A couple of weeks ago, Jeff enabled TiVo's KidZone on our system.

The problem was that Kenny was watching episodes of The Office and My Name is Earl which, even though they aren't obscene, certainly aren't appropriate.

I wonder how long it will take for Kenny to figure out the simple, four-digit password. But, then, we can just change it, I guess.

In the meantime, when he tries to surf to his favorite channel, The Science Channel, an excerpt from the TiVo start-up sequence displays, you know, with the chutes and the colorful balls and the TiVo mascot swinging around. The four-year-old loves seeing "where TiVo lives" and yet, he doesn't think that TiVo lives inside the TV. I suppose if he did, he'd have to come out once in a while and, in more than four years, hasn't yet.

Now, there is supposed to be a way for Kenny to click out of KidZone to approved channels, like The Science Channel. But the system seems to allow only Up-Channel and Down-Channel surfing and not channel number input, in this case, channel 170 for The Science Channel.

Since the station is usually set to 33 (Nickelodeon) or 123 (Noggin), it would take a lot of effort to Up-Channel to 170.