I had Supernanny on mute last night because sometimes I like to pretend I’m super-productive. Super-productive in my apartment means sitting around reading the Internet while watching reality TV with the sound off.
Anyway, I happened to glance up during this four-and-a-half year-old’s milestone moment (pictured) wherein Supernanny lets her know it’s finally okay to brush her own teeth instead of having her clueless (but all-in-all pretty sweet) mother brush them for her while she kicks and screams on a sofa. I turned the sound on, and it turned out this episode was a bit of a snoozer. Too bad I didn’t realize there was a second episode on right after that, featuring a heartbreaking, I-can’t-believe-this-is-on-TV (but isn’t nearly every show like that at this point?) story of two teenage daughters-turned-primary-caregivers who actually called Supernanny themselves.
Bottom line: UGH. Way to go, culture. Lookin’ great in ‘08!
After the jump, what I should have said when asked to possibly write a blog post about Supernanny…
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It’s a silly but sad show.
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Yes, I agree that this episode was a bit of a snoozer. The parents seemed nice, and to mean well they just…were way too overprotective. I mean, no one wants their children to get hurt but at the same time you can’t hover over them all the time to make sure they don’t stub their toe or scrape their knee. It just made me wonder what happened to make the pair of them so hypervigilant like that. Also, I want my own Mimi (the grandmother) she was totally adorable!
The second ep was the money episode though! It was really really sad, and my heart bled for those poor girls. How bad does it have to be when children are calling Supernanny?
Annie, you are funny. But I love nanny Jo-Jo. It makes me feel better to see families with psychotic children because it gives me hope that maybe my kids (when I have them) won’t be the worst behaved in the world – there’s always going to be someone worse. And unlike the copycat FOX show Nanny 911, at least Jo gives constructive advice instead of just insulting the parents like the old bags on Nanny 911 do.
That second episode was really disturbing. I tried to register on the show website at supernanny.us.com to post on the forum but it was pretty slow. I guess they must have had a lot of traffic this morning!
Great idea! I think any program with screaming children is best enjoyed sans sound…
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