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• They Say: Educational TV? Not So Much

  Here’s a news flash –“educational” TV for kids might not actually be all that educational! This should shock, well, no one who has ever moved the dial off PBS. I always kind of snicker at Noggin, which introduces all its programs with a little clip telling us what sort of educational skills they are supposed to enhance. While most sound about right, if you can tell me what’s remotely educational about, say, Wow Wow Wubbzy I’ll give you a bajillion dollars. Nonprofit group Children Now, in partnership with researchers from the University of Arizona and the University of Illinois, looked at 40 different kids’ shows. Each was evaluated on several criteria associated with the ways children learn from television. Researchers found most programs... Read More... Posted Nov 13 2008, 05:02 PM by Amy Kuras with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: tv, PBS, sesame street, noggin, kid's tv, children's televison, educational televison

• Upcoming Sesame Street Guests

  If you can't stand to watch one more episode of 'Sesame Street' that you've already seen 250 times, help is on the way! Read More... Posted Aug 12 2008, 04:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: television, youtube, entertainment, Jenny McCarthy, Movies, tv, music, PBS, sesame street, elmo, children's television, MySpace, Google, john travolta, muppets, mr. rogers, david beckham, Heidi Klum, jim henson, Grey's Anatomy, kid's tv, jessica alba, grover, cookie monster, seal, Brett Singer, Randy Jackson, brian williams, classic TV, classic television, mister rogers, me lost me cookie at the disco, me lost me cookie in the boogie music, rubber duckie, sesame disco, me want it back, sesame street fever, born to add, kids stuff I like that my kids don't care about, Patrick Warburton, LL Cool J, Megan Mullally, Molly Shannon, Roosevelt Franklin, Arrested Development, Neil Patrick Harris, Jonah Hill, Chandra Wilson, Will Arnett, sesame street new season, The Tick, sesame street 39th season, Gilbert Gottfried, Sandra Oh, Jason Taylor, Feijoo Sisters, fairy shoe person

• Pull This Thread As I Walk Away

  My age is going to show here and destroy any indie cred I might have gathered. C'est la vie. I grew up with Mr Rogers. Read More... Posted Mar 20 2008, 12:30 PM by Adrienne Martini with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: mr rogers, kid's tv, sweaters, iron city

• No Gabba Gabba!

  Few kids' TV shows creep me out as much as Yo Gabba Gabba does. Give me the penile Boobahs or the Teletubbies' sun baby any day -- both are less disturbing than DJ Lance and his freaky little toys. Heck, I'd even spend 15 minutes alone with a clown before I'd subject myself to Yo Gabba Gabba.  Which seems to put me in the minority in Strollerderbyland. It also strips me of any shreds of hipster cred I might have had. I'm OK with this. Anything that puts me in the camp that Neal Pollack isn't in is a good thing.   Read More... Posted Jan 21 2008, 10:30 AM by Adrienne Martini with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: yo gabba gabba, boobah, kid's tv, Rob Walker, puppet master

• Then Things Got Weird

  A good friend of mine is married to a guy from Sweden. After a few rounds of aquavit, we got to talking about TV shows we watched as kids. Sid and Marty Krofft came up, of course, as did Alphabet Soup and Romper Room. Then Ola, the Swede, mentioned something about a show with a big pancake.  "A big pancake?" one of us asked, assuming that something had gotten lost in translation. Read More... Posted Jan 17 2008, 04:30 PM by Adrienne Martini with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: yo gabba gabba, boobah, aquavit, pancake, kid's tv, Krofft