What do your junior-age children watch that makes them laugh?

[roisin]

Aarrghh... I'm not quite sure how to express this ..

I don't feel entirely comfortable with the DVDs that ds1 watches (with the encouragement of dh) and enjoys immensely. DS1 is quite eccentric, and I guess I feel this sort of comedy is going to make him more so, rather than helping him to fit in with his peers.

Fawlty Towers
The Brittas Empire
Hitchhiker's Guide
Monty Python
Blackadder (edited)
Vicar of Dibley (edited)

Does anyone understand my unease? Or am I just bonkers?

Totally understand, does he not like spongebob?
You can change him though....better to let him watch them than to develop a fetish about them later in life

DS who is 10 watches Mr bean
and sometimes some mothers do have 'em

I don't really like any of the below so DS wouldn't be exposed to them iyswim

The Brittas Empire
Hitchhiker's Guide
Monty Python
Blackadder (edited)

how old is your ds? i don't think i'd have a problem with any of them tbh!

He obviously has a very sophisticated sense of humour roisin!

I had a boyfriend once (in fact, he was my best friend at school for years, then after we left school he became my boyfriend for two years) - who had a very quirky sense of humour. I don't know what he was into at your ds's age but I suspect it was Hancock's Half Hour. When I met him (age 13ish) he could recite just about anything from Monty Python and Blackadder. He was very intelligent and witty, artistic, occasionally embarrassing (in the oh-my-god-I-wish-the-ground-would-open-up-and-swallow-me manner ) - but that all contributed to making him into the person he was. He was popular and well-liked all through school, even more so at university. His slight air of wackiness was very appealing, obviously!

So much of what you say about your ds reminds me of him. I've lost contact with him but see from FriendsReUnited that he is a teacher in London (I bet he is a great teacher too, totally off the wall!)

Anyway, the point of me wallowing in all this nostalgia is to say - don't worry about your ds and his quirky sense of humour. He is obviously a child who will always plough his own furrow.

He's 8 btw.

We don't watch much TV at all, and he would be happy to watch virtually anything, so this interest is clearly coming from dh's encouragement.
The other day on the way to Tescos the pair of them were reciting a Monty Python sketch, and it just reminded me of other quirky oddballs I have known in the past

RTK ... I don't really like them either. I think that's the problem!

My ds1 who is 6 btw really laughs out loud at Little Britain especially when he sees a bum! Not that we actually let him watch it!

He also does very good impressions of the characters!

I must point out that one of his aunties has let him watch it!