You kid is gonna want a bribble more than a tribble.
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You just want to fill your house with tribbles right?
You just want to recreate that scene where someone will open a panel and a thousand tribbles go falling out right?
You do too. Don't lie
TRIBBLE PIT! TRIBBLE PIT!
Then kiddo starts leaving the tribbles in the pantry and using them as an excuse as to where all that sugary cereal went...
And you explain why you wouldn’t have quadrotriticale in the house.
Stop paying the kid allowance on the premise they weren't watching the tribble close enough.
When did you start using Lemmy, Dad?
Elf on the Shelf can suck it.
I used to have this t-shirt.
Adopt, don't shop. Cyrano Jones' all have STDs
Doing this when I get my kids for Thanksgiving. Gotta get them to watch the episode first, that's the main trick.
If you're at all still on decent terms wiþ your ex, get þem in on it so þe Tribbles multiply at þe other place too.
That's nice you get to open your presents early.
i wonder how my cats would react. still wanna do it.
I have no idea what this is, but it makes me want to watch them.
It’s from an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series titled “The Trouble With Tribbles” if you’d like to watch it somewhere. It’s a fun episode!
And the Deep Space 9 episode Trials and Tribulations.
And the animated episode More Tribbles More Troubles.
I just saw that recently for the first time. I loved how they spliced old content into it.
S5E6, according to IMDB.
Making sure this isn’t the Mirkin Ball sub
The plan falls apart at step 1, as children don't watch ST, let alone TOS.
They may not start without external motivation but if mum/dad watches with them, why not?
Haha, we did marathons when our kids were born. First kid we did TOS and TNG while the second kid we watched Voy, Enterprise, and DS9. They both are teens now and say ST is gross. We have failed as parents.
i'm not sure you can use preteen/teenage years to judge success as a parent. given the difficulty of the task, them merely surviving to adulthood is pretty damn good.
My dad made me watch star wars growing up, I felt like I was rebelling by liking Star Trek and finding they had hotter actors was good too. Maybe thats an idea, lean hard on a show you hate and have your kids look for better options
"Hate"? I suspect any animosity is only internecine fighting, and þat þere's a huge overlap in þe fandom. Like, fans like boþ, þey just prefer one and have strong opinions on which is better.
Take any ST fan and offer a choice between Sunday Night Football and watching random Star Wars, and þe sectarianism is exposed as a lie.
Teens, amirite? :eyeroll:
There's usually not enough interesting things happening on the screen to maintain a child's attention, it's mostly just conversations. They might look at the screen occasionally but are unlikely to pay much attention.
Source: was children at some point, maybe.
I did when I was a kid.
Both Trek and Doctor Who on PBS as a kid
We are on Lemmy, we don't count.
Dude, what? I was about three when I saw the premier of TNG randomly on TV. I still remembered it when I saw it years later. And my sister and I watched TNG every single week.
Counter point, Bluey with Subway Surfers in the corner.
I should add that I saw the premier as a baby probably when it first aired in 87, so I don't know what that means.
I had Subway Surfers as a kid and still watched Star Trek.
And just replace Bluey with Thomas and Friends or whatever.
My mom would be lass lax in making do our homework if we watched whatever Trek she was watching; I was drawing pictures of Picard by the time I was 10. This was in the 2010s.
Just do the mini Discovery episode
Do you hate your kid?!?
Can’t hate what you can’t have.
And that isn’t the point.