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Ask Metafilter Dark deconstructions of children's TV shows/characters? I've read fantastic, dark - often very political analyses - of TV shows like Thomas the Tank Engine, Teletubbies, Mr.Blobby, and Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch.... but I'd like to find some more. What other dystopian, playful, surreal, philosophical, deconstructive readings of kid's…

August 18 2019, 8:47am | Comments
Bookmark A Turkish TV station forgot to add special effects to a scene…
Films are made with two key variables: time and money. Filmmakers also employ editors. We’ll be kind and say this Turkish TV show ran out of money and couldn’t afford to…

May 26 2015, 5:08am | Comments
Bookmark What Is A Television (Tele-Vision) And Will Your Children Even Care? -…
In David Cronenberg’s 1983 film Videodrome, the president of a cable company discovers, on a pirate satellite, a plotless show (the titular “Videodrome”) depicting the graphic torture and murder of anonymous…

October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments
Vimeo

March 31 2014, 9:25am | Comments
Tumblr AT MIDNIGHT WE ALL ENTER THE BLACK LODGE

March 24 2014, 9:59am | Comments
GIFbites Leaper A fusion of ‘above’, by GIFMovie, and vintage...

January 21 2013, 6:23am | Comments
GIFbites Television Animated GIF made by otolythe from Berlin-based...

December 18 2012, 4:50am | Comments
Tumblr Viral

October 2 2012, 11:16am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments
Tumblr Spockvision

July 10 2012, 1:20pm | Comments
Bookmark The madness of crowds: hoarding (Will Self)
Wherefrom comes this urge to expose such traumatic interiors? After all, hoarding can be nothing new – it’s easy to imagine a Cyclops’s cavern stuffed to the roof with sheep bones,…

May 30 2012, 1:50am | Comments
Tumblr Cybernetic Sherlock

January 8 2012, 9:45am | Comments
Bookmark The secret messages written into the fabric of our world
I like the BBC test card, because it's a wonderful example of how practical industrial design can develop into an enigmatic work of art. But even better is knowing that the…

September 17 2010, 4:40am | Comments
Bookmark When the Meganovel Shrank
It seems significant, somehow, that Infinite Jest—the big buzzy signature meganovel of the nineties—was set at the end of the aughts. Most of the book’s action appears to take place in…

January 8 2010, 5:21am | Comments
Bookmark The Man Who Eats Badgers
To many, the A30 is just a road, but to retired civil servant Arthur Boyt it's more like a delicatessen. Arthur eats roadkill. He has sampled cat, barn owl, squirrel, hedgehog…

August 10 2009, 6:27am | Comments
Bookmark Is Star Trek A Religion?
Star Trek has long been described as a cult phenomenon…but is it an actual cult? Some anthropologists think so. Following the example of anthropologist Margaret Mead, they lived among the natives…

July 30 2009, 1:22pm | Comments
Misc Fish and Rice Cakes

April 16 2009, 8:58am | Comments

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Ask Metafilter Dark deconstructions of children's TV shows/characters? I've read fantastic, dark - often very political analyses - of TV shows like Thomas the Tank Engine, Teletubbies, Mr.Blobby, and Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch.... but I'd like to find some more. What other dystopian, playful, surreal, philosophical, deconstructive readings of kid's…

August 18 2019, 8:47am | Comments
Bookmark A Turkish TV station forgot to add special effects to a scene…
Films are made with two key variables: time and money. Filmmakers also employ editors. We’ll be kind and say this Turkish TV show ran out of money and couldn’t afford to…

May 26 2015, 5:08am | Comments
Bookmark What Is A Television (Tele-Vision) And Will Your Children Even Care? -…
In David Cronenberg’s 1983 film Videodrome, the president of a cable company discovers, on a pirate satellite, a plotless show (the titular “Videodrome”) depicting the graphic torture and murder of anonymous…

October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments
Vimeo

March 31 2014, 9:25am | Comments
Tumblr AT MIDNIGHT WE ALL ENTER THE BLACK LODGE

March 24 2014, 9:59am | Comments
GIFbites Leaper A fusion of ‘above’, by GIFMovie, and vintage...

January 21 2013, 6:23am | Comments
GIFbites Television Animated GIF made by otolythe from Berlin-based...

December 18 2012, 4:50am | Comments
Tumblr Viral

October 2 2012, 11:16am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments
Tumblr Spockvision

July 10 2012, 1:20pm | Comments
Bookmark The madness of crowds: hoarding (Will Self)
Wherefrom comes this urge to expose such traumatic interiors? After all, hoarding can be nothing new – it’s easy to imagine a Cyclops’s cavern stuffed to the roof with sheep bones,…

May 30 2012, 1:50am | Comments
Tumblr Cybernetic Sherlock

January 8 2012, 9:45am | Comments
Bookmark The secret messages written into the fabric of our world
I like the BBC test card, because it's a wonderful example of how practical industrial design can develop into an enigmatic work of art. But even better is knowing that the…

September 17 2010, 4:40am | Comments
Bookmark When the Meganovel Shrank
It seems significant, somehow, that Infinite Jest—the big buzzy signature meganovel of the nineties—was set at the end of the aughts. Most of the book’s action appears to take place in…

January 8 2010, 5:21am | Comments
Bookmark The Man Who Eats Badgers
To many, the A30 is just a road, but to retired civil servant Arthur Boyt it's more like a delicatessen. Arthur eats roadkill. He has sampled cat, barn owl, squirrel, hedgehog…

August 10 2009, 6:27am | Comments
Bookmark Is Star Trek A Religion?
Star Trek has long been described as a cult phenomenon…but is it an actual cult? Some anthropologists think so. Following the example of anthropologist Margaret Mead, they lived among the natives…

July 30 2009, 1:22pm | Comments
Misc Fish and Rice Cakes

April 16 2009, 8:58am | Comments

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