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6 Feb ’14
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It's time to get things started! The Muppets are coming to ABC and this is your first look!
The Muppets return to primetime with a contemporary, documentary-style show. For the first time ever, a series will explore the Muppets’ personal lives and relationships, both at home and at work, as well as romances, breakups, achievements, disappointments, wants and desires. This is a more adult Muppet show, for “kids” of all ages.
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19 Feb ’12
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This is a more adult Muppet show, for “kids” of all ages.
I have to admit that I'm intrigued by the idea, and the trailer does seem funny. But as far as the "Kids of all ages", I feel like they need to go one way or the other.
On a separate note, I remember as a kid, watching sitcoms with my dad, and even alone. Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Barney Miller, etc. However, we don't let our son watch hardly any of our shows. Has TV gone that far with adult content that sitcoms now aren't appropriate for kids?
15 Feb ’12
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I guess you could say so, but at the same token, sponge bob has a very adult humor, which looking back on it, the original bugs bunny cartoons we all grew up on were just as sexist, racist, etc if not more so.
6 Feb ’14
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I agree that tv today is worse than when we were growing up. I don't have kids, but there are no shows I can think of off the top of my head (except PBS educational stuff like Nova and Nature) that I would feel safe letting my kids watch supervised or unsupervised without having pre-watched it. They'd have to watch old re-runs of stuff like MacGyver.
Things today are a level of crude, raunchy, and overt that they never were before. It comes down to remembering that children don't think like adults and will miss all sorts of artfully implied adult humor. But its hard to miss Honey Boo Boo wearing a thong and practicing her pole dancing while the family cheers and throws dollar bills... okay, I'm making that up, but the point is, all decency and common sense about age appropriate content and writing for differing levels of maturity simultaneously have been entirely abandoned by nearly everything on the air now.
I was personally raised on a lot of PBS and I can assume it was the same caution about keeping it content safe, but in reality, the scariest thing available back then was The Incredible Hulk. He never killed or seriously hurt anyone because he was the good guy and Banner was a do-good boyscout helping people wherever he went. All the characters lead by example of innate good character. Today's writing nearly all embraces the cutthroat ideals of the true clinical psychopath. Manipulative, predatory, and dark.
Batman then was BIFF BAM WACK Adam West. While in a recent episode of Gotham, a 12 year old Bruce Wayne looks the other way as a young Selina Kyle pushes a man out a window to his death after having almost done the pushing first himself.
Its not just worse, its exponentially worse to the point where I as an adult find it too much sometimes.
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