watchin’ some mister rogers with the kids, totally spot some DONKEY KONG and PAC-MAN cereal in a grocery store segment
Lately I’ve been getting most of my pep talks from Mister Rogers.
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These are new versions of the Protectobots, Transformers who were first released back in late 1985. Back then, I was a six-year-old still needing to be weaned off Sesame Street and Mister Rogers, so my mom desperately marched me into Kmart and bought me every last Protectobot they had. It worked! I was finally off Sesame Street and into something more age appropriate!
So, anyway, I’m 36, and yesterday I got these new Protectobots to add to my probably thousand-strong Transformers collection.
What I’m saying is, my mom’s plan REALLY, REALLY super worked. Like, amazingly.
Happy Mother’s Day.
Fred Rogers ladies and gentleman!
Here are some interesting facts about him:
- He basically saved public television. In 1969 the government wanted to cut public television funds. Mister Rogers then went to Washington where he gave an amazing merely six minute speech. By the end of the speech not only did he charm the hostile Senators, he got them to double the budget they would have initially cut down. The whole thing can be found on youtube, a video called “Mister Rogers defending PBS to the US Senate.”
- “Certain fundamentalist preachers hated him because, apparently not getting the “kindest man who ever lived” memo, they would ask him to denounce homosexuals. Mr. Rogers’s response? He’d pat the target on the shoulder and say, “God loves you just as you are.” Rogers even belonged to a “More Light” congregation in Pittsburgh, a part of the Presbyterian Church dedicated to welcoming LGBT persons to full participation in the church.”
- According to a TV Guide piece on him, Fred Rogers drove a plain old Impala for years. One day, however, the car was stolen from the street near the TV station. When Rogers filed a police report, the story was picked up by every newspaper, radio and media outlet around town. Amazingly, within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”
- Once, on a fancy trip up to a PBS exec’s house, he heard the limo driver was going to wait outside for 2 hours, so he insisted the driver come in and join them (which flustered the host). On the way back, Rogers sat up front, and when he learned that they were passing the driver’s home on the way, he asked if they could stop in to meet his family. According to the driver, it was one of the best nights of his life—the house supposedly lit up when Rogers arrived, and he played jazz piano and bantered with them late into the night. Further, like with the reporters, Rogers sent him notes and kept in touch with the driver for the rest of his life.
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Mr Rogers has been and will always remain a beacon of light in this dark fucking world
I’m sorry, the KKK did what?
I met him when I was in college, in 2000 or thereabouts. I was filling in for a friend at the desk of the gym where he went swimming and he came in to the lobby at 6am in his seersucker suit to go change and swim laps.
I told him I was a huge fan (once I got over the shock) and he stood and talked to me for ten minutes, asking me what my major was and what station his show was on for me as a kid.
He was exactly as he seemed - kind, thoughtful, and interested in caring about and loving everyone around him.
You were a LOT more coherent than I was when I met him.
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