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• Dora the Conservative

  Every now and then Republicans do something to remind the world why anyone would ever want to vote for them. Also, sometimes elected officials sound like children's television characters. What the hell am I talking about? Read More... Posted Sep 24 2008, 10:15 AM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: news, money, Dora, barack obama, dora the explorer, crisis, advice, economics, economy, republicans, Democrats, election, John McCain, election 2008, Brett Singer, sarah palin, conservatives, stock market, joe biden, your money, savings, lehman brothers, hewlett-packard, finance, dow jones, markets, morgan stanley, goldman sachs, dora the fiscal conservative, fiscal crisis, banking, banks

• PBS Dropping Mister Rogers??!!

  The bible tells us there are a number of clear and distinct signs the apocalypse is coming. Plague, pestilence, famine and the cancelation of Mister Rogers Neighborhood.   How could this happen? PBS has announced its plans to pull the venerable 40 year old show from their weekday schedule. But there’s something you can do to save it...   Read More... Posted Aug 11 2008, 04:45 PM by Cole Gamble with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: PBS, children's TV, dora the explorer, diego, mister rogers neighborhood, save mister rogers.com, public television, family friendly, cardigan sweater

• Walkie-Talkie Teaches 3-Year-Old About Drugs and Sex

  Deborah Pancaro's three-year-old son recently heard some weird stuff on his toy walkie-talkie. First he heard some guys saying "10-4." Then he picked up some chatter about marijuana and plans to visit a strip club.  “They said we should go smoke some weed, and were talking about being in a strip bar, some really explicit things,” Pancaro told theAssociated Press. Turns out the Diego walkie-talkie the West Virginia mom bought at Wal-Mart was intercepting -- you guessed it -- truckers talking via CB radio. (Either that, or it was picking up dialogue from "Pineapple Express.") Read More... Posted Aug 09 2008, 11:33 AM by Jen Chaney with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: toys, recall, Wal-Mart, West Virginia, dora the explorer, Fisher-Price, diego, go, go!, truckers, Deborah Pancaro, walkie-talkie, CB, bad language

• The 20 Best Kids Movies

  What makes a great kids movie?  Does it have to be animated? Musical?  What is your favorite?  Maybe it’s The Wizard of Oz, or perhaps The Parent Trap.  Do adults really have the right to decide what makes a good kids movie anyway?         Take the jump to see if your favorite made the list. Read More... Posted Mar 25 2008, 08:00 AM by Cole Gamble with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: yo gabba gabba, dora the explorer, diego, the backyardigans, best kids movies, the parent trap, wizard of oz, entertainment weekly

• Is TV Bad For Kids??

  We all do it, let our kids watch TV.  Well, accept you Amish, with your luxurious quilts, delicious fried chicken and inability to read these very words.  Sure, we limit the kids to Noggin and Sprout, but I think most parents still wonder what effect that television watching is having. Yeah, the value of Baby Einstein, for instance, is not quite as advertised. But is it all really bad for baby? Well now the results are in… I do like how this article begins, “Here's an issue your parents never had to consider: the great babies-and-TV debate.” Was I born during the depression? Did my parents have to curb my “radio fever” as I glued my ear to the crystal set for new episodes of “The Shadow”?  Maybe the author means parents didn’t have to debate it back then because in the seventies parents were just jerks. The particulars of this piece, and whether or not TV will rot your child, boil down to this:        Read More... Posted Mar 11 2008, 08:21 AM by Cole Gamble with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: children, television, baby einstein, dora the explorer, tranquilizer, programming

• Top 9 Puzzling Dora Toys

  Ah, Dora the Explorer. So innocent. So carefree. So NSFW. The number one puzzling toy on our list has to be the Dora Aquapet. Did anyone run this design past a kid over the age of ten?  And do any of the Aquapet's owners wonder why it keeps ending up in Mommy's nightstand? The rest of the puzzling toys after the jump.   Read More... Posted Mar 05 2008, 01:00 PM by Adrienne Martini with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: top ten lists, dora the explorer, balls, fanny pack, aquapet, nsfw

• 10 Worst Toys of 2007!

  Oh yes, the year isn't complete until this list comes out. Compiled by World Against Toys Causing Harm, Inc. (W.A.T.C.H), which should totally have been on Get Smart, the annual Ten Worst Toys is a list of the toys (also known as the What the Fuck Were They Thinking? Awards) that have the most potential to cause childhood injuries or even death to children. Ready for the list? Read More... Posted Nov 16 2007, 10:33 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: toys, dora the explorer, diego, go, go!, jack sparrow spinning dagger, spider man sword, annual ten worst toys, ten worst toys pf 2007

• Things Fall Apart: Huge Mattel Recall!

  A massive recall has been initiated by toy company Mattel this week, and there's an excellent chance that one of the affected toys is in your home if you have a toddler pining for Elmo or Dora. Almost a million toys were affected (One! Million! Toys!), although 2/3 of those were stopped at the retail level from reaching consumers when Mattel contacted toy sellers like Wal-Mart and Toys 'R Us to halt sales of the lead-covered toys. These aren't the cheap little dollar-store toys we usually talk about that have been recalled; nope, these are highly visible, could-be-in-your-home toys. Read More... Posted Aug 02 2007, 09:07 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: elmo, safety, nickelodeon, mattel, recalls, dora the explorer, things fall apart, sesame workshop, toy recall

• Alec Baldwin Just Wont Quit, Screams at Dora

  Now Alec Baldwin is royally pissed at Dora.  Yelling at your daughter on voicemail? That I can understand.  Sure, she's only 11, but she should really be more considerate.  Parental alienation is no laughing matter.  But yelling at beloved Dora the Explorer? Now I fear Baldwin has gone too far.   [via Daddy Types]  Posted Apr 30 2007, 08:10 AM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with no comments Filed under: video, dora the explorer, alec baldwin, ireland baldwin, yelling, yelling at dora

• ¿Can You Say Parodia? SNL Skewers "Dora"

  I know in my heart that SNL animator Robert Smigel's take on "Dora The Explorer" would have been funnier to me if Dora and her friends weren't such a serious and integral part of my children's education entertainment. But as it was, I watched this clip with just a little more discomfort than I would have a few years ago when the sum total of my Dora experience was limited to a few moments here and there while babysitting. After reviewing it for questionable content, I let my four-year-old watch it with me. She took it straight, only noting that "that's not the usual Boots". And for her money, that's a girl in the picture FauxDora holds up. I'm going to watch it again later tonight after I come home from Mama's Night Out, and I suspect with a couple of mojitos under my belt, it'll be hilarious.   Via Time's Tuned In blog  Posted Mar 29 2007, 07:31 PM by Patti with | with no comments Filed under: youtube, entertainment, children's television, Time Magazine, dora the explorer

• Toys That Make You Go "WTF???"

  Every now and then a toy hits the market that makes you wonder what kind of crack people who make and distribute toys are smoking. At StromDotCom, a short list of such toys. It includes the infamous Harry Potter Vibrating Broom and the dildo-like Dora Aquapet, along with other unintentionally hilarious or just plain bizarre playthings, but fails to include the Super Soaker Oozinator, whose original commercial you can see below.   Posted Mar 22 2007, 02:36 PM by Patti with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: youtube, toys, harry potter, stromdotcom, super soaker, dora the explorer, toys that should not exist