the know the joy of waking up long before anyone else to sneak into the living room. Turning the TV on and madly jamming the volume down button, finding the first cartoon of the morning, Popeye in my case, grabbing a pack of Ritz crackers and gluing yourself to the TV for the first half of the day.
Some would argue that letting a child watch that much TV is harmful. To that I say, at least everything I watched was clearly fictitious. There was no live action, no real actors on my shows. Nothing that could be mistaken for reality, although I did eat spinach for most of my childhood in hopes that I would get strong even though I didn't like it.
Of course, if that is the worst thing that I picked up from my time in front of the tube, I will take that anyday. Shameless animators encouraging kids to eat thier greens.
This posting has been spell checked. Any errors there in are the fault of the spell checking program and not of the author.
posted by jake at 4:52 AM
3 Comments:
I totally agree. The stuff on TV now is terrible, especially, when it comes to kid shows. You don't see any good humorous cartoons that often any more. That bothers me a bit. I know when we were growing up there were things on TV that we probably shouldn't watch, but one thing was for sure. If you turned it to a cartoon, it was okay to watch. That is no longer the case. I admit I watched some of the warrior cartoons (Thundercats, Voltron,...), but what they have out there now is exactly that "Out There". There's no telling what TV will be like for the next bunch. Good post.
6:54 AM
Amen! Ditto! This post has been more than 10 years coming... I remember our cousins having to choose from Care Bears and My Little Pony rather than Bugs Bunny and Muppets. Downhill ever since. You can't even find good WB reruns anymore -- and the studio has it's own channel!!! I want to say that good morning TV died with Jim Henson and Mel Blanc, but they saw the beginning of the end. Henson's Muppets were already making crappy movies before Jim-o kicked the bucket. Hey! Bucket!
Lol, by the way. Spell check! You kill me!
9:17 AM
Check your spell check- "their" is misspelled in the last line as "thier". And LOVED your horrifically misspelled comment on my blog.
1:11 PM
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