| − | |A pro-friendship, pro-family preschool show that encourages kids to get outside and have fun playing sports like normal kids used to do every day. The nihilistic villains are always defeated and no one ever listens to them. This show is notable for producing a popular internet meme known as the "We are Number One" song as part of a GoFundMe campaign to help actor Karl Stefansson recover from pancreatic [[cancer]] in 2016. | + | |Created by Icelandic Olympic athlete, actor, writer, producer, and entrepreneur Magnús Scheving, who portrays sports-themed superhero Sportacus, this pro-friendship, pro-family preschool show encourages young audiences to go outside and have fun playing sports and other outdoor activities, as was the case in decades past. Nihilistic villain Robbie Rotten schemes to encourage children to be lazy, but his plans always backfire. This show is notable for producing a popular internet meme based on the song "We are Number One" from the penultimate episode as part of a GoFundMe campaign to help Robbie's actor, Stefan Karl Stefansson, recover from pancreatic [[cancer]] in 2016. |
| − | |Very pro-family, clean cut, clean living sitcom of the 1950s-early-1960s traditional nuclear family, the Cleavers. Unfortunately, their real lives off screen were hardly Cleaver-esque, as all of its main stars except Ken Osmond, who played Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver's archenemy Eddie Haskell, went through several divorces and remarriages between them while Osmond never became addicted, broke (bankrupt) or a criminal after the original show ended, unlike so many other former child stars. Osmond is still married to his only wife, Sandra Lee Purdy, since 1969, with whom he had two children, born 1971 and 1974 and after the original show ended, did something very opposite his "bad boy" Eddie Haskell persona: he became a police officer (Los Angeles Police Department) in 1970, retiring on medical disability in 1988 while repeating his original role in the 1980s cable-TV remakes of the original series; remakes that ran from 1984-1989 with a CBS pilot (first episode) in 1983 as a 20 year "reunion" TV movie titled ''Still the Beaver'', which became its own Disney Channel series from 1984-1985. In 1986, it became ''The New Leave it to Beaver'' on TBS until ending in 1989. Both the 1983 pilot and its following serieses had 'Beaver', 'Wally' and 'Eddie' as 1980s middle aged adults in a world of more depressing, serious and longer lasting 1980s problems. | + | |This very pro-family, clean cut, clean living sitcom follows a traditional nuclear family, the Cleavers, from the perspective of the younger of the two sons. Unfortunately, their real lives off screen were hardly Cleaver-esque, as all of its main stars except Ken Osmond, who played Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver's archenemy Eddie Haskell, went through several divorces and remarriages between them while Osmond never became addicted, broke (bankrupt) or a criminal after the original show ended, unlike so many other former child stars. Osmond is still married to his only wife, Sandra Lee Purdy, since 1969, with whom he had two children, born 1971 and 1974 and after the original show ended, did something very opposite his "bad boy" Eddie Haskell persona: he became a police officer (Los Angeles Police Department) in 1970, retiring on medical disability in 1988 while repeating his original role in the 1980s cable-TV remakes of the original series; remakes that ran from 1984-1989 with a CBS pilot (first episode) in 1983 as a 20 year "reunion" TV movie titled ''Still the Beaver'', which became its own Disney Channel series from 1984-1985. In 1986, it became ''The New Leave it to Beaver'' on TBS until ending in 1989. Both the 1983 pilot and its following serieses had 'Beaver', 'Wally' and 'Eddie' as 1980s middle aged adults in a world of more depressing, serious and longer lasting 1980s problems. |