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Is "SpongeBob SquarePants" evil?

cuda.1973

cuda.1973

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Yes, I am serious. I won't post all the gory details, as funny as I found them, but we had a great knock-down drag-out, last night, when a certain family member made that proclamation. Followed by "Any parent who lets their children watch that should be shot! It is horrible. No one is nice to anyone. All they do is shout and hit each other."

(And this is horrible....................why.................?)

Anyway, coming from an ethnic family, where yelling and screaming was considered the norm, and obviously not someone who back down, I barked back:

"Oh, since I let my niece watch hundreds of hours, of that mind-numbing crap, I guess I was a horrible parent. Right? And should be shot, right?"
"Well, if you did, yes."
"Not only did I let her watch it, I sat there and watched it with her. (Having someone to laugh along with, made it more entertaining, for her.) Not only that, but we still watch The Simpsons together. So, I deserve to be shot, eh? Sure you are up to the task?"

A few more pointed barbs, back and forth, and this person lost control. The best part is it gave me an excuse to go home. And I didn't get yelled at, by my wife!!! ("I'll tell you what is going on with her, later.") (No, please don't................!)

And some folks wonder why I waited until I was 56, to get married for the first time. I already had one dysfunctional family, that I did not get along with. Now, I have two.

Oy vey.............

OK, gang.................your turn: Sponge Bob, harmless pablum, or mind-rotting evil. I think you know what my vote is.

(Tune back in later, as we may have Round II, tonight! Hotcha.)
 
For starters, I have no problem with any parent censoring what their children watch. Just don't expect me to buy that slapstick, semi-crass cartoons are a new problem, if they're a problem at all. Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry, where they had depictions of characters drinking whiskey, smoking and chasing women, were fine for kids though? The bottom line is that you shouldn't use the TV as a babysitter.

I have a 6 year old daughter and have watched my share of SpongeBob with her. We both think it's funny.
 
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RJ YellowHammer said:
The bottom line is that you shouldn't use the TV as a babysitter.
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With you 100%. I'm just not a big TV watcher, so our kids end up not watching much TV. We don't have cable, and almost never have the TV on. My 4-year old boy likes Thomas the Tank Engine and Super Why - I think they are both on PBS.

I have no data to back this up, so maybe I am way off. But, it seems like when I was growing up, there were more masculine options. I mean, He-man was a warrior fighting for good over evil. G.I. Joe.
Now, we've got Teletubbies, the Wiggles, and who knows what else.
 
GreatDanish said:
I have no data to back this up, so maybe I am way off. But, it seems like when I was growing up, there were more masculine options. I mean, He-man was a warrior fighting for good over evil. G.I. Joe.
Now, we've got Teletubbies, the Wiggles, and who knows what else.
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you are just a neanderthal and dont understand the value of the more sensitive (pansy) aspects of life. your children will be much more well-adjusted by watching the teletubbies prance and hop around in onesies. all the people who dont spank their wonderful well-behaved children tell me this.
 
The difference that I've seen in the "old" cartoons such as Looney Toons is that a lot of the adult jokes were so over the child's head that it never registered. Where as a lot of the cartoons today such as sponge bob the crude humor/jokes ARE ON the kids level. I think it was the sponge bob show that routinely says "shut-up" and "stupid" and one of them actually says "sucks" routinely in its shows. That is something that the child can easily pick up on instantly. The reason I know that is because my child has watched many of the Looney Toons I watched and he's yet to ask for a flask of whiskey. But the words "shut up" came out of his mouth after watching two episodes of sponge bob. So take that for worth its worth.
 
cuda.1973 said:
Yes, I am serious. I won't post all the gory details, as funny as I found them, but we had a great knock-down drag-out, last night, when a certain family member made that proclamation. Followed by "Any parent who lets their children watch that should be shot! It is horrible. No one is nice to anyone. All they do is shout and hit each other."

(And this is horrible....................why.................?)

Anyway, coming from an ethnic family, where yelling and screaming was considered the norm, and obviously not someone who back down, I barked back:

"Oh, since I let my niece watch hundreds of hours, of that mind-numbing crap, I guess I was a horrible parent. Right? And should be shot, right?"
"Well, if you did, yes."
"Not only did I let her watch it, I sat there and watched it with her. (Having someone to laugh along with, made it more entertaining, for her.) Not only that, but we still watch The Simpsons together. So, I deserve to be shot, eh? Sure you are up to the task?"

A few more pointed barbs, back and forth, and this person lost control. The best part is it gave me an excuse to go home. And I didn't get yelled at, by my wife!!! ("I'll tell you what is going on with her, later.") (No, please don't................!)

And some folks wonder why I waited until I was 56, to get married for the first time. I already had one dysfunctional family, that I did not get along with. Now, I have two.

Oy vey.............

OK, gang.................your turn: Sponge Bob, harmless pablum, or mind-rotting evil. I think you know what my vote is.

(Tune back in later, as we may have Round II, tonight! Hotcha.)
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Am I missing something or is shooting someone extremely violent? I see nothing wrong with SpongeBob SquarePants.
 
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Some interesting responses.

Having watched countless hours of the mind-numbing nonsense, I don't recall any of those negatives. Not sure my niece did, either.

What I recall is all the non-sequiturs, that existed, in abundance.

"What are they doing now..............what, giving a pet snail a bath? A bath tub, over-flowing, complete with suds, at the bottom of the ocean."

And.............

"Now what..............going camping..........complete with a camp fire. While bubbles are going up to the surface."

"OK, a land squirrel, from Texas. Living at the bottom of the ocean. Wearing a diving suit, and practicing karate."

I could be wrong, but my take is that my niece took her clues, on a lot of what she laughed at, was what she saw me laughing at. And I laughed at the most absurd parts of it. Part of the "enjoyment" was the constant "How do they think up this stuff?" running commentary.

So, maybe it was the difference between using TV (and mainly cartoons) as an electronic baby sitter, as opposed to a parent-child interaction.

I was the baby sitter. So, that part was covered. One of the parents was missing, so I had to fill in that role. Maybe therein lies the answer.

And for the record.............

As kids, my generation saw a lot more mayhem, violence, disrespectful behavior, and people shouting "Ah, shut up!", by watching all those Looney Tunes. And look how we turned out! (We will forget the hippies, as they don't count. Even the ones who became Wall Street bigwigs.) (No, wait...............maybe that is the reason Wall Street is so screwed up. They were all anti-capitalist hippies, at one time. Explains why they believe in capitalism on the way up, and socialism on the way down.) (Did I ever mention how much I hate hippies?)
 
KrimsonNinja said:
Am I missing something or is shooting someone extremely violent?
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More so, when you take into account this all started as how things were no longer following a Biblical perspective.

I guess the proper response should have been "They should be stoned." Violent, but keeping the Biblical way. Maybe we should tie this person down, and make them watch the "Life of Brian". They may have a heart attack. (Ooops.............passive aggressive violence. Sorry.)

"OK, who threw that.................who threw that stone. No one is throwing any stones, at anyone, until I give the word."
 
cuda.1973 said:
Yes, I am serious. I won't post all the gory details, as funny as I found them, but we had a great knock-down drag-out, last night, when a certain family member made that proclamation. Followed by "Any parent who lets their children watch that should be shot! It is horrible. No one is nice to anyone. All they do is shout and hit each other."
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What, The Three Stooges? ;)
 
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