You teach your daughter that bacteria are "tiny, ugly germs"? Bacteria were among the first life-forms to evolve on this planet, and are the oldest ancestor of all mega-fauna now on planet Earth.

If not for bacteria in our digestive system, adults would not be able to digest lactose, present in some of the more delicious desserts such as ice cream. And if it were not for bacteria no organic matter would decompose and dead leaves and animals would litter the landscape.

So next time little Claire goes to touch something on the ground, your tell her: "No Claire! Caca! Icky caca!. Don't touch that! Caca," and please be sure to leave the lowly bacteria out of it.

Thank you, and good day.

I had the pleasure to watch more than a few of those shows with my grandson. i can get past the creepiness and the hardcore mental programming and find Mothersbaugh delightful, BUT, then came the "science".

Why does the moon change shape was the question?

The answer!

Because the Earth's shadow hides part of the moon. That's right folks, they are teaching kids that the Earth;s shadow is causing the phases of the moon.

/sound of crickets chirping.

That isn't how it happens.

Wiggle wiggle wiggle!

Wiggle wiggle wiggle!

Wiggle wiggle wiggle!

Wiggle wiggle wiggle!

H O L D S T I L L !

All those people working on that show and none of them know how the phases of the moon work.

I bet half of you don't either.

The Earth's shadow is what causes the lunar eclipse, not the phases.

Seeing Seth who likes to dance on the Soup made me tune in.

I always liked the freaky teletubbies but Yo Gabba Gabba is even better. We all want to be DJ Lance Rock.

Mark Mothersbaugh is one of the founders of Devo.

I have to go the other way on this one. This show is just a hair less annoying than Barney and Teletubbies for me. Remember the announcer guy from The Fifth Element? That's pretty much how annoying the DJ is on this show.

I was born in 1961, so by the time SS burst onto the scene, I had aged-out of their target demographic, but I still watched it religiously with my baby sister. I remember being transfixed by some brilliantly done short animations, claymations and short films.

Does anyone remember the short film of a tomato shot with a screen-filling close-up lens, while some really spacey electronic music played in the background? I still remember the melody- kind of a synthetic buzzy backbeat...brrrpp-brrrpp...brrrpp-brrrpp with an overlay of a wordless falsetto doo-wopp voice. I didn't even realize what I was viewing until well into the piece. I guess that was the point. I remember that vividly, as well as the smell of toasty vacuum tube dust rising from the vent louvers of our tiny Toshiba color TeeVee (our first).

When did SS stop doing stuff like that? Pity.

Write a letter to the show. Use your vast intellect for the good of the nation's youth.

Don't hate on the MC Bat Commander...as I learned from Sesame Street, "Everyone makes mistakes so why can't you?"

I guess it's a matter of taste. I have two toddlers and this show is on our "never record or watch this" list. Profoundly annoying. We'll stick with Handy Manny.

Not annoying? The show is so annoying that my 2 year old turns it off. It isn't innovative or interesting; it's just inane. And as others have pointed out, the show DESPERATELY needs to get someone on the staff with at least a 6th grade science education, or it needs to just drop the science bits altogether.

"Use your vast intellect for the good of the nation's youth."

Hmmmmm. You are very perceptive, If there are any decent television producers out there, give me a call and I will prototype and direct as many quality programs as your resources will permit.

Hmmmmm. Maybe I'd have better luck if I left out the qualifier "decent".

Meanwhile I am still waiting to hear back from Joan Walsh about a job at Salon. They need at least one other adult on the staff beside Glenn and Camile. I am one of the best writers here and I think that Joan Walsh would be put to good use correcting my typos.

Hey, you could call my section the 'Anti-War Room".

Wonder Showzen....

Chris Rock annoying? What kind of monster are you?

That is how you entertain a baby or toddler. Most babies cry because the grownups don't know how to entertain them, tell them stuff, show them stuff, sing to them, dance for them and the whole ball of wax.

Yo Gabba Gabba is brilliant when it come to that. Anyone with a crying baby could learn a lot from watching it and watching how their baby reacts.

Parents and grandparents should do the majority of the entertaining for the baby and everyone will feel a lot better and get a lot more sleep.

Chris Rock would make an excellent baby show host and the bleeps would make it entertaining for the adults.

If there are any decent television producers out there i could work that out real quick and sweet, oh, wait a minute, same mistake. Nevermind.

I'd rather work for Joan.

How about "The No Bullshit Zone"?

But if I did, I'm not sure it's targeted at parents. Your kids think that cable news is pretty stupid too, you know.

I think you're being too harsh on Elmo and Sesame Street and the other commenters should check out sesame street again before they trash it. The other day a friend forwarded me the Feist appearance singing "1,2,3,4" on sesame street. It was fantastic and it got me looking at all the other funny, clever, intelligent programing that the children's television workshop is STILL putting out.

Is sesame street too commercial? Yes, the fact that elmo shows up on food throughout the grocery store infuriates me, even if it's organic and I buy it. But the show's impact on kids ability to read and do early math is well researched. I'm not slighting the folks behind Gabba but the difference is Sesame Street (and Blues Clues despite the commercials) are shows designed to teach by entertaining, not entertain and hopefully teach. Segments of Sesame Street are tested before they are aired to see what kids are looking at, why they're looking at it and whether it's engaging them rather than just turning them into zombies.

My daughter is 18 months and when she turns 3 (which my understanding is the absolute earliest she should start watching tv) when she does watch tv, she'll watch sesame street and arthur and the other shows on pbs because these shows aren't just designed to sell the products featured on their commercials. If YGG has her up and dancing when she's well and can bring a smile to her face when she's sick we'll probably watch that too. It's possible to have two good shows for kids.