Periodic reminder that this exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkOkw31XaHY&list=FLi0qjNrft1F2Ivmny1ZeuoQ&index=324&t=0s [SFW children's show intro, implied massive psychedelics c_c; ]
@zebratron2084 ... Gnartle?
(I've heard of this show, but grew up in the New York City metro market, so we were more of a New Zoo Revue area. ... Though we did get in the Hot Fudge Show, from Detroit, for a while.)
@Austin_Dern I remember Hot Fudge!
@zebratron2084 Among my many weird childhood fascinations was with their 'Name That Emotion' game show. I don't think 'Name That Emotion' is solely responsible for my status of "nerd who still thinks feelings worth respecting" but that's got to have been an indicator or an influence.
@Austin_Dern There was something just kinda magical about 1970s liberal kids' TV, yanno? I keep hoping part of the anti-T***p backlash will be a resurgence of that ABC Saturday morning PSA kind of "love yourself, be responsible, take care of other people, because all our feelings matter" kind of culture...
I can dream. But, I mean, I'm a big talking cat from the future-- so I already know the Terrans pretty much muff it completely. -__~
I have to wonder if my parents weren't hippy-leaning at some point. We had the book Free To Be You And Me (and I still have it), watched the movie version, and had the Family version too, on vinyl record.
They were the most subversive things in the house, and I still wonder how it flew under my mom's "new age is satanic" radar.
But I'm happy to have had them, because it definitely helped shape my young mind in better directions than heavy religion.
@Austin_Dern @zebratron2084 I also had younger siblings so I got to see much more Sesame Street than most kids, and I remember all the classic stuff that was late 70s early 80s. That stuff was good and occasionally also weird and subversive. :-D
@emanate @Austin_Dern My mom was an elementary school teachers, so I had access to a LOT of crazy instructional television stuff. All the TVOntario classics and weird, WEIRD low-budget stuff coming out of midwestern PBS studios.
(A favorite, deeply weird in places, example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP0nvKbY7DY&index=533&t=0s&list=FLi0qjNrft1F2Ivmny1ZeuoQ
That 7-eyed monster at 1:45. I almost have to drink for that goddamn monster. )
@emanate @Austin_Dern This, too. Post-apocalyptic library science(?!?), with a few curious and hopefully coincidental resemblances to Battlefield Earth. O_o;
@zebratron2084 @emanate @Austin_Dern
Oh wow I remember needing to watch that in elementary school
@001zlnv @zebratron2084 @emanate The opening credits alone are giving me the feeling this might be my favorite thing of all time now.
(I am easily impressed by stuff that suggests transporters and I'm always up for fictional newspaper designs.)
@emanate @zebratron2084 I think there was this period that every living space was just assigned a copy of Free To Be You And Me. The same phenomenon left every house with a copy of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. And, for those with very fortunate houses in which hardcore nerds would be raised, at least one edition of The People's Almanac.
@Austin_Dern You have no idea how much almost everything else in the house was conservative Christian stuff. Ours was not a typical household, so I'm even more surprised we had that book. :-P
@emanate Yeah, don't know what to say. Maybe they were also Marlo Thomas fans?
@Austin_Dern Very possibly! :-P
@Austin_Dern @emanate I was thumbing through my copy of the People's Almanac just the other day. :) It's aged... interestingly.
@zebratron2084 @emanate I still think now and then how weird it was the book thought we needed summaries of James Blish's _Cities in Flight_ novels and of Robert Sobel's _For Want Of A Nail_ alt-history.
@zebratron2084 I would legitimately love to see a new era of that kind of Free-To-Be-You-And-Me writing. The comic strip Wee Pals may have been unintentionally cringy in its well-meaning, in its last years, but I still loved it for keeping that flame going.
Also I'd like more of that 70s-kids-TV ethos of 'supervisors aren't watching and we have a big content hole and some b-roll footage of cows so let's do a haunting and mournful song about milk'.