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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday February 20 2018, @11:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-bet-even-his-neighborhood-has-changed dept.

The first episode of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" was broadcast on PBS on February 19, 1968. Fifty years later, the program is still being shown on public television stations, to the delight of both children and adults. Though he passed away in 2003, Fred Rogers' philosophy continues to influence children's television today.

http://wvxu.org/post/mr-rogers-neighborhood-50th-anniversary

http://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/mister-rogers-50th-anniversary-highlight-video-michael-keaton-watch-1201929367/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2018/02/15/5-ways-celebrate-mister-rogers-neighborhood-its-50th-anniversary/333208002/


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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @11:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @11:34AM (#640589)

    The man's fist and the woman's face were inseparable. The two of them went everywhere together, to the point where people began to believe that they were one being. But one day, the face broke, and the man's fist was very sad. Fortunately, the fist soon found a new woman's face to be its partner...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @11:39AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @11:39AM (#640591)

    When ever anyone mentions Mister Rogers all I can think of is Joybubbles. I was not alive during that time, but it sure is interesting to read about.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @01:08PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @01:08PM (#640609)

      Is how it is still unavailable in its entirety online, via DVD, or even via torrent, so that we can provide our kids the same experience as 70s-80s era PBS without the advertising and other trash that has been added in the interim.

      Once I realized PBS wasn't nearly as hippy as I had always been lead to believe due to its 'public funding' and the fact that most of its shows are both under copyright and limited distribution, I was turned off entirely to the idea of it.

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @01:57PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @01:57PM (#640629)

        Much of the current PBS stuff is available online, particularly kids programming. For example, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (essentially a Mr Rogers animated spinoff) is available via streaming on PBS Kids and Amazon Prime (possibly others as well). I've also pulled it off of torrent sites, since I don't see the point of streaming the same episode 6 times when the kids want to watch it over and over again.

        Many old shows had problems with coming to DVD. For example, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock and The Wonder Years all got hung up in copyright stuff for ages. Even Seinfeld and ER had to wait 10 or so years agter the original airdates before you could buy them.

      • (Score: 5, Informative) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday February 20 2018, @03:44PM

        by bzipitidoo (4388) on Tuesday February 20 2018, @03:44PM (#640679) Journal

        > Once I realized PBS wasn't nearly as hippy

        Yeah, I learned that years ago when the PBS News Hour aired a very biased segment about copyright in which the 2 sides were "extreme copyright" vs "even more extreme copyright". Evidently they put the public second to a twisted idea of loyalty to their fellow artists. Sick the way they whine for donations, then won't release their material, particularly the really old stuff, to the public. I snagged an old Sesame Street episode with torrenting, and what struck me was how dated it was. In it, they introduce the kids to the computer, as if none of them would have seen one before the 6th grade or so!

        PBS does have a website, but they make it a total pain to, for instance, download Sesame Street episodes. I'm very much unimpressed with their web site design. They only stream a few episodes at a time, with Flash, and only at the rate of one new episode per week. Streaming is nearly useless for a road trip with a kid, unless you want to blow lots of money on an unlimited cellular data plan, and even then a signal drop will cut off the show. Much better to have it all downloaded to a tablet beforehand. I use a plugin, Video Download Helper, to grab videos like that. I suppose I ought to be grateful, little though it is, as it could have been nothing at all.

      • (Score: 1) by bertoelcon on Thursday February 22 2018, @03:47AM

        by bertoelcon (5668) on Thursday February 22 2018, @03:47AM (#641605)

        Look on Archive.org, someone ripped them from the Twitch.tv marathon a few months ago I think.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 20 2018, @01:56PM (10 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday February 20 2018, @01:56PM (#640627) Homepage Journal

    It is indeed a beautiful day in the neighborhood today. So much so that I'm extremely tempted to push off some paying work that needs to be done as quickly as possible and go fishing. Mid 70s and not raining is not weather you let just pass you by in a Tennessee February.

    --
    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 2) by Snow on Tuesday February 20 2018, @03:58PM (7 children)

      by Snow (1601) on Tuesday February 20 2018, @03:58PM (#640694) Journal

      Lucky guy! It's been -20C pretty much every day for 2 months where I am... I'm fucking sick of it -- and I love winter!

      • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 20 2018, @04:55PM (1 child)

        by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday February 20 2018, @04:55PM (#640725) Journal

        Ha, I'm fucking sick of it, but I HATE winter, lol.

        Just when I thought global warming was making Canadian winters more agreeable....

        Now it's going to take forever to get my garden going.

        --
        --- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @05:24PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @05:24PM (#640741)

          Yeah, a long sleeve shirt under a sweatshirt wasn't quite cutting it for me today.

      • (Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Tuesday February 20 2018, @06:27PM (1 child)

        by insanumingenium (4824) on Tuesday February 20 2018, @06:27PM (#640767) Journal
        Your username makes that worth quite a chuckle.

        It is 17c here today and people are bitching that it is cold, I don't even come close to knowing your pain. If everyone I know who has lived it didn't advise against it, I would be tempted to discover the meaning of the word seasons first hand.
      • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday February 20 2018, @08:09PM (2 children)

        by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday February 20 2018, @08:09PM (#640810)

        Wow, -20 sounds awful.

        I'm not sure it will make you feel better, but it's been about 28 C where I am most days this month. We did just survive tropical cyclone Gita yesterday however, which fortunately means a little bit of wind and about 15 minutes of heavy rain.

        Back to the 90% humidity now which is a lot less fun.

        • (Score: 2) by Snow on Tuesday February 20 2018, @08:54PM (1 child)

          by Snow (1601) on Tuesday February 20 2018, @08:54PM (#640840) Journal

          Nope, don't feel any better :P

          • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday February 20 2018, @10:08PM

            by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday February 20 2018, @10:08PM (#640888)

            Sorry about that.

            When I get home I'm going to pick a bunch of cucumbers, tomatoes and tomatillos from my garden.

            That must help.

    • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday February 21 2018, @02:36AM (1 child)

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday February 21 2018, @02:36AM (#640996) Homepage Journal

      ... is that I never took my father fishing when he got old

      --
      Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
  • (Score: 3, Informative) by looorg on Tuesday February 20 2018, @03:50PM

    by looorg (578) on Tuesday February 20 2018, @03:50PM (#640685)

    I much prefer Eddie Murphys version he did while at SNL, Mr. Robinsons neighborhood. Clearly a parody and still funny.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by DeVilla on Tuesday February 20 2018, @05:12PM

    by DeVilla (5354) on Tuesday February 20 2018, @05:12PM (#640734)

    Mr. Rogers projected an air of genuine, unwavering, almost saintly pure-hearted decency. But when you look deeper, at the person behind the image ... that's exactly what you find there, too. He's exactly what he appears to be.

    https://m.xkcd.com/767/ [xkcd.com]

  • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday February 20 2018, @05:50PM (5 children)

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Tuesday February 20 2018, @05:50PM (#640751) Journal

    And I always will be.

    It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood
    A beautiful day for a neighbor
    Would you be mine?
    Could you be mine?

    It's a neighborly day for a beautywood
    A neighborly day for a beauty
    Would you be mine?
    Could you be mine?

    I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you
    I have always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you

    So

    Let's make the most of this beautiful day
    Since we're together we might as well say

    Would you be mine
    Could you be mine
    Won't you be my neighbor?

    Would you please
    Could you please

    Please won't you be
    my neighbor.

    Hi, Neighbor!

    --
    This sig for rent.
    • (Score: 1, Troll) by stretch611 on Tuesday February 20 2018, @10:10PM (2 children)

      by stretch611 (6199) on Tuesday February 20 2018, @10:10PM (#640890)

      PLEASE... PLEASE... PLEASE...

      tell me that you copies and pasted that from some lyric page on the internet...

      It would be really creepy if you were able to do that from memory.

      --
      Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
      • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday February 21 2018, @05:46PM (1 child)

        by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Wednesday February 21 2018, @05:46PM (#641274) Journal

        Why? I must have heard that song a literal minimum of between five hundred and one thousand times? Shouldn't it have imprinted perfectly in my memory in a way that decades won't erase?

        But seriously.... no. I got the the first lines perfectly, couldn't quite remember the lead in to "beautywood" and the second part of it but remembered the bridge perfectly and I think I could have pulled off the last verse if I hadn't already Googled it. But I did Google it to make sure I had the lines perfect. The Rev. Fred Rogers deserved no less than the best I could look up. (But seeing the lyrics I can hear the entirety of the song in my head in his voice).

        The really Americana part of it is remembering how he'd change from a suit jacket into a sweater, and dress shoes into sneakers to be able to spend time with "us" the audience. And then he'd do the reverse at show close.

        And sometimes I'd feel sad during the closing lyrics that the time with him was over. As the kid who was isolated from peers because I was too smart for my own good, he really did feel like a friend and peer. And I learned so much about so much watching that show.

        If I could re-live my life and Quantum Leap into anybody else's shoes.... it would have been his sneakers.

        "It's such a good feeling
        To know you're alive.
        It's such a happy feeling;
        You're growing inside.
        And when you wake up ready to say:
        I think I'll make a snappy new day.
        It's such a good feeling,
        A very good feeling.
        The feeling you know

        That I'll be back
        When the day is new.

        And I'll have more ideas for you.
        And you'll have things you'll want to talk about.

        I will too."

        --
        This sig for rent.
        • (Score: 2) by stretch611 on Wednesday February 21 2018, @09:55PM

          by stretch611 (6199) on Wednesday February 21 2018, @09:55PM (#641422)

          I too must have heard it literally 1000 times, almost every time over 40 years ago. I too can hear it in his voice... Yet, I would only be able to remember the first verse without help.

          --
          Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
    • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday February 21 2018, @02:40AM (1 child)

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday February 21 2018, @02:40AM (#640997) Homepage Journal

      That was the very first time I met my neighbors

      --
      Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday February 21 2018, @05:48PM

        by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Wednesday February 21 2018, @05:48PM (#641275) Journal

        That's the other half of neighborliness. That they would be there for you in disaster. And vice-versa.

        It's so easy to lose that with modern "it doesn't matter where you live" society.

        --
        This sig for rent.
  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Wednesday February 21 2018, @07:45PM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 21 2018, @07:45PM (#641350) Journal

    Suicidal Tendencies did a song called You Can't Bring Me Down where they make reference to a "Mr Rogers Neighbourhood." This brings closure, providing the cultural reference to fully understand the lyric.

  • (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Wednesday February 21 2018, @11:05PM (1 child)

    by linkdude64 (5482) on Wednesday February 21 2018, @11:05PM (#641488)

    Anybody have a torrent for this sho—I mean, Linux ISOs to share via P2P? I seed stuff like Looney Tunes, Silly Symphonies, er, I mean Void, lubuntu, etc. to at least 100 ratio...

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