> > So I raise the question: if you watched Sesame Street at some point in your life, who was your favorite character? Is there a favorite part you liked, a certain segment you liked very much? Maybe a Sesame Street book that you loved? :)
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As a music major now, i appreciate the original theme as a really cool jazz song, aside from just the kiddie neatness about it.

> Grover was very definitely my favorite character. He was just greatness incarnate. I don't understand how Elmo is more popular now.

I think Elmo's World tries to draw kids by its redundancy (a teaching technique used well by Sesame Street since its inception), perhaps to a fault. Like singing his daily theme word to "Jingle Bells" EVERY show. It's funny, but i'm not sure it's all that "educational." Not that my watching PBS kids' shows at the age of 23 is for educational purposes.

More memorable to me than most of the character- sketches (though i LOVED all the muppets) were the catoon segments and music things:

*sings* "Ya got to compact it, recycle ...
Oo, oo, oo, keep on truckin,
Oo, oo, oo, that's the garbageman's
way...

[So ecology makes its way into Sesame Street.]

"A loaf of bread, astick of butter, and a container of milk."


Maybe because i'm still in college, or perhaps because i was picked on a lot in childhood and eventually got over it, i simply don't feel the need to excuse my watching juvenile television.
Even though I'm embarrassed that i liked the Smurfs as a child.

>Mister Rogers is actually pretty psychotic and scary.

How can you bag on the PBS show with more jazz piano and music bits than any other kids' show EVER? He had frikkin' Yo Yo Ma as a guest on there, before anyone knew who that was, and Ma'd only been playing that Stradivarius 'cello he has for about a year. (Incidentally, i didn't see, nor would i've appreciated that program as a child--i caught the re-run last year and was amazed) And if it weren't for Mr. Rogers, i'd never have known how doughnuts are made--who knew something so sweet would require vinegar? =')

> The best in new TV programming? Arthur. That is one great show.

That's actually Nickelodeon, i think. Just goes to show how good PBS is, though, at grabbing syndicated shows that'll draw in the kiddies.

> Of course, a 2-year-old has allowed us to buy LOTS of VeggieTales, too... I think we have all of them except 3 or 4, which my sister and I are petitioning for. And now we get to get started on 3-2-1 Penguins, too!
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The local Christian bookstore guy said there are two general groups of VeggieTales buyers: parents of young children and college students. I don't have kids, but i'm a MAJOR fan of this series.

> I watched 3-2-1 Contact, and Square One... I guess I was a geek, too.
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I remember The Bloodhound Gang (not the tasteless music group, the Contact series) and MathNet (i.e., Dragnet parody). But did anyone here watch the show that Contact replaced, The Electric Company? I was too young to remember much from the show, except that it was the beginnings of my lifelong devotion to the Spiderman cult.

My all-time favorite PBS show is Levar Burton's Reading Rainbow. Always been a fan.

Of the new ones, definitely the Kratt Brothers' two animal shows.

> Ki"mm, children's programming"ki

Penny*taking signatures to a petition to give the Crocodile Hunter a kids' show*stamp