I Hate Commercials that Feature Super-Intelligent Children!

peace out"

that kid rules

and some little kid who stares at the camera and says things like "What if there were more possibilities? What if we haven't even scratched the surface of the unknown?"

-- molly d (molly.dah...), November 19th, 2006. (mollyd) (later) (link)

apparently her sister is into it now, too!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1102577/
saw a commercial for law and order: svu in which she plays some demonic

Exactly. Let kids be kids. Perhaps I'm just under the assumption that all kids are generally weird in their own individual ways, and denying them that to make them these perfect uber-children for fame is pretty unnatural and mean.

Yes, teaching children history is awful, practically abuse. (rolleyes)

Unless your beef is with exposing innocent young uns to Jay Leno, in which case I have to concede the point.

Yeah, but how useful is that knowledge? And what do they actually know about those presidents? Are they being taught a well-rounded, relevant history? I think nabisco is taking issue with the rote learning of near-useless trivia for party trick purposes.

he got them all right

i had only heard of about 3 out of 20

names of dinosaurs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> names of presidents

I do take exception to denigrating knowing the names of the presidents in order as near-useless trivia and a mere party trick, though. Sure, it's not a real understanding of the causes of historical movements and blablabla, but a timeline and basic facts are certainly a good place to start. It's not the same at all as the kind of wierd self-image-distortion and premature sexualization that kiddie beauty queens are all about.

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> names of dinosaurs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> names of presidents

Well, yeah! A stegasaurus would totally pwn William Howard Taft.

OTM

quiznos needs to can that creepy-ass-deep-voice baby and bring back the crack-head-lightning-bolt-video gerbils.

Or ads with badass 12-year-old asshole dude kids with spiked hair and sunglasses and backward hats playing with remote control Hummers they can put their iPod into.

Marketers should learn kids aren't awe-filled, 'inquisitive' wise little Pollyannas/Xtopher Robins OR fucking insufferable little Veruca Salts/Bart Simpsons.

Shit, when I was a kid, I was making phones out of playdough and calling my imaginary friends.

http://dvd-new-release.net/superbabies.baby.geniuses.2/superbabies.baby.geniuses.2.jpg

Wait, ok. Not Zachary Ty Brian, the older one with the "businessman in front, party going on in the back" style hair....

Not Jonathon Taylor Thomas (J.T.T.), who had a promising career until it was discovered that he would be 4'11" for the rest of his life, and Home Improvement plots started to be written around his short height...

The other kid! The one whose character gradually turned into a pissed off, Columbine type kid. Yeah, fuck that kid!

http://tvplex.go.com/touchstone/homeimprovement/bios/Images/taran.jpg

Taran Smith is a good example. That picture just above...ok, he's pushing it, but there will be no punches thrown. The picture I posted above him a little bit above that? If he even looked me in the eye, I would be tempted to punch him, right in the nose.

http://www.ljworld.com/photos/2001/08/24/childsuperstar.jpg

^ looks like he could play the role of dylan klebold here

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/65/Bd_official_logo.gif

Words can't...

Is there really a fanclub for two boys who haven't done shit since Full House, when they were 1 1/2?

"Today, Blake and Dylan are still well known for their adorable roles which ended almost 11 years ago. Their popularity, along with the rest of the cast and characters, are kept alive through continuous re-runs that air all over the world.

Currently the boys and their mother run a charity-based fanclub which provides fans with an exclusive look at their current days and back when they were on Full House.

Trivia Media:

* Dylan is 19 minutes older than Blake.
* They are cousins of actress Lisa Wilhoit.
* Blake and Dylan share a profile on Myspace that promotes their charity based fanclub.
* They are sometimes confused with Dylan and Cole Sprouse, because the characters "Nicky and Alex" look a lot like the Sprouse twins from the hit Disney sitcom The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, but cut their hair shorter as they got older.
* The Tuomy-Wilhoit twins are identical."

http://www.tvenvy.com/blogimages/sprouse_twins.jpg

http://www.123posters.com/images/movie/f-dylancole1.jpg

Most of those commercials are about having children that are super-intelligent in an "adult achievement" sort of way. Both my kids are intelligent, the observations they make can be way onthemoney. Amber is a whizz at spelling, but that's not the point. Alice has a really good ear for music, and although untutored, can play stuff on the piano that sounds quite pleasant. I don't necessarily regard her as any more gifted if she broke into Beethoven's fifth for the hell of it.

Dinosaur:
One time, I was walking around the "When Dinosaurs ruled the world" with Amber, four at the time, and started up "Dinosaurs had really lonf and complicated names"

"Yes," she replied. "That's a Diplodocus, that over there's a Stegosaurus, and oh look a baby Tyranosaurus Rex!"

so, there you go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JISrB-QWm3c

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR......

That kid in the AIG commercial is total dud until he says "Oh don't get up, I'll tuck myself in."