#mr. rogers' neighborhood

[wolfsbanemanor]

Horror Game HC Prompts: Bendy and the Ink Machine (A TV show from their childhood)

(Prompts list here.) When they were children, they didn't get to watch a whole lot of TV. (Even though they had a ginormous, not to mention expensive-AF, TV in their living room.) Edward ruled the roost, and he pretty much only let his kids watch shows that were either a) educational or b) religious, and a lot of channels (like the Slime Channel) were blocked using a V-chip. Mainly, they watched Simlandia's answer to PBS. They also watched its version of Discovery and its affiliates (you know, back when you could actually learn something from them, when at least one of them was owned by SNASA), and all the Worshippers-of-the-Watcher-oriented channels that creep them out now. They watched a show about a boy and his dog, with the dog as the protagonist of whatever piece of classic literature he was teaching them about. They watched a show where furry monsters and regular people taught them the Simlish alphabet, numbers, and that sorta thing. They watched a show where a man would change his sweater and shoes, and teach them the importance of kindness to others, occasionally visiting the Land of Make-Believe. They watched a show where a man in a blue shirt with an afro taught them how to paint. They watched a show featuring a purple dinosaur and a classroom full of kids. They watched a show about trains with faces on them. They watched a show featuring a man with a box of talking donuts, teaching them how important it was to pray to and praise the Watcher. They watched a show where a pair of brothers would go in search of wild animals from all over the world, with some commentary from a girl at a command center and an animated talking dinosaur(?) They watched a show where a leading scientist taught them all about electricity, what's under SimEarth's crust, and the importance of taking care of SimEarth. Beyond that, in the evenings, they sometimes watched game shows where contestants would answer trivia questions, or try to solve a word puzzle after spinning a wheel for a prize. On weekends, Artesia watched cooking shows. Lilith thought they were boring, but Caleb liked them. She also watched soap operas in the afternoons, bonding with her sister over them, and (along with Edward) followed some shows from Henford-On-Bagley that aired on SPBS.

[seycile]

Michael Keaton Filmography Marathon Log

Week 2

All of his 70s appearances were and still are great (especially Mr Rogers' Neighborhood and The Mary Tyler Moor Hour)

Mr. Roger's Neighborhood https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=407765554265936&rdid=ueiJoZGQmWo5IQOo

This is his second role on TV. His first one was playing a panda. He wore a full-on panda bear mascot suit.

His other earliest roles (age late 20s-mid 30s)

https://youtu.be/uVttOwAP6Tg?t=270 Tony Randall Show "Eyes of the Law" w Michael Keaton

https://youtu.be/yw1W6JUT_5U?t=437 All's Fair (he was a semi-regular on the show) https://youtu.be/BASpBA5ILos?t=47 A Different Approach - Educational Short Film (1978) ft. Michael Keaton https://youtu.be/tv8hm94pEbU?t=1129 Mary Tyler Moore Hour https://youtu.be/FgrF4VV2XYo?t=1623 https://youtu.be/kauTJIKsrIE?list=PLqmsK3aEGjOmJTrZZAR5DVUZxd0QasauZ&t=315 https://youtu.be/MjF7FKiEYSM?list=PLqmsK3aEGjOmJTrZZAR5DVUZxd0QasauZ&t=39 https://youtu.be/zsvNXahrBNQ?t=1752 Michael wearing a towering fruit hat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LObZW6OC7o working stiffs (while watching these I wanna say that Michael is so cute back in the 70s-early 80s. That's it.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGm6mFrmfPA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28YsyXDf0nY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CPK_bjSzcw Night shift I love Mr. Mom. First time watching that last week. I also like Clean and Sober. I remember watching Pacific Heights when I was a kid, even before Beetlejuice. I skipped to watching The Other Guys after watching a Captain Gene compilation. Currently watching Multiplicity on Pluto TV. https://pluto.tv/us/on-demand/movies/5ead19138ad740001b7f86d0

[fictionz]

Somebody disparaged Lady Elaine and I took it so personally.

She’s nice! And a vital part of the neighborhood.

Lady Elaine lives in the Museum-Go-Round. She’s opinionated, eccentric and often stirs up trouble, but she is also the one who stands up to King Friday XIII’s unreasonable demands. She sometimes worries that she isn’t lovable, and needs to be reassured that people like her just the way she is.

Anyway I started reading her official bio and now I’m gonna cry so I better stop and get back to work.

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[Video description: A clip from Mr. Roger's Neighbrohood with "How crayons are made" at the top. A person tkes a bucket with two spouts filled with yellow wax, and purs it into a pair of metal sheets filled with holes. Piano music plays in the backgound Mr. Rogers says, "See how they pour that in? It's kind of a double bucket. And that colored wax is going down into all those holes. And a little later, each one of those holes will show a crayon coming up!" We cut to later, when the wax has dried. Another worker uses a device to scrape the wax off the top of the metal sheets and into a bin. Mr. Rogers: "The people wait about 5 minutes for the yellow wax to get hard, and then they scrape off the top, which they'll melt and use again."

The worker places metal boxes with holes on them over the metal sheets. Mr. Rogers: "Now, watch the crayons come into those crayon collectors." The crayons rise into the box with the "zing" of a xylophone. Mr. Rogers: "There they are!" A worker grabs a crayon collector and dumps the crayons onto a metal table. Mr. Rogers: "Look at all those yellow crayons." The worker straigtens the crayons, and uses the back of their hand to tap the crayons into the wall on the table, occationally taking a crayon out. The worker then grabs the crayons and transfers them to another table as Mr. Rogers says, "handfulls of yellow crayons."

Another worker then takes a metal scoop and uses it to put the crayons into the hopper of a machine. It makes a clumking noise as the the crayons go down its saft. Mr. Rogers: "Can you imagine what this machine is for?"We see the crayons go into a wheel. Mr. Rogers: "You know, those things that go around crayons?" The camera pans down a stack of crayon labels to show the roller that outs them on the crayons with a "tok tok" sound. Mr. Rogers: "Yes, so this is a amchine that puts labels on the crayons. It's like a ferris wheel, isn't it?" The caryons go onto a convery belt as a snare drum plays, and stack onto another metal table. Mr. Rogers: "These crayons have lots of rides." A worker scoops up the crayons with a metal pan and places them in a cardboard box with other yellow crayons. End description.]

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I think you should watch this

[eddieentertainment]

I couldn’t stop thinking of these two interacting!! So I had to draw them doodling together C:

Hope you all enjoy it!

[fandomshatewomen]

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[aerowolf]

wild Kratts the audhd show of my childhood. i love you they can never take you away from me. octonauts. blue's clues. Daniel tiger. Clifford. Umizoomi. Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. Super Why. Word World. Curious George. Original Carmen Sandiego. Original Magic School Bus. Strawberry Shortcake. Lego Friends. You are special to me please know. They could never take you. I love you i love you

[disney-is-mylife]

My bonus baby brother was born in 2002, so I was still watching PBS and reruns well past "my time" lol. But for the sake of argument, let's just say the cut off point is 2002, since I entered middle school the following year.

NOTE: No Disney, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, or any other miscellaneous children's programs. PBS or PBS Kids Programs pre-2002 ONLY.

(Shout-out to poor Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat, Liberty's Kids, and countless others I couldn't squeeze onto a 12-option poll. Please don't @ me, it hurt to cut them 😭)

Happy voting! ❤

[dasenergi]

"As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time."

- Fred Rogers

[beardedmrbean]

I'd have lost it if I'd been there, audience knows what's up.

[j-psilas]

Consider, also, that Fred Rogers was what we'd term bisexual. This comes by his own admission, late in life. To a bisexual man in the 60s, when queer people were isolated and queerness underexplored, attraction to men really must have seemed like something you could ignore or redirect. I can only imagine that his initial response to Francois Clemmons came from that perspective.

From everything I've seen and read, their relationship seems only to have improved over time—and whatever they felt needed to be forgiven, it was forgiven.

I have many more thoughts on Mr. Rogers' relationship to queerness and queer people, as he expressed it in his ministry and his work... but I also have a lot more papers to grade before I can call it a night. I'll save it for another post, or at least another time!

Didn’t he try to get his gay employee to marry a woman lol? I love him, he was a sweet, kind man, but also old and a lifelong Republican.

Most American voters register with one of the two major political parties. I don't know why Fred Rogers registered as a Republican, but what Republicans stood for in the 1950's & 1960's is very different from how we think of that party today. According to his wife, Fred was "very independent in the way he voted."

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It is true that Fred Rogers encouraged a gay employee to marry a woman. I think it's an unfortunate part of his history, but I think it's helpful to fill in more of the story.

Francois Clemmons was hired by Fred Rogers to be the first Black person to have a recurring role on children’s television. He would be Officer Clemmons on the show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and he kept that roll for 25 years.

In his memoir, Officer Clemmons, Franc shares that one day in 1968, he was called into Fred’s office at the studio.

“Franc, we’ve come to love you here in the Neighborhood. You have talents and gifts that set you apart and above the crowd, and we want to ensure your place with us. Someone, we’re not able to say who, has informed us that you were seen at the local gay bar downtown with a buddy from school. Now I want you to know, Franc, that if you’re gay, it doesn’t matter to me at all. Whatever you say and do is fine with me, but if you’re going to be on the show, as an important member of the Neighborhood, you can’t be ‘out’ as gay. People must not know. … Many of the wrong people will get the worst idea, and we don’t want them thinking and talking about you like that. If those people put up enough fuss, then I couldn’t have you on the program. It’s not an issue for me. I don’t think you’re less of a person. I don’t think you’re immoral.”

Clemmons began to sob because he could only have the job only if he stayed in the closet.

If it had been known a gay man was a regular part of a children's show, it would've been cancelled. Remember, this is pre-Stonewall.

“You can have it all if you can keep that part of it out of the limelight. Have you ever thought of getting married? People do make some compromises in life.”

Francois Clemmons married a woman in 1968. In 1974 they divorced and Franc began living as an openly gay man.

Fred Rogers changed his advice, urging Clemmons to find a gay man he was happy with. He also stopped asking Clemmons to remain in the closet, and he warmly welcomed Clemmons' gay friends whenever they visited the television set. I've read that this change came from Fred getting to know and becoming friends with gay people.

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Having a Black man as a police officer on the show was making a statement in support of Civil Rights. The most iconic encounter between Officer Clemmons and Mr. Rogers on the television show occurred in 1969.

At a time when many community pools were strictly segregated, Mr. Rogers invited Officer Clemmons to join him and cool his feet in a plastic wading pool. As Officer Clemmons was getting out of the pool, Mr. Rogers helped him dry his feet.

This exemplified the message that all people are equal and valued and loved

The core values of the television show were: Love your neighbor as yourself, be kind, say “I'm sorry,” smile, accept people and help them grow, be forgiving, see each day as a new chance to be happy, positive and kind. The show talked about grief, divorce, race issues and disability.

Fred Rogers' character regularly said, “there's no person in the whole world just like you” and “I like you just the way you are.” It was an example of radical acceptance.

In addition to Franc Clemmons, John Reardon is another openly gay man who regularly appeared on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, so it seems Fred Rogers personally didn't have an issue with gay people, but having them be open on the show was not something possible at that time. I'm sad that an openly gay character never occurred on the show.

Fred Rogers shared that evangelicals would sometimes write to him asking him to condemn homosexuality, and he never would, instead saying he — and God — loved everyone just as they were. Since 1967, Fred and his wife worshipped at Pittsburgh’s Sixth Avenue Presbyterian Church which was a diverse, progressive church where women were equal, social justice was the theme, and since the 1960's has engaged in a ministry to gay people and was the first Presbyterian church to ordain gays & lesbians.

While he was not a public advocate for gay rights, his message of unconditional acceptance didn't exclude any genders, orientations or races.

[many-sparrows]

The best definition of God I have ever heard comes from Fred Rogers: a loving mystery at the heart of the universe that yearns to be expressed.

[quasarkisses]

The 9 Rules of Freddish (nine rules of how Mr. Rogers spoke to children) are so important to me.

I think we could all practice them with our communication as adults, just as a reminder that sometimes we should be a little more patient, a little more compassionate with the messages we share with each other

[sleepyjim]

*i grew up watching mostly pbs kids and this list probably reflects that lol , if you dont see your favorite feel free to add it in the tags :) !

[i-am-trans-gwender]

Superman haters are so funny to me. That be like beefing with Mr Rogers.

[coolthingsguyslike]