Two Lumps Explains My Distaste For Mr. Rodgers

[mizarchivist]

From 3/7/08's Two Lumps...

I never liked Mr. Rodgers as a child. I appreciate his work as a children's host, but dude. Bleh. Give me the Electric Company and Sesame Street any  day of the week. srsly. This post required a new tag. Snark.

Comments

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

I never liked Mr. Roger's either, he just really put me off

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

I never liked Mr. Rodgers as a child. I appreciate his work as a children's host, but dude. Bleh. Give me the Electric Company and Sesame Street any day of the week. srsly.

My thoughts exactly. I was a total fan of both of those and hated Mr. Rogers. Milk-sop soggy guy. Too annoying. I appreciate what he's done for some kids, but really there must be better ways to raise self-esteem.

Also...

[mizarchivist]

My stuffed animals always had much better sentence structure and thought processes.

Re: Also...

[drwex]

*snerk*

You owe me a new keyboard now.

(Also, not a MrR fan, except for in mid-show there was some kind of story time. I'd sort of not watch until that, watch that, then turn it off. I wish I could remember now what it was. MrR himself creeped me out.)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

As a kid I always felt Mr. Rogers was condescending (though I didn't know that word yet). I hated when anyone talked to me like I was a baby, which he did. I watched him sometimes, but only when I had nothing to do while waiting for The Electric Company to come on. It was cooler.

[n-e-star.livejournal.com]

Oh god, there was that one puppet who was such a bitch... And she had a red flush to her face, maybe she was a drunk.

Ah, the wonders of looking back on your childhood with a jaded eye!

[kazmat.livejournal.com]

Mr. Rogers always gave me the creepy gay pedophile vibe, and he was completely condescending to boot. *squick*

[kazmat.livejournal.com]

In fact, it just dawned on me that Mr. Rogers is why Mr. Herbert from Family Guy has always seemed so eerily familiar.

[mizarchivist]

.... oh god....

[tisana.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm so glad to read other people saying this...I couldn't stand him as a kid, either. I couldn't figure if it was just the way he talked--far too slowly, and like he was simple, or thought I was--or that the whole show was just dumb.

[lizzielizzie.livejournal.com]

Mr Rogers is awesome because they took you down the LONG DARK TUNNEL to the land of MAKE BELIEVE, where you met King Friday, the most PHALLIC PUPPET EVAR.

:-D

Oh, and Electric Company FTW because they had Morgan Freeman!!

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

Speaking of, I hope you have seen The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (http://www.ultimateshowdown.org/).

[mizarchivist]

yes! love-love-love. :)