Showing posts with label dora the explorer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dora the explorer. Show all posts

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Parenting for from Dummies


So Inara is sitting here watching Dora the Explorer -- of course, because that stuff is catnip for preschoolers -- and in this particular episode Dora travels to China.

While there, she learns that the Chinese kids apparently have their own version of Swiper the Fox who regularly torments them -- he's a weasel named Ying-Ying.

This is the most subversive thing I've ever seen on this show.

"So, the Chinese have created a cheap knock-off of Dora's intellectual property," I said to my daughter when I saw it.

She just stared at me -- then went back to singing the "We did it!" song.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

BEST. THING. EVER.



(Update: For those of you who don't know, when Bob Cesca isn't busy being one of the most insightful guys in the world of new media political punditry, he's an animator. Turns out he produced and directed this.)

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Bonus Quote of the Day


"It's Cameron's turn to be out in the world -- interacting with other adults -- while I get to stay at home and plot the death of Dora the Explorer. Like to fill her backpack with bricks and throw her into Candy Cane River."

-- Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) on ABC's Modern Family last night