Jacob Two-Two and the Bookworm Brouhaha

So there's this Saturday morning cartoon on Qubo, Jacob Two-Two, that I sometimes catch. Last week was the "Bookworm Brouhaha" episode, which I was sure some library blogger would cover because in this one, Jacob is initiated into the Secret Library Ninja Society when two librarians notice his shelving acumen.

The show started off with such promise. The librarians were not stereotyped, there were computers in the library, Jacob was having fun working with books, and the whole idea of the Secret Library Ninja Society (complete with shushing in the secret handshake) as a parallel to library school was pretty funny.

But then there was a huge disappointment: turns out the main goal of the Society is to steal back overdue books and slap people with fines and keep them from doodling in the margins. No solving problems with information; no befriending the lonely nerds and geeks; no saving the world. Bah. What a lost opportunity.