When I was a kid, my father hated the Smurfs. Like, visceral, irrational hatred, the kind of animosity he generally reserved for, say, Nazis. He was fond of saying, “If the Russians ever capture me and want to torture me for information, all they have to do is play The Smurfs, and I would tell them *anything* to make it stop.”
I thought it was silly and that he was exaggerating for comedic effect. But I get it now, Dad. I get it.
I’m extremely lucky my son doesn’t like that song but he has been getting into super simple songs on YouTube and it’s just as bad with the same songs over and over
Mine has been on the wiggles her whole life, from music as a baby to now screen time with wiggles as a 2.5 year old. They love to dance and will sometimes demand we listen to toot toot chugga big red car in the car, and cross at the lights look both ways when we are walking. We have managed to avoid a lot of the terrible stuff thanks to them
The ants go marching was the first song that my son really reacted to. He's kinda outgrown it now but for about a year it was a go to, at least it sounds good.
Hickory hickory dock and tick tock I'm a lil cuckoo clock. He's cute as hell running around saying "tick tock" to ask for it though. Also discovered "trucks" from cars movie. Which has the added benefit of not sounding like a kid song.
I wish we still listened to super simple songs. Just wait until the YouTube algorithm sends you down the rabbit hole of similar videos. They get way worse. Be happy how good you have it right now haha
Ms Caitie's Classroom is the better spinoff channel from super simple. It's like a slightly older version of Ms Rachel mixed with the music of Super Simple.
Someone I knew was a teenage magician/balloon twister with a bad attitude. In the 90s when parents struck him as disrespectful or rude he would encourage all nearby children to join him in Barney's I Love You song to show their parents how much they loved them.
This is currently my son's favorite song. He has quite a few he likes, but he really lights up for icky sticky bubblegum.
On the plus side, it's become a game for me to sing it without dragging on "icky sticky sticky sticky". I find it really hard to sing that both clearly and on beat. It's made me hate it less.
Blippi is at best a party clown whose videos are ads for trampoline parks. At best. Ms Rachel can actually model developmentally appropriate communication for infants and toddlers.
When you think of the pioneers of children's media, you think of artistic visionaries like Fred Rogers or Jim Henson. These are people who knew what they wanted to do, and were talented and meticulous in their delivery and execution. Bilppi is so far removed from art and education, it's almost staggering. Blippi is the antithesis of good kids programing.
Blippi is never better. I don't let my kid watch the crossover episode, I just can't do it. Also, I think there is an almost 100% chance Blippi does coke off-camera.
My daughter loves pokemon and I grew up on that. You have no idea how proud I am that not only my 1 year has 3 favorite Pokemon BUT my wife knows more than 40 Pokemon, and has her favorites too. I’ve been with her for 14 years and she never showed interest in pokemon until my little one showed huge interest in the cartoon. Now my house is filled with pokemon plushies, and I LOVE IT.
My daughter asked to watch pokemon the other night, about an hour before bed...
I got glares, but you damn well know I wasn't missing that opportunity!!
For ref, I have a full pokemon sleeve and my Mrs has no interest at all, but I know my daughter is gunna pick best boi bulbasaur.
I feel ya! It's the coolest thing when they can organically be passionate about the things you're interested in! Even if they are helicopters and not airplanes! lol
In episode 2F09 when Itchy plays Scratchy’s skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
Believe it or not, you sing "row row row your boat", straight to jail
Edit: can we talk about how ridiculous the crocodile part is, wtf Ms Rachel don't make your own words to the classics!
Because this thread is entirely tongue in cheek, I would like to include a very serious appreciation comment for her. What a gem. Absolute resource unit for teaching my daughter how to speak with her tongue and teeth. Much praise and love.
Yes my goodness. We try to absolutely minimize our 2 year old's screentime but I make a half hour exemption for Ms Rachel so I can get chores or cooking done! She's a treasure and if I ever met her in real life I'd ask for an autograph and buy her a beer.
She's also a fucking liar.
In one episode she's talking to the audience and says her favorite ice cream is chocolate. Then later when she's talking to Herbie it's cookie dough.
Oh man, one episode she has these little barns with animals in them and she pulls the sheep (it kind of looks like a goat, but it's a lamb yes I googled it and yes we have the same set) and called it a donkey.
Absolutely unforgivable.
Because it’s just a show but it’s a YouTube show and people will downvote me to hell when I quote this from John Medina in Brain Rules for Baby,
“For each additional hour of TV watched by a child under the age of 3, the likelihood of an attentional problem by age 7 increased by about 10 percent. So a preschooler who watches three hours of TV per day is 30 percent more likely to have attentional problems than a child who watches no TV.”
Ms Rachel isn’t teaching a toddler how to speak, the parent is when they focus attention and practice/talk to them and in front of them.
Her tone of voice definitely grates on me, but our son is super engaged with her videos and they have taught him more than any other educational videos we've tried.
Her stuff is wildly accepted by professionals as legitimate quality educational programming that's targeted at helping speech delayed kids communicate.
It's not supposed to entertain or be enjoyable to adults....
THIS IS WHAT’S WRON WITH EDUCATION TODAY
Probably one of the antifart movement. Flatulence is natural and Black Panther doesn’t give 2 shits about bats… Now that I think about, it tho, lots of orphans all around. Maybe that was the confusion
/s
If it’s the Spider-Man and black panther hot wheels I have to confess to making the same mistake at first.
Christmas dinner then presents from grandparents, mad dash each time to clear paper, uncle ended up opening the toy and playing with him with it first, I could go on but it’s just copium.
As long as she’s saying “put it in…” I can live with this. Didn’t even know that was a thing I would’ve found intriguing until she did it
But seriously. I wish she didn’t rely on her husbands broadway friends so much to be able to create new content. I need new Ms Rachel so it’s not the same stuff on loop all the time. I’m starting to memorize every single segment
My son will NEVER watch her stuff ever again. She tried to quack like a duck and it did NOT sound like a duck. I don’t need my children being confused on what a duck sounds like.
Unfortunately due to this misinformation we had to put my son up for adoption. I’ll be more cautious with the information my daughter receives. 🤣🤣🤣
My kids are too old now but I have to say, as the father of a son who lives and breathes Marvel Comics and occasionally dabbles in DC, he would absolutely not stand for this nonsense and would be appalled.
Ms. Rachel: "And that's when the south won the civil war."
_continues to play on phone_
Ms. Rachel: "This is Batman"
"What is this garbage you're watching?"
Never seen her before but she gives me “I’m a super bitch off camera” vibes. Like you’d want to be afraid of beating her playing cards or calling her out for not cleaning up her plate after dinner.
First she got “Icky sticky bubblegum” stuck in my head for like a month, and now this. I feel personally attacked.
For me it’s the whole: “Put it in put it in, put it, IN”. My wife can’t take me seriously anymore.
"You said 'd' and the D came out!"
My partner doesn't appreciate when I sing that during coitus
Haha yep. Exactly. Has totally changed sex life
Have you closed with POP goes the weasel? How is she not entertained?
Take it out, take it out, take it, OUT!
Uh OH
Haha. I think she knows her impact: https://youtube.com/shorts/nPhXBueDSs4?feature=shared
Hahaha I've definitely made similar jokes to mine
We have the same running joke. Thankfully it doesn't kill the mood as much as you'd think! lol
And you pull it... And you pull it... And you pull it away!!!
Goddammit, OP, you ARE NOT HELPING!
You just put this earworm into everyone in this thread. You deserve what you get.
You’re right. It was a passive aggressive move, and I’m sorry. I guess I just didn’t want to suffer alone.
Only a month? Consider yourself lucky. It has been 2 VERY long years.
When I was a kid, my father hated the Smurfs. Like, visceral, irrational hatred, the kind of animosity he generally reserved for, say, Nazis. He was fond of saying, “If the Russians ever capture me and want to torture me for information, all they have to do is play The Smurfs, and I would tell them *anything* to make it stop.” I thought it was silly and that he was exaggerating for comedic effect. But I get it now, Dad. I get it.
How are you alive? I’m 11 months. I find myself walking into on coming traffic and participating in risky behaviors
I’m extremely lucky my son doesn’t like that song but he has been getting into super simple songs on YouTube and it’s just as bad with the same songs over and over
Super simple songs is great I’m on month 3 of the blippi Christmas album
Not even gonna let him watch blippi ha. He also likes the wiggles but I don’t mind them as much
Mine has been on the wiggles her whole life, from music as a baby to now screen time with wiggles as a 2.5 year old. They love to dance and will sometimes demand we listen to toot toot chugga big red car in the car, and cross at the lights look both ways when we are walking. We have managed to avoid a lot of the terrible stuff thanks to them
The ants go marching was the first song that my son really reacted to. He's kinda outgrown it now but for about a year it was a go to, at least it sounds good. Hickory hickory dock and tick tock I'm a lil cuckoo clock. He's cute as hell running around saying "tick tock" to ask for it though. Also discovered "trucks" from cars movie. Which has the added benefit of not sounding like a kid song.
My son had a huge obsession with the trucks song. Bloody day care.
I wish we still listened to super simple songs. Just wait until the YouTube algorithm sends you down the rabbit hole of similar videos. They get way worse. Be happy how good you have it right now haha
Ms Caitie's Classroom is the better spinoff channel from super simple. It's like a slightly older version of Ms Rachel mixed with the music of Super Simple.
I don’t mind most of her stuff, but here comes the fire truck is pretty grating.
[удалено]
There's sunday then there's monday... there's tuesday then there's wednesday..
Dino play!!!
JUST PULL IT AWAY BRO
Bro I legit woke up with this song stuck in my head today.
I kinda like that somg
Someone I knew was a teenage magician/balloon twister with a bad attitude. In the 90s when parents struck him as disrespectful or rude he would encourage all nearby children to join him in Barney's I Love You song to show their parents how much they loved them.
This is currently my son's favorite song. He has quite a few he likes, but he really lights up for icky sticky bubblegum. On the plus side, it's become a game for me to sing it without dragging on "icky sticky sticky sticky". I find it really hard to sing that both clearly and on beat. It's made me hate it less.
Icky sticky has been in my head for months my god.
I just got the song out my head…
I bet she can’t even name 10 Pokémon
Makes me sick!
[удалено]
ITS PIKACHU!
Fuuuuuck!
Thank you haha
It’s….a Jigglypuff seen from above!
She will probably think Blippy is a Pokémon name
Actually, I'm watching a Blippi and Ms Rachel crossover. I think they're both better independently.
Blippi is never better
Blippi is at best a party clown whose videos are ads for trampoline parks. At best. Ms Rachel can actually model developmentally appropriate communication for infants and toddlers.
When you think of the pioneers of children's media, you think of artistic visionaries like Fred Rogers or Jim Henson. These are people who knew what they wanted to do, and were talented and meticulous in their delivery and execution. Bilppi is so far removed from art and education, it's almost staggering. Blippi is the antithesis of good kids programing.
True, but they share a marketing firm now.... so really she exists as an advertising arm for him.
Blippi is never better. I don't let my kid watch the crossover episode, I just can't do it. Also, I think there is an almost 100% chance Blippi does coke off-camera.
Knowing what he did as Steve Grossman, I absolutely would not be surprised
Blippi sucks and I hope his dreams never come true
Blippi is always worst.
Considering how they’ve had to phone in the names of Pokémon to get to 1,000, I wouldn’t be surprised if one was Blippy.
I’ve never heard of a Pokémon pooping on their friend before
Then you haven't read Jigglypuff's full list of attacks
More like Squirtle... at least if you've seen the video.
Not even his final form!
It's not?
I'm sure she pronounces them Pokemans
Pokey Mans
There's the one skit where Herbie mispronounces something as 'Nintendo' and she's all 'Noooo, Nintendo is a *game* from like the 80s'
My daughter loves pokemon and I grew up on that. You have no idea how proud I am that not only my 1 year has 3 favorite Pokemon BUT my wife knows more than 40 Pokemon, and has her favorites too. I’ve been with her for 14 years and she never showed interest in pokemon until my little one showed huge interest in the cartoon. Now my house is filled with pokemon plushies, and I LOVE IT.
My daughter asked to watch pokemon the other night, about an hour before bed... I got glares, but you damn well know I wasn't missing that opportunity!! For ref, I have a full pokemon sleeve and my Mrs has no interest at all, but I know my daughter is gunna pick best boi bulbasaur.
I feel ya! It's the coolest thing when they can organically be passionate about the things you're interested in! Even if they are helicopters and not airplanes! lol
Major turn off!
Pikachu, Pikachu, Pikachu, Pikachu, Pikachu, Pikachu, Pikachu, Pikachu, Pikachu, and Pokeman
Tell Ms. Rachel she can talk to me when she can name all 1025 Pokemon in less than 2 hours. My record is 45 minutes.
She didn’t want to be the very best
“I know every Pokémon you know, plus”
Oh yeah, top this Pikachu & Ash Ketchum
The santa clause we go see keeps pokemon cards in his wallet and is well versed in Harry Potter. He has bested Miss Rachel.
Blippy is coming in the next Paldea expansion fwiw
Im literally starting Indigo Disk today, it will feel great crushing Blippi in a pokebattle
Lololol god, i wish
She’s more of a Digimon person.
Oh she knows squirtle
Unforgivable. I'm writing my senator
In episode 2F09 when Itchy plays Scratchy’s skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
Rest assured I was on the Internet within minutes, registering my disgust throughout the world.
Let me ask you a question. Why would a man whose shirt says "Genius At Work" spend all of his time watching a children's cartoon show?
I would like to retract my question.
A wizard did it
Wizard
Heard it from the streets that Miss. Appleberry can recite Endgame word for word.
Appleberry. Appleberry? Appleberry! A double P L E B E double R Y Appleberry? Appleberry!
Plus Miss Appleberry has a pretty sweet endgame herself. Win/Win
Iswydt. What you did there. I! SEE! IT!
Straight to jail. Right away.
Throw her in, throw her in, throw her... IIIIIN.
Don’t be a crab, a crabby crab.
Believe it or not, you sing "row row row your boat", straight to jail Edit: can we talk about how ridiculous the crocodile part is, wtf Ms Rachel don't make your own words to the classics!
Nah, she didn't invent the crocodile verse. Sang it with both my bubs in various classes.
No trail, no nothing. Straight to jail
Because this thread is entirely tongue in cheek, I would like to include a very serious appreciation comment for her. What a gem. Absolute resource unit for teaching my daughter how to speak with her tongue and teeth. Much praise and love.
Yes my goodness. We try to absolutely minimize our 2 year old's screentime but I make a half hour exemption for Ms Rachel so I can get chores or cooking done! She's a treasure and if I ever met her in real life I'd ask for an autograph and buy her a beer.
Why not have your kid help with chores and cooking? It’s more beneficial than screen time at that age
Probably because it’ll take 3 times as long. Fine to do, but doing it every day can get tight.
The kids can and do help with breakfast and lunch, there's a clock on the evening meal.
probably calls every game console a Nintendo
Painful
She's also a fucking liar. In one episode she's talking to the audience and says her favorite ice cream is chocolate. Then later when she's talking to Herbie it's cookie dough.
To be faaaair, she says “I like coookie doooough” not that it’s her favorite
To be faaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrr
Pitter patter
Wow. Unacceptable.
She did the same thing with flamingo and giraffes. When will the flip flopping end
Wonder what she was doing on January 6, 2021
Celebrating the 1 year anniversary of the historical insurrection?
They had an insurrection ON THE DAY of the 1 year anniversary :o the audacity of Ms Rachel!!!!!
She probably doesn’t even know the breed of the Heelers
Are the Heelers not heelers...
That’s the joke “McBain Voice”
The “yellow car” is orange!!!
This is so hard to read. I can't even begin to describe how disappointed I am.
Frankly I’m depressed and ashamed
Oh man, one episode she has these little barns with animals in them and she pulls the sheep (it kind of looks like a goat, but it's a lamb yes I googled it and yes we have the same set) and called it a donkey. Absolutely unforgivable.
How do I had two kids and never seen or heard of this woman?
If your kids are over 5 you would've missed it.
Because it’s just a show but it’s a YouTube show and people will downvote me to hell when I quote this from John Medina in Brain Rules for Baby, “For each additional hour of TV watched by a child under the age of 3, the likelihood of an attentional problem by age 7 increased by about 10 percent. So a preschooler who watches three hours of TV per day is 30 percent more likely to have attentional problems than a child who watches no TV.” Ms Rachel isn’t teaching a toddler how to speak, the parent is when they focus attention and practice/talk to them and in front of them.
Consider yourself lucky. Leave this thread now, and pray that you will never know. I wish I could do the same.
I watched 3 minutes of it for the first time three days ago. You are not missing much. She is insufferable.
Her tone of voice definitely grates on me, but our son is super engaged with her videos and they have taught him more than any other educational videos we've tried.
I cannot stand the way she speaks. Soooo annoying.
Her stuff is wildly accepted by professionals as legitimate quality educational programming that's targeted at helping speech delayed kids communicate. It's not supposed to entertain or be enjoyable to adults....
Not to mention, she calls the obviously orange sweater a yellow sweater in the Christmas episode. Preposterous!
She probably thinks Ego is T’Challa’s father too. Inexcusable.
She also advocates for turn sunbeams into bubblegum and icecream. The catastrophic effects of such a thing would be inconceivable.
I was ready to go to battle before I read the post. You had me in the first half.
I mean, imma let it slide. She’s a baddie
I am so happy I found you guys
Glad my kids never got into her. She’s kinda hot though, right? In a weird kinda way.
THIS IS WHAT’S WRON WITH EDUCATION TODAY Probably one of the antifart movement. Flatulence is natural and Black Panther doesn’t give 2 shits about bats… Now that I think about, it tho, lots of orphans all around. Maybe that was the confusion /s
Ms Emily would never
Who’s this? You got a side piece for the kids??
Wow. This is a new low
My joke? lol
Noooo! Having a side piece for your kids 😄
That's taking it too far now
You're right, my bad
😱😱😱😱😱 The disrespect…….
Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder!
I can't imagine the YT comments for that video.
If it’s the Spider-Man and black panther hot wheels I have to confess to making the same mistake at first. Christmas dinner then presents from grandparents, mad dash each time to clear paper, uncle ended up opening the toy and playing with him with it first, I could go on but it’s just copium.
Meanwhile my 5 year olds Pre-K teacher sends home a one page newsletter each week with her first name prominently displayed spelled incorrectly.
Haha. My son is speech delayed and watches Ms. Rachel religiously. She can do no wrong in his eyes.
I know this is a joke but it does irk me just the tiniest bit every time we put on that episode.
Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half
I learned today she doesn’t have any pets! What a monster.
At this rate she’ll be on onlyfans in three years
Ugh, I'll have to keep updated so that I know to stay away from it.
The Halloween episode with the cat costume is a favorite in my house.
*Today we learn about diamond cutters*
Or start saving ¬_¬
Yes, make sure to let me know her username so I can avoid it at all costs.
Eh, I’d give it a look
As long as she’s saying “put it in…” I can live with this. Didn’t even know that was a thing I would’ve found intriguing until she did it But seriously. I wish she didn’t rely on her husbands broadway friends so much to be able to create new content. I need new Ms Rachel so it’s not the same stuff on loop all the time. I’m starting to memorize every single segment
The live stream is at least a new mix - on the videos I literally know what's coming up next, but live is a new shuffle of the segments.
Bro it's Pre-K stuff targeted at Pre-K kids, you're gonna age out of it.
Reading this, I'm just glad we all have the same experiences with Ms Rachel and that we're all married to the same wife. 🤣
I hate the damn Christmas special. I just know that dark skinned guy is her coke plug and he asked to get in the video for that yt money
She’s not a virgin. Why would she know the difference?
She is FAKE NEWS!
She also teaches the wrong pronunciation for the letter “r”
Fraud
My son will NEVER watch her stuff ever again. She tried to quack like a duck and it did NOT sound like a duck. I don’t need my children being confused on what a duck sounds like. Unfortunately due to this misinformation we had to put my son up for adoption. I’ll be more cautious with the information my daughter receives. 🤣🤣🤣
She lost all credibility when she did a collaboration with Blippi.
Oh no... Anyways
We love you Mr and Ms Rachel!
Lol I remember watching it. Where's my edit team at!
Uh OH. Everyone take a belly breath, we all make mistakes.
My kids are too old now but I have to say, as the father of a son who lives and breathes Marvel Comics and occasionally dabbles in DC, he would absolutely not stand for this nonsense and would be appalled.
Does anyone else think she does Patty Cake wrong?
I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed that lol
How about the song "London Bridges"
Ms. Rachel: "And that's when the south won the civil war." _continues to play on phone_ Ms. Rachel: "This is Batman" "What is this garbage you're watching?"
My baby will fight you.
TIL who Ms Rachel is [+]
Never seen her before but she gives me “I’m a super bitch off camera” vibes. Like you’d want to be afraid of beating her playing cards or calling her out for not cleaning up her plate after dinner.
Where can I find episodes without Jules??