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Charlie is going through a thing. Not quite sure what it is. He's been watching some kids shows 'on demand' on COmcast, and one of the shows they currently have is the last episode of Blue's Clues with Steve.

Charlie loved Blue's Clues as toddler - it was his generation's show, after all. My friend and I would often discuss the merits of Steve as a host, and agreed he was made of awesome because he was goofy without being a moron and never talked down to the children. He was obviously the kind of guy who 'got' kids. I like any show that a parent can actually sit through and mildly enjoy without wantin to tear out one's eyes by the end of it.

Anyway, Steve left the show in 2001, and by then Charlie'd moved on to The Wiggles. We still watched the many videos we had of Blue's Clues but we'd moved on. Besides I didn't like Joe nearly as much.

So now Charlie is watching this last episode and it makes him cry. Every time he watches it. And he's not faking it, either. He cries. We haven't had any major losses in our family recently, so I'm not sure why he's feeling this pretend one so keenly, but he is. Thank goodness for videos.

Meanwhile, I looked Steve up on the good ol' interweb to see what he's been up to. I listened to some of his songs. They're pretty good.

I also had Charlie send him an email because I thought it might make him feel better to say 'hi' to Steve.

So. Childhood TV show. What was it? What show, if you saw it again, would transport you back to your happy place?

on 2006-07-21 01:50 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] purplemer3.livejournal.com
I know that it's not a real kid's show, but my absolute favourite show when I was a kid (like 8 to 14) was the Mary Tyler Moore Show, which my father taped for me every night on Nick-at-Nite because it came on after my bedtime. I absolutely loved that show, adored it. I've seen every episode a bunch of times, I cried when I saw the last episode!

on 2006-07-21 11:13 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] charliesmum.livejournal.com
That is so cute.

on 2006-07-21 01:59 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] carlanime.livejournal.com
Mr. Dressup.

And when he did his retirement tour, I went, slightly embarassed because I was an adult--only to discover that at least half the audience were people my age, unaccompanied by children, just there because we remembered him and loved him. I was in tears at the end of his stage show, and I wasn't the only one, either.

on 2006-07-21 11:14 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] charliesmum.livejournal.com
Mr. Dressup?

That's the thing about kid entertainers - you may technically out grow them, but they will always have a place in your heart, so you never really do.

on 2006-07-21 12:47 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] carlanime.livejournal.com
Mr. Dressup. It was a Canadian thing (I think it's still on in reruns). :)

on 2006-07-21 02:06 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] gehayi.livejournal.com
Captain Kangaroo! I loved the Captain, and Mr. Green Jeans, and Dancing Bear, and Mr. Moose, and Bunny Rabbit--notwithstanding that the last two were handpuppets and Dancing Bear was a man in a bear costume who never spoke ONCE. It didn't matter. The Captain and his friends all had real personality.

I liked the Captain. He was funny. He told stories. Best of all, his moods changed from day to day--unlike, say, Mister Rogers. (As a child, I was certain that Fred Rogers was on tranquilizers.) But the Captain had good days, and sad days, and frustrated days. I could understand, and relate to that. Every day isn't the same, especially for a kid.

on 2006-07-21 11:05 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] charliesmum.livejournal.com
I loved Captain Kangaroo!

on 2006-07-21 02:18 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] wolfma.livejournal.com
The original Sesame Street. How I loved that show! The current version doesn't compare. I love the old segments they play on the new show, though.

The Muppet Show-though technically that wasn't a kids' show.

on 2006-07-21 11:08 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] charliesmum.livejournal.com
The current version doesn't compare. So very true. The original spirit of the show is gone; it lacks the edginess that the original had.

I blame Elmo.

on 2006-07-21 02:59 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] erinlin.livejournal.com
Winne-The-Pooh. I still know the theme song off by heart. ^_^

on 2006-07-21 03:41 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] darkthirty.livejournal.com
Ah, Steve. I liked him, his notable eyes, his way of being in the show, or relating to the pepper and salt...

Nevertheless, I am very wary of what is implied by the term "happy place" (as I am wary of anything that attempt to use the vacant word "happy" to acheive what more realistic words would do).

Even so, if by that term you mean a show that totally engaged me when I was very young - let's see - The Friendly Giant?!!!

the wombles

on 2006-07-21 03:50 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] enchanting-ella.livejournal.com
not sure if you guys had it. was a brittish programe of wombles living in wimbledom common in england.they went out AT NIGHT AND CLEANED UP AFTER THE HUMANS.
i had a madamme cholette soft toy, a beautiful 18carrot gold pendant of tomsk, and even remember dad brought home a huge movers packing crate, think it was hard cardboard not the wood ones, and we made windows and a rope pulli door and walpapered the inside with news paper and played downstairs for hours.
even worse; thinking about it now remember the song....don't panic wont share...lol

on 2006-07-21 05:16 am (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] ladyiapetus
Two words: Fraggle Rock.

on 2006-07-21 11:11 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] charliesmum.livejournal.com
Yes! I was technically too old for it but I still loved it.

I often think that if there isn't a band called "Nephew Gobo" there ought to be.

on 2006-07-21 05:29 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] zambonigirl.livejournal.com
THe Cosby Show. I still catch it now and then. I wished they were my parents, especially since mine were divorcing. But I loved them. They were awesome.

on 2006-07-21 05:42 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com
Oh God, so many. There are a couple of cartoons that I don't even remember the names of - the Littles? The... um... the somethings, and they live in a town and there are bears or something, oh. But. Ernie singing "Visit the Moon" is what really gets me. omgtears.

on 2006-07-21 07:51 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] sphinxvictorian.livejournal.com
H.R. Pufnstuf. I loved that show with a passion, and I'm sure they're were some adult jokes in there that I would get now that I'm older. Witchiepoo was so cool, and I loved Jack Wild, he was so pretty and that lovely cockney accent just did me in at the age of eight! I also liked the Banana Splits.

on 2006-07-21 01:20 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] silverhill.livejournal.com
Old-school Sesame Street. *sigh*

Back when no one ever saw Mr. Snuffleupagus. Back with the creepy cartoon guys who would open their trench coats and display a number.

I would pay big money for a DVD of some of those classic segments.

on 2006-07-21 01:23 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] charliesmum.livejournal.com
Seriously! The Jim Henson moments. He and Frank Oz were a classic comedy team.

The trench coat guy was a muppet. I remember that! "Psst! Ya wanna buy a Q?"

on 2006-07-21 09:01 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] silverhill.livejournal.com
I don't mean that guy (though I remember him, too).

I mean cartoon guys in trench coats with numbers on the insides. It was a counting segment. Each one in succession would open his trench coat and reveal the number.

I recently saw the old Bert and Ernie banana in the ear sketch, and the trench coat guys were on the TV in the beginning of the sketch.

on 2006-07-21 06:58 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] chaosdancer.livejournal.com
Oh yeah, H.R. Puffinstuf!!! I carried his picture around in my little-girl purse and told people he was my boyfriend. :) And I must have watched Lidsville, because when I saw it recently I found I could sing all the lyrics and I knew just when the hat was going to wiggle as the kid fell into it, but I have no conscious memory of ever doing so. Weird.

There was a local show called Captain Detroit that showed my picture on TV once when it was my birthday! I used to love that, too. And the Canadian Bozo the Clown...NOT the American one. They were different. The American one talked funny but the Canadian one was sweet. We got a lot of Canadian programming, being right on the border in Toledo and all.

on 2006-07-21 08:18 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] jessii-6.livejournal.com
when I was really little there used to be cartoons right before the evening news. They started with a cartoon with music. I regarded *that* as the 'cartoon' and loved it.
I saw Full House not too long ago and was 'oh yea, those were the times'.
The 70s cartoons are what I think of as 'nostalgia'.

on 2006-07-23 11:29 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] ailurophiledj.livejournal.com
Hmm...it was tough my first 13 years of my life without closed captioning device in my house, but I got by, by making up stories of what the show is about. :-)

My favorites:
Woody Woodpecker
The Road Runner - This was very easily followed because there was no Voice Overs.
Sitcoms were :
Perfect Strangers
Full House
Family Matters
Who's the Boss
Kate and Allie

That's about it! After I got the closed captioning device, I watched a lot of movies...a LOT of movies. LOL! I hardly remember what I watched during the week, except for Who's the Boss and the TGIF on ABC channel.

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