![]() On its face, the concept of a computer-animated cartoon about a bus and his friends, mostly also buses, makes sense, especially one aimed at very young boys going through their phase (or, as the case may be, lifetime) of obsession with all things mechanical and in motion the Thomas the Tank Engine and Cars franchises have certainly done well for themselves by tapping into that same vein. Like any production geared toward toddlers, I imagine its inherent repetitiveness, combined with the average little kid’s immunity to watching the exact same thing over and over again, soon pushes any grown-up of sound mind halfway to the asylum. I only understood his reference because I did move to Korea - and moreover to Seoul, where Tayo imagery abounds - but my friend, the father of a two-year-old, has had the phenomenon inflicted much more directly upon him. ![]() If you don’t like that show in America, I told him, try not to move to Korea, the land where Tayo comes from. “ Tayo the Little Bus is a steaming pile of garbage,” a friend of mine recently posted to Facebook. Billed Into Silence: Money and the Miseducation of Women.
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