Boob Tube Update

It's been a year since our last post on Ethan's television preferences. It's a very dynamic situation. We stick to educational stuff even though we turned out OK watching Tom & Jerry. We're transitioning off from Curious George and on to a regimen of hidden English lessons.

Word World (originally tipped to us by Uncle Carl) has recently come into the rotation. Everything is actually drawn with the letters of the word. Super Why has superheroes that fix stories that have gone bad by putting in the correct words. Word Girl hammers you over and over with a few words throughout the episode and then reviews them at the end showing the clips from the show that demonstrate the word.

There's still some fluff...Dragon Tales also was hot for a while. Now Lazytown (which Ethan used to make me turn off when he was younger) is now a big hit despite the weird plastic puppets. He either secretly likes the catchy disco songs or has a crush on the girl. Some of the things he picks up come at us out of left field. For instance, one day Ethan was doing big weird jumps around the living room and said, "Look, I did a Grand jeté! Turns out he'd learned it from an episode of Toot & Puddle where these young pigs are always gallivanting around the world by plane (must be independently wealthy yet choose to live in a country cottage).

SpongeBob SquarePants is still blacklisted though we hear about it now and then because it was always on when we channel surfed in our minivan during our free year of Sirius Backseat TV.