MamaPop Roundtable Video: Bakugan! Star Wars! Night Garden! Wiggles! Edition
Good day. What are you obsessing over right now? Is it sex? Death? Taxes? Obama's robot double (the pincer hands give it away)? Look, you live a complicated adult life. Relax. Let's journey into the terrifying minds of our children with this week's MamaPop Video Roundtable.
Each week, MamaPop's increasingly shameless contributors answer your questions en masse in a screaming explosion of explanation. This week we asked our crew: what are your children's pop culture obsessions? Contribute your answer in the comments below! And as always, this is your space too, so send your questions to palinode@mamapop.com.
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Wait, Jodi is a sexy black man?
Posted by: Sweetney | November 06, 2009 at 12:25 PM
I love me some sad cactus.
Posted by: schmutzie | November 06, 2009 at 12:39 PM
Ah yes, pop culture obsession starts early. Nicky's 3.5 years old and is really into Mickey Mouse clubhouse (and really lots of disney) and this new(ish) Oso show. The secret spy panda that is some funky color instead of black and white. What is it? blue and white, purple and white? something like that.
And he just learned about Bakugan this past weekend when we were at my 6 year old Godson's house. That's going to be the new obsession I can tell. I don't think he cares about the game, and probably never will, but he loves popping them apart and closing them back up again.
We're really trying to encourage this "putting things back together again" thing, so we'll probably buy him some of these for xmas.
Posted by: Angela | November 06, 2009 at 12:40 PM
I work at a toy store, and Bakugan are HUGE sellers for boys from about 4 - 10 or so. I don't get it, but boys LOVE them.
Posted by: Tamara | November 06, 2009 at 01:20 PM
I have suddenly and inexplicably become obsessed with Pokéman -- specifically and bizarrely (and, I guess, retroactively), Mudkip(z).
I am 35 years old, and I have no excuse for this. My 2½ year old has never seen a Pokéman, that I know of, and instead is really into "Ni Hao, Kai-Lan!" (except Kai-Lan is Chinese, not Japanese, so I don't know).
ANYWAY. I do play World of Warcraft, so maybe that explains a lot? I just don't know. I need a drink.
Posted by: rockle | November 06, 2009 at 02:09 PM
My 7 year old 7 is into all things Star Wars, and has decided he needs (and is quite successful at acquiring) a Light Saber collection. Some are quite awesome, I must say. Additionally - I've finally succumbed to allowing the Bakugan/Pokemon/Yu-Gi-Oh crap into my house; he is pleased that his patience wore mama down.
My 2 1/2 year old loves Gingabell. LOVES. Gingabell. To the average person, that translates to Tinkerbell. Gingabell has 'tude, so I'm okay with that. I'm not allowing the whole princess thing into my house. She also loves Star Wars, because her brother does. I think she knows more character names than I do.
Posted by: DianaCLT | November 06, 2009 at 03:00 PM
Best intro yet.
Disney fucking princesses.
I tried, people. I really tried. But they got in past the barricades. And they are multiplying at an astonishing rate. Someone please shoot me with your feminist eyeball laser beams. I tried to hold up a mirror and shoot myself but got the cat instead.
Posted by: rkmama | November 06, 2009 at 03:57 PM
Wow, get off the internet for the day to go to a work training and you become a different race and gender. Wow.
Posted by: jodifur | November 06, 2009 at 05:12 PM
@jodifur - Hey, I made Kelly a nerdy band girl, and Sarah was a bloodthirsty alien scientist. I was a skull. And TwoBusy became two dudes in hard hats. I think you came off pretty well.
Posted by: Palinode | November 06, 2009 at 05:21 PM
And KDiddy is the mom from Growing Pains! Gah! Am so sorry that you're married to Alan Thicke, or at least you are on TV.
Posted by: DianaCLT | November 06, 2009 at 06:37 PM
Jodifur - dunno your black manly name, but I do know that you were a really obnoxious drug-addicted spaz in some movie a while back.
Posted by: DianaCLT | November 06, 2009 at 06:40 PM
That was awesome.
Posted by: Emma | November 06, 2009 at 08:53 PM
'never underestimate the power of the wu tang!'
Posted by: Kate | November 06, 2009 at 09:23 PM
I don't want to sound like a dumbass (God knows I'm great at it though) but.....I'm just wondering who is the mom that says her kid's obsession with In The Night Garden is going to the looney bin? I just have to say, I've watched the clip several times now because of the looks on her face. She cracked me up on a night when I needing some cracking to be done! Thank you =0)
Posted by: Trish | November 06, 2009 at 09:26 PM
Yo Gabba Gabba. We weren't really trying to hatch an obsession in the 1 1/2 year old but the three older kids were bent on it. I think they liked it and decided they needed an excuse to watch it 6 times a day. Glitter hands, glitter hands, glitter hands, glitter hands. Razzle Dazzle.
Posted by: Dayna | November 06, 2009 at 10:23 PM
@Trish That's Katie, Motherbumper. And I agree, she is so clearly the star of these videos.
Posted by: Sweetney | November 06, 2009 at 11:19 PM
She was my favorite PR designer too. And I also can't remember her name.
Posted by: Renee | November 07, 2009 at 11:49 AM
@DianaCLT-And what movie is that?
@Palinode-not offended by my race and gender change, at all. But I can't remember, was he also an alien? B/c then is could be a trifecta!
Posted by: jodifur | November 07, 2009 at 02:14 PM
I always love these posts - thank you for sharing!
Posted by: jer | November 07, 2009 at 09:56 PM