Squawk! Shriek! Brainiac too obscene for my children :O

[Greensleeves]

So here we are watching Brainiac, preparing to watch a bath being blown up with thermite - all good clean family fun

Enter a woman who looks like she's been booted out of a club at 4am, woth a string of blatant sexual innuendoes

"how hard is your thing, hurrrrrrrr"

"Looks like we ripped it a new plughole"

and the cruel fattist jibe

"Oops, Vanessa Feltz has slipped in the shower again"

AIBU to be slightly traumatised? We might have to watch Little House On The Prairie instead

It's full of not very funny jokes. The script writers are trying too hard to appeal to 'the kids'. My DD hates it.

The next sketch was a "Russian" with ridiculous accent and furry hat going on about turnips

are they just allowed to be appalling, because they are getting kids interested in science?!?

Brainiac's level of appalling sexism varied from series to series. I didn't mind the DCs watching it when they were little because it went way over their heads - they were happy to watch the pretty ladies blowing things up and the fact that they were wearing hot pants was irrelevant. I'd be a lot less happy now they're older.

I recommend Mythbusters, Bang Goes the Theory, Scrapheap Challenge or Richard Hammond's Blast Lab instead, lots of explosions but much less egregious sexism.

DH just said the other day that he didn't notice how much cruder it seemed to get when Vic Reeves took over when he watched it the first time around but watching it now it really did! I'll have to hunt out some alternatives to stick in the planner to appease the explosion mad small one. Thanks for the tips Lady :)