Wonder Showzen contains offensive, despicable content that is too controversial and too awesome for actual children… If you allow a child to watch this show, you are a bad parent or guardian.” As viewers of the short-lived sketch series know, though, that doesn’t mean children were precluded from actually appearing on
the show. On the contrary, kids made up the vast majority of
Wonder Showzen’s on-screen talent, often appearing alongside puppets voiced by the show’s co-creators, Vernon Chatman and John Lee.
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One instance where kids flew solo, though, was in the much-discussed segment Beat Kids, in which precocious elementary school students played investigative reporters. Armed with microphones and clad in Kermit The Frog-style trench coats, the Beat Kids ventured into adult spaces like butcher shops and racetracks, sidled up to grown-ups, and asked the tough questions. One kid reporter set up on Wall Street and asked traders, “Who did you exploit today?
There was a time when MTV did more than run shows featuring pregnant teens, computer romance scammers and middle aged people that vacationed in New Jersey. I’m not talking about back in the ’80s when they ran cool videos and had real VJs. There was an in-between time when the channel had found salvation in out of control reality shows such as The Osbournes and
Jackass which spun off a few other shows. But even with the reality show paydays, someone over there decided to green light a series that was part outrageous reality and bizarre puppets like
Sifl and Olly.
determined. so wallace tackled each theory one by one. accident seemed hard to believe. thanks to conrad, heidi had firearms experience. can you think of any way it could have been an accident? no. heidi would have not been so careless. so what about suicide? she s completely naked. we don t see a lot of women that commit suicide naked. that s not common. did you find anybody that heidi had spoken to about suicide or about being depressed? no. neither heidi s mother janet nor her sister autumn could imagine heidi even thinking about taking her own life. heidi would never do that. in fact, heidi was against that. she had a friend who committed suicide and she thought it was selfish, and in her words, dumb. did heidi ever tell you she was depressed? no. ever act depressed? no. she was probably one of my happiest, most up beat kids. that left wallace with homicide, and it put conrad back
mother would say go to the tree, get me a switch. bring it back to me. i remember this kid, i won t give his full name, his first name was bob. sean: beckel. no, i wish it was. he would bring back to his mother, she would hit him. welts would show. this woman would lock up that poor woman and we don t need that. you got enough tough cases without making criminal bad parenting. it didn t mean you can ignore these things. it is case-by-case. sean: you have kids? i do. sean: what would be the worst punishment, you could give your kids? at this point letting her cry in her crib for five minutes. i say watching bob beckel. in a loop. we need parents, spare the rod, spoil the child. i say beat kids appropriately, and with love. in these cases that was not