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hello , xuxa i live in the usa i think what you are doing with the kids is great!! i am a song writer in the san francisco bay area and i would like to send you some of my music i have written a lot of songs for children as a father i think music is very important for child development i teacher music for a program called music together its a wonderful program that teaches music for young children can you send me an e-mail address so you can here some of my songs . obrigado carl

What the hell is up with all the haters? I was 13 when it came out, maybe 14 when it got around over here to Asia. Hot blonde hostess? Check. Hot teenage girls barely older than me? Double check. Hostess kissing some lucky kid at the end of each show? Where the hell can I get tickets? I don't think I ever saw too many episodes. Maybe about half of them, because the station probably pulled the show along with half the world. Stupid Puritans. If they were still in charge, we'd still be running around in habits and churning butter.

How could this show (the English version) have jumped? IT WAS FANTASTIC!! Having a likely porno queen who hates kids running a kiddie show with band-uniformed Gestapo to keep the brats in line is the ultimate entertainment. Want proof? -One time when Xuxa was lip-syncing a song, some kid was throwing a fit and just before the camera moves away, you can see a Gestapo arm grab him. The camera moves back in about 1 second and some different confused kid is put in his place. I never saw the fit thrower AGAIN. -Xuxa is shown picking her teeth on camera. -Bored kids are watching lip-syncing "Chipmunks" (guys in suits) and one clearly said, "THIS SUCKS!!" -Xuxa looks as if she's going to smack one kid who tries to grab her microphone. -Xuxa seems to always pick out little girls to kiss. What's up with that? -Xuxa runs a slop torture chamber of slime. The kids are BEGGING not to have it done to them yet she does it anyway. Is this classic TV or what?

I have seen a lot of Latin TV shows, and really, Xuxa's show was not far out of character for that culture -- there are a LOT of "kids' shows" down there that have an uncomfortable mix of childish games and stunts with an adultish (if PG-rated) sexuality in the costuming, dances, etc. The show never clicked with U.S. English-speaking audiences (except perhaps lecherous Dads and pedophiles) as the cultural gap was too broad. I also thought Xuxa was a little insensitive at times -- once at the end of a game, she asked a young contestant (maybe early teens) if there was anyone she wanted to say hello to on TV, and she said her Mom. Xuxa wouldn't leave it there, prompting her "...and your Dad?" After an uncomfortable second or two, the girl kind of shrugged it off and said, "Yeah, okay..." For all Xuxa knew, the poor girl's father might have been absent, estranged, or even dead.

I loved this show when I was little. I used to get up at 4:30am when my dad went to work to watch it and wait for my mom to get home at 6:00am. (She worked nights, he worked days). When you're a kid, you just think it's bright and fun. People take kids shows too seriously...they don't often know what's going on, so I didn't think I was watching a brothel in action.

For the American audience, the show was toned down. Xuxa and the Paquitas (lay off the Gestapo BS, OK? One person says that and the rest of you glom on) were more modestly dressed, and some of the sexy dance moves were gone. Also, the Paquitas didn't get to do their own song and dance numbers, like they did in Brazil. Xuxa can plant her end-of-the kiss on me anytime she likes. You can see some of the original Brazilian show on YouTube.

I lived in Brazil in the mid-80s when Xuxa was at her peak there. Man was she HOT! And the costumes left little, if anything, to the imagination. All her young nubile "assistants" wore bun-revealing thongs and barely-there bikini tops. Xuxa would strut around practically naked. The toned down US version was fun but was doomed to shark-jumping failure as Xuxa couldn't speak English and the "assistants" were more modestly dressed. Even with that, the show was a delight for this dirty old man!!!

I was a single father raising a seven year old daughter when Xuxa aired in our town. We both enjoyed watching it in the mornings while getting ready for work and school. S ure it was a little corny and yes I'd heard the stories about her background, frankly I didn't care, maybe she was trying to change her image, I don't know. The show was positive and upbeat teaching some values. My daughter loved the games Her favorite was I think called something like Xuxa scramble where they put letters in these huge balloons and then sat on the balloons to get the letters and spell xuxa. It was funny, the balloons were so big most of the kids couldnt pop them without help. If they had used the same idea with an American host maybe the show wouldve caught on, who knows

I LOVED Xuxa and her storm troopers and the show. Got up early to watch it before going to work. Then my wife got up early one day and saw it. End of the fun. I never got to watch again. Anyone got the DVD? And can you send it in a plain brown paper wrapper so the Beautiful Wife does not know?

This show jumped from day one. The fake screaming from the crowd made it even more unwatchable. The episode where they had a chimpanzee on that kept grabbing the microphone and blowing raspberries into it was it's best moment.

I LOVED Xuxa. I got up early every morning to watch it. I was in high school when it came out and my best friend and I watched it everyday. I loved the songs because they were soooo terrible! I am looking for a site where I can download them, I miss them! I used to sing them all the time. Also, I still have my Xuxa Barbie Doll. I loved that stupid show.

When some puritans found out that Xuxa had one, count it one, soft-core movie in Brazil (yes, and Playboy), they proved that all the noise about what good Christians they were was a big, fat, slimy LIE, because real Christians believe in Redemption, and these puritanical busybodies do not. I miss Xuxa. Brazil had a lousy record when it came to immunizing children, and Xuxa changed that. Now over 90% of kids in Brazil are immunized. Where some of guys get this "she hates kids" BS is beyond me. The kid she kisses at the end always looked happy (if a bit bashful) to me. And they are not Gestapo, they are Paquitas.

It never Jumped, Get over it this was not a kid's show. It was really a Dad's Show. "Yeah, honey I'll stay home with the kids this afternoon... No, really I can go golfing some other time." The good old days, aaah good times, *sigh*

Xuxa was so bad that it was great TV. How can you hate an Amazonian hostess in barely-there outfits who clearly hated the kids she was ostensibly there to entertain. Loved the way her very hot, scantily clad dominatrix assistants kept those little rugrats in line too! The show was even better (and hotter) in Brasil, too bad they just didn't dub that version into English!

I was around 21 or so when this show was on here in the U.S. I used to come home to my "bachelor pad" after working the overnight shift at a local greasy spoon, and me and my boys would kick back, drink a few beers, and watch Xuxa. Bottom line is this girl was such a TURBO-hottie! There's no way someone that hot wearing those tight shorts could ever jump!