One of the very few things that I have ever looked at and said "hey! You! Stop destroying my childhood!" is the Elmo version of There's A Monster At the End of This Book. No! Is Grover! *stomps foot, runs off*
Wash: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge! Zoe: He ain't dead. Wash: Oh.
'The Message'
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Katie M - Jun 03, 2004 4:12:15 pm PDT #5063 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Hil R. - Jun 03, 2004 4:15:27 pm PDT #5064 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My favorite was Square One TV. t /surprising no one
Katie M - Jun 03, 2004 4:16:09 pm PDT #5065 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
My favorite was Square One TV.
Ooh! The Roman Numeral song. I loved that.
Steph L. - Jun 03, 2004 4:16:23 pm PDT #5066 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Katie! Me, too! My brother and I refuse to acknowledge the existence of the Elmo version. We used to read it together, trying to pretend we were scared at Grover's dire pronouncements. One page was even ripped because one of us held it down to try to keep the other from turning it.
Polter-Cow - Jun 03, 2004 4:18:37 pm PDT #5067 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
My favorite was Square One TV.
Squeeee!!! Bloodhound Gang! Mathnet! Blackstone!
And it's the reason nine is my favorite number.
Susan W. - Jun 03, 2004 4:21:12 pm PDT #5068 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Does anyone else remember a show called The New Zoo Revue?
Yep. It came on very early in the mornings. I wasn't crazy about it, because the theme song earwormed me, but would sometimes watch it when I woke up early and there was no other kiddie TV.
Amy - Jun 03, 2004 5:27:36 pm PDT #5069 of 10001
Because books.
When I was at NYU, I remember seeing Morgan Freeman on the street, in an army jacket, and immediately pinging Easy Reader. It was pre-Driving Miss Daisy, et al, if I remember right.
New Zoo Revue was weird. Those oversized puppets, and the ... can this be right? ... gazebo? Out in the town square or something?
No idea what Square One TV is/was.
There was an Elmo version of There's a Monster...? That's just wrong. I read the Grover version to Jake and Ben. And Jake's favorite stuffed animal when he was little was a Super Grover complete with cape and helmet.
Oh, and we bought the Math and Grammar videos of Schoolhouse Rock for the kids. Stephen and I, of course, are the ones who watch them.
Beverly - Jun 03, 2004 5:40:37 pm PDT #5070 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Freeman was also Mel Mounds of the Round Sound and Vincent the Vegetable Vampire. IJS.
My kids would get all hyper over Sesame Street, and then calm down for Mr. Rogers.
An odd note: my grandmother scolded me harshly for letting my impressionable little boys watch that horrible Sesame Street with all that dashing around and those ugly, horrid puppet monsters. Watching that trash was going to warp their little psyches.
I was nonplussed until I realized that she was firmly in the "pretty is as pretty does" generation, where beautiful was equated with good, and ugly with bad, and the generalized versions of both beautiful and pretty were accepted. It made me a little sad.
But not sad enough to keep from telling her sharply she wasn't allowed to malign their beloved shows to my kids.
it is my goal today to make a single post on this board that I don't have to go back and rescue in one way or another in edit. Humph.
Hil R. - Jun 03, 2004 5:44:01 pm PDT #5071 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
No idea what Square One TV is/was.
It was a math show, for elementary school kids, in the mid to late eighties, and maybe early nineties. They'd have music segments, and some other little things, and an ongoing Dragnet parody called Mathnet (with Sergeant Monday) where the detectives would have to use different math skills to solve the crimes. (And it was usually something interesting, like breaking a code, not just arithmetic.)
Polter-Cow - Jun 03, 2004 5:58:55 pm PDT #5072 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Dragnet parody called Mathnet (with Sergeant Monday) where the detectives would have to use different math skills to solve the crimes. (And it was usually something interesting, like breaking a code, not just arithmetic.)
And Kate Friday! I think that's where I learned about the Fibonacci sequence. And that's definitely where I learned that all area codes (until they ran out) had a 0 or 1 in the middle.