#childrens entertainment

[strawbunny-icecream]

Bear in the Big Blue House - an American children's tv series that aired on Disney Channel's Playhouse Disney from 1997 to 2006 🐻🌕

[nerdby]

Shari Lewis & Lambchop♥️

Okay, so I wanted to share this with you guys just because. Shari Lewis was a celebrated comedian and ventriloquist, who performed with a gaggle of sock puppets the most famous of which was Lambchop. Ventriloquism is a type of voice-acting done with the aid of a puppet of some sort or an old fashioned wooden dummy. Which frankly are fucking terrifying -- the dummies, that is😅

Seriously, why do you think The Night Of The Living Dummy Goosebumps arc did so well? It's cause those things are creepy as fuck.

Shari's performances go all the way back to the 1960s when her first show took over the time slot that had previously belonged to Captain Kangaroo. This is her unseen screen test for NBC from 1958.

Part of Shari's and Lampchop's appeal is that the characters were very self-aware and didn't take themselves too seriously. Lambchop was known for often breaking the fourth wall and was very sassy as hell, and seemed very much aware of the fact that she was a puppet. Part of the reason why is because a lot of people simply did not take Shari seriously as a performer. This is evidenced by the fact that after her screen test in 1958, Shari and Lambchop did not make their way to national television until the year 1960. Not only that but in the 1950s, the area of TV ventriloquism -- back when there was still a market for that type of thing -- was a male dominated field. And by the time the 1980s-90s rolled around people stopped taking ventriloquism seriously as an art form.

Shari and Lambchop bicker onstage in 1982.

By the 1990s, Shari was a popular children's and family entertainer and had starred in two children's TV shows. Those shows were Lambchop's Playalong and The Charlie Horse Music Pizza, the latter of which ran for only two seasons until Shari died abruptly in 1998 at the age of 65.

Lambchop and friends sing "The Song That Doesn't End," on Lambchop's Playalong.

Lambchop and Shari guest star on the 90s sitcom The Nanny.

Today Lambchop tours with her sister Mallory Lewis, Shari's daughter, and because they frequently perform for the military Lambchop is an honorary three star general in the Marines😮

[inthetransformingprocess]

There will be normal and natural situations where a child will experience fear. Comforting them,and teaching them ways to handle normal though sometimes scary life experiences when they happen is good in the right context.

Deliberately scaring a child or exposing them to scary things, freaky imagery, or disturbing concepts is not. You are risking traumatizing them. Many adults have unnatural fears because unhealthy exposure in childhood. If you are older and want to do that to yourself, that's on you. But We should not instill fearful spirits in others, and least of all, children. Especially as a Christian.

[ankford]

You know what I miss? The “Spooky for kids” genre, like Goosebumps but also The Addams Family or Moeville Mysteries. It’s like there was this period of time where you could have scary imagery but have it be for kids and not be as gory or heavy as proper horror. I think a lot of us Millenials got into horror because we grew up loving these kinds of shows and then phased into the real thing. Where’s the spooky for the zoomer kids?

[patanu102]

As much as I do love your replies on how the show doesnt always do the best every episode, at what point do you think the whole point that "it is a children show" become the concept that should be considered whne talking about and analyzing the show?

That always dilemma when discussing cartoons, the majority of the medium written and designed for children, but at the same designed by people who have grown up with with shows that compromised storytelling for the sake of simple entertainment, so analysis of the medium by those not in the know is like a random person saying that a pop up book should have more depth to it.

Granted I cant blame this perspective especially from anonymity of the internet putting the idea that the majority of people who critique cartoons are man children who want more depth from something that wasn’t designed for them but in reality are not that different from the people who make the shows themselves. 

But taken in perspective a number of shows are managed by disconnected executives who have a strict system that writers and creators have to follow in order to air there work to a mass public, so there’s a middle ground where you have to realize that some show creators have to get a piece of work out the door simply to make the piece entertaining instead of leaving depth which few animated show have the time or budget to do.

I know there are people in my own family who have wondered why I put so much time into thinking about something fictional and i debate that it isn’t about making entertainment, but making something that will connect to you afterward. Its easy to follow along with a piece of work with appealing material like an attractive character or an easily relatable situation. But good fiction in my opinion takes the topic and makes you rethink it, want to see it from a different perspective and create it through intriguing worlds and fascinating characters. 

Shallow entertainment will always be popular because its easy to produce and it fills the gap, but meaningful work will stand the test of time. And the one thing I think we all want from the things we like is for people to not forget about them after they’re done.

[goodbyeboyitsnotthetakenone]

My Talk on the Evolving Pixar Animation.

Children's entertainment as a whole, even Pixar, has to evolve since their most remembered times or peak times, it's okay to miss old Pixar, but I can understand why Pixar has to change a lot, not just them, but lots of children's media in general. Heck, I grew up with many kid shows from long ago, and many of the new ones are for the new generation. I grew up with old Pixar, and even DreamWorks, and I still watch their new films to see how they go, but I need to understand that the new generation is the main audience for those films now. Even if we like things to stay the same or stay in time, that's never gonna happen. It's just a cold hurting truth.

[jbgranic]

Children's entertainers Twisted Dog Theatre at Mississauga Christmas Tree Lighting, Light Up the Square

[jbgranic]

Children's entertainers Twisted Dog Theatre at Mississauga Christmas Tree Lighting, Light Up the Square.