Terrible Show
Ever since my 2 year started to watch this show he does nothing but stick his tongue out at everyone. What a waste of fifteen minutes. I know tons of other parents that feel the same way.
shareThat's what two year olds do. No one will die of having a toddler show them his tongue.
Charlie and Lola is a show about kids - real kids not picture book fluffy-idealised nause-monsters that don't exist and serve only to make parents feel inadequate. It is a show for kids - and for adults. One of the few kids programmes that you can watch with them without falling into a coma because the humour is universal - well of course it is, it's simple observational comedy. The haircut one, which my four year old (and my two year old) and I watched together about a week after she had had her own hair cut, springs instantly to mind. She watched. She saw Lola being amusing. She saw Lola doing all the daft things she herself had done before having her hair cut. She thought - I am Lola and Lola is me. She realised that if she thought Lola was being daft then she must have been too. She looked at me rather warily. I said - isn't Lola being funny? And a life lesson was learned.
I have read elsewhere that this show isn't educational. Yeah like you have to have ABC's and 123's to learn! Charlie and Lola is the best education in real life there is on TV. No one is dressed up in a mad padded suit or following a purple dinosaur. No one is smarming kids off with twee plesantries like they are dim, when they notice from very young that real life isn't like that. Hooray for the show that treats our kids as equals, while pointing out gently, that some of the things they WANT to do, aren't really what they SHOULD do.
You're missing the point. This show is stupid and it sucks. British TV is bad enough but British TV for kids is just horrible.
We need to Americanize this show and make it better, just like we did with the Office.
You make me laugh arrington75. We need to stop AmericaniSing everything, that's why society is like it is nowadays. Children have been sexualised at an early age BECAUSE of American/hollywood programmes. Kicks that bloody great big dinosaur's ass anyway!
shareThis Show is Perfect AS IS!
My 3 year old loves it. he watches it on Tivo all by his self. I plan on getting the DVD's so my 2 month old will watch them as well. Talk about Americarising British shows..... You can see how far that got Red Dwarf or Coupling.
Sizzles Rocks!
I very much disagree that this delightful show should be "Americanized." I am an American, born and raised, and I find that one of the major charms of this series is that it *is* British. Many Americans go a little soft anyway whenever they hear a British accent (I know *I* do), but the accent is especially appealing in children. Couple the accent with British politeness, and you have an enchanting combination in the personalities of these two children. And while we're talking about "Americanizing," what exactly do you mean? The situations that Lola finds herself in -- and to which Charlie always accurately and wisely responds -- are universal. Any child in any developed or developing nation can relate to the things that enchant, excite or bother Lola. And have you ever seen American TV sitcoms in the way the writers have siblings treat one another? The "American" version of sibling relationships is usually for them to continually throw insults at each other (often accompanied by a laugh track). In "Charlie and Lola," the two characters not only love each other but demonstrate their love in every episode. Leave it to the sensitive and insightful British to produce a show just like this. I'd not have it any other way. Hats off to you, author Lauren Child and your fellow producers!
shareBelieve me, this troll arrington75 does not speak for Americans in any way. I'm an American, and find this show to be utterly charming and delightful just the way it is. Puts many American shows for children to shame. I hope that its idiotic and uninsightful comments are not taken seriously by anyone.
shareMost definitely! I am American, and so are the boys I nanny for (ages 9, 5, and 4) and we all LOVE this show.
shareYou and I are of one mind, ihatetoregister-10. "Charlie and Lola" is a superb show for children -- and for adults too. I find myself laughing out loud at the things Lola says and does, and I'm always touched by the way ever-patient Charlie respects and loves his little sister. You're absolutely right that this series "puts many American shows for children to shame." Well said! By the way, I think there's a typo in your comment where you said "its idiotic and uninsightful comments." I think you meant to say "HIS idiotic and uninsightful comments," but we all know who you were talking about! ;-)
shareMy family loves the show so much that we bought the books it is based on.
I love all of the British terms (prawns, flat...) Some how Charlie manages to be sensitive without coming across as wussy. And Lola is a trip.
Yup! Another American disagreeing with this troll. If this AWFUL British show is teaching your "2 year" to stick out his tongue, then turn it off.
This happens to be the ONLY kids show I dont constantly ridicule. The other ones with the "adults-with-high-pitched-voices" kids, constantly saying ridiculous things, and dont even get me started on the group "YAAAAAY!!!" that manages to find its way into EVERY episode of EVERY show.
Ahem, sorry about that. Back on topic: Its not a bad show. Its cute, and funny, and most of all, pretty realistic. You dont see your kids trying to make dinosaurs come to life, or see them walking BY THEMSELVES out in the middle of nowhere trying to make it to "cupcake mountain".
"Bleh? What's a 'bleh'? Is that one of your jive words like 'Emancipation'?" Drawn Together
what do you call prawns in America? what about prawn crackers?
shareTwo years is far too young to be watching television.
sharewhat do you call prawns in America? what about prawn crackers? Emma_UK
I think prawns are "shrimp" here.
BTW, Soren Lorenson ROCKS!! wendy44130
pretty sure it's "Sarah Lorenson".
Kif! I've made it with a woman! Inform the men!
Nah, tis defo Soren.
shareHe is a boy, not a girl & when you hit subtitles, he is Soren Lorenson.
shareI totally agree as well! One of my favorite moments of the day is when my three year old and I cuddle up together to watch Lola... both he AND I are big fans. And I often use DVR for his favorite episodes, in case there's a moment during the day that (preggers) Mommy just needs a break for 15 minutes.
I just really wish it wasn't so impossible to find Lola related stuff in the US! I'm pretty jealous of all you British parents - heh, you don't have to worry about getting ripped off on Fee-bay to get those books.
Blessings!
Adrienne
Fort Bragg, CA USA
WOW!!!!! I know you are a Troll & all, but I am an American, I LOVE Brittish TV, I love Charlie & Lola, and The OFFICE is WAY funnier in it's BRITTISH form than the AMERICAN version!!
That said, watch something else if you don't like it. C U Next Tuesday!!!!!!
I am rolling on the floor with laughter - 'Americanize' the show to make it better? What planet are you from? 'Team America'?
(hops back onto chair reads the 'We need to Americanize this show' bit again and fall of chair laughing.)
British tv bad? This from the country that gave us such classics as Joe Millionaire and the frankly bland 'Friends'.
I am only 19 years old and I am English. Why would you need to Americanise a show that is British in it's origin? If you did, it wouldn't be the same show anymore would it. If you feel that your child is worse off for watching the programme, don't let them watch it. To Americanise a childs TV programme is like teaching a child that you can only appreciate things that belong to a specific culture and that's not right. Finally, it is "Americanised" in a more subtle way with a change in some of the words like "post" to "mail". Our American programmes aren't made to be more British they're are exactly the same just with less adverts! Appreciate things that are different, it makes life less monotonous.
shareYour whole argument against Charlie & Lola consists of the words "stupid" and "sucks". How old are you anyway? Ten? Grow up and learn some adjectives. Charlie & Lola is a smart, endearing, and funny show that provides an excellent example of sibling relationships.
shareWell then maybe you shouldn't be a parent, arrington75, because in just two small postings on this website you have announced to hundreds maybe thousands of others that you lack the ability to understand and appreciate a style of communicating with children outside of your own. I believe the appropriate classification is "narrow minded". I assure you that any child who lives outside of the "purple dinosaur" realm can explain it to you. For you to think that the Americanised versions of shows are better wasn't really a well thought out comment, now was it? It is certainly one you shouldn't take pride in saying out loud, it only shows others your ignorance, and we all know that ignorance, in it's true form, does NOT equal wordly and wise. Again; refer this to a child who's parents allow them diversity and they can give you a boost at understanding it better. Hopefully your children will grow up to have an appreciation of all forms of humor and not just the only humor YOU yourself can understand.
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I have never ever seen an episode where any of the children stick out their tongues...am I missing something? We have sooooo many episodes on DVR...and our girls really do learn about how to socialize with eachother and with the world in general...and they accept it in a way they don't coming from parents, or correction of bad behavior. It's modeling, and an invaluable tool in training our children.
My kids ask me to find their hand bags, my oldest has wobbly teeth, and every conversation has the word absolutely in it (we're American, so this is really very cute). My oldest has special needs, and one the ways we got her to let us brush her teeth without a daily battle, was after she saw the dentist episode. Charlie & Lola is one of the very few kids shows that doesn't annoy me to no end.
I'm assuming it was one episode and someone mentioned Lola trying to blow her hair out of her face, so I have to deduct it was the hair cut episode. I'm guessing the artist didn't just want to "blow" her hair out of her face because how good does that sound for a voice over, just some blowing, so they added some "tongue" noise to it. I also it was more realistic because if you've ever had hair in your face, and consequentially your mouth, you do the "plugh, plugh" to get it off your tongue.
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