Baby shows are weird and creepy!

[Tetsu Deinonychus]

Okay, so I have Direct TV and one of the many channels I get is called "Sprout", and it's a network for babies and small children that I'm guessing is mostly educational shows starring puppets. I don't really watch it obviously, since I don't have kids and while I still watch kid's shows they skew a little older than that.

But, late last night, I'm flipping through the channels and on Sprout they have "Nighttime programming for baby". And, I'm like "What the hell would that be?" I hit "info" and it says it's "soothing images and lullabys to help your child sleep".

So, I start picturing a steady stream of stock footage of ocean waves and sleeping kittens, or pastel drawings of children hugging teddy bears, and bunnies having tea-parties while a warm maternal voice sings a gentle lullaby, and I think "you know, I could kind of go for something like that myself" (I haven't been sleeping well lately).

I checked it out, and what I got was not what I expected...

There were three people in the creepiest rat costumes I've ever seen. I'm not normally creeped out by mascot costumes, but these had such dead eyes and were total nightmare fuel. But the creepiest part was the set. It was just an eerie plain white solid background. Even the floor was just white as if they were just floating in an empty void. They were singing songs but not a lullaby. Just stuff about sharing etc. But, they weren't singing very well and there was no music to go with it.

The whole thing was like a hallucination from a Kubrick film. This must have been what the kid from The Shining watched when he was little (or what the Dad saw when he was going nuts)!

Anyway, I don't know anything about children, so I don't know if this helps them rest or not. It certainly has nothing to offer an exhausted and stressed adult aside from the WTF factor and an anecdote.

So, anyone here with kids, is this really what lulls babies to sleep these days?