One of the things that comes with having a toddler is children's television programming. Maryanne and I try to limit how much TV Sarah watches, and when we do allow her to watch we try to keep it to something educational and appropriate to her age.
This means mostly PBS Kids, for a bit in the morning and a bit in the afternoon. One of the shows in this programming block is "Curious George" based on the movie which of course was based on the books. I'm not sure I'd consider everything George does as curious in the sense it's intended, but it's innocent enough for a toddler.
One of the more recent episodes involved a xylophone and some mishaps with it. The first glaring inaccuracy was that the script referred to using "furry hammers" to play the xylophone. Playing the xylophone requires hard mallets, usually plastic, hard rubber, hard cord, or even rosewood. The second inaccuracy, which wasn't nearly as bad as the first, was that the xylophone only had 15 keys. It didn't even have separate keys for flats/sharps. It had at total of fifteen keys, arranged chromatically. This means that the xylophone only had just over a single octave of notes. Most xylophones are 3 1/2 octaves long; smaller ones are 2 1/2 octaves long.
I know it's a children's show, but would it be so bad to ask for some accuracy?
Mood: Disappointed
Music: Cheap Trick: "Surrender"
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