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I wish there was a way to get all of the episodes of Mr. Rogers, especially outside of the US. Current offerings really lack the patient approach he exemplified. There's one DVD set with just 30 episodes, no digital downloads anywhere.

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Daniel Tiger’s certainly no replacement for it. And heavy auto-tuning in kids’ entertainment really bugs me. Let them hear natural human voices.

Still gotta admit PBS’s current kid television is way better than anything on Disney/Nickelodeon. We only have an antenna a we watch a lot of PBS. I really, really dislike the kids shows on Disney/Nickelodeon

Agree. Paw Patrol is like crack for kids. It is mostly addictive filler designed to get them to buy a bunch of toys.

The difference between Paw Patrol and Daniel Tiger is night and day.

Dunno. Paw Patrol demonstrates a lot of teamwork and proactive attitudes.

Also unpaid exploitation of children by an incompetent authority

Also seems to inspire 3 year olds to save the day

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-50851639

PBS is fortunate that Disney/Nickelodeon are so egregiously bad they make anybody else look good. Shit, even the toy-shilling 'saturday morning' cartoons of the 80s weren't as bad.

This is something I've been puzzling about for a while. Marketing is evolving every generation but human perception/brains is not. People get PhDs in this stuff. We don't seem to be building better defenses, either biologically or culturally, against the ever improving marketers. There's no telling what the end result will be, but I'm not looking forward to finding out.

I don't know... I rewatched Thundercats as an adult and I'm not sure how I ever enjoyed watching it...

The exploitative intent was certainly present back then, but they weren't as good at it as they are today. The degenerate science of advertising to children has only grown more advanced.

Nature cat is decent. I really, really liked the recent Christmas episode and the message it had

Autotune seems to be antithetical to the basic themes (e.g. it's ok to be yourself and mistakes are ok) of Daniel tiger and Mr Rogers. It really, really bothers me when I hear it.

There are seven "best of" seasons on Prime with 10-15 episodes each, highlighting most of the milestone episodes with the things you remember. Most of the answer to these things is "It's on prime" or "It's on the PBS app, which you pay for or subscribe to via your local PBS stations."

It sounds like what we need is a Disney+, but for PBS

I pay $3-4 (can’t remember the exact price because it’s god damned cheap) for access to all the PBS Kids content on Amazon Video, so it pretty much exists already.

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