i'm watching telly

I guess I've been watching more toddler TV than is good for me lately. Or good for the little guy. Still, brain-rot or not, this is what we see:

• Backyardigans / Wonder Pets - two of the best of the new bunch. Clearly made with more love and attention than they need be.
• Barney - the ongoing success of Barney can only be blamed on a billion prozac-eyed parents who simply do not care about their children.
• Sesame Street - surprisingly better now than it ever was. (Edit: it's taken me till just this week to realize how Big Bird works. For years I just figured he'd been in some awful accident leaving him with this one withered arm and twisted spine.)
• Teletubbies / Boohbah - two modern classics guaranteed to keep a 2-year-old amused. Try to stick to the original BBC Teletubbies as the redubbed PBS version is dumbed down for the American audience.
• Clifford The Big Red Dog / Arthur / Caillou - simplistic animated marinade for tiny brains.
• Dragon Tales - deserves to be singled out for being such low quality bollocks. Exibits many of the warning signs of being a Christian cartoon without being overtly religious.
• Veggie Tales - nasty preachy god-bothering tripe based around a group of vegetables. Vegetables. Like anything more exciting might offend someone, although one of them is a tomato and so technically a fruit. Wait till his veggie pals find out. He'll be lynched. If he had a neck. Anyway, avoid this like a plague of boils.
• Yoho Ahoy - bloody brilliant.
• Plasmo - saw this once by accident and I've been trying to find it again ever since. Possibly they'll never repeat it or release a DVD because Plasmo's nemesis is a claymation vagina. (Edit: Plasmo is available on DVD in Australia.)