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post #21 of 37
2/7/04 at 5:47pm
Nope, raver kids were a bonus aftermarket. Having been a raver and now having a toddler...it was clearly produced for preschoolers...but pleasant for everyone.
But yes, created bythe same people.

The boobah accents have not been altered as much as the teletubbies. But the first few years of the teletubbies we had it in the original British. I wish it still was...
post #22 of 37
2/7/04 at 6:22pm
Thread Starter 
Hey! I have an idea. Maybe we can use the boob emoticon thread over in TAO to inspire us computer junkies to excersice...:LOL
post #23 of 37
2/7/04 at 8:00pm
Tee hee I LOVE BOOHBAH!!!!!!!! They were one thing my ds21mths would watch/have on, enabling me to cook a meal !! He thinks they are funny and I kinda like the goofiness of it. He has gone off them slightly now and prefers Henson creations, but they will always have a place in our hearts!!!
post #24 of 37
2/8/04 at 1:01am
:LOL heathere, i'm glad i'm not the only one. the other day i mentioned that to a friend of mine and his response was something like "oh, i think caillou is sweet." :Puke i really didn't know how to respond to that. i thought maybe he is just nicer than i am... but no, caillou really is whiney.
post #25 of 37
2/9/04 at 3:28am
Okay, I had to bump up this thread to post a link to the most hilarious review of Boohbah, you will really laugh, go read it



http://slate.msn.com/id/2094649

my sister is the writer, she's the new TV reviewer for slate.com. i'm so proud...
post #26 of 37
2/9/04 at 12:48pm
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I'm going to go out on a limb and wager that Boohbah doesn't make it in the United States. Unlike Teletubbies' toddler demographic, a 5- or 6-year-old can actually figure out how to change the channel, and it's going to take more than the gyrations of five phallic gumdrops to reverse the great American tradition of watching television while sitting on your ass. But what do I know? I miss the old-school liberal humanism of Sesame Street, where characters who actually spoke sat down to talk about the joys and pains of growing up, and there was never a problem distinguishing between Ernie and Bert.
: Your sister really tells it like it is! Thanks!
post #27 of 37
2/9/04 at 4:21pm
phallic gumdrops... bahaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!

i haven't seen boobah - and i'm not feeling bad about that... there was an interview with their creator on npr and that was suffiecient to turn me off. i hate teletubbies with their goofy gibberish-baby talk and their creepy pink custard... and that vacuum thing...
i'm starting to really wonder about some of pbs' programming lately. ita with mamathistle and the other posters about whiny caillou - i can't stand him either - and i banned dragon tales from our house too after sitting through one too many episodes with whiny ord and those annoying 2-headed-drangon-siblings-whose-names-i-can't-remember... i get the idea that there's no violence, and it's a mostly harmless show, but i don't need to promote whining; and i frankly can't deal with screechy creatures going "looooooooove iiiiiiit!!!" every few minutes.
we just stick to our blue's clues videos with steve (no joe!)
no commercials, no violence, no whining - and while i realize the inherent weirdness, not only of talking salt and pepper shakers, but also of the idea that salt + pepper = paprika...
i still prefer chatty housewares to big trippy kewpie dolls.
and just don't get me started on how much sesame street sucks these days...
post #28 of 37
2/9/04 at 4:41pm
Phallic CHENILLE gumdrops, no less!!!
post #29 of 37
2/9/04 at 4:47pm
This was a hit at our house for a total of one week. We set the VCR to tape it and would let ds watch when we got home from school so dinner could be made.

He really did get up and jump around and scream Boobah! I think, though, that it really was below his level.

Oh, I forgot to mention that whoever was watching with him, had to get up and move too. No sitting for the whole show permitted.

:LOL
post #30 of 37
3/12/04 at 12:16am

hahaha

You mama's are cracking me up...we don't have a tv anymore, and hearing about this uncircumsized tellitubbie invasion on pbs supports my theories. Last October I got rid of the tv while my daughter and now ex were sleeping i dumped at a goodwill. they freaked. we went through a whole detox like kicking a drug habit.

my dd (3 yrs) loves dragon tales and other pbs shows, she gets to watch them every friday at her grandpa's house..so this is enough tv...one hour a week...

but now i even want to check out the lsd -simulator - try- to -make- the- toddlers -exercise -show...like morpid curiosity i guess...

i too fall into the conspiracy alien mode, just when flipping through the network news....FUCK TV is my vote....just lies to make us dumb docile wage slaves that can't think for ourselves...so that war and the destruction of our freedoms as americans seems like not as big a deal as the acid like tellitubbies that are so spooky they make us look...FUCK IT...ok i am digressing sorry....

I know I am a freak
post #31 of 37
3/12/04 at 1:49am
:LOL Oh my fellow Mamas..... you laides haveme hysterical over here! I can't wait to tell my husband about the "phallic gumdrop" comment...he will find that hysterical...as he struggled the other day to come up with a way to describe them to me...

I'm anti Boobah's and Cailou myself. My 2 year old watched Cailou a couple months ago and spent the rest of the day imitating his whines and cries. After that day I insisted it never be shown in my house again. It seems most parents agree about Cailou's exsessive whining...I wonder how many of those parents have placed complaints/comments w/ PBS.....??
post #32 of 37
3/12/04 at 2:19am
My dd doesn't like Boobah. Who can blame these kids? They know that these things are just too weird to be fun. She unfortunately LOVES Caillou. Ugg! I dig Clifford, and I actually like Arthur, but some of these shows are just too whiney. We don't have cable, so our only choice is PBS Kids, but luckily dd has been asking to turn the tv off lately. Rock on 2 year old!

pamamidwife - I loved that you called them kewpie doll heads too. dh asked me to describe Boobah, and all I could think of was fuzzy dumplings with kewpie doll heads. I think I confused him more, but it's true!
post #33 of 37
3/12/04 at 10:10am
Is it just me and my mom or do those Boohbahs pass gas with every move they make? I've noticed Teletubbies do something similar occasionally. We were laughing so hard through a whole "exercise" segment. My four year old says to me "Mommie, they are not gassing. That is just the sound they make when the stuff inside them wiggles around" lol As for getting kids to exercise more... well, not my kids. My kids sit perfectly still staring blankly at them. They definitely don't copy those Boohbahs.
post #34 of 37
3/12/04 at 10:52am
I'm with Pynki...my kids say they are boobies!!

Big colorful bouncing boobies

Real ones tho, not implants!!
post #35 of 37
3/12/04 at 11:38am
My son (17mos) likes those Boobah things. I think they're odd, but, oh well. Phallic gumdrop boobie thingys.

I don't get those farting sounds they make as they move around. He'll watch the show for about 15 minutes before he does something else. He gets bored at about the "Storypeople" time.

I don't let him watch Teletubbies. Not since he's started saying "uh oh" for hello & everything else... I don't want him picking up bad language habits from the TV. If he learns if from me, however...:LOL I had the same issue with "Maizy" when we had cable. I don't like Caillou, either. Whiney little twerp.

And "The Street" ain't what it used to be....sigh....
post #36 of 37
4/6/04 at 7:07pm
Julia hates the Teletubbies now but really likes Boobah...I personally don't see the big difference there. Ok so it's not the most educational show but it is fun. Mamathistle...that's funny about your breasts cause Julia calls mine "beebahs." When John saw the show for the first time he kept asking Julie if it was called beebahs.
post #37 of 37
4/7/04 at 4:47am

I have finally seen some of this

and personally had I not read on this forum they are supposed to be atoms I would have thought..
anyway I now see why my 7 yr rolls in his eyes in disgust and ask they not be on
and why my 5 yr is terrified of them..

I couldn't follow it either.. some of the 'exercise" stuff if it was really exercise??

and Caillou -nope sorry disagree with some folks who tell me he shows AP in a favourable light
AP is not about raising whiny get my way no matter what brats!!
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