Prologue:this is what I was working on last night when I fell asleep! Some edits made of course.
My post that’s been sitting on the back burner is still erm… still “back burning?” So, I remembered thatGabriel…had sent me some YouTubes a while back from a childhood television show that I had watched and they really cheered me up. I felt it was so sweet and thoughtful for him to do that.
So here are a couple of YouTubes from of a later show that evolved from the show of the Tubes he sent me.
The original show was called, ‘Sesame Street’ and it catered to wee ones. It taught basic ABCs, math, grammar and such, plus it was also entertaining and downright silly at times! Hence the YouTubes sent. Funny puppet characters doing silly, nonsensical things (in terms of incomprehensible verbiage), usually lots of singing, dancing and/or bouncing around. The puppeteers? Genius! Sesame Street was massive.
The latter spin off was called ‘The Muppet Show.’ Yes, I know what a “muppet” means across the pond.
Actually, it was really big. As it grew from Sesame Street, it was an almost guaranteed success in terms of childhood television. And it was a success. Evenadults loved it as there were famous guest stars that would appear for each show. The presentation of it was a staged “Variety Show” with regular puppet cast members and the featured special guest, that being the famous “human” star.
My favourite character on The Muppet Show was “Beaker.” Beaker was a kind of “out there, wacky sort of dude.” Certainly original. Well, other characters were too. A lot of them were “wacky and out there.” They had to be in order to keep the humour going and for people to identify with the characters to maintain success.
Well, I identified with Beaker! Now this is where things may be simply obvious or actually prophetic?
Herarelyspoke any English but only weird little sounds–his own language, basically. Why the name “Beaker?” Well, he’s shaped like one. Further, he is a scientist that assists a “Dr. Bunsen Honeydew” in Muppet Labs. Poor Beaker. As the “assistant,” is is often subjected to a lot of…torture? A lot of frightening things and many times, against his will? However, as a dutiful, little, assistant–he follows along. Does his job.
Gee, sound like anyone you know? Any blogger out there… A geeky one that you might be reading right now?
On the upside, Beaker always survives whatever befalls him. He’s indestructible and always gets away unscathed.
So here are a couple of YouTubes, actually. The first gives an example of what ridiculous things they come up with in the lab and the second actually takes Beaker out of the lab where hesingswith the Pit Band of the show!
He sings: “Feelings.” And of course…not in “English.”
Prologue:this is what I was working on last night when I fell asleep! Some edits made of course.
My post that’s been sitting on the back burner is still erm… still “back burning?” So, I remembered thatGabriel…had sent me some YouTubes a while back from a childhood television show that I had watched and they really cheered me up. I felt it was so sweet and thoughtful for him to do that.
So here are a couple of YouTubes from of a later show that evolved from the show of the Tubes he sent me.
The original show was called, ‘Sesame Street’ and it catered to wee ones. It taught basic ABCs, math, grammar and such, plus it was also entertaining and downright silly at times! Hence the YouTubes sent. Funny puppet characters doing silly, nonsensical things (in terms of incomprehensible verbiage), usually lots of singing, dancing and/or bouncing around. The puppeteers? Genius! Sesame Street was massive.
The latter spin off was called ‘The Muppet Show.’ Yes, I know what a “muppet” means across the pond.
Actually, it was really big. As it grew from Sesame Street, it was an almost guaranteed success in terms of childhood television. And it was a success. Evenadults loved it as there were famous guest stars that would appear for each show. The presentation of it was a staged “Variety Show” with regular puppet cast members and the featured special guest, that being the famous “human” star.
My favourite character on The Muppet Show was “Beaker.” Beaker was a kind of “out there, wacky sort of dude.” Certainly original. Well, other characters were too. A lot of them were “wacky and out there.” They had to be in order to keep the humour going and for people to identify with the characters to maintain success.
Well, I identified with Beaker! Now this is where things may be simply obvious or actually prophetic?
Herarelyspoke any English but only weird little sounds–his own language, basically. Why the name “Beaker?” Well, he’s shaped like one. Further, he is a scientist that assists a “Dr. Bunsen Honeydew” in Muppet Labs. Poor Beaker. As the “assistant,” is is often subjected to a lot of…torture? A lot of frightening things and many times, against his will? However, as a dutiful, little, assistant–he follows along. Does his job.
Gee, sound like anyone you know? Any blogger out there… A geeky one that you might be reading right now?
On the upside, Beaker always survives whatever befalls him. He’s indestructible and always gets away unscathed.
So here are a couple of YouTubes, actually. The first gives an example of what ridiculous things they come up with in the lab and the second actually takes Beaker out of the lab where hesingswith the Pit Band of the show!
He sings: “Feelings.” And of course…not in “English.”