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The Lounge at the End of the Universe => Gallimaufry => Topic started by: Talia on March 21, 2011, 08:14:58 PM
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(i couldn't stand Mr. Rogers)
*GASP* :/
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(i couldn't stand Mr. Rogers)
*GASP* :/
Agree w/ Talia. Blasphemy most foul. Fred Rogers was the friggin' MAN.
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(i couldn't stand Mr. Rogers)
*GASP* :/
Agree w/ Talia. Blasphemy most foul. Fred Rogers was the friggin' MAN.
Gotta chime in. While I agree that patronizing tone is annoying, you gotta give respect to Fred. Especially because he actually lived the unconditional "just you the way you are" philosophy that he presented on TV.
How did we get on Mr. Rodgers?
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(i couldn't stand Mr. Rogers)
*GASP* :/
Agree w/ Talia. Blasphemy most foul. Fred Rogers was the friggin' MAN.
Gotta chime in. While I agree that patronizing tone is annoying, you gotta give respect to Fred. Especially because he actually lived the unconditional "just you the way you are" philosophy that he presented on TV.
How did we get on Mr. Rodgers?
Wow! I'm surprised i'm coming in as such the minority here. My wife loved him, too. I didn't like him as a kid and… can’t… really… say… my appreciation of him has changed a whole lot in the intervening 30+ years. Your regularly scheduled critique will resume after the stone-throwing has commenced. (my apologies for the derailing!)
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I interned at the station where his show taped. Met him in the elevator a couple times. He was on of the most genuinely kind people I've ever encountered.
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Last thing i'll comment on regarding Mr. Rogers (again, sorry for the derailment): perhaps i should have said Mr. Roger's Neighborhood rather than "Mr. Rogers." I've nothing personal against the man himself. I just wasn't a fan of his show! =)
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A few notes on Fred and his show, quoting NPR Fresh Air:
His popular show, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, was the longest-running program on public television. It ran 33 years and ended its run in 2001. Rogers was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor the nation can bestow, in 2001.
His car was once stolen, but the thieves promptly returned it upon learning whose car they had taken.
Somewhere out there was a great interview they did with him on This American Life. I can't find it right now, but I'll post it if I do.
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One last derailment(I've forked 3 episodes, why not make it a 4th?) if you haven't seen this senate hearing interview by Fred Rogers on the benefits of public broadcasting, please watch it, as it is an amazing piece of work by a very genuine man. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXEuEUQIP3Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXEuEUQIP3Q)
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That car theft tale was one of my favorite stories about the man, but I realized upon thinking about it smacks of urban legend. Sadly, Snopes doesn't think it really happened. (http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/rogerscar.asp)
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Hm... Snopes says "undetermined"... Why did I think that I had heard this in an interview with him?
Now I must know...
Thanks for the link.
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Mr. Rodgers was awesome. I credit him with making me a good and decent person despite the fact that my parents are completely insane. Mr. Rodgers, Captain Kirk, and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. Without them, I'd be an unpleasant, selfish, bigoted, raving lunatic.
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I alway preferred Captain Kangaroo to Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. I can't recall a single moment from his show other than the song at the beginning or end with the random archaic un(re)dressing.
Better than both? The endlessly creepy Gigglesnort Hotel.
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I loved Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood! Some of my earliest memories involve waking up to the sun peeping through my curtains and knowing it was time to go downstairs and watch the whole morning lineup. Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street, Zoobilee Zoo.... those were the days :)
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Found the This American Life Show. It's called "Neighbors" (duh...)
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/184/neighbors
I think what I find so touching is the way that he applies such simple ideas to real situations. And they actually help.
I also like that his publicist is Mr. McFeely (well, was...)
-Adam
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I loved Mr. Rogers AND Captain Kangaroo!
Did anyone else watch Pinwheel? It was one of my favorite shows but I seem to be the only one who remembers it.
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I alway preferred Captain Kangaroo to Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. I can't recall a single moment from his show other than the song at the beginning or end with the random archaic un(re)dressing.
Better than both? The endlessly creepy Gigglesnort Hotel.
I haven't heard of that one...
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I loved Mr. Rogers AND Captain Kangaroo!
Did anyone else watch Pinwheel? It was one of my favorite shows but I seem to be the only one who remembers it.
I sing the theme song every time my Mac is 'thinking.' :D
Anyone old enough to remember Romper Room?
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I loved Mr. Rogers AND Captain Kangaroo!
Did anyone else watch Pinwheel? It was one of my favorite shows but I seem to be the only one who remembers it.
I sing the theme song every time my Mac is 'thinking.' :D
Anyone old enough to remember Romper Room?
YES! Only very vaguely.
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I loved Mr. Rogers AND Captain Kangaroo!
Did anyone else watch Pinwheel? It was one of my favorite shows but I seem to be the only one who remembers it.
I sing the theme song every time my Mac is 'thinking.' :D
Anyone old enough to remember Romper Room?
Well, at the risk of total public embarasment- I was on Romper Room. Yep. My Mom still has the tapes.
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I loved Mr. Rogers AND Captain Kangaroo!
Did anyone else watch Pinwheel? It was one of my favorite shows but I seem to be the only one who remembers it.
I sing the theme song every time my Mac is 'thinking.' :D
Anyone old enough to remember Romper Room?
Well, at the risk of total public embarasment- I was on Romper Room. Yep. My Mom still has the tapes.
Dude... awesome. YouTube?
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I loved Mr. Rogers AND Captain Kangaroo!
Did anyone else watch Pinwheel? It was one of my favorite shows but I seem to be the only one who remembers it.
I sing the theme song every time my Mac is 'thinking.' :D
Anyone old enough to remember Romper Room?
Well, at the risk of total public embarasment- I was on Romper Room. Yep. My Mom still has the tapes.
Awesome! Where did they tape that show, WGBH? Were you a regular or a one-timer? I have no idea how that worked. I mean, I assume they make Barney have the same kids around him all the time so that they only have to destroy so many after receiving the infection so directly, but I don't know if that's how RR operated. How many times did you have to go through rehab to shake your coke-addicted child stardom?
I was very young when it went off the air, but I know I was at least four, because I remember at the closing of the show one day she was looking in her magic mirror and saying the names of the kids she saw and she said my baby sister's name and I freaked out. "She sees Rachael!" Friggin' kids are so gullible...
Wait -- you had a VCR in 1980? What are you, one of the friggin' Rockafellers?
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Side note, this is the second time I've mentioned Barney in less than a week, so I have to post my favorite Barney story...
http://de.jihad.net/lib/bull-dotb.txt (http://de.jihad.net/lib/bull-dotb.txt)
Talk about classic, that was written and posted when ASCII porn was still the best thing online.
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I loved Mr. Rogers AND Captain Kangaroo!
Did anyone else watch Pinwheel? It was one of my favorite shows but I seem to be the only one who remembers it.
I sing the theme song every time my Mac is 'thinking.' :D
Anyone old enough to remember Romper Room?
Well, at the risk of total public embarasment- I was on Romper Room. Yep. My Mom still has the tapes.
Can I have your autograph? :D
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I sing the theme song every time my Mac is 'thinking.' :D
Anyone old enough to remember Romper Room?
Well, at the risk of total public embarasment- I was on Romper Room. Yep. My Mom still has the tapes.
Can I have your autograph? :D
Ok,ok. I was like, 5 years old but apparently told my mother I wanted to be on TV. We lived in the LA suburbs so somehow she got me on Romper Room. You taped 4? episodes over 2 days and that was it. Pretty normal kids overall except for one Stage Mom who was scary. All I remember is walking around a Harlem Globetrotter in romper-stompers. And if anyone doesn't know what romper-stompers are then they are to young to remember Romper Room anyway. : )
And that was my fifteen minutes of fame. I should have held out for something better. ; )
Now, back to our regularly scheduled derailment.....
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I sing the theme song every time my Mac is 'thinking.' :D
Anyone old enough to remember Romper Room?
Well, at the risk of total public embarasment- I was on Romper Room. Yep. My Mom still has the tapes.
Can I have your autograph? :D
Ok,ok. I was like, 5 years old but apparently told my mother I wanted to be on TV. We lived in the LA suburbs so somehow she got me on Romper Room. You taped 4? episodes over 2 days and that was it. Pretty normal kids overall except for one Stage Mom who was scary. All I remember is walking around a Harlem Globetrotter in romper-stompers. And if anyone doesn't know what romper-stompers are then they are to young to remember Romper Room anyway. : )
And that was my fifteen minutes of fame. I should have held out for something better. ; )
Now, back to our regularly scheduled derailment.....
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHahahahahahhHAHAHAHAHHHAhahahahahHHAHA...he said "Romper Stompers"...HAHAHAHHAHhahahahahahaHHAHAHahaHAHHhahHAHAha...
Do I correctly remember those involving coffee cans and rope?
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I sing the theme song every time my Mac is 'thinking.' :D
Anyone old enough to remember Romper Room?
Well, at the risk of total public embarasment- I was on Romper Room. Yep. My Mom still has the tapes.
Can I have your autograph? :D
Ok,ok. I was like, 5 years old but apparently told my mother I wanted to be on TV. We lived in the LA suburbs so somehow she got me on Romper Room. You taped 4? episodes over 2 days and that was it. Pretty normal kids overall except for one Stage Mom who was scary. All I remember is walking around a Harlem Globetrotter in romper-stompers. And if anyone doesn't know what romper-stompers are then they are to young to remember Romper Room anyway. : )
And that was my fifteen minutes of fame. I should have held out for something better. ; )
Now, back to our regularly scheduled derailment.....
she
Fixed that for you. :p
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ah yes, Romper Room, Wonderama ("Kids Are People too" - they filmed an episode at our achool, I think, or had a traveling show), The Magic Garden, Kukla, Fran & Ollie... then the WB and Fox bought up a bunch of indie stations and killed local TV...
As for Mr. Rogers - I still remember when the Oscars did their "those we lost" obituary segment that year and when his face came up on the screen the entire audience got to their feet and applauded en masse. The guy was loved, make no mistake about it...
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Better than both? The endlessly creepy Gigglesnort Hotel.
I haven't heard of that one...
It's a weird hotel set in a town full of cartoons that are shown on screen as creepy puppets. There's a character named Blob who was a muttering incoherent blob of clay on a pillar that was manhandled by the one human. There was an angry dragon in the basement that ate coal and heated the place. The guy in charge thought the hotel was a ship and had his room done up like the bridge of a sailboat.
Gigglesnort Hotel was a syndicated children's television program which aired starting in 1975 and ran for 78 episodes, until about 1978. It was hosted by Bill Jackson, previously best known as the host of the Chicago-based children's program, The BJ and Dirty Dragon Show. The program was set, as the title implies, at an old hotel, where Jackson's role was a desk clerk.[1] The program featured many of the characters from the previous show, including Dirty Dragon, the Old Professor, Weird, Old Mother Plumtree, and several others, such as the hotel's owner, Old Man Gigglesnort, who were created just for the program.[2][3][4]
The show was widely praised by critics, and became one of the highest rated children's shows in WLS-TV history.[1][5][6] It was syndicated in 1978, airing in several markets nationwide as well as Canada, Italy, and Saudi Arabia.[7]
Jackson made a final appearance for a presentation for the Museum of Broadcast Communications, "Saturday Morning with B.J. and Dirty Dragon: Bill Jackson, Live in Person—One Last Time", in December of 2009, saying this would be his last time appearing as a performer.[8][9] In 1995, he donated all his original puppets to Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications.[4]
wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigglesnort_Hotel)
Here's the site (http://www.dirtydragon.com/) for the guy who owns the rights to the show. Crazy bastard thinks childhood nostalgia is worth more than it is.
The opening on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEUl127RspM&feature=relmfu)
Gigglesnort Hotel was utterly Satanic. There was nothing cute or funny about it - it was horrifying and wrong.
Eg: The Blob of Clay didn't "talk" - it continually whimpered in agony and terror as the other characters molded, manipulated and taunted it... All except for the lone human, who would sculpt, re-face and attempt commiseration with his fellow prisoner in Gigglesnort Hell. Then along would come the Dragon, who would eat some coal, let fly a litany of insults, and then spew huge amounts of smoke from his nostrils. I used to hide in the corner when it was on TV.
Also I would be unfair to my forum avatar if I did not mention the phenomenal Smile Time. A shame it went off the air so suddenly.