[donatj]

So I pulled up Cricket just now and watched through it, as I'd seen it mentioned a few times in here. I can see why someone would enjoy that particular episode. It's lighthearted and sappy.

However, a sizable portion of the episodes short runtime is Rusty smashing a cricket ball against the side of his parents house, visibly damaging the siding, with zero on-screen repercussions. That's exactly the sort of thing I don't want my child emulating, and the show makes it seem like it's an ok behavior.

Children copy things they see. If you're going to show a child doing something they shouldn't it needs to be at the very least shown in a negative light.

All the show needed to do was have the final couple seconds of the episode be his mom standing next to the damage yelling "Rusty!", it would have made for a good comedic closer and shown kids that it's a problem.

[Apocryphon]

Maybe you are just unfamiliar with Australian customs and mores

[shadowgovt]

What should Rusty be doing instead? The point is that he needed that siding because he didn't have a partner to hit the ball back, and his parents know this, and they support his dream. Rusty's mom isn't yelling at him for whacking the ball off the siding because he's allowed.

Houses are meant to be lived in. Sometimes we spend from them to achieve other goals.