Bah on PBS...sorry that is Boohbahs on PBS

Whoever is in charge over at PBS needs their heads examined.

This Boohbah crap is just that crap. I've woken up in the morning three or four times now to this programming on the local PBS station here in Dallas. Its disturbing. These things look like animated clitorises that have grown legs and started walking around.

Aren't programs that appear on have educational value?

Now on the associated website they claim that the Boohbah's have said value. I disagree. Its not like its Sesame Street or the Electric Company.

I woke up one morning to Mr. Man, Ms. Lady, and Little Dog Fido chasing 3 beards...yes beards up and down a beach. The beards jumped on their faces and, then, would jump off and float around before coming to rest on another face...and then the characters would laugh. Then, the Boohbahs, all, dance.

BLANK STARE! BLANK STARE! BLANK STARE!

Educational value, my ass.

The description on their site is as follows:

Boohbah is different from most educational TV. It is intended to foster a style of active viewing in which the things that children learn from viewing are not determined primarily by the content of the program, but rather by the ways that young viewers (and the grown-ups who care about them) engage with the program.

Uh huh.

I'll give them that it is different...very, very different.

Whoever approved this did too much LSD prior to the design phase.

Boohbah's approach to mathematics is largely kinesthetic. That means that Boohbah can help children experience math concepts through movement and music rather than through the more common cognitive skills like recognizing numeric symbols or memorizing multiplication tables. So you won't see numbers flying across the screen or characters pointing out that three plus two equals five.

So...they dance and its supposed to teach the children math...but there are no numbers.

BLANK STARE! BLANK STARE! BLANK STARE!

That's three(3) blank stares, by the way.

There are very few words in Boohbah. So how can it help your child develop language skills? With your participation.

Help children expand their vocabulary by helping them name the things they see. For example you can describe the way the Boohbahs move: Look at them twist to the left or I wonder if you could jump on your right foot like that? You can also help your child learn new words by introducing synonyms to the words he already knows. So, for example, if he already knows the word middle, introduce the word center.

So...they claim to teach language by you talking to your child.

What the hell do I need this freakin' show for then?

And if you need a bunch of giant rainbow colored clitorises to dance around on the television screen for your child to learn how to use your imagination, I would suggest a therapist. You can either take the kid now, or later when they begin to wonder why they were watching clitorises dance as children.

They are very careful on their website to not show a picture of the clitorises, otherwise, I would have included one here.

These things are disturbing.