Spongebob fries your kid's brains, Caillou doesn't?

I know that 3 minutes of PBS and I start throwing tantrums, but hey - for some reason my little girl loves Caillou. And some times, whatever keeps them happy quiet for a minute - is what matters to the tired parent.

SpongeBob in Hot Water From Study of 4-Year-Olds' Behavior

The cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is in hot water from a study suggesting that watching just nine minutes of that program can cause short-term attention and learning problems in 4-year-olds.

The problems were seen in a study of 60 children randomly assigned to either watch "SpongeBob," or the slower-paced PBS cartoon "Caillou" or assigned to draw pictures. Immediately after these nine-minute assignments, the kids took mental function tests; those who had watched "SpongeBob" did measurably worse than the others.
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It is possible I'm still traumatized by "He-Man", the original ambiguously gay character