I am not going to defend Treehouse but I think some of the "memories" of how great the shows were back in the day might be skewed a bit by time. I watched many of the same shows and have big doubts as to whether it made me any better in math or not. My brother watched them as much or more and was worse at math than I was.
There is a surprisingly lot of research that goes into some of these shows today to find what will not only best keep kids attention but also teach them skills they need to know.
Personally I would like a mix of some of the old school shows with some of the better new school shows, but given a choice I would probably prefer to go with the shows we have now.
Seasme Street may seem like a great show now that we are older but personally having seen some old ones recently it looks like nothing but crap to me.
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