Top 11 children's TV shows in my past. Part 1.

TV children's shows aren't good as they used to be. I know they made a remake of an old classic TV show called 'Pinky and Perky' but the remake looks stupid. The computer graphics is not a good idea and the plot seems a little different from the orginal idea, admittedly I haven't seen an episode but the trailer says it all. And they made a remake of 'Dennis the menace' based on the cartoon based on the popular comic strip from the popular comic the Beano, but the voice for Dennis was rubbish, it was so obvioulsy a woman doing the voice. But I still remember the warm glow from classic children's shows, you can't make children's shows like that anymore. So I'm counting down the best children's shows I remembered growing up as a kid, and I'm doing it now while I'm still a teenager before I forget the plots of the shows.

11. Mona the Vampire.
This is a very strange show. It's about a little girl called Mona Parker who has a very active (and creepy) imagination. She dresses up as her alter ego, Mona the vampire, along with her friends Charlie Bones (Zapman) and Lily Duncan (Princess Giant) fighting against supernatural creatures whether they be alien or magical. The funny thing is that we also get to see the reality of the monsters. When Mona thought her mother was being hypnotised by a lizard-like creature, it turns out the creature was actually a very popular singer of a band called 'The Lizzards', it was just hilarious to watch. I put this low on the list because it was kind of disturbing that a 10 year old imagined creepy monsters and ghouls, am I the only one who finds that disturbing? But another reason why it's in this spot is because in an episode when Mona gets a new classmate, she thinks he's an alien, because he had a English accent. I mean, I know she's only 10 and she wouldn't know anything else about foreign places, but the script for the new classmate was just stereotypical. I mean everytime he talks, he says 'pip' in the sentence. English people don't say 'pip' all the time, they might have along time ago but not anymore. Also, when Mona's mum (or mom since she's Canadian)invited the classmate for dinner, he looks at the salad and says "Ewww, what's this?" to the lettuce, she tells him it's lettuce and he says he never had that from where he came from. Yes you do, every country has lettuce, I can't think of any country without lettuce, except for Incas in anicent Peru but I degress. But aside from that, this was an OK cartoon, I clearly recommend it to all of those people with a crazy imagination.

10. Arthur.
It's a Canadian educational cartoon, helping kids learn how to face their problems, boost their self-esteem and trying to help them to learn from their mistakes, using talking animals! The cartoon is filled with anthropomorphic animals instead of humans. What are they trying to say, animals have problems that children have to? Aside from that, it is a good show. Some of the episodes is showing problems, and if you put your minds to it, some of these problems happened to us as well. My favourite episode is when a character gets some barbie doll for a present, but it turns out she already had that present. She enjoyed her party but noticed that her friend Francine wasn't enjoying it, turns out Francine was the person who sent her the second gift of the same gift, and she had to do a lot of work just to get money to buy the doll. That is something a kid would hate; they do a lot of tough work to get money to buy a gift but finds out the gift was already bought and given. To show how popular this cartoon was, they got a lot of celebrity guest stars though some kids don't really know who they are. Here is a quick list:-
Yo-yo Ma - Cellist.
Koko Taylor - Blues singer.
Taj Mahal - Blues musician.
Frank Gehry - Architect.
Neil Gaiman - Novellist and comic book writer.
The Backstreet boys.
Joshua Redman - Saxophonist.
By celebrity guest star do you mean, you kidnapped them? I'm just think it's weird that celebrities volunteered to take part in a cartoon, with their cartoon counter parts with bunny ears or cats ears. Even though the animal theme was weird, it is a good show for children with problems.

9. Power Rangers.
I can't believe I'm typing this up, but I have to be honest, when I was young, I really did like Power Rangers. I liked it cheesy martial arts moves, awesome theme songs and at times, intense storylines. I think the first Power Rangers series I watched might have been Wild Force but I'm just saying that because I can't remember the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I did watch some Power Ranger episodes on YouTube but after finding out about ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, I don't any more. When I was young I always had a fantasy world when I'm always a superhero and I'm better than everyone else. Yeah, I was very arrogant when I was little. Now I kind of have a reality-fantasy world, as in real-life-events-that-I-don't-think-would-happen-to-me world, but I don't imagine myself as a little superhero (not a lot I mean) and I owe all the credit to Power Rangers. I was an adventure seeker, and Power Rangers was the reason for all that. I put this in the number 9 spot because I don't fully remember the episodes, much less the 15 (nearly 16) series, but I do remember some seasons, and it is a little lame at times, but you can feel that the cast enjoyed playing the big (nearly) superheroes.

8. Jackie Chan adventures.
Jackie Chan plays an archeologist (who coincidently knows martial arts) who somehow got into some mythological adventure corresponding with Chinese and sometimes Japanese mythology. It's kind of weird to be honest, his uncle (who's just called Uncle for some reason)knows about magic and such and his niece keeps coming along with him on his adventures. It's funny because he always tells his niece, Jade, to stay behind but she always comes along with him. The show has 5 seasons. The 1st one was when he had to travel around the world to retrieve talismans with the symbols of the Chinese zodiac, each having its own magical power. The 2nd one was when this demon called Shendu is going to unleash his demon brothers and sisters, each with it's own portal but can be defeated by objects that was used by the 7 immortals. The 3rd season was similar to the 1st one but instead of talismans, it was in animals based from the Chinese zodiac. 4th season was Japanese, when they have to collect masks of demon generals called Oni, whoever wears the mask can summon and control different entities called shadowkhan. The final season was almost close to the 2nd one but instead of releasing the demons, the immortal's objects still had essence of the demons they defeated, and whoever had the items start to become more and more like the demons. It was a complete mess, but I liked the fighing moves and the season had very good plot and backstories. But it wasn't just Chinese and Japanese legends, they included Santa Claus (yes, I'm dead serious about that) and Spring-heeled Jack. It was kind of weird, but it's magic, it doesn't really need much explanation on how it happens.

7. Kids Next Door.
It's quite a strange show, about some secret spy organisation entirelly runned by kids (seriously?) who start to fight against bad guys and monsters based upon every kids nightmares and worst enemies. I like the creativity of the villains; the bad guys are teachers, dentists, bullies, doctors and even parents. I didn't understand the major villain, Father. I guess he was supposed to be the embodiement of fathers who force their children to do what the father approves of and not what the kids wanted to do. The monsters are sometimes creepy, like the kids were attacked by large lice that eat hair, nerd-zombies and were-dogs. I think the were-dogs were supposed to be based upon the phrase "My dog ate my homework", ingenious. But what this show had a problem which was Number 1's dad. His dad was English, and as 'Mona the Vampire' failed at, the script was stereotypical. He kept talking like he was an old Victorian, and when he and Number 1 went to England for a visit, all the dialogue from the English characters was terrible, they keep speaking in old cockney accents, when cockney isn't around, and all the phrases that was used along time ago is mentioned. OK, rant time, I know people from England, they don't use phrases like what the characters used, I've been to London, and I never heard those phrases used, WHY ARE THE CARTOONS TALKING LIKE THAT!!?? Anyway, the cartoon was a pretty good show, and in the cartoon movie, Zero, it had a good plot twist in the movie and I highly recommend it to people to watch.

And that's Part 1 over and done with, stay tuned next time to find out what my number 1 children's show is.