Wow. I am waaaaaaaaaay behind here. Apologies all around.
The number to this entry inspires my random gratitude.
Sesame Street.
This show is brilliant.
Brill. I. Ant.
Strangely enough, it seems I'm one of the few out there who didn't really watch the show as a kid. I saw it once in a while, at friends' houses, but never when I was really the target audience and not regularly. I was familiar with the show and its characters (and enjoyed that little typewriter guy, for some reason), but that was that.
Much later, I started watching it now and then on a whim, mostly because of the Henson conntent. That's when I discovered how crazy good it was.
Ha!
The original team and its intentions were quite revolutionary, and they hit on something magical. The combination of Muppets, live actors, letters, numbers, and words were perfectly blended with it social context and plenty of humour. Those parodies of popular songs and television shows? Crazy good.
(Read Sesame Street Unpaved for details about the history of the show.)
A few years ago, I picked up and watched The World According to Sesame Street, a documentary which chronicles the development of co-productions in Bangladesh, Kosovo and South Africa. After watching the documentary, I was renewed in my admiration for those people who seem sincerely to want to make a difference in the lives of children.
Sesame Street succeeds on so many levels and fronts: as preschool education, as entertainment, and as pop culture. And it's pretty darned fun for grown-ups, too.
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This Gratitude was brought to you by the letter S and G and the number 3.
(I just thought my initials should be included somewhere in the posting, since it seems lacking in discussions about Sonya...)
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