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Oobi (2000)
Grammatically Terrible
I am a mother of two-year-old and a secondary English teacher and watching this show makes me flinch at all the incomplete sentences in which the characters speak. In one episode Oobi and his supposedly ethnic friend Kako take singing lessons and attempt to sing "Row Row Row Your Boat" in a round except the creators think it's fine to omit words from their (the characters) vocab so the song they sing goes more like "row row row boat gently down stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, life but dream." My child loves show but I have to leave the room when it's on or I go insane verbally filling in their pronouns and conjunctions or whatever other fragmented sentences dribble from their mouthes (or fingers). The message they try to get across is always a good one and sometimes they throw in subtle humor only adults will get, but the writers definitely need to stop worrying about saving trees and start teaching kids that grammar is not all that bad.
Beetlejuice (1988)
One of Burton's best!
Great flick. Entertaining throughout the entire movie! A big break from the norm. Definite recommendation for those who think a little outside the box.