I have always hated Barney. If you add up the numerical values of the letters in "big purple dinasoar" they give 666. But my toddler has started sitting very still whenever that crud is on the TV. Thinking any trance state was better than watching junior disassemble our computer/work-room, I let him watch some Barney tapes his older cousins let us have.

Some of them are old bootlegs. Others are . . . movies, about life in Barneyworld.

One thing I noticed, and Frau Dr. noticed also, was that the older tapes (c. 1992-5) show the kids singing songs, some of which are US-patriotic.

But the later tapes lack these songs. Instead, they sing about protecting the earth. The newer tapes also stress Barney's magical powers. There's one, with an Easter egg, and but they never talk about anything religious; just that the egg is wonderful, etc.

The songs are EXTREMELY repetitive. They are familiar songs with rewritten lyrics. After you watch the kidshow long enough, you cannot remember the original lyrics. Another parent (not an ATS member!) mentioned this same creepy effect. The songs have body motions that go with them. Well, repetitive motions plus repetitave words = reprogramming, right?

The shows on the cartoon network and Disney are even worse. ALthough disney is supposedly aimed at Children, the content is often more teenage, i.e. relationship/intimacy questions. Nothing for a 2 year old, THAT's for sure. What happened t mickey and donald?

The content is very internationalist/NWO, all about sensitivity and teamwork on every level.

I know this thread is only of interest to young parents, but I just wondered if any of you other paranoiacs have questions about the content of other kids' programming?

I forgot all about that!
The muppets and their guests. Man. that's a whole 'nother field for research.

No bout a doubt it. Barney is EVIL

The thing is though...I was having some serious thought earlier this evening on the subject of the anti-christ and my vote was for Mickey Mouse.

It's hard to decide which is the more evil. lol.

I mean, Hell...the word 'Evil" IS overrused these days. My co-worker swears tomatoes are evil

And she's never even seen Attack of the Killer tomatoes. A bit before her time.Heheheheee

I love it how they can turn vicious meat eating animals (T-Rex/Barney, Bears) into loveable childrens guru's.

The TeleTubbies, now their evil!

I was at the supermarket and this kid passed this other kid and he said 'hello' like the teletubbies, the other kid replied likewise. This continued for about 4 isles, 'hello' 'hello' 'hello' 'hello' 'hello' 'hello' 'hello'. . . ahhhh!

Many kids don't like barney. They use to have this horrible song about him.

My daughter never got into Barney.
She watched the teletubbies for a very short while, and I was glad when she wasn't interested anymore.
Both Barney and the Teletubbies drive me absolutely crazy.

Originally posted by parrhesia
My daughter never got into Barney.
She watched the teletubbies for a very short while, and I was glad when she wasn't interested anymore.
Both Barney and the Teletubbies drive me absolutely crazy.

The purple tele with his purse is funny.

Pisky nice pic the photoshop is kinda obvious where his hand overlaps the tower...

Reprogramming right. I am firmly against any sort of "childrens'" television because the early developmental satges are so poorly understood. So who knows what those weird songs are doing.

Oh, and about disney channel, its simply a PR machine churning out Pro-Disney propoganda 24/7. Basically what they do is dump all their unsuccessful movies on there once in a while. Now NWO infulence, I'm open to that. Disney is a pretty old corporation. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Disney's top execs were involved in the NWO. I don't watch a whole lot of TV. The old adage about it rotting your brain is mostly true. What happens is you start to rely on the TV to think for you, which leads to mental atrophy.

Repeat after me: TV IS BAD...TV IS BAD!

Well over here in Australia, we used to have , maybe still do have Mr Squiggle, a puppet with a pencil for a nose, who can make something out of nothing, now theres hellspawn if ive ever seen it