Have you seen Yo Gabba Gabba? It’s ostensibly built for children, out of a stylistic toolkit of designer toys, colorful hoodies, and culture magazines from Japan. Watch the Party In My Tummy clip: the classic child behavioral instruction can be seen (eat your veggies, enjoy them) — but so can a distinctly cultural kind of training training: Learn these sounds, these styles, these cultural codes.

Each generation gives to its children the kind of kid’s show it wishes it had when growing up.