english media project help *(pleasee)*

[stewie15]

So my english media ISP is comparing childrens tv shows from the past to present childrens tv shows.
Think like Scooby Doo to Rugrats to Spongebob or The Mickey Mouse Club Presents: Annette to Lizzie Mcguire to Hannah Montana.
So im having trouble getting started and was hoping some of you could help (esspcially because UD is filled with people who would know some of these kind of shows). So are there things that you find more of in the newer shows than the older ones (ie more slapstcick, fart jokes, less adult jokes). And overall do you find these newer shows as educational/messagefull as the old ones?
Any help would be greatly appreachiated, thanks guys

[xxhplinkxx]

I'm not doing your homework. Tsk tsk.

[blackcauldron85]

There definitely are more fart and bra and just bodily jokes in current kids' shows than there were in older shows. Current Disney Channel shows, at least, have morals- like if Zack & Cody do something wrong, by the end of the show, their mom or Mr. Moseby would've had a talk with them, and they would've learned a lesson. Miley's dad will set her straight, too.

Older family TV shows (I didn't say kids') were just that- aimed at everyone, not just the kids, like most of today's "kids'" TV shows are. There were still morals, and families were more prevalent; I'm not saying that current shows don't show families, because they do, just less of them (like on "iCarly", you'll see her friend's mom for a couple minutes on the show, but she's really more for comic relief than anything).

[Escapay]

So are there things that you find more of in the newer shows than the older ones

Newer shows have a more diverse cast (or at least a token minority character). Just watching any of the Mickey Mouse Club serials, or old shows like "Leave it to Beaver" and "Dennis the Menace", it's like watching WASP-TV.

And overall do you find these newer shows as educational/messagefull as the old ones?

That'd be a hard question to answer, as everyone's childhood was different and they identified more with whatever was the contemporary children's programming for them. Sure, some can find joy in shows made before/after their time, but there isn't really that connection that they had with *their* shows. I mean, a kid today has no idea what "Square One" or "3-2-1 Contact" is, but for many kids of the 80s and 90s those were childhood essentials. Likewise, if I were to suddenly watch something on PBS today that wasn't "Sesame Street", I'd find it to simply be childish (which it's likely meant to be), but in a bad way.

So to try and look at a newer show as being as educational as something I grew up with, there's already a bias on my part of nostalgia and connection. 1989 "Sesame Street" is different from 2009 "Sesame Street" that even though the intent and themes are the same, the approach is different now.

albert

[stewie15]

I'm not doing your homework. Tsk tsk.

Did I ask you to write the essay or make the presentation to my class?
And thanks to Amy and Scaps.

[AwallaceUNC]

This episode caused a minor stir when it first aired. Not so unusual for family entertainment at the time, but unusual for The Disney Channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrTCv0QN9LE

-Aaron

[ajmrowland]

I never thought about it watching it on actual tv. You hear "bra" and you might naturally think of a bra, but can still make the connection to boobs. It's girl stuff, and completely normal.