[duncan-donuts]

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

[spookthesunset]

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.

[humanrebar]

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

[iso947]

Also unpaid exploitation of children by an incompetent authority

[iso947]

Also seems to inspire 3 year olds to save the day

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

[catalogia]

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.

[aidenn0]

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

[catalogia]

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.

[Consultant32452]

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.

[jimktrains2]

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