xavi-82-240176 My two year old kid started to watch this show after I thought it looked nice and it seemed appropriate for her age. But after few days watching episodes with her I realized that something was wrong with this series. It felt a bit misogynist to me, a 7 year old girl taking care of her 3 year old brother by herself, with no parents around and seemed to take the role of the "perfect housewife". She is always doing what a parent should be doing, and whatever the little brother does after she tells him not to do, she never tells him that he's doing something wrong. It's just like whatever you do as a kid boy your sister can never confront you, so why bother to comply. The kids even take the bus alone, and she even sends the brother to the shop by himself, a 3 year old. I am happy me and my wife supervise what she sees and we won't let her watch this again, no good education out of this.

Simon Rodgers I've seen a few episodes of this cartoon and I must say I like its retro appearance. It looks like a cartoon from the seventies and eighties, I'm not sure if that is intentional. In the UK, the voices are dubbed by British voice actors which also seem to give it a more retrospective feel.The trouble is, that's where the niceties of this show end. The plots are quite simplistic and dross. Ruby wants to do something and so does Max and there is a little conflict, Ruby being the oldest tells Max "no" and to go and play elsewhere. Sometimes she tries to make him play in her games doing what she wants and he doesn't want to, he ends up being naughty, usually by mistake but it all works out okay in the end.I don't like the way Max talks. I know he's only three but I'm sure the programme could adapt a little and allow him to have better conversational skills. What's that teaching children? That's basically the gist of it really. I have tried to watch the show and like it but although it looks nice on the outside, deep down it's hollow repetitive junk.

Nathan McDonald So my 2 and a half year old nephew LOVE's Max and Ruby. Normally I pay no attention to show however the other day I sat down and watched a few episodes with him and realized how this show misleads kids.For the past year or so my nephew has had a growing problem with authority. When he doesn't get his way he screams at the top of his lungs and/or cries uncontrollably. Here lately he has even resorted to hitting and biting authority figures when they tell him no. After watching a few episodes of Max and Ruby, I think I have an idea of whats culminating this type of behavior.Max and Ruby generally follows the title characters, Max a 3ish year old bunny and his older sister Ruby who might be 8 or so. In generally every episode I've noticed that it revolves around Max wanting something and Ruby telling him no. Eventually though Max winds up getting his way and getting whatever it is he originally wanted and everyone live's happily ever after. Basically Max is rewarded for misbehaving.Perhaps its just me...I'm not a parent myself so I'm not really sure what to think here. But in short...I think this show is giving children the wrong idea. I believe that this show is teaching kids...(Or at least my nephew)... That its OK to persist in getting your way even if an authority figure tells you its not. My nephew has on occasion attempted something dangerous which required myself or another adult to save him because he persisted to get his way despite being told NO.All and all with that said, I can't say much else except I think this show is bad overall...Even from an entertainment standpoint. I can still comfortably sit down and watch cartoons from the late 1980's to early 1990s' (When I was a kid) and get totally enticed in them. However, like most cartoons on T.V today, I find Max and Ruby to be a total bore, and even if I were a kid I'm almost certain that I would have no interest in this show.My advice? Keep your kids away from this boring bad influence cartoon, and let them watch something real like Tom and Jerry or the Looney Toons.

c_eisenhardt I can appreciate what some of the parents have said about this show: It does have a nice "old time feel" (artistically speaking.) The characters look like they stepped right out of a children's book. What I don't like about the show is what others have already said (which is 'where are the parents of Max & Ruby'?) I do not like that Ruby walks around in a Big-Sister la-la land imposing her monotone agenda on her younger brother Max. Max is a little bastard who just wants to thwart her sisters plans or just has no regard for his sister's wishes. Once again, Max needs Mom & Dad to step in & give him a TimeOut and/or tell Ruby to sit down & be quiet for a little while! LOL I don't like that there is no consequence for bad behavior on this show. My (then 5 year-old) male twins saw an episode where Max was sneaking around taking things from Ruby. They thought it was sooooo funny that they started swiping little things from their Mom & me. When I told them that being sneaky was not nice, they both looked at me confused. "But Max was being sneaky," they said. Reading between their lines they were saying, 'Max was being sneaky but no one told him it wasn't right to act that way.'I don't let them watch Max & Ruby anymore.