Shaenon K. Garrity ([info]shaenon) wrote,
@ 2007-01-03 17:06:00
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January Sequential Tart
No Overlooked Manga Festival this week, as I'm still busy recovering from 2006, but maybe you'd like to check out the January Issue of Sequential Tart instead. I wrote a few pieces for this one: a lengthy article on Sesame Street, my contribution to the ongoing Secret Origin of a Fangirl column, and my picks for a roundtable on favorite comic-book covers. So, yeah, check that sucker out.


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[info]serrana
2007-01-03 08:46 pm UTC (link)
The problem with watching old episodes of PBS kids' shows from the 1970s and 80s is that they make today's stuff look crappy. Having spent time with both lately...it's just sad. Although at least we're getting the old stuff out on DVD now, which brings us great scenes like my daughter, this morning, pretending to be Morgan Freeman ("Easy Reader, that's my name! Unh unh, I'm a reading guy!")

Also: Abby Cadabby? Pretty much the opposite of a role model -- incompetent, whiny, irritating. I was really hoping Oscar would whack her over the head with a wrench, earlier this week. Stupid bint.

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[info]2ce
2007-01-04 03:49 am UTC (link)
In re: your first bullet point: It's only recently struck me how gritty Sesame Street (the place) really was, partly because I grew up in an area with an entirely different set of geographical signifiers for "run-down." (Weathered brick isn't really a Pacific Northwest thing.) But in the past year, I've jogged or biked through some incredibly gnarly sections of Minneapolis, and every time, my initial reaction has been, "Man, can someone tell me how I got, how I got to Sesame Street?" Which, in turn, helped me realize just how progressive that show was.

Me, I was watching in the early '80s. But like you, I probably saw a lot of re-runs. I remember seeing it a few years later and being kind of startled at some of the changes.

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[info]scarfman
2007-01-09 09:05 pm UTC (link)

I watched these shows when they first aired. This was when Muppets weren't yet cool enough to pre- or barely- adolescents to excuse watching a little kids' show, but I did, peer pressure be damned. I recorded Ernie & Bert bits on audiocassette, bought the comercially available plastic-molded puppets, and put on shows for family on holidays. I still have those puppets, though years of sitting in storage has ruined whatever it was that lined the Anything Muppet to keep its fabric properly stiff. I can still reel off those bits. Does the DVD set have the water dripping at bedtime bit? Or the nothing happened at the zoo today bit (I did that one in the high school variety show)? Or Cookie Monster assisting Kermit with presenting the letter K (I made a Kermit out of a sock, for they didn't make Kermits commercially till the later 70s when The Muppet Show got big).

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