Shortening Elmo's World seems like a better deal to me. 25 minutes of Elmo makes my head hurt, it's like the rest of the show has to be super compacted so Elmo can bounce around all that time. I'm disappointed teaching ABCs and 123s has taken a backseat to a goldfish thinking about hands and a lot of really irritating chatter. 10 minutes sounds good to me, enough time for me to use the bathroom and then get a snack so I can avoid it entirely =)
A) Elmo's world actually is only 15 minutes. Maybe a little over. 25 minutes would be half the show.
B) If you don't like it, watch the other "Quality" kids shows like Blues Clues and Dora, whom have corrupted SS into a little kid's show. Remember. When SS first started there weren't 3 different cable channels running poor quality toy commercial style kid's programming. it is a shame that they had to stoop to the lowest common denominator (but at least in a far more enjoyable way) to save their skins.
Personally, I think that you can shorten Elmo's world to 10 minutes if you take out or truncate different things. First, shorten Mr. Noodle's Capering (it's not the same without Mr.Jeter), then cut out the opeing montage of kids doing various things with the subject du jour. Shorten the film insert of some kid visiting something. Put only 3 examples of What does something and what doesn't. Comedy three. Cut "how do you do" segment with 1 kid and then one let's talk to a baby. And finally, get rid of the song at the end.
Now, why I wanted this segment seperated from the show completely is that it just doesn't mesh. for 10 years now they had a segment that doesn't mesh with the rest of the show. But sadly, PBS thinks it needs to run something called "Super Why!" in a time slot they could just run this show.
I mean, EW is geared to the youngest viewers whos parents don't read the "Television isn't beneficial to 1 and 2 year olds" reports, and that actually think Baby Einstine videos are a good investment. I cannot even blame SS for sliding downhill. Look at everything else....
This cartoon expresses how I feel