I love fairy tales so the fact that NBC and ABC both have shows on right now are pretty cool.
Honestly though I like ABC's Once Upon a Time a bit more. Maybe because it's not as dark as Grimm, or... who knows. Maybe it's the writing. Anyway I like how fairy tales are becoming main stream and not just in the way of Disney.
Once Upon a Time is clever in the way that while they take story book characters and put them in our world they don't make it to easy to figure out who's who. I mean this in the way that in the fairy tale world Cinderella is of course Cindrella. In our world, her name is Ashley.
They still connect it, ASHley, CINDERella, but it's not obvious. Another example is the Evil Queen is Regina in the real world and in Latin Regina meAns queen. I love subtle things like that. Where you don't make the connection unless you really think about it.
It's a good show and I'm glad they ordered a full season of it.
There's also Grimm this season, which I'm still not sure if I like. And two Snow White movies coming out. I wish they would come out with something other than Snow White though. It just seems overdone
Showing posts with label childhood. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
So Yesterday....
I meant to post this yesterday but got hit with a killer sinus headache so here it is today!
On this day, November 10, in 1969 Sesame Street debuted. I remember watching it when I was little and there's a family story that while on a family trip I was left with my mom's best friend while my parents took my brother hiking and I didn't stop screaming until Sesame Street was on.
Sesame Street is such an institution especially for us kids of the 80's. I think I liked the music more than anything else. And Cookie Monster. And Grover. Well SuperGrover. And Big Bird's dog....or was it Snuffy's? He was orange and white and shaggy. But back to the music, C is for Cookie, Rubber Ducky, Put down the Ducky, which followed me to high school where saxophone became clarinet. Same syllables. It worked. The learning stuff was always there of course but I don't remember it as a huge impacting factor. It must have been but that's the best learning in my opinion, when you don't realize it's happening.
I don't watch the show anymore, but I learned some signs, some spanish and a ton of other things.
Here are some videos I found:
C is for Cookie!
I forgot about this one! Doing The Pidegon!
This one used to freak me out. I totally forgot about it. I guess I blocked it out.
Put Down the Duckie!
Rubber Ducky
Echo!!
I remember laughing hysterically at this one.
I forgot about a lot of these clips but I remember how much I loved them, or how much they scared me, now that I look back and see them.
I also love that I watched some of the same clips in sesame street that my brother did 5 years earlier that I'm sure they still play other things that I watched that my kids'll watch. Sesame street is a childhood staple.
Happy Birthday Sesame Street!
This entry is brought to you by the letter S!
Emily
On this day, November 10, in 1969 Sesame Street debuted. I remember watching it when I was little and there's a family story that while on a family trip I was left with my mom's best friend while my parents took my brother hiking and I didn't stop screaming until Sesame Street was on.
Sesame Street is such an institution especially for us kids of the 80's. I think I liked the music more than anything else. And Cookie Monster. And Grover. Well SuperGrover. And Big Bird's dog....or was it Snuffy's? He was orange and white and shaggy. But back to the music, C is for Cookie, Rubber Ducky, Put down the Ducky, which followed me to high school where saxophone became clarinet. Same syllables. It worked. The learning stuff was always there of course but I don't remember it as a huge impacting factor. It must have been but that's the best learning in my opinion, when you don't realize it's happening.
I don't watch the show anymore, but I learned some signs, some spanish and a ton of other things.
Here are some videos I found:
This one used to freak me out. I totally forgot about it. I guess I blocked it out.
Put Down the Duckie!
I forgot about a lot of these clips but I remember how much I loved them, or how much they scared me, now that I look back and see them.
I also love that I watched some of the same clips in sesame street that my brother did 5 years earlier that I'm sure they still play other things that I watched that my kids'll watch. Sesame street is a childhood staple.
Happy Birthday Sesame Street!
This entry is brought to you by the letter S!
Emily
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