I Saw the Mickey Mouse Club.

When I was younger, I think I was 12 maybe, my family went to Disney World and stayed at Port Orleans. I still remember going down the serpent water slide with my sister right behind me. One of the things we did was seeing The Mickey Mouse Club or The MMC. I remember talking to a very young Britney Spears, well she was my age. My sister and I both touched Justin Timberlake and I remember how cool we both thought that was even back then. There were all of those other kids that became famous when they were older too. I thought they were famous back then, but nowhere near as much as they are now.

It was Guest Day on The MMC. The guest was Tatyana Ali from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I remember how excited I was to get to see The MMC, the taping took a few hours and it was fun to see how the TV show worked. I still remember when they showed my sister and I shaking hands or high-fiving Justin Timberlake on TV. I was wearing my Lion King T-shirt. We used to have it on a video tape, which I am sure was taped over by an episode of Days of our Lives or something equally useless now. I scoured YouTube and watched the opening of the MMC elevenity billion times hoping for the video on You Tube. Unfortunately, the episode of the MMC with Tatyana Ali was not You Tube worthy. So, I couldn’t find it. I searched for hours, because I thought it would be cool to share with you all. I do have some pictures of the outsides. You weren’t allowed to take pictures while they were filming.

Have you ever seen a taping of a show? If so what one? I have always wanted to sit in Judge Judy’s courtroom but not as a plaintiff or a defendant though.

Unknown Dangers of YouTube

Almost everybody has heard of YouTube. Even kids have gone to YouTube and looked at videos. I know this first hand because I have observed them doing it. Not my son of course he is way too young to figure out what it is. There are a lot of disturbing things on there. I started thinking about the Gummy Bear video I was forced to watch 50 times in a row this summer and since I am bored I went to YouTube like I had done a million times before and proceeded to watch it. The video is kind of silly with a Gummy Bear singing with its little booty hanging out a little at the top. OK no big deal I guess. I made it half way through the song and I got annoyed really quickly. Then I remembered about the Hampster Dance phase and listening to Crazy Frog with an old friend and her kids. I thought I hadn’t heard The Hampster Dance in a coon’s age so I was like what the heck. So I searched it on You Tube and I was disgusted by what I saw.

Parents, please be sure you are 100% aware of what your children are watching and doing on the internet. Parental controls are great but there will be stuff that slips through the cracks. You could be like oh Junior looked at The Hampster Dance on YouTube, no big deal.

I typed in the words Hampster Dance in YouTube’s search and the THIRD video on the first page is a video of a man in his 20’s or 30’s wearing a fanny pack dancing to Techno Music. He gets naked. You can’t see any actual parts but you can see it wiggling through his underwear. They do close ups on this too. Then he gets completely naked, well he is wearing just a fanny pack and watches a real hamster dance. I repeat this is the third video listed from the top on the first page for hamster dance.

So, please be fully aware of what your children, grandchildren etc, are looking at by supervising them at all times. If you think that they will get on the computer while you sleep, password protect it and hide the cords and the keyboards. The internet can be a very scary place for children and teens.