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If Marshall the Dalmatian Firedog is around, why not teach kids what to do if they smell smoke? As long as Rubble the English Bulldog Manual Laborer is on the scene, why not show kids how to practice safety around hand tools?Įven if the show were not callously amoral, it is physically unpleasant to take in.
Does a farmer need to harvest his crop? Does a restaurateur need to throw a party? Toss in a rescue dog. Instead of finding clever ways to teach kids everyday virtues, the writers simply throw a rescue dog at every problem. Paw Patrol follows the adventures of a canine emergency-response team, yet it offers zero guidance as to how one should behave during an emergency. It’s one of the few children’s programs that neither tries to entertain parents nor encourages kids to become better people. Lessons like Try new things or Be kind to others or (in the case of Thomas) Suppress your individuality for the sake of the greater good. Sesame Street, Daniel Tiger, PJ Masks and even the openly fascistic Thomas & Friends build their story lines around minor conflicts that provide opportunities to teach life lessons in amusing ways. First, there is the show’s disdain for anything remotely edifying. Take the theme song of the (vastly superior) PJ Masks, the lyrics to which read “Cuz bedtime / Is the right time / To fight crime” when obviously the line should be “Cuz nighttime / Is the right time / To fight crime”! What could possibly explain such an oversight? Nothing nearly so baffling happens in Paw Patrol.Īnd yet Paw Patrol is monstrous. And to be fair, there are kids’ shows with far more puzzling internal contradictions. We’re fine with anthropomorphized animals who wear tops but no bottoms. Does it make sense that the dogs can talk but the cats and chicken can’t? Or that the dogs can operate complex machinery without opposable thumbs? Or that Marshall the Dalmatian personally carries on his body at all times an apparently inexhaustible supply of water? No - but cartoons don’t have to make sense. It’s not the logic of Paw Patrol that bothers me. And so the JV superheroes made their maniacal entrance into our lives, wrapped in a whirlwind of strobe lights and talking dogs and bowling-pin sound effects. Then we entered the uneasy in-between years when the boys no longer tolerated Elmo but weren’t yet ready for superheroes who murder murderers. We started them on our nostalgic favorites - Sesame Street and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood (a spinoff of Mister Rogers’) - and were pleasantly surprised that these shows came across as funny, caring, and true.
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For the second, we almost made it a full six weeks.
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My wife and I did our best to shield our sons, now 4 and 6 years old, from screen time for as long as possible. For the first kid, that meant no TV for two years. Otherwise, Paw Patrol is a moral and aesthetic catastrophe. First, the honorable mayor of Adventure Bay is a woman of color. Second, the gray dog named Rocky is really into recycling. Let’s start with the redeeming qualities. We’re republishing this story from Decemas a reminder that, despite what the White House Press Secretary has said, Paw Patrol is not cancelled.
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