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To eat his own
The kids watched “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” last night, which I consider one of the lesser Peanuts TV specials. There was an awful history-of-Thanksgiving Peanuts show on afterwards, which I’d never heard of and suspect was found under a desk at CBS headquarters. Kids today have no idea how good they have it when it comes to animantion. Hannah-Barbera dreck and terrible first-wave anime (sorry, Speed Racer, you don’t hold up) was the norm in the 1970s.
The kids found three things odd about “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”:
- At the end, the kids pile into the back of a station wagon, with no seatbelts or car seats. “That’s the way it was in 1973. Nobody had bike helmets, either,” I told them, their eyes wide with shock.
- “Is that a boy or a girl?,” my 8-year-old daughter said after watching Peppermint Patty. “Well....,” I said.
- My daughters, both vegetarians, where stunned when Woodstock — a bird — digs into the turkey.
Yes, that was kind of weird.
posted by Kid You Not at
4:12 PM
2 Comments:
Reading this for the first time I wonder why you say "All you need is a brain, some courage and a heart. Oh, and some Jager" Do kids get Jager? How do you speak about role modeling, a responsible life and parenting experiences when this site is viewed by 10-16 year klds, and you, as,a parent, say Jager is part of your parenting model? Alcohol doesn't work for kids, nor does it work for most adults when you think about it. Kids need to see a responsible, practical means to solve problems and negeotiate a complex world filled with media influences that sell substance abuse on all levels, legal, implied, and unspoken by inference. I'm 48, have drank since I was 15, drank alot less since I was 40 and now have 6yo boys. Blog that. Kind Regards T80out
I was lucky to grow up in the 80's. We had Transformers, GI Joe, Mysterious Cities of Gold, and others. Good animation quality and some of the best voice acting in US cartoons.
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