I know this is a little off-topic for this site, but bear with me.
In discussing children's programming -- which is, not surprisingly, a popular subject in my home these days -- I've already mentioned my loathe for Noggin's Pinky Dinky Doo and my love of Jack's Big Music Show.
But I think it's time somebody finally asked a few tough questions about Oswald.
For the uninitiated, the "Oswald" of the show's title is an octopus who's apparently on Xanax. He lives in an apartment in a New York City-ish metropolis. He has a hot dog for a pet and his best friends are a bitchy, patronizing gay penguin, voiced by the guy who played Squiggy on Laverne and Shirley; a slow-witted hippie-chick flower named, of course, Daisy; a Jewish, manic depressive tree named, inexplicably, Steve; and a butterfly called simply Madame Butterfly.
Oh yeah, and it's all set to the perpetually sedate music of Evan Lurie.
The whole thing is like the Ludovico treatment for autistic kids.
It's the most subversive cartoon on television insofar as it's pretty much tailor made for parents who are either really high or just desperately in need of something to soothe their frazzled nerves.
And of course I thank God for it every day.
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