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Search Twitter for responses from DirecTV subscribers currently without their 17 Viacom-owned cable networks and you’ll see some passionate ones. Some folks (like Big Bang Theory EP Bill Prady) would like the financial dispute swiftly resolved so they can watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, while others simply want their MTV or BET (or CMT or VH1). But it’s the parents of Nickelodeon fans who caught our attention. Chancie Parmley, 30, is a mother of three — 3-year-old Lexi, 5-year-old John, and 8-year-old Kiley — in Virginia Beach, VA. Last night, she and her family were watching Nickelodeon when they saw a commercial informing them that their favorite shows were soon to be “NO MORE” and giving them DirecTV’s number to call. Watch it below.* “My 3-year-old was in tears saying, ‘I’ll never get to watch Dora again, Mommy. Why are they doing that? Why are they not letting me watch Dora? I love Dora,’” Parmley tells EW. “My 5-year-old was like, ‘I’ll never get to see SpongeBob?!’ How do you explain that to a 3- and a 5-year-old? If you want to say, ‘Call DirecTV and discuss it with them,’ fine. But you don’t use cartoon characters to scare kids to manipulate their parents. That’s below the belt…. It’s kinda like saying, ‘Santa Claus has died, and you’re never gonna get anymore Christmas presents.’ To a kid, ‘I’ll never get to see my favorite show again’ is a big deal. To them, cartoon characters are real. I’ve talked to friends who’ve said the exact same thing. [Their kids] felt like SpongeBob was dying.” (A rep for Nickelodeon did not return EW’s request for comment.) READ FULL STORY »
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