Very Dissappointed
4.0
"Poor"
I agree fully with MovieNerd, however I do not like his use of curse words to get his point across. I am 21 years young and I have been watching Nick and Nick Jr. my entire life. In my youth, Blue, the screen face, was a wonderfully fun narrator through the commercials. They got rid of Blue and now our kids are force fed toy commercials and more terrible show promos. I remember a time when people fought to ensure the cartoons our kid's were watching were good for them. WHAT HAPPENED TO RICHARD SCARRY'S BUSYTOWN? What happened to Eurika's Castle?? What happened to Rupert? Even Blues Clues was a fun, innovative, and interesting show to keep our children's minds active. MAX AND RUBY IS A DISGRACE! It isn't a HORRIBLE show, but MovieNerd IS correct about a LOT of things. 1. The parents are never there. Apparently their grandmother raises them, and she is never home. 2. Max is never listening and he is doing whatever he wants. 3. He gets REWARDED for doing BAD things at the end of each episode, by the grandmother. EVERY EPISODE! (OK, I can see if he was doing harmless things, exercising his CREATIVITY.. YES, this IS the case for SOME episodes. But NOT ALL of them. SOME episodes, Max is indeed actually just breaking real rules, like getting OUT of the TUB... and he is REWARDED for this behavior. 5. Ruby is a VERY bossy sister, whom pays NO attention to max. No WONDER max is acting out so much. Hes got NO adult male figure in his life, and he is left alone for the entire day. I hope to GOD he is enrolled in a well-off nursery school. :(
Finally, and this is my NUMBER ONE PROBLEM WITH THIS SHOW... If you will take notice, of ruby's "BUNNY SCOUTS OUTFIT" There is CLEARLY.. CLEARLY a BLUE PENIS on her hat and all over the outfit. This is OUTRIGHT DISGUSTING BEHAVIOR for an animation team. Granted, upon further pondering, I see that it slightly resembles a bunny's head.. But there is NO REASON why the animation team had ANY MERIT to choose this symbol, A BLATANT PENIS for the "bunny-scouting" patches and symbol. DISGUSTING BEHAVIOR that is potentially putting THE SUBLIMINAL IMAGE OF A BLUE PENIS IN ALL OF OUR CHILDREN'S MINDS! DISGUSTING, DISGUSTING BEHAVIOR. This NEEDS to CHANGE! :(
Now, I am watching the NEW Franklin series. The original Franklin series was very entertaining and nice for children. THIS is a travesty. I literally just watched Franklin's mother tell Franklin "Sometimes, you have to be rude!" While showing him that he needs to spit the watermelon seeds onto the ground, if he wants them to grow in the garden. She literally, blatantly says "Sometimes, you have to be rude!" WHAT THE? THIS IS HORRIBLE!!
AND ANOTHER THING.. I won't even ALLOW my children to watch Nick if shows like I-Carly keep showing up. Are you KIDDING ME? The show is CONSTANTLY making fun of different characters. CONSTANTLY poking fun of characters. "SAM" is VIOLENT, RUDE, and downright MEAN to Frankie. There is a ROMANCE in the show? Are you KIDDING ME? DRIBBLE. This is mindless DRIBBLE Nick. While I commend you for pushing the envelope... While I enjoy Carley's brothers artistic side.. The rest of this show is downright destructive to a young person's reering. Constant violence, bullying, episodes about breaking into houses, stealing, prisoners busting out of jail, hurting "weird" characters feelings, manic i-carley fans with mental illnesses.. I mean, some of these can slide through, but BULLYING? VIOLENCE? PRISONERS BREAKING OUT OF PRISON? EMOTIONAL ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR? I want to say "get real" Nick, but I can't.. Because, all of this IS real, IS in our children's lives, BECAUSE OF SHOWS LIKE THIS.
Why don't we skip the next 20 years and just plop our children down in front of the TV for some Jersey Shore? I'm sure we will be there in 20 years at this rate. End Rant.moreless