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Some children’s shows on TV teach the children about colors, numbers and the alphabet. Some will just leave them scarred for life. Many of these shows have been broadcast in several countries – I’ve only listed the country of origin.
This animated show is fairly innocent. It’s about two bunnies, Max and his big sister Ruby. What makes the show slightly bizarre is that their parents are never there. Ruby takes care of Max as if she was his mother, despite the fact that she’s supposed to be seven years old… Surely, social services would have something to say here?
The main character Stephanie is human and arrives in LazyTown to live with her uncle who’s a puppet. She then urges all of her new friends who are all puppets to play outside. Robbie Rotten who’s human tries to make them eat junk food instead. The mix of human and puppets is pretty weird to me. And the whole show is just so keyed up that my head aches.
Maybe I’m just too old, but I’m still puzzled by Teletubbies. I mean, what are they supposed to be? Why do they have screens on their stomachs? Who is the voice? Why is there a baby in the sun? Also, Teletubbies has been rumored to be gay propaganda because of Tinky Winky’s color, the triangle on his head and the fact that he carries a handbag. At one point the Polish Ombudsman for Children planned to do an investigation of this, but she later dropped it.
OK, so apparently children love this show but it’s hands with eyeballs! The developers could at least have used hand puppets… Also, the hands don’t speak in proper sentences but just utter a few words. After watching this, I am now sure to get nightmares about talking hands.
So, what’s more bizarre than anthropomorphic vegetables playing instruments (even though they have no arms)? Anthropomorphic vegetables playing instruments and teaching Biblical values!
I must admit that I’ve only watched one episode of this, but that was bizarre enough. The boy Shimajirou is taught how to use the toilet – including the parents singing about what he’s doing on the toilet, the toilet itself inviting him to sit on it and the “wee wee” saying “yahoo” as it goes down the drain.
This is a crystal playing the violin. I don’t have anything to add – just watch the clip…
This is best described as five splotches of color, dancing, seemingly high on speed. They have names like Zing Zing Zingbah and Jingbah. They live in the Boohball, a big white ball that appears out of thin air. They don’t talk, they squeak. To sum it up: bizarre!
This show includes aspects such as the very scary puppet Chip the Black Boy, a man who can neither play the guitar nor sing but does it anyway, Teddy Eddie – a singing panda, and constantly telling the kids “not to do drugs”. Frankly, I’ve never wanted to do drugs as much as after watching this.
With episode titles such as “Farfour and the AK-47″, this show definitely goes a bit further than teaching children about the alphabet. Antisemitism, anti-Americanism, and Islamism are common themes on the show. Three of the characters on the show have been Farfour, a Mickey Mouse look-a-like, Nahoul, a bumble bee, and Assoud, a rabbit. In the show, they have all been killed in the war against the Israelis, making them martyrs.
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June 29th, 2009 at 1:31 am
Grew up on Veggie tales!
June 29th, 2009 at 1:32 am
kiddie stuff! yey!
June 29th, 2009 at 1:34 am
all these shows are in one way or another influenced by drugs especially the panda
June 29th, 2009 at 1:35 am
i definitely love listverse.. it’s so cool..and full of fun stuff..
i’m an avid fan.. heehee
June 29th, 2009 at 1:40 am
teletubbies are lame.. *toinks*
June 29th, 2009 at 1:42 am
how do i put my picture here?? anyone?? pls??
June 29th, 2009 at 1:54 am
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!!! Teletubbies!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh! evil!!!
btw… where’s Peewee’s playhouse?… that’s scary too!
June 29th, 2009 at 1:56 am
Oh the poor children……
June 29th, 2009 at 1:58 am
#1 definitely takes the cake…. no wonder some Palestinians are a few grams short of a kilo
given this kind of programming and brainwashing at an early age.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:03 am
The description of Lazy Town immediately made me think of Salad Fingers. The only thing disturbing in #1 is martyrdom. That shouldn’t be taught to children, or anyone. The anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism and Islam teachings seem pretty normal given what America and Israel do to them, plus it is an Islamic state after all.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:06 am
Man, the first one is sick. I can’t believe they have a little girl presenting the show and have little kids phoning in. Makes me sick. The other shows are just surreal but at least they’re not promoting stuff like that.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:09 am
You all should know that Israel has a very similar program to number 1, basically vice versa everything, including songs about biting ppls tongues out, and number 10 you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between an israeli and palestinian, so keep that stuff to yourself … lately i’ve been noticing a bias on this site, it talks about the negative aspects of almost all the major religions/cultures/societies in world, except for Judaism/Israel/etc, please correct me if I am wrong, i want to be wrong. But until then i don’t think i’ll be coming to this site again, which sucks because i really enjoy this site, because i thought the information was presented with the least amount of bias possible.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:15 am
weird.. i’ll friggin burn their houses once i know where they are.. harrr..
June 29th, 2009 at 2:16 am
Tinky Winky is a gay midget!
June 29th, 2009 at 2:35 am
obviosly you have neer seen ” a town called panic”
makes all these others pale in comparison with its level of absurdity
June 29th, 2009 at 2:35 am
look it up on you tube or something
you will understand
June 29th, 2009 at 2:38 am
cool. teletubbies. they aired here in the philippines. they aired only in 2 months coz nobody watches them. hahaha
June 29th, 2009 at 2:45 am
@ 18 your bad ha!
ok some of them are not familiar to me, i was raised with dragonball, heidi, cedie, some old japanese cartoons! sesame street,
but until now, i’m still watching spongebob,
June 29th, 2009 at 2:46 am
My youngest daughter watches a programme called ‘In the Night Garden’ the creators were definitely on drugs…..the characters have names like ‘Makka Pakka’ ‘Iggle Piggle’ and the ‘The Ninky Nonk’ WIERD
June 29th, 2009 at 2:49 am
Happy Tree Friends is my number one!
June 29th, 2009 at 2:49 am
Bizarre indeed.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:53 am
great list! thought i’d see stuff like the clangers and the moomins on here, but this stuff is much weirder. i remember seeing clips from #2 on charlie brooker’s screenwipe: fecking scary stuff! that puppet would have given me nightmares as a kid!
June 29th, 2009 at 2:57 am
rain (18) : I used to watch teletubbies as a kid. Am I the only one? I actually remember playing a computer game of teletubbies and Dipsy hates to wear skirts.
June 29th, 2009 at 3:00 am
Try Dutch TV… in the late 80’s, early 90’s, they had a kids show called “Purno the Purno”. It was made by Hoochie Coo Productions…
In the early 80’s there was a show called “De Film Van Ome Willem”, which loosely translates to “Uncle Williams Picture Show”. He started every episode by asking 4th graders:
“Lusten jullie ook een broodje poep.” The translation: (Y’all better sit down for this.)
“Would all of you like to eat a shit sandwich?”
June 29th, 2009 at 3:42 am
I really enjoyed the veggie tales, Barbara Manatee, you are the one for me!
June 29th, 2009 at 3:55 am
lolol
June 29th, 2009 at 3:59 am
another interesting list…
June 29th, 2009 at 4:29 am
Lazytown are excellent. It moves my kid around and – to some extent – moves him away from junk food.
June 29th, 2009 at 4:31 am
It’s funny how much bashing loomney tunes got back in the day…..all that violence and such…now the good word(whatever that may be) is spread through subliminal messages. makes you wonder….
June 29th, 2009 at 4:35 am
I’m pretty sure that the reason I never got my Nobel Prize was because of the damage I suffered as a child from watching “Lunch with Soupy Sales” everyday.
June 29th, 2009 at 4:48 am
Where’s Spongebob? A talking sponge, a singing tuna, a sea under the ocean with surfing sport , an octupos-cum-squid and a squirell in a bowl? Weird…
he…he
June 29th, 2009 at 5:00 am
Good list,
But you’ve missed out ‘Wizbit’…. seriously, youtube it!
June 29th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Hahaha… i’ve watched some of these (as a teenager), and I must say… they are bizzare!
June 29th, 2009 at 5:30 am
I was flipping through channels a few years back and watched about 10 minutes of the Boobah show. When I saw the clip again today I can’t help but wonder why those “splotches of color” head parts resemble so closely penises….
June 29th, 2009 at 5:33 am
Very interesting list, egernunge. Some of these I have seen before…it’s amazing what they will show on TV nowadays.
Veggie tales are banned from my house. They are just too disturbing. Teletubbies makes me drool and glassy eyed. Worst show ever. Lazy Town isn’t really bad but boring even for kids.
But they are beat by the mindless drivel of The Adventures of Captain Flapjack (I think I got that right) My kid watches this horrible show and thinks it’s funny. It’s not funny…it’s gross.
June 29th, 2009 at 5:39 am
Haha! lazy town. *sigh* I miss the Wax-guy, Robby.
June 29th, 2009 at 5:49 am
My oldest daughter watches Max and Ruby…and I always say “WHERE ARE THEIR PARENTS?!?!” Sure, they have a Grandma that stops by now and again, but they’re always baking her cakes and hosting Tea Parties for her. WTF? LOL!
Ruby has the patience of an angel too! The show cracks me up!
June 29th, 2009 at 5:53 am
Ugh.. Max and Ruby is the most irritating cartoon ever! I never let my daughter watch it. Every time she does, her vocabulary goes down to one-word sentences like Max.
What’s really weird in Lazy Town is the guy who is half-human and half-prosthetic! Totally bizarre!
David Leibe Hart, who is the puppeteer featured on #2, is also a regular on “Tim and Eric’s Awesome Show” He is hilarious! Apparently, as a child, he met Jim Henson, who inspired him
June 29th, 2009 at 5:56 am
Veggie Tales is hilarious and teaches biblical values at the same time. If biblical values aren’t your thing, it’s still worth the watch because it is just plain funny. Especially the older episodes and specials.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:07 am
I’ve seen Max & Ruby, and I think it’s really cute. Max is probably the best depiction of a really little kid I’ve seen in a kids show. Weird about the parents, though.
Oh, and Boobah! I saw the intro to that show one time and it was HORRIFYING!!! Those eyes!!!
June 29th, 2009 at 6:13 am
Max & Ruby is cute – but I too wondered where the parents were all the time. I watched LazyTown a few times and it’s fun to watch, but I couldn’t watch every episode. :O
June 29th, 2009 at 6:18 am
I didn’t read the whole list but just dropped in to express my sheer hatred of teletubies. It is the worst and most bizarre show that I’ve ever watched. I never even liked it as a kid. But still, all the nonsense-ness makes it funny now (but still, I am too scared to watch that show)
June 29th, 2009 at 6:21 am
Yo Gabba Gabba is another one I don’t get. A bunch of dolls that come to life. Then they sing about a party in there tummy when they eat something. That show is bizarre.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:23 am
The Wiggles creep me out something fierce. I was surprised that it wasn’t on the list.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:31 am
I strongly object to you putting the Shimajiro stuff together with the Palestinian Mickey Mouse. To begin with, Shimajiro is NOT a TV cartoon, it is an educational series of books and a DVD with stories related to the contents on the books comes along every two months together with the books. The books and other materials such as edu-toys (as they are called in Japan) are a monthly feature that people subscribe to. You are judging a whole educational program by admittedly watching just one spot posted in YouTube. The Shimajiro series start when the kid is one year old and “grows” along until the kid goes to school teaching how to read and write (of course kanjis) and also teaches English to the children.
There couldn’t be absolutely any doubt about the high quality of the series and placing it along with definitely weird TV programs is absolutely unfair and mostly wrong. BTW, I don’t work or am related to the creators or distributors of the series in any way, I am just being fair; something that you have denied to the character by not investigating properly your content!
June 29th, 2009 at 6:46 am
I think Max & Ruby iw cute even though it is weird they have no parents. I agree w/ Xantra, The Wiggles are creepy as hell. The fact that they are so popular always astounds me.
Another weird cartoon is “Oswald”, this show about an octopus. Even though he has an amazingly soothing voice, he has adog that resembles a hot dog for a pet.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:49 am
Got cut off-I think #5 should have been higher. That is just disgusting!
June 29th, 2009 at 6:59 am
Anyone of us who grew up watching Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, H.R. Puffinstuf, or any of the other Sid & Marty Kroft shows know that SERIOUSLY drug induced kid’s shows are nothing new.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:03 am
Think of the Children. Please, won’t somebody think of the children…
June 29th, 2009 at 7:20 am
If you are bored (which you probably are, being on listverse and all
a catchy part of LazyTown is a video my friend sent to me a couple months ago.
Youtube LazyTown – Lil Jon Remix.
The original song is so catchy and lil jon just brings the humor factor.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:24 am
I’ve seen the no.2 before and as an adult I was totally creeped out (religon and TV should never mix) and Lazy Town…………the only time I saw it I thought I was dreaming because it was so surreal.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:28 am
I have a 3 yeard old and Yo Gabba Gabba is the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:41 am
My niece has made me watch Max & Ruby tons of times and I’ve never noticed the lack of parents… maybe because I’m not one.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:43 am
“mommy, when i grow up, i want to be a suicide bomber!”
#1 is sick – it has got to be the worst
June 29th, 2009 at 7:46 am
Um…wow. Pioneers of Tomorrow has a really creepy cult vibe to it. Not saying Muslim is a cult, but man, that is a creepy show.
And the Boohbahs. Their website is awesome, however.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Yup, these are all pretty bizarre shows.
As an Israeli, i strongly disagree with gubermiester (comment #12) – there isn’t a single show that calls for killing Palestinians on Israeli TV, now or ever. If you claim there is one – show us proof (Ex. a youtube clip). Plus, if you think the website is biased, no one is stopping you from writing a list yourself.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:54 am
@mcamp (43):
@Cannons11 (52):
I was wondering if anyone would mention that! I’ve only seen little bits but its dolls creep me out. For everyone else’s viewing “pleasure”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX-nnauvOn4&feature=related
couldn’t find better vid quality without it being remixed. but those spoofs are pretty funny too
June 29th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Yo Gabba Gabba take two:
June 29th, 2009 at 8:11 am
This is my contribution from Mexico, “Odisea Burbujas” features a giant lizard, mouse, toad, bumblebee and nutty profesor who travel through space and time in a UFO made out from a cup of coffee, an LP, and a pair of straws.
The atmosphere was just surreal:
June 29th, 2009 at 8:11 am
THANK YOU!!!!..Oobi is very disturbing, I take it off when I see my kids watching it (i’m only 24 by the way). And Lazytown,… GOD, DAMN, LAZYTOWN. My only real problem with it is that the charater Sportacus is way too fuckin’ hyper ALL THE TIME. like he just finished doing speed or juicing up or some shit.He gets my kids all jumpy and they wanna jump off the couches and all kinds of crap all thanks to this cornball in blue underarmor. Oh, and there’s no way Sportacus isnt Jean-claude Van Damme with a moustache, IT’S GOTTA BE.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:15 am
We all know that the Disney Corp cracks down swift and direct at even the tiniest infringement of their royal copyrighted rat. So why does this exist? I have seen this clip before on the internet and thought nothing of it initially, believing it was fake subtitles added after the fact, but it is a real show. I hate to be a WIKI quoter here, so I wont, but the WIKI page info on Tomorrow’s Pioneers is worth the read.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:23 am
Boobah is sorta what I imagine heaven to be like
June 29th, 2009 at 8:24 am
how has no one commented on the rape van in the intro to max and ruby? Encouraging kids to be excited about a big van without windows driven by strangers? that was teh part that disturbed me most.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:27 am
How about doing a Top 10 Best TV Shows for Kids?
I nominate my favourites, Art Attack and Popular Mechanics for Kids!
June 29th, 2009 at 8:34 am
All of the above, weird? yes. But no one has mentioned “The Magic Roundabout”. Check it out, pure stoner gold!
June 29th, 2009 at 8:46 am
A light-hearted list is nice once in a while… especially after something like lobotomy.
I second a list on the best TV shows for kids
Weirdest show for me would have to be Tarepanda though I’m not sure if it’s aimed at kids.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:47 am
My favourite has to be “The Singing Kettle” from Scotland.
A kettle is a teapot in Scotland and the program is like karaoke for kids.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Tomorrow’s Pioneers is pure bottled insanity. Seeing Mickey Mouse sobbing over the corpse of his grandfather, being beaten and interrogated by Israelis and finally hearing of his martyrdom – ah, to be a child in Palestine!
June 29th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Mmmmm – Bizarre weird some of them Im sure a few kids have gone to bed and had a sleepless night.
I just feel that the onus is on the parents as to what kids are, or not allowed to watch. ( Only my pennies worth )
Thanks egernunge.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:55 am
It’s been mentioned but yo gabba gabba is definitely up there along with peewees playhouse. What has not been mentioned is this really fucked up cartoon that comes on ctoon network these days.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:00 am
#1 is just sick.
Seriously
June 29th, 2009 at 9:10 am
I had a Drama teacher who was obsessed with Lazy town… so much so it influenced our production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour dreamcoat… Imagine what you will!
June 29th, 2009 at 9:23 am
Interesting list, I liked it very much. My daughter used to watch Lazy Town (boring as hell!!) Now she finds it boring too. I’m not familiar with the rest of the list, except for Teletubbies, and I must say I have no idea how they come up with such characters.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Hate Lazy Town, its disturbing!! My son used to like Oobi, It’s almost hypnotic. For some reason I have to watch it. Don’t know how that helps kids though. They talk like cavemen.
What about the Dooble Bops and Yo Gabba Gabba?
June 29th, 2009 at 9:36 am
I LOVE Lazy Town. I don’t know why, it’s just so entertaining! And then there’s always this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfLAv3JHRwY
Another edition to this list could be In the Night Garden. That show just… terrifies me.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Teletubbies are aliens and were captured by the British government. They live in that alien ship (the one with all the lights and wierd stuff) that crashed and now they are being held against their will.
The alarm sounds in the beginning and the end of the show which is their signal by the British government for the start and end time of their 30 min of free-time outside for exercise and relaxation.
Then they go back for more testing. They always cry at the end and say No, NO, NO!! But they know they have to go back into the hole or they will have to be punished for it. I almost feel bad for them.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:49 am
I could never understand the point of Boobah, all that dancing around and eye wiggling. I think maybe it was created to ’stimulate’ the eyes of babies… Probably brainwashes them too… Creeps…
June 29th, 2009 at 9:52 am
@jcavanagh (65): oh yeah!!! Dougal the stoner!
June 29th, 2009 at 10:00 am
I love veggie tales!
But does anyone remember when Steve left Blues-Clues to go to “college?” Sure steve sure… you drug addict.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Oh and what about courage the cowardly dog!??? That show freaked me out!
June 29th, 2009 at 10:05 am
nice list, but what about Marc twain’s adventure.. check it on youtube…
June 29th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Never before have I commented, but today is the day! I have been inspired to admit my deep dark secret… I LOVE the Boobahs. I don’t know why, but I think every bit of it is great. Even the creep-tastic way they say BOooOOObaaaah!! GREAT!!!!
So there, I’ve done it. I, a twenty year old woman, have admitted to the great people of listverse my deep dark secret. BooBahs are awesome.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:10 am
@ Looser: I remember Blues Clues. I actually liked that show. Too bad about Steve. ~sigh~
Also, how can you say that about Courage, The Cowardly Dog? I love that show. I always like it when Eustace gets in trouble and Courage has to save him. It always makes me laugh.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:14 am
I have to agree that most of these are insane, but I have always liked Veggie Tales, despite it’s really weird physics. I was just the right age when Veggie Tales came out that I loved them. I grew out of the phase, though, before the creators sold the copyrights to a corporation. The old VHS tapes I have are wittier and more fun than the “TV Show” version that airs today.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:17 am
I remember the days when I used to sit there in front of the TV and then clapped when the Teletubbies came.I still don’t know what the show is about but I love it.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:22 am
Teletubbies are Aliens!! See post 76. It’s a government conspiracy.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:27 am
It was mistranslated. Both my parents are full arabic and in the show it didn’t say “We will annihilate the Jews.”, rather, “The Jews will kill us.”
June 29th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Yeah I was always afraid of that, Teletubbies will one day enslave all of humanity and conquer the planet earth.
PS: No. 1 is seriously disturbing (yet funny
)
June 29th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Thing is,this site sucks just for the fact that it’s owner is a 3d degree-jew-sucking-hypocrite…besides..how many words of Arabic do you know to accuse an Arabic speaking kids show of antisemitism and all that b.s basing your opinion on one single episode.I think whomever came up with the list whether it’s “J” or someone else is antisemitic himself,is ego-centric cant see his head up his butt.
Before you write anymore lists in the future you should do your homework if ya-mean and at least i mean AT LEAST try not to be so full of hatred to Islam or any other religion,of what i’ve seen on this site so far when Islam is involved in any of the lists is either hatred,mockeries and stereo typing.I want you to look at societies in the west and their so-called freedom…how many times have you heard of a muslim kid killing all his classmates during lunch break? get it…This site lacks credibility with all that bias and hypocrisy.In the end..i’d like to say “Salam” which means peace…
June 29th, 2009 at 10:53 am
@WatAbout (70):
hahaha, i agree ‘chowder’ and ‘flapjack’ and a lot of the other crap an the cartoon network is too bizarre, even for me…makes me miss their early days when it was nothing but the flintstones and looney toons and popeye and such.
my favorite was ‘ren & stimpy’…i thought nothing of it other than pure grossness and awesomeness, and i still love it to this day but when i saw it for the first time in awhile recently i was almost perplexed at how it was on nickelodeon and rated that it was okay for kids age 7+. which brings me back to the point that when i was seven, i thought nothing of it other than awesomeness.
when you see something like that 20 years later, you interpret it differently and see things in it you didn’t really notice when you were seven, which is why i feel many parents overreact about some of the cartoons they’re ‘letting’ their kids watch. (however, most of the crap on nowadays is garbage anyway that i wouldn’t want my kids watching just because it’s too STUPID…things like chowder or flapjack, for example.)
i didn’t let my son watch teletubbies or boobah, but not for that reason. i think the ONLY audience for those shows should be small babies, no more than a year old. babies can’t talk so there’s no point in the characters actually speaking and that way they can concentrate on the colors. the sounds, movements and colors stimulate their mind or something. that’s why when my son was a baby he prefered those comcast commercials with the colored bubbles over anything else.
and dat’s my beat-uh-duh-day (YO GABBA GABBA SHOULD BEEN ON HERE!)
June 29th, 2009 at 11:03 am
# 89 iLLmaticist let your medication wear off, and get a clearer picture – this is a fun site were people contribute to the topic – dont get harsh and bring religion into it.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:21 am
The one odd show I watched as a child in the 70’s was Electric Company.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:24 am
@WatAbout (70): Forgot about Chowder. AWFUL show. Of course, my kid likes that one, too.
@iLLmaticist (89): Wow. Just spew some hate there. If the show doesn’t portray what is written on this list, then please inform us of what it does say. A few other people have pointed it out but you choose to throw around hate. Was that what you were trying for? To show hate and make the stereotype real? Good job, then. If now, then please enlighten us. Thanks.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Awww, I actually enjoyed the veggie tales clip! I found that hilarious ;3
The last one thought was damn scary ._.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Sorry for the double post, but joe rosson @ 92 reminded me of a show called Pinwheel. I still remember the jingle. That show was beyond weird.
I would like to point out that a cute show is Bear in the Big Blue House. At least not all children shows are disturbing.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:32 am
@FigN (45): “I strongly object to you putting the Shimajiro stuff together with the Palestinian Mickey Mouse.” It’s interesting to me that this list would inspire controversy, I never would have guessed. Possibly from people of the cultures or religions groups represented. But even if I belonged to one of those groups, the videos shown here are so awful as to not be a true representation.
I have to ask, did you watch the example of Shimajiro shown here? The toilet the child is using is a sentient being who smiles at him. The poo and pee have faces and also smile as they’re flushed away. That doesn’t strike you as weird? You may be right the DVD’s from Shimajiro my be good otherwise, but this clip sure isn’t. It’s so bad it’s “good.”
June 29th, 2009 at 11:36 am
@oouchan (95): haha, i remember pinwheel too! i don’t remember what it was about as i was only 2 or 3 at the time, but for some reason i too remember the song. ‘pinwheel, pinwheel, spinning around…look at my pinwheel, see what i found…’ uh, lame.
weird i remember things like that from when i was three but forget what i’m saying mid-sentence.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Veggie Tales kicks ass! The TV show isn’t that amazing, but the videos are awesome.
#1 is truly scary. The Teletubbies and Boobah REALLY creep me out. Like, I have to leave the lights on.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:42 am
@zuh. (97): weird i remember things like that from when i was three but forget what i’m saying mid-sentence.
I can so relate to that! Like ADD or something.
Oooo…look, a bunny!
By the way, I now have that song running through my head.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:53 am
@oouchan (99):
oh. my. god…i FOUND it!
June 29th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
My daughter regularly watches Max & Ruby, Lazytown and Oobi. The only one that really bugs me is Max & Ruby, and it’s not because of the parents thing- I just plain hate the kids’ personalities. Ruby is bossy and self absorbed, Max is whiny and far too old to have such a small vocabulary. Every episode is Max trying to tell Ruby something with only one word and Ruby ignoring him the whole episode. So annoying!
I do think Yo Gabba Gabba is missing. I love love love the show, but it is wiiieeerrrd. Another one I dig is the Hoobs. They’re not too strange on the surface (for a children’s show), but if you actually sit down and watch it, there are some very strong innuendos in there for the adults. Or maybe I’m reading so much into the gravelly voiced, motorcycle riding female alien and her dear friend “Dorothy”.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
@zuh. (100): bwahahaha! That was truly disturbing! I remember all the characters from seeing the clip. Especially the mime chick.
Wow…I feel old now.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Are these only recent shows because I think you may have forgotten HR Puffnstuff!!!! Psychadelic!!!
June 29th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
I want to go to the party on his tummy!!!!! Heyyy B3toooooo yeaaaaaaaahhhh B3toooo in his tummy!! Yeaah Yeahhh Yeaah!!! jajajaja that´s just messed up… I´m from Mexico too… and the “Odisea Burbujas”… well what can I say… Cool list, and thanks to gaby319, you just made my day!!! Who want´s to party in my tummy!!!!????
June 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Woah. Number One: that is one bizarre-@ss show. brrr.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
I remember watching Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirou while I was in Japan a few years ago. My family were staying with a friend of my mother’s and her family. The host family had these two little girls who were about preschool age. One morning, I sleeping in (I had a room to myself), the two little girls came in, turned on the television that was in my room, and started watching that show. It’s rather irritating to watch for me, being a teenager and not knowing the langague, though it was rather cute.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Boobah, is just too weird they’re like the druggie cousins of the Teletubbies.
My one year old LOVES the Teletubbies, he will run to the tv and laugh his ass off at that baby sun.
Lazy town isn’t so much as weird, just friggin annoying.
Yo Gabba Gabba is great, who wouldnt love a show created by a bunch of punk rocker dads?
June 29th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Teletubbies isn’t for kids.. It’s for babies n toddlers.. who speak mostly 1 or 2 words in a sentence. And somehow it kinda works for them, in a way we may never understand. I heard the show gained some awards from some British Kids Awards thingy or something. I don’t know.
My kids used to love em and i used to buy the DVDs even. That was before my kids learnt how to use YouTube.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Yo. I think some kids TV has always had an acid edge to it, I’m always reminded of The Clangers – even in the 70’s, nobody knew what the hell that was all about. They recently showed it again on late night TV. There was also something called Moomins. Strange… but not as strange as this list!
June 29th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3vGDmdEP_0&feature=player_embedded
Hamas’ “Mickey Mouse” is martyred because he wouldn’t sell his land to the Jews. Anti-sematic, racist, good-loving times: whatever you want to call it, that *stuff* should not be shown to any child of any race/country/religion. And if there is another one on the Israel side shown to Jewish children saying the same things towards the Muslims, that is just as sick and wrong.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
What no Barbapappa?
June 29th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Lazy town is from Canada on YTV,also there is a show my nephew watches called yo gabba gabba that is pretty bizarre but funny as hell to watch.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
“a man who can neither play the guitar nor sing but does it anyway”
That right there made me love this list lmao
June 29th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
What about Bananas in Pajamas? That was pretty freaking weird. I think it’s Australian, but it was on some channel in the US for a bit. I remember seeing it and thinking “WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?”
June 29th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
90 zuh.
Ren & Stimpy were originally on Nickelodeon and they weren’t that bad, but then John Kricfalusi was getting edgier, more violent and more bizarre than Nick cared to have so they dumped it.
Frankly, I’ve seen the newer version and it sucks. The old ones were the best, especially “Fire Dogs.”
June 29th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Sesame Street.
June 29th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
I nominate… Bananas in Pajamas.
The mind boggles.
And are really, really sure this Boobah thing is NOT someone’s LSD trip caught on tape? Really? WTF IS THAT?!
June 29th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Ludwig is awesome! #1 may have just swayed my opinion in favor of war in the middle east, thats crazy!
June 29th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
I had a brief affair with the actor who played B2 in Bananas in Pyjamas!
June 29th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
im muslim and tomorrows pioneers is completely against islam the religion of peace and understanding
June 29th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
@bwmyers18 (48): HR Pufinstuff was awesome. Witchipoo was hilarious. Interesting tidbit for some of you – Sid and Marty Kroft’s HR Pufinstuff and his supporting characters were ripped off by MacDonalds; a deal was in the works when MacDonald’s said they were kaiboshing the deal. But of course they weren’t, they just tweaked it a bit and called it their own. HR Pufinstuff is Mayor McCheese and there are many other parallels. Have a look-see.
They won the lawsuit by the way.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
This is why I don’t like many modern kid’s shows. Many of them are annoying and insipid, and an opportunity to breeze past it on the remote. Muppet Babies was a far more enjoyable show when I was a kid. Heck, Maya the Bee was more entertaining, and had a better theme song. (Anyone remember Maya the Bee? Anyone? Anyone?)
June 29th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Yo Gabba Gabba is my favorite out of all the shows my son watches. It is a bit odd compared to a show like Sesame Street, but considering that the latest generation of kids are the same ones that listened to punk and ska in the late 90s and early 2000s. The focus of the show is primarily appreciation of music and dancing, and it teaches basic lessons to toddlers like apologizing and playing nice while using offbeat characters and settings that hold their attention.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Oh, I used to LOVE Ludwig!
June 29th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Has anybody ever seen the Jellabies (aka the Jellikins)?
June 29th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
The Boobahs seriously look like nutsacks with little baby penis heads. I was amazed everytime I saw that show how penile those little things were. It was so funny to see a kids show with rainbow colored sacks and dick heads. LOL!!!
June 29th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
#12 gubermeister: I keep on hearing about this Israeli TV show that advocates killing all Arabs. I’ve never heard the name or seen a clip, but people constantly assure me that it exists (probably). I’m really curious about it, but alas, I still can’t find it. You seem to know for sure that it exists.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
#89 iLLmaticist: Yeah, why is this list so anti-Islam?! Look at how it keeps on insulting Islam! OMG: it totally slandered Islam! It said awful things about Islam!
Technically it didn’t say anything one way or another about Islam, but still, it’s clearly offensive to Islam!
June 29th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
@iLLmaticist (89):
iLLmaticist = Tomorrow’s Pioneers fanboy
probably watched the show 24/7
June 29th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
An HR Puffnstuff parody for anyone interested- Drug references only *slightly* more obvious than the original…
June 30th, 2009 at 12:20 am
Do Teletubbies have males and females, such that there can be a “homosexual” one? They all look kinda asexual to me.
June 30th, 2009 at 1:11 am
Max and Ruby is off a childrens book, the episode shown is the story in the book. I’ve never see the cartoon but i grew up on the book, i recognised the cartoons and the name but not as a TV show.
June 30th, 2009 at 1:29 am
trfan, I remember. It was one of my favorites.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:41 am
Oh I hate LazyTown, I really miss all the old 90’s cartoons. Yes I’m a 21 year old who still watches cartoons regularly.
I really think Yo Gabba Gabba is bizarre, the first time I watched it the characters were singing about keeping one’s hands to themselves…. hmmm…
June 30th, 2009 at 3:52 am
How is ‘In the night garden’ not on this list?
lazytown isn’t as bad as that… at least they’re human puppets!!
June 30th, 2009 at 3:59 am
June 30th, 2009 at 5:10 am
i always thought blues clues was kind of strange, with their talking salt shakers
June 30th, 2009 at 7:03 am
AWESOME.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:34 am
My little brother was obsessed with Teletubbies as a baby. Dont ask me why ,it has to be the most pointless programme ever. But anyway he didn’t start speaking until he was 5 years old, and the speech therapist he went to said a big oart of it was because of the Teletubbies because children’s tv shows are supposed to encourage and stimulate kids to sing songs, learn new words, how to count etc and all Teletubbies said were thier names and “tubby-toast”. And my little brother wasn’t the first kid to come to her with the same problem she said. Moral of the story? …don’t let ur kids watch Teletubbies!
June 30th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Just wanted to throw in my two cents about #1. My husband is from the middle east and he is always getting upset that Arabic translations of what people say are wrong- often meaning exactly the opposite of what they have actually said. I do not speak arabic myself, but when the clip of the Mickey Mouse in #1 aired on the news in the US he was very pissed off that they had mistranslated it completely.
There is also a professor at cal State Stanislaus and a visiting professor at Berkley that speaks arabic fluently and has also been very frustrated with the many mistranslations of what is being said in Arabic- especially in the buildup to the war in Iraq. His website is called Angry Arab if you want to check it out. Don’t worry- he is not what you might assume. He is an atheists, communist, feminist professor who makes fun of every government.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Boohbahs are actually protons… that’s why they float around and run into eachother.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Creepy kids show = “In the night garden”
One character goes around sucking and cleaning everything, some others’ trousers drop off all the time etc and the creepiest is Ooppsy Daisy….her hair moves on its own, with expressions etc. Thats damn weird. Freaks me out I tell you!!
June 30th, 2009 at 11:30 am
@Mabel (114):
i dunno, i thought ren & stimpy pretty weird from the beginning, at least for kids. i thought it made a bit more sense when it ran syndicated on MTV years later (then again, you’ve got your nickelodean kids growing up and ready to watch MTV, haha). i do admit it was less weird in the very beginning…from what i remember, john k. did the first season or so (as well as ren’s voice) and nickelodeon took over sometime after that (that’s why billy west ended up doing the voices of both ren AND stimpy). john k. then went on to make those ‘lost episodes’ years after nickelodeon finally cancelled it, and yeah…those certainly wouldn’t have been suitable for kids, haha. i have all the seasons on DVD including the ‘lost’ episodes and i still haven’t brought myself to finish those…i’m about as perverted as they come but growing up with ren & stimpy, it’s kinda hard to take those episodes seriously.
June 30th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
@iLLmaticist (89)
An Islamic martyr – a shahid – is a follower of the prophet who dies fighting for Allah during jihad, and his goal is to enter Paradise while killing as many of the enemy as possible. In recent years martyrdom has increasingly been associated with the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent infidel (or apostate) civilians, even children.But Christian martyrs are somewhat different.
In the Christian tradition, a martyr faces death rather than renounce his faith, and dies without violent resistance, with his eyes turned towards God. To target anyone else during martyrdom, especially the innocent, would be specifically un-Christian.
Maybe that’s why.
June 30th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Can’t believe that Yo Gabba Gabba didn’t make the list.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
I LOVE Yo Gabba Gabba! DJ Lance Rocks!
June 30th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
@oouchan (95): I would like to point out that a cute show is Bear in the Big Blue House. At least not all children shows are disturbing.
You want to know something disturbing about that show? The Bear has a dead arm (because the puppeteer inside the suit uses one hand to operate the face). Watch closely. Now I have probably ruined the show for you. I cannot watch that show without focusing on the Bear’s dead arm, waiting for it to do something. Anything. It just hangs there and flops about in a haphazard manner while the other arm tries to distract you. It freaks me out. I have nightmares about the dead Bear arm.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
I concur on the point of it being strange, but seriously: Don’t dis Veggie Tales.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Haha The Soup made fun of Ooobi a couple of times
June 30th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
@Maggot (147): You just had to go there didn’t you?
Actually, I did see that before and it did bother me, but not so much as veggie tales does. They don’t have hands or feet!
June 30th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
@Maggot (147):
@oouchan (150):
Finally! Someone else has noticed the rogue arm! I’ve pointed it out to people (not the kiddies, obviously) but they look at me like I’m out of my mind. I wish they’d stuff the arm or add some weights or something because I can’t stop staring at it. The crazy arms are why Brobee from Yo Gabba Gabba creeps me out. His are really long so the last two feet of each arm just flop back and forth, side to side, around and around…the thing probably has 30 elbows in each arm.
Just watched another episode of yo gabba five minutes ago (strictly research purposes, of course, haha). I had to cover my eyes when Brobee pretended to swim. Too creepy. Too. creepy.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
This is a great list, my daughter especially liked Oobi (talk about low production values!). You should also check out mightylists.blogspot.com for some moor interesting lists from around the web. Keep up he great work.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
The wierdest show I can remember watching is Mr. Goodbody – does anyone else remember watching that? A guy in a skin-tight body suit and an afro pointing to his anatomy . . . yikes!
My kids watch the Veggie Tale movies (not the TV shows) and they are really great! The only problem now is sitting in Church, all I picture when the Minister mentions the Philistines are french peas and Esther as a green onion.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Lidsville was another bizarro one.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
#1 Is not justified at all, it promotes hate and is engineering children’s sponge like brains to develop a prejudice against jews and americans.
To state that “it is their culture” is complete bullshit, a culture bred and designed to be negative towards other cultures has no sense whatsoever.
Once again, saying it is ok because that is their belief is “bullshit”. If Americans started to produce anti-palestinian propaganda designed for toddlers and young children because of attacks that occurred on 9-11, that would also be a crock of crap.
How can you expect children of islam to not be racist againt Jews if their favorite television character has been killed by them?
The fact that this even occurrs makes me sick, and hearing about users on listverse who believe it is justified does as well.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:10 am
Yo Gabba Gabba is creepy. But has anyone ever noticed the BooBahs look like uncircumcised genitalia? And thier heads pop out when they get excited or want to play!. Eww?
July 1st, 2009 at 10:23 am
@oouchan (150): I did see that before and it did bother me, but not so much as veggie tales does. They don’t have hands or feet!
I am too afraid to look at that clip. I would rather have Michael Jackson “read me a bedtime story” than subject myself to disembodied vegetables frolicking along to biblical value lessons.
@gabi319 (151): Someone else has noticed the rogue arm! I wish they’d stuff the arm or add some weights or something because I can’t stop staring at it.
Oh they tryyyy to make it look like a fully functioning arm, but I am too smart for them. They employ some rudimentary tricks to give the illusion of apparent movement, deceptively trying to mimic the motions of the functioning arm, while elaborate hand gestures from the good hand (in conjunction with “cute” facial expressions) try to draw your attention away from the mysterious paralysis of the other hand. But after careful analysis I am convinced that it is in fact dead. I have lots of notes and graphs to support this conclusion. Those bastards aren’t fooling me.
Yo Gabba Gabba creeps me out…the thing probably has 30 elbows in each arm.
Wait a minute. “Yo Gabba Gabba”? And your nic is “gabi”? Is there a connection here that you’re not telling us about? How many elbows do you have?
@Tia (156): has anyone ever noticed the BooBahs look like uncircumcised genitalia? And thier heads pop out when they get excited or want to play!
I think “gabi” has some explaining to do.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:51 am
@Tia (156):
Have you seen Yo Gabba Gabba’s red fellow? (forgot the name). It’s far more penile-looking than Boohbahs. But the Boohbah intro is scarier. Nothing like using the voices of ghost children to scare the living crap out of me.
@Maggot (157): “Yo Gabba Gabba”? And your nic is “gabi”? Is there a connection here that you’re not telling us about?
You found me out, Maggot. I am Brobee from Yo Gabba Gabba. Every time I eat dairy, there’s a party in my tummy.
so yummy, so yummy
July 1st, 2009 at 1:16 pm
I love Veggietales!!!!
BTW: I’ve wondered the same thing regarding Max and Ruby’s parent’s. I think the pit bull across the garden got ‘em. NUM! NUM! NUM!
July 1st, 2009 at 1:24 pm
I thought yo gaba gaba was going to be first.
July 1st, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Does anyone remember the Itsy Bitsy Circus? It used to air in the late 90s early 00s on ABC Family on Saturday mornings. It would have a collection of different shows and add a new one every 2 weeks or so. The only thing I remember from it was 64 Zoo Lane and some show with puppets that were wicked creepy looking.
July 1st, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Number two, the voice and the puppet are in a popular Adult Swim show called, “The Tim and Eric Awesome Show, great job!”
July 1st, 2009 at 7:58 pm
pedobear is also a fan of LazyTown
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:26 am
ok that last one just creeped the shit out of me.
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:51 am
what about maisy? that creepy little mouse! tell me someone wasnt disturbed by that show? they didnt even speak a language, they just made random noises.
And the wiggles! that show is satan!
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:01 pm
But, amandaaggogo- the Wiggles wrote “Big Red Car”- Pure musical genius
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:20 pm
The comments are funny
The shows are funny too. I used to watch the Teletubbies when I was a child, though I can’t really see the brilliance of it now. I mean, the kid is cute, but that’s it…
Sesame Street, now that’s a good kids’ show
And the last one is just scary – I mean, kids. I’m sure I’ve been subjected to propoganda as well as a child, but this really goes too far. I wonder how popular the show is…
July 3rd, 2009 at 12:00 am
I have to say the last one is definitely the most disturbing! Anti-Israeli propaganda? wtf? That’s definitely one way to raise your children! Also, about Max and Ruby I have seen it several due to a younger sibling. I never found it to be THAT disturbing. I just like to think that the mother is there, but they just don’t show her because the show is supposed to focus on the children.
July 3rd, 2009 at 6:36 pm
In the night garden is fricken creepy!
So is Lazy town and…all of the ones on the list, except the Teletubbies and Veggie Tales!
I loved them as a kid. granted Teletubbies is a bit strange, but not when you compare it to all the other creepy shows on this list.
July 4th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
#123…I agree 100% Yo Gabba Gabba is one of the most educational programs out there right now. And it hold my 2-year-olds attention like nothing else.
July 4th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
You’ve left off Ika I Rutan, a major oversight.
A small sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6svXfpjRMGY
Subtitles not even needed to convey the weirdness.
July 5th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
how about pingu? you know the penguin, that was some messed up stuff, especially this one episode were he is eaten by a massive seal : o i had nightmares for years
July 7th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
In the night garden should be here. It was a total ripoff of teletubbies but far worse! (If that’s possible.)
July 12th, 2009 at 1:42 am
For number 10… Max and Ruby …I believe they live with their grandma right? i thnk so…plus their neighbours ofter shows up…
July 12th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
I’d say we have a bizarre winner…
July 12th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
great list made me laugh out loud =D
what about WEE 3!!!
it has 3 monster things that like jump out of the closet, under the bed, and out of the drawer. it’s supposed to take place at night, when a kid is sleeping..but there’s no kid there =/ and theyre ugly and they sing!!! OMG. thats so weird. they have tea parties! theres a purple monster who has a guy voice but wears dresses?! and theres an orange one and a blue one. wtf.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
These are all really weird. I’ve seen a lot of these on tv before, but I think the weirdest one was number five. Its pretty much comedy for kids (I mean what show has dancing crap??)I think that number one is terribly horrible. If they haven’t stopped airing it, they should ASAP. Oh I heard that the makers of tomorrows pioneers got sued by disney so the show most likely isn’t showing. What about Toopy and Binoo???Theres a mouse thats bigger than a cat and they’re makebeleive games turn real. Kids love that show but its just plain weird, and the proud family was also weird, but thats just my opinion…however I know people that agree with me.
July 20th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
@gubermiester (12): Ok Gubermiester, you are right. Here… All Judaic, Christian and Islamic religions are complete and utter bullocks filled with crap stolen and plagiarized from all the religions that came before them. Do you feel better now?
July 22nd, 2009 at 4:44 pm
I personally love Oobi. Maybe that’s because I like weird things like that. xDD
But i agree that yo gabba gabba and peewee’s playhouse should be added to this list. xDD
July 22nd, 2009 at 8:40 pm
lol i loved teletubbies! i used to watch it all the time when i was young.
:D:D
but my friend told me they were gay propganda (as you said) and that the spikes on their heads are something to do with satan…lol.
#1 was hilarious lol.
most of them were like “er…” makes you wonder if kids would even watch them haha
i personally love Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirou! i used to watch it on youtube all the time since it was hilarious.
great list
July 22nd, 2009 at 8:51 pm
and we wonder why kids have so many problems nowadays. Give back Looney Tunes!
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:12 pm
I have to add this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYs_GCy9PRk
A talking, magical Rubik’s Cube?
July 25th, 2009 at 9:16 am
I believe #2 is the show that has David Liebe Hart on it….he appears in a lot of the Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job skits with his puppets…very trippy stuff!
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Awww, I like VeggieTales-despite the fact they have no extremities. They’re kinda cute and their music is catchy.
I laughed when I read #48 bwmyers18’s comment about the Sid and Marty Kroftt shows. Having grown up in the 70’s, I totally agree that drugs have likely influenced the creating of kids shows for years! Some are uh, good trips-others, not so much. LOL.
When my husband’s niece was little, Barney was all the thing and she was a big fan. I have always found Barney incredibly annoying myself, but the Teletubbies wins the Stupid Prize. Thankfully, we’re past Barney and Teletubbies and now my kids think SpongeBob is the greatest thing…
August 7th, 2009 at 1:42 am
the adventures of flapjack should be on this list.
August 8th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
i was inda of offended by the veggie tales one! i loved that as a kid! and i always thought the same thing about max and ruby…all good though! i think there’s others that could be worse…i used to like lazytown too.
August 11th, 2009 at 6:53 am
There was an old British kids tv show on years ago called Pugwash I think. It was set on board a ship where the captain was call ‘Master Bates’ and an other character included ‘Seaman Stains’. Apparently few complaints about the show were ever made because parents knew their kids would not understand the real meaning behind the characters names
August 11th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
The people in LazyTown aren’t even lazy (except for robby) and there are only 9 people there (or 3 humans and 6 puppets) lol.
August 12th, 2009 at 7:53 am
i think bannanas in pajamas is pretty disturbing so is that show called edgar and ellen.
August 18th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
kmurphy- You beat me! I was just about to say something about “Bananas in Pajamas!” My sister and I (we grew up in the 90s) used to rent tapes of them in the video store. We even had 2 banana dolls that sang the theme song if you pressed their hands. Hell, I even remember the names of all the main characters. Why were the bananas called “B1″ and “B2″, anyway?
August 21st, 2009 at 7:59 am
I’m disappointed Yo Gabba Gabba isn’t on the list. I’ve seen it while babysitting and I can safely say that it’s the worst show ever.
Flapjack and Chowder are pretty bizzare and stupid too. In fact, I nominate all of Cartoon Network and Nicktoons.
August 21st, 2009 at 5:01 pm
bahah i love veggietales! especially barbara manatee! haha
August 21st, 2009 at 6:59 pm
I grew up on Sid & Marty Krofft, and enjoyed it very much. The first time I saw TeleTubbies, I thought I was having an acid flashback. Then, I watched it on mushrooms…WOW! Look, kids shows are all strange from an adult perspective. We have been jaded by the natural course of growing up. However, I must asy that a kids show I really enjoy(I watch it with my 9 year old) is “The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy”. The show is on Cartoon Network here in the US. Just plain funny, lots of fart jokes, makes me feel like a little boy again, well worth it.
August 27th, 2009 at 10:56 am
1… Is that even a real show? O_o
August 29th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
I found this while surfing the net a while back. It was featured on a Belgian children’s show.
September 11th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
The last one is way disturbing!
September 12th, 2009 at 11:50 am
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUGGHH!!!!!!!!!TO MANY CREEPY KID SHOWS!!!!
September 13th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
#45 FigN, i completely agree with your point with shimajirou people have only judged the book by itts cover and not done enough research before jumping to conclusions, shimajirou as a series was very popular “Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirou” was the first of 2 series containing this young tiger which the first season spanned over a decade with 750+ episodes. the clip shown above as was explained by FigN was from one of the numerous videos designed with viewers of an age of 1 – 2 years. the clip below is of the first season (epp 150)
if you also look at other shows such as “in the night garden” (which my niece drives me MAD with) and “Yo gabba gabba” both of which belong on here more than shimajirou or even max and ruby. and as Jael said shimajirou could even be graded as cute not wierd.
just my $50 worth
September 16th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
I feel so sorry for children today. I’m only 27 but I look at the crap on tv and I’m like where the hell is the tom and jerry? Lazy town. Ahhhh wat to say? I wanted to stab myself in the throat n choke on my blood wen I saw lazy town. Yeahhhhh. Number one. Should be illegal. Now I know we should all respect people’s religion or wat the hell ever. But I’m sorry. This crap from ANY culture should not be tolerated and the ppl on here trying to explain it away should consider making themselves matyrs if u kno wat I mean.
September 24th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
I know I’m late responding, but I just found this posting. I am actually interning on a Family TV Addict website. I am focusing on Kids TV shows, and you spotlighted some I have seen and many new odd ones. Thanks for sharing the bizarre clips. I will probably link up to this post. http://www.familytvaddicts.com/category/kids-tv/
October 7th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
In the Night Garden!!!!!!!!
October 16th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Discovering Yo Gabba Gabba was the best thing to happen to me in a long time. It was the first show to capture my baby’s attention long enough for me to eat an uninterrupted meal.
And I like Max and Ruby because Max actually behaves like a real little boy would. I love the evil grin he gets when he’s about to do something he knows he’s not supposed to be doing.
October 21st, 2009 at 6:12 am
Lazy Town! Yes! hahaha
I love that show! Its hilarious;
The Lil Jon/Lazy Town mixup is pure genius. ;P
Meanwhile, here in Canada, we get Veggie Tales (I grew up on it for a while, oddly enough, and I believe that God is not bigger than the Boogeyman, nor Godzilla, nor the monsters on tv), Teletubbies, Lazytown & Boobahs (which mind you are terrifying).
Even shows like Toopy & Binoo are a bit off at times
October 21st, 2009 at 11:14 pm
How about a list of best shows for kids? Mister Rogers Neighborhood comes to mind. I loved that show as a child. I went to college in Pittsburgh and Fred Rogers lived a block away from me. That guy you see on the show is who he really was; a sweet and kind human being. God rest his soul. When I heard of his death all I could say was that even though I hadn’t spoken to him for several years, I know I will miss him.
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:09 am
What about Yo-Gabba-Gabba?
November 4th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
No Yo Gabba Gabba? That show has scarred me for life
November 12th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
A TOWN CALLED PANIC . absurd, but much better than that islam thing.
November 14th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
I used to watch Max and Ruby when I was in kindergarten.
When I was three, I loved the Teletubbies, but the Baby-Sun thing absolutely terrified me for some reason.
And when I first saw Oobi… it scared me. I don’t know why. It was just plain creepy.
Lazy Town was just straight-up STUPID.
November 19th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Bannanas In Pajamas… that’s a crazy show!
I’ve seen Teletubbies and I’ll agree wiht that one, but Veggietales???
C’MON GUYS!!!! I grew up on Veggietales. LOL, seeing that clip made me laugh so much… Veggietales is hilarious!!! I think a part of why it was (and still is thank you very much!) succesful is because kids find the talking food funny.
December 14th, 2009 at 1:12 am
I have an explanation for all of these shows:
10.Anarchist
9.Anti-capitalistic
8.Gay Rights Activist
7.DEFINITELY pro gay
6.Conservative
5.Asian (because honestly, what ISN’T bizarre over there?)
4.Some sort of Fantasia TV show?
3.You can NOT say anything bad about this show until you play the online game. Here’s a link:
http://www.2flashgames.com/f/f-349.htm
2.Uh…
1.Pro America…
January 14th, 2010 at 6:41 pm
i can’t believe the way no one is outraged by #1 – and even going so far as to say it’s normal. Not surprising, yes, but normal? appropriate for any child? no.
I saw a clip of this show where the mouse stole something completely insignificant and there was this (supposed to actually be comical) scene where the little girl said he had to have his hand cut off for stealing, with the mouse getting all afraid and crying.
Mid-Easterners being the basis for humanity – false.
islam needing to trump all cultures – false.
martyrdom glorified on children’s tv? – sick.
arguments on western culture not being progressive or useful? – you’re the one wearing the disney suit. Oh, and are behind like 1,000 years. And no, not behind as in you live in sand and still commit stoning. Behind as in your region led the world in surgery, equality, education, science, astronomy, beauty, and riches while our ancestors were dying of the black plague and fearing the wrath of the catholic church – and when some dick came down a mountain claiming he saw god, within less than a millenia you metamorphose into a dirty, poor, oppressive, backward, subjugating, violent, ignorant, destructive disease that alienates what your book is supposed to uphold and are a dead weight on the heel of man’s progression… how strange how cultures can flip. Now shut off the cameras so you can get that 9 year old with the missing clit out to the fields to set off mines.
January 18th, 2010 at 12:10 am
Teletubbies were the creepiest
January 26th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Uh, #1’s just a bit too out there… How are we to know if it’s even translated right. Could be distributed just to cause conflict.
February 7th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
my old compulsory religion class watched vegietales willingly. This was in year 10