I am going to be a father and am making a jellyfin setup for my child. I want to start early to make a good collection of movies and shows. So I am interested in knowing what other people experienced as positive influences in their lives.
Edit: English and Norwegian is fine, but I can always get dubbed versions of other languages. We will be speaking English and Norwegian with our child from birth. But want to introduce our child to many types of cultures, religions etc.
Edit 2: Thanks so much for so many great responses. Some of you must have spent quite some time compiling the list. Truly appreciate that ♥️
- Moon and me
- Bluey
- Nils Holgerson
- Totoro
From a purely positive influence? Anything on PBS (wasn’t allowed to have cable growing up)
- Sesame Street
- Mr Roger’s
- Any documentary with David Attenborough
- same with Jane Goodall
- Nova
Bill Nye would be the one non-PBS show I remember having an impact
Modernish stuff? Bluey, Miss Rachel, Pixar especially Wall-E, Brave, Coco, Soul, Encanto, Toy Story, Inside Out (when a little older). I like Coco, but Book of Life is an underrated alternative too.
I’ll second my hero Mr Rogers.
We should all want to be like him.
As a relatively new father (my daughter is around 2.5 years old), you have plenty of time. They’ll be a loving little lump for a while.
What she has loved so far:
- Bluey (a beautiful show about parenting in disguise as a kids show)
- Mister Roger’s Neighborhood (all episodes available on archive.org, but they have to be reorganized/renamed at least for Kodi tagging)
- The Mhppets Show (and anything else muppets)
- (Modern) Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (cg show, and Clubhouse+, the short renewal)
- Dragon Prince
- Sesame Street
- Moana (2 to a lesser extent)
- Finding Nemo/Dory
- Lion King
- Little Mermaid
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- Mary Poppins
- Aladin
- Frozen (and all the spinoff stuff)
- Mickey Donald and Goofy: Three Musketeers (this is her current obsession, probably watched it 10 times in the last week)
I’ll come back and edit this with my own shows later.
Full Metal Jacket.
Kiteretsu (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0305051/) This TV Show was responsible to ignite the fire of engineering and making things during my childhood.
Kochikame (https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/56426-kochira-katsushika-ku-kameari-k-en-mae-hashutsujo) I was a procrastinator and a lazy ass when I was a kid. So related to Ryotsu (main character) so much.
Maggie and the Ferocious Beast (the first English cartoon I remember watching), Rollie Pollie Ollie, Martha Speaks, Franklin, Little Bear, Total Drama Island/Action, and 6Teen taught me English when I came to Canada.
Star Trek got me started on my path to tankiehood and sci-fi writing. Futurama also significantly contributed to the latter.
Pokemon, Wonderpets and Redwall (and many of the cartoons from the learning English category) got me interested in writing animal characters. Zootopia pissed me off so much with its inconsistent world building that it sealed the deal and made me obsessed with perfecting my own fictional animal world.
Family Guy taught me how not to write characters and their interactions.
How It’s Made is just awesome and satisfying, no further comments.
Zorro (1957 but I was born later 😂) was certainly the most important show I seen in my youth. He made me choose fencing as sport for more than 10 years and he taught me to be honest and Fair when I was younger
Winnie the Pooh! The episode where they fall down the wishing well instilled in me a lifelong fascination with wishing wells.
I also used to watch a lot of the old Thomas the Tank Engine
Bluey. Well, not my childhood but my daughter loves it. It’s adorable, educational, relatable and super positive. And can hit you right in the feels.
Roseanne, the first few seasons showed a poor family which I was at the time.
Has there ever been another live audience sitcom that was as down to earth as Roseanne?
grounded for life
flight of the navigator
rainbow brite and the star stealer
care bears 2
wizard of oz (39)
sword in the stone
mary poppins
bednobs and broomsticks
charlottes web
petes dragon
drop dead fred
mother goose rock n rhyme
any of the bugs bunny/daffy duck movies
the wizard
neverending story
the pagemaster
follow that bird
american tail
all dogs go to heaven
brave little toaster
princess bride
jetsons meet the flintstones
the flintstones (94)
little monsters
mister wizards world
fraggle rock
muppet babiesok that’s enough i got carried away :)
The Pagemaster, so underrated. Great story about overcoming fear.
Drop dead Fred! I loved that movie, probably one of my favorites growing up, not sure my parents were fansof that.
i wanted to play real burglers as a kid :(
Doctor Who was the big one, but I didn’t get into that until I was a bit older
Cosmos with Carl Sagan
His voice, the vocabulary he used along with the wonder he radiated as he described the amazing things that exist out there. All of it captured my young mind like a fantasy.
I’m getting all warm and fuzzy just thinking about it.
David the Gnome and Flight of Dragons
Just kidding. Don’t show your kid this movie unless it’s as a joke when they’re older. This might have been a Psyop.
I do actually recommend:
Brave little Toaster and Fivel Goes West. Those seem to stick out as most positive that I remember.
ok it was dumb but honesty still so nostalgic for me <3
This looks like fun, can I find it online? Looks like quite the trip.
'Member that cartoon where the protagonist used a Nintendo power glove and zapper?
Idk if I ever watched that but you did remind me of this long forgotten underrated movie:
Maybe not for younger kids but probably ok for 10ish+
Remembering that movie also made me remember this bad ass classic (if I’m remembering correctly, I think is mostly appropriate for all ages?):
It was basically Home Alone meets IRL Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
We swear we won’t go rooooamin’
