Friday, November 27, 2009

No word shall be impossible with God

It does not make me feel like a big man to criticize a show meant for children, but I have to wonder if the educational value of a children's show is undermined by allowing opportunities for nits.

I've only seen one episode of Word World. The premise of the show, as I understand it, is that almost everything in the world of the show is constructed out of letters. If you need a house, all you need is get an H, an O, a U, an S, and an E, and put them together in the right order. With the letters in the right order, the desired object is magically constructed. In the episode that I watched, they made beds, with the letters B, E and D, and the Duck made himself a nest, with the letters N, E, etc. (you get the idea).

But what about the word "DOG" spelled in the window of the House? Inside, in the scene in which the animals make their beds, you can see that the glass of the window makes an O, while the two wooden window covers make, when opened to expose the glass, respectively a D and a G. So why doesn't the window turn into a dog? Or, to take the show into blasphemous territory, God?

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