Don't Hug Me I'm Scared

I'm pretty sure that the point of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is to lay bare what's wrong with children's media.  The notepad sang about being creative, but various parts of her song contradicted this idea like getting rid of a perfectly good clown picture drawn by Manny or saying green is not a creative color (that is my favorite color, don't insult green).  The clock sings about how important time is, but never explains why, he just says time is running short and these products will help you improve the time you have.  The other episodes go into the subjects of love and religion, the dangers of the internet, and food and how it is marketed.

Don't get me, there do need to be some creativity limits on media that is made (if you don't believe me, look up the movies M. Night Shayamalan after Hollywood allowed him to make whatever he wanted following The Sixth Sense) and structuring your day is pretty important, but both the notepad and clock seem to have ulterior motives.  These seem to represent the mainstream media's tendencies to arbitrarily limit your creativity when they say they're expanding it and the tendency of commercials to tell you that their products will make your time better respectively.

Did I just change the way you view these characters?