Is it just me, or is this a bit ... disturbing?

There's a new tv show for preschoolers on PBS, that I've seen only a few times (thanks to the fact that only insomnia has let me be awake early enough to catch it). It's called Boohbah, and it features these wierd, strangely alien creatures that look like a cross between the teletubbies and Doctor Who monsters (who seem, even more oddly, to be extremely flatulent).

According to the official website, the show is designed to teach young children about Movement, Mathematics, Problem Solving, Science, Language and Imagination.

And, well, I don't live with small children, so I don't know...

But...

A large part of me thinks the producers of this show just made up a bunch of visual crack for babies, to keep them mesmerized and quiet, and came up with the fancy, edu-man-cat-ed sounding words after the fact to justify their actions.

I do admit, the show is engrossing (I find I have a hard time taking my eyes off it), but the way it presents different events is so abstract, that I worry about how a young, developing, mind makes sense of anything that it's seeing (I've noticed the same thing with Teletubbies, too, recently -- the landscape of green, rolling, hills and live rabbits under a real sky has been largely replaced by flat screens of solid color).

I know a couple of people on my f'list have children of the age Boohbah and Teletubbies were designed for. ... Am I wrong? Are these actually wonderful and valuable facets of television craft? I am perfectly happy to be wrong about this...