Comments | karaokegal: 100 TV Shows #71, 72, 73-The Electric Company/Sesame Street/Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.

karaokegal

100 TV Shows #71, 72, 73-The Electric Company/Sesame Street/Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.

Jan 14, 2014 10:23

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donutsweeper January 14 2014, 21:13:40 UTC

Oh man, this is my childhood too. I'll always remember Electric Company's Hey you GUYYYYYYYS. Oh, man, Fargo North, Decoder! That brings back memories. It's too bad it hasn't been on air all the time like Sesame Street and Mr Rogers, which I rewatched over and over due to babysitting and then my own kids, it was such a good show.

karaokegal January 14 2014, 22:40:48 UTC

HIGH FIVE! (ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE.) I wonder if it would come across as dated because of the hair/clothing and just that very 70's style itself. Of course now it's retro, but still. It just made such a great contrast to SS and Mister Rogers. Did you get the bilingual shows like Villa Allegre and Carrascolendas (SP?) as well?

donutsweeper January 14 2014, 22:52:17 UTC

I had to google it but after watching http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?c=3179 yeah, Villa Allegre does seem familiar, I think my older sister watched but it might have stopped airing before I was really old enough for it. I don't remember Carrascolendas though (If you wish to relive it at all I did find it streaming though! http://video.klru.tv/program/carrascolendas/)

karaokegal January 14 2014, 22:57:42 UTC

Thanks! I hate to wax too nostalgic, although that is sort of the point of the meme, but we had some good stuff back then.

abbysiuta January 15 2014, 03:45:03 UTC

I totally agree with all your thoughts on Sesame Street (and I LOVE a Guy Smiley reference!)

karaokegal January 15 2014, 04:22:19 UTC

I loved the game show parodies and especially Guy's attempted rendition of "Gone With The Wind."

chocolate_frapp January 15 2014, 17:25:15 UTC

yeah, the not being believed business was fucked up. I think it was intended to be funny. I'm glad they stopped doing it. I thought Grover was funny when I was a little kid but I preferred the humor on the Electric Company. I LOOOOOOOOOOVED the Electric Company when I was a kid. Some of those songs still get stuck in my head.
King Friday was a jerk and rude too. I don't remember that from watching Mr. Rogers as a little kid but recently I was over at a friend's house and my friend's kid was watching Mr. Rogers and I was more than slightly irritated with him. (King Friday. i could never be irritated with Mr. Rogers, he was awesome.)
That was Joan Rivers?! I guess I can't recognize her when she's not insulting anybody's appearance. (I don't care how old she is, if she ever tried that crap on me I'd put her in the hospital!)

karaokegal January 15 2014, 18:56:25 UTC

We never saw Joan, it was just her voice narrating the Adventures of Letter Man. I loved her cadences there. Maybe it was when her stand-up career was sort of "meh" before she really broke through with the nasty stuff in the 80's.

Reallyreallyreally hate King Friday. The Queen should have just up and left. Or staged a coup or something.

chocolate_frapp January 15 2014, 20:28:18 UTC

I should have said "I guess I can't recognize her voice,etc."
She showed up on an anti-bullying ad recently, which made no sense whatsoever. Only Andrew Dice Clay would have been more inappropriate.

karaokegal January 15 2014, 22:33:54 UTC

And we know the Diceman is mostly persona, whereas I sort of get the feeling that Joan is a genuinely nasty wench.