Genre: Kids, Comedy
First aired: 1969-11-10
Creator: Joan Ganz Cooney, Lloyd Morrisett
Overview: On a special inner city street, the inhabitants—human and muppet—teach preschoolers basic educational and social concepts using comedy, cartoons, games, and songs.
i know everyone jizzes themselves over this show like it was the greatest shit ever, but there were other better shows during the 70s. us kids watched Sesame Street, my friend even went to school with the little black kid on there, but we didnt talk about it in the playground or whatever. a show we did watch and talk about was Electric Company. that was a much more highly produced program with celebs and characters like Spiderman, and Dracula, played by Morgan Freeman. it even coined the famous line , "hey you guyyyyyyyyyyyyyyys!" which was referenced by Sloth in Goonies.
Title: Sesame Street
Genre: Kids, Comedy
Creator: Joan Ganz Cooney, Lloyd Morrisett
First aired: 1969-11-10
Overview: On a special inner city street, the inhabitants—human and muppet—teach preschoolers basic educational and social concepts using comedy, cartoons, games, and songs.
well, i dont know what that age range was. was it up to 5 years old? because i was watching Electric Company, Sesame Street, something called Zoom and whatever else was on PBS during that time.
it also had the theme to the Bloodhound Gang, which was pretty damned catchy too. "wherever there's trouble, we're there on the double. We're The Bloodhound Gang. if you got the crime, we got the time, we're The Bloodhound Gang". i wasnt allowed to watch Mr Rogers. my dad said he talked like a faggot and i guess he didnt want him trying to promote faggotry to me or something. which i respected, but i also watched it anyway when he wasnt around.
he wasnt an american hero back then. people mocked him all the time. Eddie Murphy made a name for himself doing that. to an adult, he could be seen as creepy when he talked in that mincing little voice. normal people dont talk that way. I liked the puppet show stuff, Mr Rogers and his guests were alright, people he had on i didnt always get. but cant get everything all the time. it was a good show, but i wont go so far as to say he was an american hero. he was cool. my dad wasnt right about everything, but Mr Rogers did talk weird.
i think they tried to make Bloodhound Gang its own TV show many years later. it probably didnt work out because it was a sub show of a show that not many people knew about. i loved the fuck out of it. my favorite episode is when they get kidnapped. they were able to see where they were being taken because they found a pinhole in the truck side panel and held up a shiny piece of metal to act as a mirror and it projected an upside down image showing exactly where they were being taken. that one scene fascinated me so much it led me to become a photographer.
God, those things used to scare the crap outta me before I was 5.
