David Mitchell talks about references in children’s and teen telly

David Mitchell makes the phenomenally valid point that how can we expect children/teens (ie, humans during their formative, most likely to LEARN STUFF, years) learn anything from television if they’re only showed things they already know?

Quite right. I learnt the words ‘righteous indignation’ from the Bucky O’Hare opening credit sequence, looked it up, and it became part of my 6 year old vocab. Nerdy, but true.  I also learnt a surprising amount of Greek mythology from Ulysses 31.