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A look at the creative process behind Bluey and Cocomelon (2024)

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Post by relaxing »

artursapek wrote: post #131
relaxing wrote: post #104

Bluey and Peppa Pig are so effective my children have started speaking with foreign accents D: It’s deeply disappointing the US can’t come up with anything comparable. Sesame Street is a shadow of what it once was — the kids won’t sit down for it at all. Daniel Tiger tests slightly better, but christ is the tone patronizing.

that means they're listening to the TV show talk more than their parents lol

If you’ve got ways to work more flashlights and butts into everyday conversation, instead of torches and bumshuffles, I’m all ears.

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Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL »

IshKebab wrote: post #107
Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #9

Well, I was horrified the first time I saw the Cocomelon and was unsettled as a dad. This article explains why. I need to check Bluey, we watched Miraculous, tales of Ladybug with our kids and enjoyed it (the plot is for adults). There is a whole bunch of "junk food" in both tv and videogames (those were you win no matter what). I'm hoping things get better.

Bluey is easily the best children's TV. I mean I'd barely class it as children's TV; it's good by adult standards. It's a bit annoying really because there isn't anything else like it at all. I would say the closest things are Pixar films which manage to appeal to adults and children. I'm not aware of any TV like that though. Apart from Bluey we're stuck with trash like Paw Patrol, Bing, Blippi, etc. There are a smal…

Indeed Pixar movies are the other option when we want to watch them with them.

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Post by spelunker »

davidsojevic wrote: post #123
mdjt wrote: post #90

When I was a kid my favourite show was Mr Rogers. I get the sense that Bluey is the closest we have to that level of energy in a kids show these days. I don’t have children yet but I look after my niece after school and we watch Bluey now and again. Even Bluey completely absorbs her. I can wave my hands in front of her face and she doesn’t notice. I’d like to think that that wasn’t the case with me and Mr Rogers but…

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood [0] is directly based on the character by the same name from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.' Daniel Tiger is one of the very, very few TV shows we let our daughter watch, and it teaches emotional regulation so incredibly well and has plenty of tunes that I've caught her singing to herself, such as "it's okay to feel sad sometimes, little by little, you'll feel better again" I'm in Australia…

I had a similar revelation after watching a few episodes with my daughter! Wait a minute, that intro song sounds familiar... and the names of the characters sound kind of familiar...

Anyway it's her favorite show. Definitely a fan.

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Post by arolihas »

pfannkuchen wrote: post #58
danielvaughn wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this a serious question?

Completely serious. I understand it's very ingrained in our culture at this point that this is a thing people do. But, if I decontextualize enough mentally, it starts to feel quite strange: manipulating one's brain into having a negative emotional reaction.

It's not negative to be moved to tears. And it's not manipulative to watch a tv show. I don't think you're decontextualizing as much as you're trying to adopt some alien contrarian viewpoint.

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Post by markus_zhang »

jeffrallen wrote: post #55
markus_zhang wrote: post #16

I watched a few episode of Bluey and I feel they are really great for parents. So great that I think they are meant for parents, not children...

Healthy, emotionally secure parents raise good kids. "Put your own mask on before helping others..."

Yeah that's so hard to achieve, especially if one's own parents are not like that.

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Post by sakopov »

paradox460 wrote: post #67
sakopov wrote: post #61

I heard awful things about Cocomelon. My 17-months-old doesn't watch TV much, but when she does it's usually old Soviet cartoons lol.

My children both love nupogodi and the animated Hungarian folk tales

Nu Pogodi is exactly what my kiddo watches too!

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Post by mbrock »

justgaurav wrote: post #28
dmagee wrote: post #17

Watching the Cricket episode made me tear up. https://www.bluey.tv/watch/season-3/cricket/

The Rain episode is pretty cool too. It has almost no words apart from the goodbye at start. The good thing about bluey is that it teaches kids to do mischievous things and gives you ideas to do fun activities with kids. https://www.bluey.tv/watch/season-3/rain/

this is the one where my wife came in while I was watching Bluey in the morning with the kids and she's like hey did something happen you're crying a lot

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Post by abracadaniel »

ashton314 wrote: post #19
Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #9

Well, I was horrified the first time I saw the Cocomelon and was unsettled as a dad. This article explains why. I need to check Bluey, we watched Miraculous, tales of Ladybug with our kids and enjoyed it (the plot is for adults). There is a whole bunch of "junk food" in both tv and videogames (those were you win no matter what). I'm hoping things get better.

Bluey is next-level. S-tier television. It’s wholesome, calm, and entertaining. Episodes like Camping, Baby Race, Cricket, and Onesies are all emotional sucker-punches to the adults watching. (My pet theory, which my wife first suggested: Camping is essentially the Star Trek TNG episode Darmok.)

I never noticed before, but I think you’re right. The French dog is even named Jean-Luc.

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Post by 3minus1 »

As a morning parent of a toddler, part of the morning routine is playing a toddler exercise video. It's funny, my initial thinking was to burn some of the toddler's energy before sitting down to breakfast, but at this point it's definitely more for me. Sometimes the toddler even complains but I've come to really enjoy doing some stretches in the morning.

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Post by mvieira38 »

mdjt wrote: post #90

When I was a kid my favourite show was Mr Rogers. I get the sense that Bluey is the closest we have to that level of energy in a kids show these days. I don’t have children yet but I look after my niece after school and we watch Bluey now and again. Even Bluey completely absorbs her. I can wave my hands in front of her face and she doesn’t notice. I’d like to think that that wasn’t the case with me and Mr Rogers but…

No screens is the best way, because any screen is just too absorbing for a kid. The tough thing is you have to do it for yourself, too, or they will very quickly figure out the hypocrisy.
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