Talk:PJ Katie's Farm

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I wrote Nelvana sometime back asking if they'd ever release it on DVD, but got no answer. It had limited (but dedicated!) appreciation back then, and would probably have just as limited an appreciation if it was released now. That being said, I thought (and still think) it was one of the best shows ever done. I hate it when people dismiss it as "uhhh she was high..." - and compare her with (of all people) PJ PHIL (??? could they BE any more opposite???) - It wasn't that she seemed HIGH, duh, she was *childlike* in the best way possible, and had an on-air personality that really captivated kids BECAUSE of that. The Farm seemed like a really loosely outlined show which she brilliantly improvised her way through - to the benefit of the show! That's what elevated it above more patronizing shows like Lambchop's Playalong or uh...those Lois Walker abominations haha. i don't recall there being ANY obvious cue-card reading, or ANY obvious stop-editing. There were no ads in those kids` timeslots back then, so it was essentially a 15min uninterrupted performance. i always assumed it was somewhere around 70-80% improvised maybe with a loose plot outline and a few time-cues to keep her on track. She and the entire crew (all the directors/producers/writers/props people were her friends) obviously had a riot making it, and it showed. what i loved about her work (Farm & Treehouse & subsequent CGKids episodes on APTN) was that she got genuinely *excited* about everything, and there was never the slightest bit of patronizing or condescension in how she addressed the camera - she was like a kid herself, so she never talked DOWN to kids, unlike a lot of the other PJ's. I ended up doing my BEd and trained to teach Elementary school, largely *because* of her influence and really owe her a world of thanks for the quality of the work she's done for kids. Anyone can do a kids' show, but SO FEW PEOPLE can do it well. I REALLY hope Nelvana releases The Farm on DVD, or at least makes it available somehow for download, because there's enormous teacher-training value (and probably improv acting educational value) in it, above and beyond the pure awesomeness of the show! -V.I. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.34.20.1 (talk) 03:21, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

People keep saying "it was almost like she was high" and changing it back to say that when someone says she was high. Look at other YTV PJs from the time like PJ Phil... he was obviously stoned so often on the Zone... 9/10 she was on something. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.245.132.175 (talk) 02:34, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

This show was really amazing in how it approached TV in such an intimate, unconventional way. Does anybody have any pictures?

It is really dissappointing that the copyright nazis deleted the only picture on the internet of this show. Who are we protecting with that? Tha stupid arguments about intellectual property are pretty clear here. If a picture remained and were shared through wikipedia is would save the artist from complete [even internet] obscurity. Grrr.... those copyright zombies!

And looking at the wikipedia policies a little better, I would imagine that this images is pretty clearly Wikipedia:Non-free_content so I wish maybe an administrator could go back and find it. --Rusl 07:04, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

What years did this air? I saw it on TV in Victoria, BC when I was there on vacation in March of 1999. I was there with my aunt, cousin, and a friend of the family. We stood around the TV and stared, our mouths hanging open. We couldn't believe how awful the show was. In one storyline, Katie pinched a clay pig to make it appear to have lost weight, and I laughed so hard I cried. --Ragemanchoo (talk) 23:46, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

-This show aired in the early-mid 90s. but i dont have exact dates. I really liked it. My band wrote a song calle d"PJ katie's farm" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.223.233.157 (talk) 12:00, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

I was watching it in the late 90s, so it was being shown later than that. One of the weirdest TV shows ever made... I wish they'd release a DVD. Mark Grant (talk) 03:54, 21 April 2008 (UTC)