Dude took off his shoes and then put them back on again twenty times before walking into his own home. When I was a kid I thought his show was fucking boring. I think libs are just pretending to love him because he was a civility republican. CMV.
PS: what the fuck is the deal with Lamb Chop’s Play-Along?
He was a nice, calm, gentle man who talked about emotions and feelings, and I really did not have that in my life.
He also, alongside superman and many others, helped destroy the third Klan, which is nothing to scoff at.
And i liked the segments where he went to someone’s job factory to show how their job worked and how the factory or plant worked.
Same. I’m AuDHD and his show was calming and positive. He spoke and sang about anxiety and fears for a kid who was full of both.
Also, people forget or just don’t know how much garbage was on TV at the time. First of all, there was only one day a week dedicated to kids programs and what little else there was, was pretty awful. As an immigrant, with a family dealing with PTSD from fleeing a civil war, Mr. Rogers calming voice and attitude was halcyon to my little brain.
I legitimately loved his show as a kid.
man who talked about emotions and feelings
Well now you have Daaaviiid Caaaage of Quantic Dream to talk to you about… EmOTiOnS
I enjoyed it enough when I was a kid, and it’s a fine show. I like gentle kids programming more than obnoxious shit that kids watch on Youtube or whatever. But yeah, a few years back it sort of felt like suddenly everyone was talking about him again and how “important” he was to them. Like in that weird, infantile, nostalgic lib sort of way that always irritates me.
A lot of the nostalgia waves occur in response to when Fox News or someone adjacent blames him for raising a nation of ‘cowards’ or ‘weaklings’ or whatever toxic slur they use at the time.
That makes sense actually, yeah.
…Mr. Rogers was a Republican?
Yeah, and maybe a landlord too but i have chosen not to follow that up because life is grim enough as it is.
There’s a picture of him laughing alongside George W. Bush. Liberal brainworms activate!
I feel nostalgia for Mr Rogers, but more for Peewee’s Playhouse, which was basically Mr Rogers made by (and for?) people that do psychedelic drugs.
EDIT: if you’ve never seen it before, you should check it out: https://youtu.be/H9RAVEaYS70
I am struggling to avoid making an inevitable joke about his legal issues.
I always felt kinda bad about what happened to him. I mean, sure, he was caught masturbating in a porn theater. On the other hand… It was a porn theater. Isn’t that where people do that sort of thing? It’s not like he was doing it at a bus stop or something.
Yeah, it was utterly bogus. If there’s one place in all of society where masturbating in “public” is normal it’s a porn theater. Dude didn’t do anything wrong or hurt anyone and he got absolutely dragged. Just pigs fucking people over to meet quotas, or out of spite.
And if you are aware of Paul Reuban’s comedy career before Peewee’s Playhouse, and what and how Peewee was portrayed in his act, its confuses me that it was turned into a kids TV show.
Same goes for things like, Life with Louie and Bobby’s World.
I loved both as a kid but was also just the right age for it.
Yeah I watched Mister Rogers as a kid in the early 80’s when there wasn’t a lot of children’s television programming besides cartoons on broadcast channels. It still felt relevant with like Sesame Street and other pbs shows. I wonder how it held up once cable came out and Nickelodeon started reinventing children’s television. My niblings enjoyed Daniel Tiger and it felt like a pretty good spiritual successor, but with youtube and everything going , I can’t imagine they would’ve cared too much for Roger’s style.
I was a kid in the nineties and Mr. Rogers bored the hell out of me but I thought Sesame Street was awesome.
Sesame Street managed to stay fresh by changing with the times. For example, I’m guessing Elmo was much more prominent during the period you watched, whereas they were just a background character during my years.
Currently Elmo is engaged in a death struggle with
kermitDr. Peterson so they have my support.
vs 
I remember watching it as a little girl. It was a good time and better than anything else I could get on bunny ears. Not sure if what I feel could be considered nostalgia though.
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood finished before I was born and doesn’t appear to have in fact ever been broadcasted in my country, nor do I remember even hearing about Mister Rogers until I was honestly probably a preteen watching Epic Rap Battles of History, so… Uh, no.
My mom who was born in the USA a few years before Mister Rogers started its 33-year-long run, however, attests that when she was a kid that she thought Mister Rogers was fucking boring, and she told me that she thinks the whole Mister Rogers nostalgia craze that’s been going around for a few years is some trendy nonsense, basically. Though it could be that she just wasn’t the right age for it.
I was like, idk, maybe 5-8 when i was watching it, and i do wonder how much age was a factor.
He was vegetarian and appeared as a guest on Soviet television. His content was quite good. He was a registered Republican, but apparently frequently voted against them. A little bit of a mixed bag, but an overall good.
We contain multitudes
Seeing his show as a kid never seemed to do much for me, didn’t hate it but also didn’t have any strong positive memories of it.
Over the years reading or listening to things talking about the man behind Mr. Rogers has made me realize that I didn’t appreciate him, the things he cared about, and what he did as much as I probably should have.
The puppets were creepy
Me neither. It didn’t air at our house, so I never watched it growing up. But neither do I feel any particular nostalgia for Sesame Street or any of those other preschool TV shows. Can you even form nostalgia if you’re not having complex thoughts about it?
For my part, i think i was having a lot of complex thoughts about it. I still remember lots of the characters and skits, oscar being a grouch, big bird getting in to all sorts of relatable kid problems and getting good advice from his friends and from adults. I didn’t get much good advice from well meaning, compassionate adults.
I remember maths and letters from the count and those letter muppets. I remember snuffalafugas having problems. I remember seeing black people and latino people and white people and asian people interacting as friends and neighbors in a normal way, again something i didn’t necessarily see much of as a kid.
I remember bert and ernie showing both annoyance and compassion for each other’s quirks, and modelling a friendship that had problems relatable for kids.
I was a very isolated kid in a lot of ways and while it took years for a lot of the lessons to kick in i think a lot of Sesame Street’s good faith modeling of compassion, curiosity about the world, education as something fun and wonderful, and acceptance of all kinds of people helped me because the angry radicalized political extremist i am to day. I want to build a world like sesame street, with no irony at all. A kind, compassionate, safe world where kids can trust and rely on the adults around them and find joy in life and community and learning.
This puts a whole new spin on, “Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?”
“Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?”
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Used to watch it whenever it came on but I don’t have a strong attachment to it either. Arthur is the show that gives me a lot of nostalgia.
The only pbs shows I have nostalgia for are dragon tales, sagwa, and
Don’t have nostalgia for Mr. Rogers because i was raised in a Mr. Dressup household.
I am not old so I don’t
