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We ("we" being Sophia, Stephen, and me -- David gets up way earlier to go to work) have been getting up at around 9 am pretty consistently lately, and that means we can catch Sesame Street while we have breakfast.
Well, they started running Sesame Street in 1969, so this year is its 35th anniversary. I started watching when I was one or two, I guess (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
indigobeej can clarify) -- that was 1975 or 1976. All of the episodes brunahildm and ounceofreason and I watched were pre-Elmo -- pre a lot of things, actually. So they had Elmo asking the other Sesame Street characters about its history. They showed a lot of the clips that I remember -- like the typewriter on wheels that goes "Nu nee nu nee nu..." and types stuff, the turtles that order fruit and vegetables over the telephone, and the trippy counting video with the marble that rolls through strange territory. Super Grover takes Elmo back in time (via a magical taxicab) and they visit Hooper's store (with Hooper, whom Elmo never met), see Snuffleupagus being outed, and witness the birth and adoption of two Sesame Street kids.
Needless to say, being a great big sap, I was all sniffly and tearing up by the time 9:50 rolled around, and got moreso explaining to Stephen that I had watched Sesame Street when I was his age, and started thinking about how much things change and how much they stay the same. Here I am at 30, still able to remember watching Sesame Street, sitting with *my own son* watching it with him. That's so weird. I'm the mommy!
Of course, I was into full-on crying when they ran the credits with a short clip from each year the show had been on. When they got to Mr. Hooper dying, well, that was the final straw. And there was a big jump between when I stopped watching -- 1983, I guess, once Eryk was too old for it -- and when I started watching again, but they had a clip from 2001, too, where Big Bird's nest is destroyed and Gordon is trying to tell him everything will be all right -- they'd done that for 9/11, I gather. Poor Big Bird.
It really is an awesome show. (Even if they don't show breastfeeding with their new babies.)
Well, they started running Sesame Street in 1969, so this year is its 35th anniversary. I started watching when I was one or two, I guess (
indigobeej can clarify) -- that was 1975 or 1976. All of the episodes brunahildm and ounceofreason and I watched were pre-Elmo -- pre a lot of things, actually. So they had Elmo asking the other Sesame Street characters about its history. They showed a lot of the clips that I remember -- like the typewriter on wheels that goes "Nu nee nu nee nu..." and types stuff, the turtles that order fruit and vegetables over the telephone, and the trippy counting video with the marble that rolls through strange territory. Super Grover takes Elmo back in time (via a magical taxicab) and they visit Hooper's store (with Hooper, whom Elmo never met), see Snuffleupagus being outed, and witness the birth and adoption of two Sesame Street kids. Needless to say, being a great big sap, I was all sniffly and tearing up by the time 9:50 rolled around, and got moreso explaining to Stephen that I had watched Sesame Street when I was his age, and started thinking about how much things change and how much they stay the same. Here I am at 30, still able to remember watching Sesame Street, sitting with *my own son* watching it with him. That's so weird. I'm the mommy!
Of course, I was into full-on crying when they ran the credits with a short clip from each year the show had been on. When they got to Mr. Hooper dying, well, that was the final straw. And there was a big jump between when I stopped watching -- 1983, I guess, once Eryk was too old for it -- and when I started watching again, but they had a clip from 2001, too, where Big Bird's nest is destroyed and Gordon is trying to tell him everything will be all right -- they'd done that for 9/11, I gather. Poor Big Bird.
It really is an awesome show. (Even if they don't show breastfeeding with their new babies.)
