Sunday, September 6, 2009

Conversations From The Living Room, Part 24: The Barbarienne Vs. Educational Television

"Help us find the strawberries!"
"No."

3 comments:

  1. What, they were playing the Caine Mutiny on PBS?

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  2. Ha! Troop!

    Dora the Explorer.

    There's a lot audience participation. The Barb has about a 50/50 compliance rate. Sometimes she's very forceful in her refusals.

    There's a sort of sequential torture with each kid, as they subject their older siblings to pre-school TV.

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