User blog comment:Freehugs41/and now's the part of the show where FH is really really mad/@comment-1734566-20110202033821/@comment-1376932-20110202041734

No offense, but it seems like you're misunderstanding the concept of this blog.

Firstly, Total Drama is a cartoon, so it's natural that it's scripted. The point of it is for our amusement. But when you have a show like Skatoony that shows live-action characters, it's natural to assume that it's not scripted, aside from the bit with the cartoon characters, which will most likely be added in later.

She also said, "I find it to be not so much a piece of entertainment as it is a pile of trashy fakeness in order to get us to watch the channel(s) more in order to get more money from advertisers to show us their commercials. Also, they're probably trying to sell more cheaply made merchandise."

It's true. It really is just a scam. You think of an interesting concept for a show - and, yes, while I dislike Skatoony, the show's concept is interesting - then you add characters from other shows that kids love. What do you get? A fanbase.

What will a fanbase give you? Money. And that, to me, is the aim of the show. There's no real plot whatsoever, and even though gameshows don't usually have a "plot", they are interesting to follow, unlike Skatoony, which is really just overly-wacky garbage.

They cram in fart jokes and poop-throwing (real episode, by the way) to entertain their target audience; little kids. It's a scam. You may not think of it as one, but I was just outlining what FH basically said was her issue with the show.

Her other issues are probably just personal. I have a hatred for shows that constantly break the fourth wall; Dora the Explorer is a show that patronizes its audience. It may "involve" them into what Dora's doing, but it really does look like Dora's talking down to them.

On a different note, how is Dora the Explorer even remotely educational? She speaks Spanish and walks around with a talking inanimate object (a backpack) and a monkey who's fluent in English. She doesn't even get her audience to think. If it's just for the purpose of entertaining kids, then kids must be really easy to entertain.