Does anyone else feel no nostalgia at all for Mr. Rogers?
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?
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 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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
I will admit that in a house without cable, I watched a lot of Mr rogers as a wee lad and indeed thought it was kinda boring compared to Sesame Street. And man sesame Street has become like a corpse being suspended on wires now, at least Mr rogers ended and didn't suffer that grim fate
Probably I was a bit older by then but the shows I remember really liking were ghostwriter, where in the world is carmen san diego, art attack, captain planet, dinosaurs, star trek TNG, full house, and one about a dog I can't remember the name. I wasn't allowed to watch shows my parents heard were violent so I missed out on power rangers and some others. When it became available, liked Mary Tyler Moore Show; maybe I'll download that and see how it holds up. I re-watched Golden Girls a while ago which I remembered from being a kid and it wasn't half bad.
yes wishbone that's it. i believe it was the cringiest of all the listed shows.
but also reminds me about reading rainbow. i had the feeling that maybe wishbone was a knock off because they were both about books but have never looked into it and there are probably lots of kids shows about books.