Taking a break from Sesame Street, remember The Electric Company?...

[HopeHoops]

[rug]

1. That, and Zoom.

They're all in their 50s now.

[HopeHoops]

2. That must not have aired in my region. I have no recollection of it at all.

[GoCubsGo]

30. It's still on.

Different, younger cast, of course.

[geardaddy]

9. We had Zoom here in MN.

I still remember the zip code. Oh-Two-One-Three-Four!

[arcane1]

27. Beat me to it! "Send it to ZOOM!"

It was on when I was a kid in VA

[MadrasT]

48. "Boston Mass"

OH... two ONE... three FOOOUR!

[geardaddy]

51. Yep!

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. I remember ZOOM. :^) (And Electric Company)

[OriginalGeek]

29. Yep I loved Zoom

and the Electric Company...

Like I said in another thread, my dad did not like Zoom. I remember him saying they were a bunch of smart-ass kids. But he let me watch it anyway. I never did figure out why he thought that. I don't remember anything even remotely smart-assed.


I had, and still have, a crush on Rita Moreno. "HEY, YOU GUYS!"

[Great Caesars Ghost]

41. Maura Mullaney....

@ 0:30 is a die hard progressive. She does have a facebook account. Someone should link her to DU.

[Tsiyu]

47. I loved Zoom

"I'm gonna Zoom Zoom Zooma Zoom"

and the Electric Company

My kids grew up with these and Sesame Street.

Great, innovative shows

[TwilightGardener]

3. Wow, I remember that!

Sesame Street and Electric Co. were daily back-to-back viewing for me. The person above mentioned Zoom--I didn't like Zoom, thought it was hokey.

[HopeHoops]

5. "It's the plumber. I've come to fix the sink" is a running joke in our family.

Everytime one of the girls knocks on the bedroom door, I yell, "WHO is IT?" in my best parrot voice. That was one of the best skits ever.

[geardaddy]

10. LOL

I always say that when someone knocks on the door!

[HopeHoops]

17. Most people don't get the reference.

[geardaddy]

18. I know!

I have to explain it every time.

&quot parroty voice) Who is it?"

Haha!

[HopeHoops]

19. "He's the plumber. He's come to fix the sink."

[geardaddy]

20. Haha!

I loved that so much!

[HopeHoops]

21. Electric Company was special. I forget what happened to it. Sesame Street lives on...

We've got a tradition of watching "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street" and "New Years Eve on Sesame Street" on their respective nights.

We also get to stretch out "Nightmare Before Christmas" for an entire two months!

[geardaddy]

22. Apparently, it's back on the air.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_Company_(2009_TV_series)

[HopeHoops]

23. "On the air." Now there's an old term for television.

[cyberswede]

28. We say it all the time at our house! LOL

I have EC on DVD, and my kids (12 and 10) love it! What a brilliant show!

In one sketch I saw recently, there was an interracial couple in it (from around 1970, I think). It's actually sad how we've gone backward from those days, in some ways.

[sadbear]

4. "HEY YOU GUUUUUYS!!!"

[opiate69]

6. How`s about The Magic Garden??

http://m.

[TwilightGardener]

7. What the hell is that? LOL.

[opiate69]

8. lol.. show I used to watch when I was a wee little lad..

apparently, it was pretty much just a New York/New England market show though.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Garden_(TV_series)

[surrealAmerican]

43. Woah, it's the Magic Garden.

I babysat for a kid who loved that that show when I was a teenager. Now I'll be stuck with that song for days.

Was that PBS? I thought it was just some local station in New York.

[opiate69]

46. Well, I grew up in Western Connecticut...

And of course back then, it was way before cable, so we got New York stations with our antenna, but I think it was nationally syndicated too... Now I'm gonna need to go look at the wiki page I linked earlier lol.

[geardaddy]

11. Morgan Freeman was on EC.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Along with Rita Moreno. :^)

[geardaddy]

14. Yep!

[Robyn66]

45. Yes he was EZ Reader

Out of Siteous!!!!

[geardaddy]

15. Check it.

[geardaddy]

16. This would be a great photoshop

[cyberswede]

24. M...itt...Mitt

Sh...it...Shit

[geardaddy]

25. Exactly!

L-yin'
Lyin' Ryan

[Joe Shlabotnik]

44. Peter Griffin's first day at his new job at the electric company.

[cyberswede]

26. Mel Mounds!

[HopeHoops]

32. Excellent.

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31. You know the whole PBS thing could be the tipping point for Obama to win as long as ...

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Romney does not remind anyone of Barney.

[HopeHoops]

34. "I love you. You love me. I have to take a purple pee."

- My dad's line, not mine.

[sakabatou]

33. No, but I do remember, vaguely, the Pinwheel Network

[HopeHoops]

35. Doesn't ring a bell.

[sakabatou]

36. They're now called Nickelodeon

[HopeHoops]

37. I've heard of it. Never seen it.

[sakabatou]

38. O... K...

O.o

[HopeHoops]

39. Give me a break. I shut off the TV in '82.

[sakabatou]

40. That'd explain it

Sorry for the hard time v.v

[HopeHoops]

49. No problem. My TV window is pretty much 1967 to 1978, with SNL being the residual.

By 10th grade, I basically only watched SNL (or what was it, "Second City"?) with the exception of things like the first space shuttle launch and the presidential debates. I did occasionally catch Star Trek NG at my in-laws house, along with an occasional news show. That's about it.

[warrprayer]

42. Sesame Street? Electric Company? What's that?

Here's how old I am...

"older than dirt"

[HopeHoops]

50. THANK YOU! That was great! I've never seen that series before. Good stuff.

The explanation of the Judo was excellent. My wife took Judo as a kid and that one where you grab the shirt, put a foot in the chest and sit down was her specialty. She was a real peanut (still is for that matter) and in demonstrations she'd use that to flip her rather large instructor. It was always a hit. She's a 3rd degree black belt in Tang Soo Do now. I'll have to show that one to her.

[warrprayer]

52. "Funny Company" was pure boomer

Made in 1963 and subsidised by Mattel. It was kind of the forerunner of shows like Sesame street, kinda sorta in a boomer kind of way.
As far as judo goes, at my age and weight I'm sure not up to getting slammed to the mat 200 times or so a class. It is a young persons game....

[HopeHoops]

53. I was born in '63. I was sort of young to be watching TV at the time.

The stereotypes are sort of funny now, but they probably weren't back then. My wife's 49 and she gets thrown on a mat regularly. She's also broken a few toes, wounded her wrists, had a few wonky fingers, and is letting our middle daughter run class tonight because her foot (probably broken) is toast. She's under 5' tall and all of 95 lbs, but she can kick the shit out of damn near anyone other than the grand master. He's 70 and can still drop into a 2" 360 sweep with no warm-up. Age isn't a limiting factor.

[warrprayer]

54. born in mid 50's

was in my late teens I think when Sesame St. was born? Great for your wife - one in every million people (roughly) who start martial art classes make it to black belt and beyond. Torn rotator cuff and disc problems here, no insurance. Judo was the big rage in the early '60s before karate hit the scene, then "kung fu fighting" in the '70s and Tae Kwon Do in the '80s. Remember the "judo chop"?

Anyway, i digress...

[HopeHoops]

55. My daughters (17, 19, 21) all started around 3 1/2 - 4. They're all 2nd degree black belts now.

I don't worry about them all that much. They can hold their own. My wife's trained in El. Ed and Early Childhood (M.S.) and teaches pre-school karate. It's amazing what a 3 year old can accomplish with a good teacher. She just left to teach that class and then (in an hour) teaches the regular higher-belt classes. My middle daughter runs the demonstration team even though some of the members out-rank her. In THAT setting, she's the master. My wife used to do that but decided she'd rather sleep in and have Irish cream (the good type) in her coffee. Sometimes you have to pass the torch.

And yes, I do remember that scene.