We’re so silly. Of course the final doodle would feature the entire gang. After all, Sesame Street is first and foremost a community, right? The 40th season of every preschooler’s favorite show kicks off today but the celebration will likely continue all season.  If you want to mark the occasion with other fans, the Brooklyn Public Library’s Sesame Street exhibit opens this Saturday, November 14 with a family fun day, including costumed characters and themed activities. You can also head to 64th and Broadway any time this week: The corner’s been temporarily renamed in honor of the show.

Although this Peanuts Halloween special first aired back in 1966, it’s popular enough to be shown in prime time in 2009. And why not? It’s still fun to giggle at Linus as he waits in vain for the Great Pumpkin (his version of Godot) to arrive, and to cringe along with Charlie Brown as he receives rocks instead of treats. The half-hour show is airing on ABC at 8pm this Tuesday, October 27 and Wednesday, October 28. If your kids are too busy to catch it (or already in bed), think about buying the box set of Peanuts specials, including A Charlie Brown Christmas and He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown. Deprive the family of these classics, and your kids very well may give you a lot of “good grief.”

You would think that as a father of four, Christian Jacobs would want to leave juvenile antics at home when he heads to work. Not so. This kidult–who regularly skateboards around the set–feeds off kids’ creative energy and fuses it with his love for music and pop culture to create Yo Gabba Gabba! Jacobs chatted with us about his inspiration, his family, his critics and all the celebs who want in on the Nick Jr. action.

Has anyone else noticed that HBO has a thing for airing comedies about stereotypical and/or depressed Brooklynites? Last year, an episode of the sardonic animated comedy The Life & Times of Tim served up a cutting depiction of an uptight, juice-drinking Park Slope parent. This season, the new half-hour, Brooklyn-set comedy Bored to Death (which airs on Sunday nights at 9:30pm) is going after the same target. In last night’s episode, Jason Schwartzman–an unlicensed  private eye living in Kings County–helped out a local single mom, played by New Yorker Parker Posey. A strict vegan diet (a sure sign, as one character said, that she was absolutely miserable), this mom lived to over-parent her son.

At the end of the episode, when Schwartzman rang her doorbell to say he’d solved the case, she wouldn’t let him upstairs because her son was having an allergic reaction—his wrists were swollen due to contact with gluten—and she had to ice them. She also volunteered that she couldn’t date, because she and her son were “a team,” and she didn’t want to break that up.

What exactly have Park Slope/Cobble Hill parents done to earn this national reputation as anal-retentive helicopter moms and dads? It was one thing when the portrayal was a little local “in joke,” but with Amy Sohn’s Prospect Park West (filled with depressed, hovering mommies), the Tony-winning God of Carnage and HBO jumping on board, we feel it’s gotten a tad out of control.

Tell us Brownstone Brooklyn parents, what do you think of your rep?

Photo: Paul Schiraldi

A few staffers here at Time Out Kids are already addicted to the new Fox program Glee (Wednesdays at 9pm). The show follows the misfit students who come together in a high-school glee club, as well as their socially awkward teachers. Though it clearly takes some cues from megahit High School Musical, the series differs in a huge way, in that this musical is actually watchable, with real laugh-out-loud moments. It’s also musically eclectic: Featured songs include Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab” and Rihanna’s “Take a Bow.” Among the talented cast are Lea Michele, from Broadway’s Spring Awakening, and Matthew Morrison, who played Link Larkin in Hairspray’s first national tour. And the emotionally authentic plotlines have so far tackled teen sex and pregnancy, and coming out as gay to friends and parents.

Which got us wondering…are any parents out there allowing their musical-obsessed tweens to watch this show? Tell us!

If your kiddos are definitely too young to tune in, check out our round-up of best bets in children’s television for the fall. Or, learn how your youngster who wants to be onstage like the ballad-belting kids in Glee can try out for a children’s chorus in NYC.

As an editor at Time Out Kids, I’ve come to appreciate all variety of cultural events—well, almost. You see, there’s still one form that I’ve never warmed up to: the musical spectacular based on a children’s TV program. Watching costumed characters sing boob-tube jingles to a packed arena always brings on nausea and a headache for me. But there are exceptions to every rule, and at last, I think I’ve found one to this.

For the first time ever, the smart, funky and musically brave children’s program Yo Gabba Gabba will put on a live show, called Yo Gabba Gabba! Live: There’s a Party in my City. While few details have been released about the event, it looks promising: In the mix will be animation, games, singing and dancing—all the elements that make the TV show a hit—plus appearances from celebrity guests.

And here’s what there won’t be: a forced, moralistic, cheesy plot. Hurrah!

Tickets go on sale on October 9; the show plays November 21 at 11 am and 2pm at the Beacon Theatre.

Being a kid with seasonal allergies is awful–we wheeze in sympathy! But life-threatened allergies–peanuts anyone?–are nothing to sneeze at. These days, more and more children are being diagnosed with potentially fatal allergies to everything from wheat to bee stings, so it’s makes sense that Linda Ellerbee and the folks over at Nick News have decided to tackle this issue in the new TV special I’m Allergic to My World, which premieres Sunday, September 27, at 8pm on Nickelodeon. The show offers a glimpse into the lives of kids afflicted with allergies, their coping mechanisms, and commentary from parents and doctors. Nick News, which recently picked up its seventh Emmy award, always does a great job of educating kids (and moms and dads!) about serious subjects, without sugar-coating the facts. Take this as opportunity to teach your little ones–both with and without allergies–about this hot topic. Sweeten the deal by grabbing some allergen-free treats to nosh on during the show.