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Dora? The horror!
 Conversation between Christopher & a good buddy:
Christopher: So I like to play this Dora game on nickjr.com
Buddy: Yeah? Dora's stupid.
Christopher: (pause) Uh, yeah, and it's really cool because you have to help clean up the garbage -
Buddy: (Matter-of-factly) Cool. Hope she dies.
Me: (laughing under my breath but cringing for Christopher)
Christopher: (surprised pause) Uh, so there's an evil octopus who -
Buddy: Dora's for babies. When you get to be in first grade, you can't watch shows like Dora.
Christopher: (grasping at straws) Well, the octopus is a really bad guy. He's evil. I like evil.
Buddy: When you get to be a teenager, you can't watch any of those shows. You have to like watch the news or something and be grown up.
Christopher: Well, I hardly EVER watch Noggin and Nick Jr anymore (false). Mostly I watch the Cartoon Network because it has Goosebumps on it (which he's seen once and which terrifies him).
Buddy: Yeah! Goosebumps is cool! (Catching himself) But you won't be able to watch that when you're a teenager or your best friend might make fun of you. You have to do cool stuff.
Christopher: Well, I can watch whatever I like.
Buddy: Yep. But your best friend might laugh.
Christopher: (Attempts to feign indifference with a shrug)
Buddy: Do you still have those cool Legos at your house?
Christopher: Yup.
(Cue 10 minutes of fart noises from both boys)
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Do kids even get to be kids anymore? Damn MTV!
Yeah, I know. But, and it probably didn't come across well on the post, Christopher's buddy wasn't being mean (even the "hope she dies" thing was really pretty funny) and seemed resigned to the fate of watching the news at 13.
I also liked the irony of the end of the conversation, when the big grownup boys fell back into childhood with a discussion of Legos and some good old sound effects.
Gotta love it.
I did love it :)