I never watched Sesame Street as a kid. I was all about Captain Kangaroo. I loved the Captain, Mr. Moose, Mr. Green Jeans, Dennis the Painter, Magic Drawing Board.
Plus, we didn’t have cable till I was in my teens.
But I have to admit — Sesame Street’s lineup of stars for its 43rd season is pretty impressive: biggies from movies, TV and sports — Jon Hamm and Melissa McCarthy, for example — and a Supreme Court judge.
They’re even doing a parody of Downton Abbey. I hope those bloody kids appreciate it.
I don’t remember Captain Kangaroo playing the celebrity card. When I Google the show, it lists the stars he had on the program from time from time. But that’s not what I remember.
I remember the cartoon “Tom Terrific.” Ping pong balls dropping from the sky. The Captain reading stories. Conversations with Grandfather Clock. Dancing Bear.
Man, I wasn’t nearly as shallow when I was young.
Mum’s the word
Did you know the Internet was international? Seems obvious, right?
Apparently not to some.
Dan Stevens, who played the recently deceased Matthew Crawley on Downton Abbey. Chris O’Dowd of Bridesmaid and Girls fame. But they were quickly corrected by pushy, ethnocentric Americans that “Mother’s Day is still a couple of months away.”
I was at once embarrassed and entertained.
Cable television and the Internet may make programming and actors from other countries available to us here in America, but it doesn’t mean we’re necessarily going learn anything.
Well…at least we’re predictable.
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