In which I make a pimp post about my terrible taste in kiddie television! Because I feel like posting videos, and none of you can stop me.
1. Zeke and LutherYeah, yeah, a kids' show about two white guys and the one guy's sociopathic sister having ~*hijinks*~. Revolutionary. I know. And I thought
Zeke and Luther was kind of bland at first, but it grew on me-- it's not nearly as good as
Even Stevens, which was created by the same guy, but it's still a lot of fun!
Also, it is really, really gay. I've been trying really really hard lately not to ship white guys together just because they happen to be on the same show, but . . . no seriously, Luther spends most of his time latched bodily onto Zeke, and they're absurdly codependent and say they love each other like once an episode, and at the very least it's intolerably cute
bordering on gay.
Also, Brian Stepanek is on it sometimes! He owns a donut shop.
2. Jackie Chan AdventuresSee, this show is actually good. Ostensibly it's about a college student named Jackie Chan who works at his cranky old uncle's antique shop in San Francisco, and his little cousin Jade lives with them, and they run around battling an organization called the Evil Hand for a bunch of powerful demonic talismans-- different ones each season. It is a
ridiculous amount of fun. Uncle complains at everyone constantly, Jackie kicks ass but inevitably ends up getting captured, and then Jade shows up and saves everyone's asses even though she promised she was going to stay home and safe this time no
really. There are a bunch of great recurring characters, too, mostly Latino-- there are not many white characters at all-- and also a small plush superhero called Supermoose. I can't understand how anyone could ever hate this show.
Jade is one of my favorite characters in anything ever, seriously. I love seeing a mouthy nine-year-old girl get to outsmart and beat up thirty-foot bad guys
every single episode. Plus she was a ninja queen once, and her BFF is an enormous ex-sumo-wrestler named Tohru who was a bad guy at first but then became Uncle's apprentice.
There are time travel episodes, and parallel-universe episodes, and kung fu battles in space! And on top of all that, Jackie Chan shows up at the end of each episode to answer a fan's question! I have learned from watching this show that he is scared of swimming, that as a kid he wanted to be a cartoon character when he grew up, and that if he weren't an actor he would want to be a jet pilot.
I can't find many short clips from it-- YouTube mostly has entire episodes-- but here, have the credits :D?
Also, Adam Baldwin is in it sometimes! He plays one of the bad guys' henchmen.