Series · Prime Video · 2009

Shark Tank

A rare show about a price, a cost, and a customer. The theater is the investors' personalities.

Ignore the chairs and listen to the part where someone asks what it costs to make one and who already buys it. That is a healthier half hour than most of the row, because it believes reality pushes back. The personalities are the tax you pay for the lesson. Do not confuse a rich person's contempt with standards.

The eight

Industry
8/10
Unit cost, customer, debt. Work is the language.
Household
4/10
Many pitches are a family's savings. The family is in the seats.
Piety
2/10
The only virtue announced is the deal.
Courage
6/10
They stand there and ask. That exposure is real.
Republic
4/10
A market, not a polity. Still a public test of a claim.
Temperance
4/10
Greed is shared and, unusually, itemized.
Truth
7/10
Numbers are the truth the pitch cannot dance past.
Stewardship
5/10
A business that works is a thing handed to employees and children.

Live historicallyKnow the cost of one thing you sell or one thing you make, including your own hour.

Series · Prime Video · 2000

Clifford the Big Red Dog

Size used to help. Gentle, repetitive, true enough for a small child.

Clifford is big so that a small child can think about what you do with strength. The answer, every time, is that you help and you are careful of other people's things. The repetition is a feature at that age.

Fine. Stop before the adult in the room is using it as a babysitter for the whole morning.

The eight

Industry
3/10
Being a neighbor is the work. Nobody has a trade on screen for long.
Household
6/10
A girl and a dog and a mother. The dog is care, daily.
Piety
3/10
Kindness is the lesson, aimed at a child and not sneering.
Courage
4/10
Clifford uses his size for someone smaller.
Republic
5/10
A town that has to adjust to a creature who does not fit the sidewalk.
Temperance
8/10
No appetite, no cruelty. The lessons repeat because the audience is young.
Truth
6/10
The mistake is named and repaired before the credits.
Stewardship
5/10
A pet as a responsibility that does not end when the joke does.

Live historicallyHave a child use a strength they have — height, a loud voice, being older — for someone who needed it. Once.