Hard to believe we know, but is there a possibility that SpongeBob SquarePants might actually be bad for you? The shock allegation comes from researchers at the University of Virginia, who reckon it might compromise children's attention span, report the good people of Fox News. The very thought! "It is possible that the fast pacing, where characters are constantly in motion from one thing to the next, and extreme fantasy, where the characters do things that make no sense in the real world, may disrupt the child's ability to concentrate immediately afterward," said psychology professor Angeline Lillard, who led the research. Disrupted by characters that do things that make no sense in the real world? So that presumably that also rules out much of the output of Pixar and Walt Disney, not to mention Tom and Jerry – check out this appalling on-screen violence – Roadrunner, ITV1's Daybreak … and Fox News.
