This show is horrible, and I love cartoons. Even my kids can't stand it anymore. Seriously, on top of being poorly written, the situations are contrived and uninteresting.
One of the things that REALLY upsets me about this program is the fact that ALL the negative characters (easy to peg: Mr Rude, Ms Scary, Ms Naughty etc...) ALL have foreign accents.
This is a children's show.... They don't know any better, but they do absorb subconscious information such as this, and I am very disappointed in Cartoon Network for letting this slip by. I actually had to pull my daughter aside the other day and tell her to stop calling my friend from Montreal (who sort of sounds like he has a French accent) 'Mr Rude Man' just because of how he talks, on top of having to then explain why it's wrong to generalize people based on something that makes them different from you. If you have kids, you probably know how difficult this particular lesson is for them to understand sometimes, and it really does not help when there is a show for children that unabashedly reinforces the ridiculous and ignorant stereotypes we are trying so hard to banish from the reasonable adults we all hope our children may one day be.
If I could give this thing a 0, I would.
One of the things that REALLY upsets me about this program is the fact that ALL the negative characters (easy to peg: Mr Rude, Ms Scary, Ms Naughty etc...) ALL have foreign accents.
This is a children's show.... They don't know any better, but they do absorb subconscious information such as this, and I am very disappointed in Cartoon Network for letting this slip by. I actually had to pull my daughter aside the other day and tell her to stop calling my friend from Montreal (who sort of sounds like he has a French accent) 'Mr Rude Man' just because of how he talks, on top of having to then explain why it's wrong to generalize people based on something that makes them different from you. If you have kids, you probably know how difficult this particular lesson is for them to understand sometimes, and it really does not help when there is a show for children that unabashedly reinforces the ridiculous and ignorant stereotypes we are trying so hard to banish from the reasonable adults we all hope our children may one day be.
If I could give this thing a 0, I would.