“Well Daniel, how did the Blu-Ray DVD player with Netflix access turn out?”
Brain, it’s a huge success, and I need to hire someone to burn out my eyes.
“How’s that?”
Crank up the ol’ Short Term Memory computer and look.
/feeds the STM-gophers and they start running on their treadmills…
DADDY I WANNA WATCH “BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA” AGAIN.
Kid-o, there are lots of movies that Netflix will let us watch on this thing. Thousands, I think.
DADDY I WANNA WATCH “POKEMON 3″ AGAIN.
Look on the computer. There are lots and lots of really cool things we can stream from Netflix to the TV. Ooo! Bugs Bunny!
“BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA”, DADDY.
How about…
OR “POKEMON 3″.
They have Disney movies…
“BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA”.
And some more Japanese cartoons…
“POKEMON 3″.
And even SpongeBob…
“BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA”.
There are other talking-dog movies!
“BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA”.
Son, I love you more than anything, but we cannot watch one of those two movies every night!
“BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA”.
Oh my eyes…
“BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA”.
Please? Anything else?
“BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA”.
Fine. I give up. You can watch thirty minutes of… of that.
SAY, “BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA”, DADDY.
…
“Well Daniel, you own a large collection of mallets and hammers, you know.”
Brain, don’t tempt me. Seriously.
If it’s that bad, my first thing tonight will be to watch it:)
It could be worse… you could have a little girl and instead be forced to watch barbie:mariposa, or tinkerbell over and over…
Granted, my girls have a wider selection that they do like to watch, including night at the museum. (the only part they like is the easter island statue saying “hey dum dum, me want gum gum”) which they repeat in the shrill 4-5 year old girl voices equivalent to the sound levels associated with a rock concert.
Once in a while they get the urge to watch a non-stop betty boop classic cartoon collection, or pink panther (animated shorts). but the worst.. the absolute worst is the cable channel noggin/nickjr, endless hours of wonder pets, little bill, max and ruby, dora/diego, and kylan. The repition of those shows is enough to make one sick.. granted they are much better for that age kid than say…. spongebob or family guy.. but the shows themselves would send a sane man to an asylum just for rest and relaxation..
You know, my kids watch Cars. All the time. We have every Pixar movie that is out on DVD, and…here’s Saturday night:
Me: Ok, kiddos, we got our bowls of caramel puffcorn, we have pillows and blankets, we have the couch….what movie should we put in?
LIGHTNING MCQUEEN, DADDY!
…How about Incredibles?
DON’T WANT INCREDIBLES.
How about Monsters Inc, or Shrek?
NO. SHREK IS DUMB.
No name calling.
SORRY. PLEASE PUT IN LIGHTNING MCQUEEN NOW?
….ok.
YAY! CAN WE JUMP AHEAD TO THE TRACTOR TIPPING?
….
I’ve always had a low tolerance for rewatching movies, but my little brother was exactly the same way when he was little. He’d watch a movie, hit rewind (this was back in the days of VHS tapes), and immediately fire it up again. Ugh.
At least the movie I had to re-watch over and over again was Toy Story.
Er…because my son wanted to see it, not me. Really.
Two words…
Little Mermaid.
I win.
Hmmm Maybe I am unusually stubborn or my daughter is unusually complacent I just say no. but I know that would Not have worked with me… so Maybe its me.
Anybody with kids will tell you that kids can watch the same stuff over and over and over again.
Pinocchio.
_I_ win.
Well, I dunno. Do you guys remember the musical group for babies, the Wiggles?
My littlest sister had a VHS of the Wiggles (about six or five years ago), and she NEVER STOPPED WATCHING it. She watched it so often that Mom eventually threw it away.
The Wiggles are _creepy_.
Reminds me of my brother who would always watch “odn å eidn”.
No, it’s not -a- movie, it’s pretty much every Disney movie there is. When you started those old VHS cassettes some of the first words said was “(til) odel og eie”, meaning something like “yours forever” is a boy-to-vhs way. Not being able to say that, it ended up being “odn å eidn”.
lol, what ever cartoon I poped in I could prety much expect that cartoon to stay in the whole day
With my stepkids (now both adult) it was the Disney Sing-along videos that got constant airplay. With my now 10yo daughter at that age, it was the carebears movie, or my little pony, or whatever else seized her fancy for a day or a week.
My suggestion: Hang with your son while he watches that, but have your headphones on listening to your ipod, or watching something else on your laptop if you have one.
My daughter really really wants to see the Michael Jackson movie and I’ve told her I’d take her (my turn, because my husband suffered through the Hannah Montana movie a few years ago for her). I’m thinking of bringing my ipod….
I refuse to let my daughter watch any disney movie prior to Alladin when I am home. I don’t know what it is but all those early disney princess movies make me want to kick puppies. I’m ok with pixar movies as long as it isn’t 2 days in a row.
Thankfully my wife and daughter were mostly through beverly hills chihuaha when I got home and only had to put up with the last 15 minutes or so.
“Daddy is home now we can watch it again so he can see it!”
No… just no…
She has a tv and dvd player in her room but she refuses to watch movies in there… who knew my big screen TV would get more use from her then me?
My husband, bless his soul, stays home with our two kids while I work every day. He tells me now that he wants to have a third. I asked him why, and he said…
“Our son always wants to watch Transformers, and our daughter always wants to watch Strawberry Shortcake. I want a third to break the tie!”
I’m on vacation next week, and our son still has school. I expect to be watching (or at least listening to) Strawberry Shortcake berry, berry many times. Sigh. I need to get that kid another movie.
On the plus side though, if we ever hook Netflix up to the tv in the living room, the votes are unanimous. They want to watch Voltron! *snif* I’m so proud!
I must have gotten extremely lucky with my daughter. She has mostly the same tastes in movies and cartoons as I do, except once in a while she’ll want to watch Clifford or something on PBS.
The day she says to me “Daddy, I want to watch Star Wars!” will be the day I’ll be able to die a happy dad.
My son was like that with Bambi…Bambi!!! Oh it still hurts thinking about it…