TV shows that you'd think would be shit but are actually OKAnother of the endless diarrhea of shows telling us how to improve our lives. Of course, if you obtained a perfect life, you'd be banging supermodels on your yacht and not watching TV anymore.
The "Supernanny" (imagine a fat Mary Poppins) goes to someone's place, witnesses their trainwreck of a family life and sugarcoats the solution (which more often than not is sterilisation) into an empowering, TV-friendly tabloid magazine article. I'm all for female disciplinarians, especially with a British accent, but it can be hilarious watching her trying to fix the kids when 9 times out of 10 it's the parents that need a good stint of A Clockwork Orange style social reprogramming.
Why would I watch this crap? So I can see other people's children being little bastards of course! Here's an example. The Supernanny has this concept of a "naughty corner" where bad kids have to stand and think about their actions. In one episode, the naughty corner happened to be within a chubby arm's-reach of the china cabinet. I hadn't laughed so hard since that pregnant chick on McLeod's Daughters got run over by a tractor. I don't watch McLeod's Daughters so that might not have actually happened.
This show is appalling. A third of the videos are from the American show, another third have been constantly recycled since the 80s and that dickhole that does the voiceovers makes the rest unbearable.
Despite my disgust, I always end up laughing myself stupid. You'd have to have a heart of pure empathy if you thought that some poor bastard's roof, something he's worked on for months, collapsing on his car wasn't hilarious. Dad getting kicked in the groin? A kid buried in a snowfall? A bride's day ruined by falling down the church stairs with a humorous sound effect dubbed over? They're all hilarious because they aren't me. And the hostess is a bit of alright too.
This show is the scariest LSD trip of a children's show I've ever seen. It's nothing, absolutely nothing. Just colours and swirls and unexpected sounds and big, dancing, expressionless... things. If you missed the first 10 minutes because you were too busy trying to scratch the bugs out from under your skin, don't worry, because they show it all again! That's right, in every episode almost half the show is played twice in case you weren't freaked out enough the first time. It's genius.
No storyline, no moral, no reason to keep watching, and yet I just, can't, look, away. Here's a Boohbah clip mixed with some Aphex Twin. You can see the original (and I really recommend that you do) in the mornings on the ABC. Those drug-taking, tree-hugging, gay-marriaging lefties.
The spiders... so many spiders...
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you know that bit in trainspotting with the baby crawling along the roof? should have just put a boohbah clip there instead. i think it would have conveyed the message much better
i would watch boohbah with my nephew, and i tell you what, it shuts em up because i'm sure it puts them into a trance O_O
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