barney, we hardly knew ye

[wasabi_poptart]

moratorium on cussing aside for a moment ...

what the FUCK is up with those Boohbahs?

now that's some scary shit.

personally I'd rather my children be watching sex or violence ... you know, something I could explain.

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[pity.livejournal.com]

I knew my kid was all right when she started crying at the Boohbahs.

[wasabi-poptart.livejournal.com]

It's been suggested that the creators of this show did a lot of drugs, but I tell you what, had I ever seen anything like those blobs while tripping, I would have pulled a Diane Linkletter so fast there might not have been time to open the damn window.

[h-loves-c.livejournal.com]

You know what? As horrifying as they are, I find them strangely fascinating. I found the boobah website before they were well-known, and I used to spend HOURS there.

Don't get me wrong; I think the idea of television programming and marketing aimed at pre-verbal babies is loathesome...but those little fuckers just entrance me.

[bitchiekittie.livejournal.com]

obviously they're trying to bring back the colorful, nonsensical appeal of the teletubbies. which I thought were horrifying. but these blow them away in abject yuckiness.

[bloominglotus.livejournal.com]

The Teletubbies freak me out with their dead eyes. My daughter loved them (my son hasn't seen them yet). I think the very things that make them horrifying to grown-ups are the things that appeal to the young ones.

[bloominglotus.livejournal.com]

Jude is not going to be watching that. Oh, no.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

I've actually seen some episodes (? are there separate episodes? they all look the same to me) while working at the hospital. Patients watch all sorts of crazy shit. ER being the most ironic choice, IMHO. But those blobby things ARE strangely hypnotic. The colors are pretty. And i like the way they bump around.

At least they don't sing or have TV screen tummies. Now that's some scary shit.

[suhl.livejournal.com]

At Christmas, my company goes shopping for people in a nursing home who don't have anyone to visit them or bring them presents. Last year, one of them requested a musical stuffed animal, and the person doing her shopping picked a Boohbah. In a really creepy voice, it sings, "booooohBAAAAAH" like a horror movie little kid voice coming to kill you. Then it makes what I can only describe as a fart and starts bouncing. Totally terrifying.

[kitteridge.livejournal.com]

Given Barney vs. Boobah, I'll pick Boobah. Barney, I think, lowers kids intelligence. (And teaches them the wrong words to favorite kid songs.) Boobah, on the other hand, gives them an early appreciation for the truly bizarre, weird and British. Not necessarily in that order.

That said, they are weird little shits.

[monstarrsoprano.livejournal.com]

Look how they sparkle!

[sarahmarvelous.livejournal.com]

I read that Boobah are supposed to get kids up and moving- the bouncing and dancing supposedly encourages little ones to move around too. And they are kind of creepy, as were Teletubbies and Barney in their own time, but I suppose that at some point, as a parent you might just give in to whatever seems to make the kid happy, even if it is Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

[brcmapgirl.livejournal.com]

Weird. I wish I knew about this before I saw my nephew last week. He is 3 months old. He likes it when you say, 'GooGAH!', at him really loud in a cooey voice. I would have tried out 'Boobah' too had I known.

He did like 'Bibidibobbidiboo' and general raspberries too.

The website was too bright and sacharrine for me. But I'm not sure why a parent would hold a pre-verbal child in their lap and browse the web. Most likely if a mom has a pre-verbal child in her lap, the kid is hanging off her boob because it's time to eat. I'd rather do tummy time on the carpet instead of at a desk. Maybe that's just single non-mommy me talking, but doesn't that make more sense?

[mrliburyin.livejournal.com]

My son is now almost 5 and he still likes them. Well, at least he did this past summer. I have managed to keep them away since then, in part because I find them disturbing and in part because he doesn't watch TV all that much. If he was watching TV and the Boohbahs happened to come on, he did stare at them memorized for a while. He didn't start bouncing though, he just sort of sat there, slumping with drool slowly coming out of his mouth. About what you expected, no doubt.

[notmarcie.livejournal.com]

Everyday I thank god that I only have to deal with enquiries about Teletubbies and Tweenies rather than the evil that is Boobahs.