Somebody shoot me....Suite Life Marathon is on...

[4chitlins]

And to make it even worse,High School Musical is on right after that!
We took the kids to Maine today to go ride the trolley and pick pumpkins and all my 12 year old DD kept saying was that we needed to get home cause she was missing the marathon and H.S. musical was coming on

 

[Geoff_M]

kids are watching the Suite Life marathon on the Dis channel....I think I'm going crazy. This show is the new "Full House" in terms of shows that make me ill.

the overacting, the terrible phony accents, the completely unbelievable scripts, the almost complete lack of humor, the laugh track, and the pacing of the show on steroids...

I can relate... My 13 year-old son thinks the show is "the greatest". I ask him to watch something else instead of this and other "tweener" sit-coms when I'm around.

 

[Pirate Me]

I remember "Classic Disney". What was better than watching classic MM cartoons every morning?

 

[profdsny]

I'm glad to see that I"m not the only one who thinks this is one of the dumbest shows that Disney has done in the last 5 years or so. Why these kids haven't been sent to reform school is beyond me. Luckily, DD has pretty much out grown this. Sadly, she seems to think that SVU is the replacement. Not on days when I'm home!

 

[Reflection]

I agree that the current crop of tween-oriented Disney programming is not at all good, and I think SLOZAC is absolutely dreadful, with Corey in the House a close second. The twin lead actors in SLOZAC, in particular, could not act their way out of a paper bag with a hole in it. I head out of the room when daughter has this show on.

I can take some of the Nick and Noggin programming (particularly like Degrassi) but SLOZAC, please, Disney programming chiefs, get rid of this show.

 

[Reflection]

Wow.. I thought this show was geered towards middle and high school aged kids. In my high school classes people would always be talking about it.. I know that littler kids watch it as well but this is actually how life is nowdays.

I also thought the target demographic for this aspect of Disney's dreadful programming was tweens (10-14 year olds) and possibly early highschoolers (i.e., freshman). I'm suprised to read on this board about the number of kindergartners, first, and second graders who watch these shows.

 

[savage1]

That's OK. I live with Zac and Cody. Literally. (except Cody is 12 and Zac is 5.) They watch the show all the time and get ribbed about "their" show. I know they watched it all night! I read a book.

 

[CEDmom]

I also thought the target demographic for this aspect of Disney's dreadful programming was tweens (10-14 year olds) and possibly early highschoolers (i.e., freshman). I'm suprised to read on this board about the number of kindergartners, first, and second graders who watch these shows.

The problem is that Disney really doesn't have anything for the 7-10 yo crowd. My DD is 8 and she actually still loves some of the Playhouse Disney shows (Charlie & Lola is her absolute favorite). In just the last few months she's expressed an interest in watching some of the other Disney shows.

So I sat with her to watch a few and the only one she's allowed to watch in limited quantity is Suite Life. The others I think are way to mature for a child her age. I know I'm in the minority though since there are plenty of parents buying Hannah Montana tickets for their 6 yo.

She's seen HSM2 but has yet to see the original one since when it came out we didn't think it was appropriate for her.

 

[Tiffer]

DD is watching HSM 1 &2 At least she gets some exercise, because she does all the dances.

 

[Reflection]

The problem is that Disney really doesn't have anything for the 7-10 yo crowd...........
........So I sat with her to watch a few and the only one she's allowed to watch in limited quantity is Suite Life. The others I think are way to mature for a child her age. I know I'm in the minority though since there are plenty of parents buying Hannah Montana tickets for their 6 yo..........

I agree about Disney's lack of programming for 7-10 year olds. IMO, Nickoledon has done a better job than Disney in targeted programming for that age group. My daughter is 14, but when she was 10 and 11, Spongebob Squarepants was must-see TV.

Re the Hannah Montanna tix for 6 year olds, umm, well that is a bit of a head scratcher. At that age, my daughter's big concert outing was to a live show of Arthur (the aardvark) and Friends. Those tix were much easier to get than tix for Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus extravanganza.

 

[kimluvswdw]

I am a grown up and I love the Suite Life, but for goodness sake get some new episodes. Everytime my kids turn on the Disney channel I find myself saying "not this one again".

 

[CEDmom]

I agree about Disney's lack of programming for 7-10 year olds. IMO, Nickoledon has done a better job than Disney in targeted programming for that age group. My daughter is 14, but when she was 10 and 11, Spongebob Squarepants was must-see TV.

Re the Hannah Montanna tix for 6 year olds, umm, well that is a bit of a head scratcher. At that age, my daughter's big concert outing was to a live show of Arthur (the aardvark) and Friends. Those tix were much easier to get than tix for Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus extravanganza.

Yeah I can relate. At 6 my DD's big concert was The Wiggles .

 

[stevenpensacola]

It's about time for a Suite Life goes to Walt Disney World special...you know the type that ABC/Disney always seem to do....like on Full House, show with Jim Belushi, the list could go on and on...ends up being just a WDW commercial.

"Somehow", the characters on Suite Life will end up getting a trip to WDW, and it will only be the characters seen on the show....it happens every day in real life....a hotel manager, his lounge singer (who LIVES in the hotel), her two brats, the rich,stupid daughter of the hotel owner, and the candy seller girl, and the maintenance man (who apparently LIVES in the basement) win a trip to WDW where one of them will be princess for the day...the boys will get lost somehow...and the hotel manger will end up singing with the Mike Love and the Beach Boys hanger-on'ers, and I'm sure the lounge singer will get to sing the part of a character during one of the shows.........it could happen...

 

[stevenpensacola]

It's about time for a Suite Life goes to Walt Disney World special...you know the type that ABC/Disney always seem to do....like on Full House, show with Jim Belushi, the list could go on and on...ends up being just a WDW commercial.

"Somehow", the characters on Suite Life will end up getting a trip to WDW, and it will only be the characters seen on the show....it happens every day in real life....a hotel manager, his lounge singer (who LIVES in the hotel), her two brats, the rich,stupid daughter of the hotel owner, and the candy seller girl, and the maintenance man (who apparently LIVES in the basement) win a trip to WDW where one of them will be princess for the day...the boys will get lost somehow...and the hotel manger will end up singing with the Mike Love and the Beach Boys hanger-on'ers, and I'm sure the lounge singer will get to sing the part of a character during one of the shows.........it could happen...

 

[Reflection]

It's about time for a Suite Life goes to Walt Disney World special...you know the type that ABC/Disney always seem to do....like on Full House, show with Jim Belushi, the list could go on and on...ends up being just a WDW commercial.

"Somehow", the characters on Suite Life will end up getting a trip to WDW, and it will only be the characters seen on the show....it happens every day in real life....a hotel manager, his lounge singer (who LIVES in the hotel), her two brats, the rich,stupid daughter of the hotel owner, and the candy seller girl, and the maintenance man (who apparently LIVES in the basement) win a trip to WDW where one of them will be princess for the day...the boys will get lost somehow...and the hotel manger will end up singing with the Mike Love and the Beach Boys hanger-on'ers, and I'm sure the lounge singer will get to sing the part of a character during one of the shows.........it could happen...

Disney will do that after a few more episodes where the *actors* from these shows cross-contaminate ----oops I meant guest stars---on one anothers' shows. After which the entire gang--hotel brats and their entourage; Miley/Hannah and entourage; Corey and entourage, Cheetah Girls, et al. go to WDW, someone becomes princess for a day, and they all rock out to Achy (sp?) Breaky Heart and other covers of '80s hits and Disney film songs.

 

[mellowmood]

I don't think that the Disney shows are all that bad. After all they are geared toward kids. If you don't like it and you don't want your children watching then pick up the remote and change the channel, and stop complaining about it.

 

[Papa Deuce]

I don't let my girls watch this show anymore. Those boys are so disrespectful: of each other, of their mother, of authority. I just hate them. Their dialogue consists mainly of put-downs and sarcasm, the plots consist mainly of scheming and doing things behind their mother's back.

Disney really needs to work on their tv shows. They're a huge disappointment to me.

I barely let my kids watch any of them.... but especially Suite Life....

 

[LotsOfQuestions]

And then they had to follow it up with both HS musicals.

Those movies are beyond annoying. The bad acting makes suite life look like academy award winners. And talk about a story line that is not appropriate for the children it is targeting. For instance, the semi-incestuous relationship between a brother and sister (leads in a romance - yuck!). The bad stand-ins - I mean, a guy with hairy armpits diving in for Vanessa Hudgens?

And my biggest peeve; Disney is a hugely successful movie producer. Why oh why couldn't they get the lip synching together. I was watching Vanessa Hudgens sing on the stairwell last night and was cringing when her mouth was closed, yet she was still "singing." Had to turn it off. It gives me the heebie jeebies when lip synching is SO off as in the HS musical movies.

I could take a Suite Life Marathon any day over 4 hours of that bad acting and extremely bad editing. The songs are cute but the movies are painful to watch!

 

[jme829]

I HATE Suite Life... Those kids are so annoying...I don't mind my kids watching Hannah Montanna (even though her voice annoys the heck out of me) or anything with Hillary Duff but I can't stand suite life and anything with Raven in it and I don't get the HSM craze . Zac is kind of goofy looking to me and those songs though catchy are kind of dorky too. Yes I know its for kids/teens but geez do they have to be so hokey?.. They drive me nuts. My kids love them though...I do let them watch I just find something elso to do. (I'm not a big tv watcher anyways though)

Now one show I will sit down and watch with them is Drake and Josh on Nickolodeon...I love that show..and Drake can sing too! Heck I'll even watch it when the kids aren't home...In the earlier episodes Josh was a little over the top , but he's not as bad now...nowhere near the annoying kids in suite life. Oh and I love spongebob too. I know alot of people have "issues" with Nick shows, but they have some good shows.

 

[Reflection]

I HATE Suite Life... Those kids are so annoying........... Now one show I will sit down and watch with them is Drake and Josh on Nickolodeon....... I know alot of people have "issues" with Nick shows, but they have some good shows.

Another thumbs up for Drake and Josh. I can also sit down and watch Unfabulous. As I noted earlier upthread, I think Nickelodeon definitely does a better job than Disney with programming for tweens. Tweens being defined as children ages 10-14. I know of no marketing definition that includes 5, 6, 7, and 8 year olds in the tween demographic.