Thank You TV.

 

THE TV.

MY MAIN HERO.

I was a late 2000s kid and I was proud to be born in August 2007. That was when my biggest influences came in. On August 20th 2007, I was 18 days old, pretty much had finished my days at the hospital and experience what the world was like until I saw a show that ultimately led to an impact in my mind.

It was a show called Yo Gabba Gabba. It was on Nick Jr. and it featured so much amazing talents and had great songs.

One of its talents they had was Chromeo, one of my favorite music bands. Back then this episode aired when I was 2 so I didn't knew what a "chromeo" was. But mom certainly was hyped because she was a fan of it when I was born. I kinda think that I loved Chromeo by then. 

But then there was another show that even had more impact.

The Backyardigans. I loved this show. There was so much positives. Sure this show was aimed at younger audiences and it was simple. But who cares? It's awesome. If this show was more aimed at a bigger audience this would've been the best show ever. 

Not only did I love this show, but later on when I watched episodes and coming back to them, they had a huge infleunce on how I can create Artmania in of itself. There was adventure after adventure and it felt never-ending. Pablo, Tyrone, Uniqua and the others are all fantastic characters and have unforgettable personalities. It's kinda underrated nowadays and can be seen as Nick Jr's best shows ever. 

I haven't mentioned the backgrounds, they are fantastic. Some of them look too real, but it's so lively I simply can't hate it. This show had a huge passion on me.

Of course Spongebob was on Nickelodeon when I was born, how could it not be? I remember having loads of dvds, most of them from Seasons 1-3. I guess I was that obsessed with it. 

I still recall the classic episodes as the best TV episodes of all time and while nowadays Spongebob's humor is not that funny and has loads of unnecessary sound effects, I cannot blame them for keeping the show alive. It's that legendary.

Jack's Big Music Show was a show I pretty much loved as well, I just forgot how much I seemingly cared about watching it. I had a DVD of this show and I think I watched all the episodes on it.

I'm glad I came back talking about this show because it is very good. I swear some of the scenes had influence on me. The production is also very nostalgic.

Nick Jr. was the introduction to experiencing and watching stuff and I'm glad I had this channel. Some other shows I loved on the channel were

Fresh Beat Band

Ni Hao Kai Lan

Dora The Explorer 

Blues Clues

Bubble Guppies

Team Umizoomi

Wow Wow Wubbzy

Also other channels besides Nick Jr. had shows I really liked. Disney Jr. was another great channel I remember waking up to. 

Jake And The Neverland Pirates

Doc McStuffins

Octonauts

I lived for 3 years at Grandma's house with my parents until I moved out on September 2010, just a few years later, another channel changed my life and that was Sprout.

This channel got me hooked. So many amazing content and more adventure. There was the Sunny Side Up Show, I used to wake up everyday and turn on the TV and watch it and it was fantastic. My mom and dad once gave me a birthday card and it looked exactly like how the show did. Just comes to show you how creative my parents are.

By far my favorite show on Sprout was probably Super Why. I was obsessed with this show when I was little, loved the aesthetic, it was educational in a good way, and it even had fairytale references. 

This is probably why I love the classic animated shorts involving these types of tales.

Another list of amazing Sprout Shows were

Chloe's Closet

Sesame Street

Justin Time

Pajanimals

Now I want to talk about movies. Now you may be wondering, this isn't TV shows, this is movies. Well I basically had DVDs of these and I did watch these on TV, it's not like I'm talking all shows. Get me? Good 👍 

I loved the care bears and I watched the big wish movie ALL THE TIME. I probably had this movie on replay over and over again. I can't blame you just look at how the actual toys look.

I also loved the barbie movies. I even collected the toys. They were the most underrated movie series out there.

I also liked the Madagascar movie and the 2nd film. They were really fun. The designs were also great too. 

I'm proud to live in a really amazing time and believe me I had an incredible childhood. I'm so lucky to not live with the skibidi toilet videos and Lankybox videos and just have these charming, fun and amazing cartoons on TV. I haven't started watching YouTube until I was like 10 years old or something.

If it wasn't for these shows, Artmania wouldn't exist. If I had the chance to draw, it wouldn't be as good as with the characters I made.

I would kinda be liking Looney Tunes but then again, what matters in life is what you are controlled in and it's safe to say the most important thing in my life is that I'm happy to be part of it and entertain people with my art.

The future is looking extremely bright and it so ever was at the start.