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03 Jan 2011, 7:28 pm

My blessed 8 year old moderately functioning son has never liked cartoons too much.

However he has always been interested in the old shows I used to watch. Among them: Andy Griffith,Nanny, All in the Family, Sandford and Son, The Jeffersons, etc etc.

The canned laughter on those shows is an EXCELLENT way for youngsters to anticipate laughter and humor.

This has helped my son so much in the humor department and anticipating jokes.

So much therapy for just the cost of electricity. :D

He also loves Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy. This has also helped him greatly with anticipation skills and language skills.

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03 Jan 2011, 7:39 pm

Oh, canned laughter. How I would be lost without it.

I learnt a lot from sitcoms about the more adult stuff parents are awkward to tell their growing kids about.


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03 Jan 2011, 7:59 pm

Huh.... great tip. Thanks for posting.


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03 Jan 2011, 9:33 pm

pensieve wrote:
I learnt a lot from sitcoms about the more adult stuff parents are awkward to tell their growing kids about.


I can recommend a book for explaining that stuff to an eleven or twelve-year-old girl.


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03 Jan 2011, 11:12 pm

I used to watch sitcoms everyday after school. Come to think of it I did learn from watching them. Sometimes, I would hear a joke on one and repeat it to someone later hoping they would laugh. It helped me develop a sense of humor, probably.



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03 Jan 2011, 11:58 pm

I've always prefered the older shows to the latest shows, since I've started puberty. My personal favourite is The Monkees. Not only do those shows have that canned laughter that helped with my own sense of humour. The older shows have characters who cooperate with each other. That's how I learned how to modulate NT behaviour. Horray for old TV shows! :D


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04 Jan 2011, 1:28 pm

I share that appreciation for the 1950s and 60s sitcoms! My household got cable TV when I was about 13, and I was glued to Nickelodeon (now TV Land) every night when they had old 30-minute sitcoms. I think it's the innocence that draws me to those shows, as opposed to the vile content of today's "comedy" TV, where it's all sex, stupidity and abuse, which bring on the laughter. Not funny at all to me.

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