Saturday, January 27, 2007
We've Come a Long Way, Baby.
Ok, I'm nuts. Totally, wonderfully, inexplicably nuts.
Sesame Street makes me cry. Every time it comes on, I get teary - kinda the way Dana cries when she starts talking to babies. There's no reason for it, but I get all sentimental and nostalgic.
Jim Henson commented that "The only kids who can identify along racial lines with the Muppets have to be either green or orange." Maybe I make too much of an issue about having a child who is bi-racial, but honestly, anything that teaches children to love each other - despite handicaps and racial differences - is a good thing.
I love that someone who was born more than five decades before me had the vision to see this. When Sesame Street first aired, the idea of black children playing on a playground with white children was unheard of in most places. My Ellen talked about a friend who adopted a black child in the early 70's. When they went to the grocery store people would spit on both of them. In the midst of all of this intolerance, someone realized that this shouldn't be the status quo, and that the only way to make this stop was to EDUCATE the children.
Well, that's enough nostalgia for one day. I'm not a big fan of the new Sesame Street. The theme song is overly synthesized - it's not the Sesame Street I remember - but Zion loves it just as much as I did, and I'm grateful for that.
When I came across this video this morning, I got all sentimental again.. this was the original theme song from 1969 when Sesame Street debuted. How cool is that?
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Don't even get me started, as I'll never stop. You know my complete and total love affair for this show. Trinity loves it as much as I did too, which for me is SO cool! You are right its not the same, but then what really is these days. It maybe a facsimlie of the old, but that's ok. I have my memories, and thankfully now YouTube too. When every other kid had ONE imaginary friend, mine was the whole cast of Sesame Street. I miss my old friends too. David. Mr. Hooper. And yes I still cry when seeing the episode of when he died. I want a shake from the counter as we speak and to take a ride on the tire swing. And just where is Sam the Robot these days? Has been turned into a Transformer? Ok, I told you once I started it's be hard to stop. Thanks for the memories my old friend.
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