Bad Moms Love Werner Herzog’s Madeline

By on July 27, 2011 1 Comment
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OK, so I know this isn’t really Werner Herzog reading Madeline, the children’s classic from my own childhood, but I think Herzog would readily agree to narrating the tale of an young girls living at a Parisian boarding school because of the series’ classic closing line: ‘That’s all there is; there isn’t any more.’ That [...]

Caillou Makes Me Stabby

By on September 2, 2010 36 Comments
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Caillou. Caillou. Ugh. Just saying his name makes me want to spit. Caillou is pretty much my number one kiddie-related entertainment nemesis and not just because he’s a whiny little turd whose voice makes me want to stab myself in the ears. OK, that’s not true. It is his whiny little voice that makes detest [...]

Bad Moms Love Books: Alfie Gets In First

By on July 13, 2010 Leave a Comment
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This week, while many of the members of Team Bad Moms are in far flung corners of Canada with unreliable internet connections *shudder*, we have invited some of our most favourite bad moms to help out in the clubhouse. One of those lovely ladies is EarnestGirl from the West Coast Chronicles at the Yummy Mummy [...]

Where’s Waldo Needed, Fake Werner Herzog, Ya?

By on April 27, 2010 1 Comment
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I could watch these fake Herzog videos all day (see: Curious George or Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel).  And I wholeheartedly agree with Fake Werner Herzog that when it comes to Waldo, ‘sometimes it seems like he is barely trying.’ ‘Why is everyone so preoccupied with at the airport that they miss the man [...]

So THAT’S What Little Princes Are Made Of

By on April 22, 2010 5 Comments
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I need your help folks: I’ve been staring at this children’s book or dvd cover for a while now and still can’t form a sentence to explain what is running through my head. Is it about a princess and her new beau? Is it a tale that aims to provide princesses with a reality check [...]

Senor Caca Is Not On Our Reading List

By on March 30, 2010 Leave a Comment
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Sometimes I read an article and think that it cannot be possibly true. Someone, I tell myself, must be pulling the Internet’s leg because something this ridiculous cannot exist. Take, for instance, this post on creepy children’s books. I had to verify that some of these texts are actual published works,  and much to my [...]