Those people who know me well, know that I am a big pothead.
One thing a lot of people don’t know about me is that I watch far too much children’s TV. Of course, that’s because I have kids but I have caught myself, once or twice, turning on the TV
She's not a kid any more
when they weren’t there and not changing the channel. Twenty minutes or so into The Suite Life of Zach and Cody and I say to myself “What the hell are you doing?” and I change the channel. If I can find the remote.
When the kids were younger, I watched a lot of Teletubbies. Thank god they are both beyond that now, but Isabel still likes Barney.
Sam still likes Fireman Sam, because he’s named Sam, but he really should have outgrown that by now.
Personally, I get a big kick out of Kid vs. Cat and even more so Phineas and Ferb, which is almost Simpson’s like in its level of creativity. Original songs, cultural references, plenty of jokes that fly right over the kids’ heads and smack the adults in the face.
But it’s the Disney Channel I want to talk about. Sam’s favorites are Zeke and Luther, and Good Luck, Charlie, which I think is unbearably stupid but, hey, it’s kid’s TV. The humor on all of these programs is embarrassingly broadstroked and obvious. Still, I enjoy watching The Wizards of Waverly Place although, as an adult man, I really should not be looking at Selena Gomez in quite the way that I do.
But Hannah Montana is the subject of tonight’s blog. She’s in the news again, because she admitted that she’s a big pothead. A lot of people think that’s really inappropriate, because she’s a Disney channel girl and her show is aimed, not so much at teenagers (teenagers have already moved on to Twilight and stuff like that), but at pre-teens, wannabe teenagers.
Lighten up, people.
First of all, you have to draw a distinction between Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana. Even kids, at some point, have to learn that their favorite characters are played by actors who have real, and unscripted, lives. Second, Miley’s an adult now. Third, it’s only marijuana. She’s not even close to being the next Lindsay Lohan. Fourth, probably half the kids in these shows are potheads, she’s just being a bit more up front than most. Fifth, she still turns in a good performance, so there goes the argument about demon reefer totally destroying your ability to function as a normal human being.
Sixth, as a long time user of the sacred herb, I would just like to say “Welcome aboard, Miley! We’re proud to have you on our team.”
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