ALIAS 4th Season - available NOW
Alias season four came out today in a nice 6 DVD set. I went to the store to buy it after work and paid $47.64 for it. Naturally, when I got home I looked up the same thing on Amazon.com and found that they are selling it for $38.99. So I bought it. I'll be returning the other copy to the store in the next few days. Why pay $8.65 more for the same thing if I don't have to?
If you haven't guessed already, I'm a huge Alias fan. I can't tell you people enough how really cool this show is, and how much I recommend it to you for your viewing pleasure. It is the only non-sports show I watch on television regularly without missing an episode. If you know me, that's saying a lot.
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I was very disappointed in my kids this weekend. I bought for them (well, for me too) the first season of the Muppet Show, which aired originally in 1976. I also bought the 30th Anniversary DVD of SchoolHouse ROCK! with all 46 cartoons on it. You remember those great animated shorts that actually "make learning fun" and "knowledge is power". Conjunction-junction-what's-your-function... I can still hum the tune in my head.
Still both are great wholesome kiddie fare, despite the age of the programs. They didn't like it, and my daughter V was very vocal about that fact. Though I made her watch it a little bit of the Muppet Show, because there's one television here and I am the dad of course. So if I want to watch something, so be it.
Plus, one can only deal with the garbage airing on the Cartoon Network most of the time. They repeat the shows OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN, anyway. I can't tell you how many times I've seen episodes of Ed, Edd and Eddie - which is by far the dumbest cartoon ever made, or close to it as I can tell. Though Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, Naruto and Duelmasters are right up there, too.
In all fairness, most of the time they can watch whatever they like when they are with me, except for football time on Sunday afternoons from September-January. Yes, they generally watch CN or PBS or possibly one of the animated movies I own.
posted by Tim @ 21:59
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I've never seen Alias but I do remember SchoolHouse Rock. Every Saturday morning. I liked 3 6 9... 12 15 18.... 21 24 27... 30 and the BIG FOOTBALL PLAYER, and also: Figure 8 as double 4. Figure 4 as half of 8. If you skate, it would be great. If you could make, a figure 8. It's a circle that surrounds upon itself. Considering I haven't seen these cartoons since the Japanese bombed pearl harbor, and can still remember them...Okay maybe not that long ago LOL
What exactly is happening when you try to comment on my blog?
Alias sucks.
And, um, I don't know how to break this to you but...hmmm, well, here goes:
THE MUPPETS WAS A SHOW FOR ADULTS!!!
Alias certainly DOES NOT suck. Maybe you need to have your head examined (for this and other reasons)
The Muppets was not a show for adults. As a kid I loved watching it. My parents watched it because that's what was on at the dan of the cable tv age- in the days of one television in the house.
green,
Alias is a witless and shameless La Femme Nikita knock-off with phony action sequences.
Also, the Muppets was intended for older kids and adults. WHy would you expect kids these days to get it when they can't even enjoy the original Bugs Bunny?
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05048/458932.stm
And don't you watch the Simpsons? They were portraying Schoolhouse Rock being lost on kids in the late Nineties! When Bart and Lisa see it, Lisa remarks that it's one of those things Gen-X's brought back to remind them of their childhoods and Bart says, "Generation X? We need another Vietnam to thing out THEIR numbers."
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So then you and I will agree to disagree about Alias. Rip off it may be (I've never watched Nikita) but that doesn't change the fact that it is one of the best rated and well written shows on the tube these days.
In any case, I am still a fan and will continue to report on the show every week.
And I'll not be inviting you over to watch the DVD's.
No, I don't watch the Simpsons anymore. Sad reality it is when you base your view of Schoolhouse Rock on what two animated charachters think.
BTW, How can todays kids NOT get Schoolhouse Rock? It's educational stuff. Maybe the animation is a bit corny but who cares? (Not me) The point of the whole thing is to have kids watch it, and learn something without realizing they're actually learning something.
As for the Muppet Show, there are many gags and one liners that an adult would understand but a kid may not, but that's okay. Kids like me, enjoyed it because of the muppets and it still was good "wholesome" family entertainment.
There were many subtle things in Toy Story (and many other Disney movies) that are meant to keep the adults interested but are generally geared for kids. You wouldn't seriously call Toy Story an adult movie, would you?
Fact is I'm still dissappointed that my kids didn't like them as much as I do.
Another example: George Lucas admitted in an interview that he always geared the Star Wars films for a 10-12 year old boy, but it didn't stop adults from enjoying them also.
>> And I'll not be inviting you over to watch the DVD's. <<
What if I bring a 6 pack of Smirnoff Ice?
>> Sad reality it is when you base your view of Schoolhouse Rock on what two animated charachters think. <<
You missed my point. The Simpsons was simply showing how kids relate to what we grew up on. It was on the money, as you obviously only now have discovered.
>> You wouldn't seriously call Toy Story an adult movie, would you? <<
A thinly disguised one, yes.
>>George Lucas admitted in an interview that he always geared the Star Wars films for a 10-12 year old boy<<
What he meant by that was it was inspired by the pulps of the 40's that were read by kids of his generation.
sweet!!! I'm gonna get constant drunk :)
i gotta go with Scribe here- Nikita was far and away superior.
And by the by, my kids LOVE school house rock. We downloaded a number of the videos off the net (not that I'm condoning such blatent disregard for copywrited material blah blah blah...) and they couldn't get enough. My daughter adored "Sufferin' till sufferage" even though the finer points of the fight for women's right to the vote may have been lost on her ("Till the 19th amendment struck down that restrictive rule... YEH!"), and my son has been known to spontaneously start singing out "Electricity E-Lec-Tricity!" as he walks around the house.
Though with a dad like me, there was never any chance my kids would be normal.
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you can bring the smirnoff ice ONLY becasue that'll encourage constant to come - but I won't drink it.
On second thought don't bring it so I can make you suffer watching ALIAS while you're sober.
Of course these "kids shows" have adult themes, because adults wrote them in most cases. Adults have a hard time thinking totally about what a kid will like. Also because if there is nothing there for the adults, they won't bring the kids to the movies at all.
Yes I missed your point on Schoolhouse Rock & Simpsons. Too bad for today's dense kids that don't know what they're missing.
I know what GL was referring to when he made that remark about Star Wars. My 6 year old loves all of the Star Wars movies ( he hasn't seen III yet, but he will in about a week or so...hmmmmm
American Guy how can you say that when you said you've only watched ALIAS occasionally due to where you are living?
I always knew your kids were cool, and you are right about the normal comment. My kids are hopelessly lost too with a dad like me. Weirdness is in the genes.
Probably that's why we've been froends for so long....
Hey I never said I can't handle watching Alias. It just isn't a very good show to me.
Are you sure your kids are old enough to handle Episode III?
bummer. I wanted to see you suffer! ;>}
I don't know if he can handle it. But I'm buying it (for me) and once he sees that I have it he'll want to watch it. He keeps talking about it...
i wouldn't let my younglings watch SW III. There's a heap of explicit violence, we see Anakin horribly disfigured (that's not a spoiler: if you've lived in Western civilation in the last 20+ years, you knew that already) and there is an (admittedly off screen) reference to the murder of children not much older then M.
Give him a few years - he'll handle it much better then.
I agree with your assessment of SW III American Guy but it's going to be hard not to "give in to the dark side of the force" and prevent him from watching it, especially if he has to wait for three or more years to watch it, knowing that it's right there in the shelf with the other 5 films....
I must not have the right dictionary. Who took my dictionary??!?
I don't see a picture of you there next to that word corny...
Can I borrow your dictionary (the one with your picture in it)?
constant,
if you're not careful, you're gonna make green fall for you :)
I don't know about falling, but I think that constant and I would be very good friends if I ever met her personally.
I mean I consider constant to be a friend, but there's something ethereal about internet friends, if you know what I mean.
I know exactly what you mean-it's sort of a non-physical dimension that still allows you to interact with it.
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