(They upload 5 episodes every other week. And it alternates between the 1980s and the 1960s, so once a month it's 5 old black-and-white episodes which was before my time, but I watch them anyway.)
I can't get over how slow the show was in comparison to modern TV. One week they had a running backstory of Mr. McFeeley's birthday coming up on Friday so Mr. Rogers was going to weave a basket for him and another character was going to bake a cake and another was going to give him a book. And it would just be mentioned each episode that Mr. McFeeley's birthday was this Friday until the Friday episode had the party. It's hard to imagine a show taking five days to tell a story like that.
And Daniel Tiger painted Mr. McFeeley's name on a glass and just as he was putting it into the box, he dropped it and it broke. And there was this really long segment where the puppet just cried and Lady Aberlin just stood there looking sad (and didn't once tell him not to cry or try to cheer him up) and she agreed that she understood why he was so upset that he broke the glass. And then when he was a bit calmer asked if he had a broom and dustpan so she could clean up the broken glass so no one got hurt. And only after he was calm, she suggested she help him paint another glass.
As a kid, I probably would have just been sad too, but watching it as an adult, I was just in awe at how brilliant it was. They went so out of their way to model good healthy behavior.
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https://www.misterrogers.org/watch/
(They upload 5 episodes every other week. And it alternates between the 1980s and the 1960s, so once a month it's 5 old black-and-white episodes which was before my time, but I watch them anyway.)
I can't get over how slow the show was in comparison to modern TV. One week they had a running backstory of Mr. McFeeley's birthday coming up on Friday so Mr. Rogers was going to weave a basket for him and another character was going to bake a cake and another was going to give him a book. And it would just be mentioned each episode that Mr. McFeeley's birthday was this Friday until the Friday episode had the party. It's hard to imagine a show taking five days to tell a story like that.
And Daniel Tiger painted Mr. McFeeley's name on a glass and just as he was putting it into the box, he dropped it and it broke. And there was this really long segment where the puppet just cried and Lady Aberlin just stood there looking sad (and didn't once tell him not to cry or try to cheer him up) and she agreed that she understood why he was so upset that he broke the glass. And then when he was a bit calmer asked if he had a broom and dustpan so she could clean up the broken glass so no one got hurt. And only after he was calm, she suggested she help him paint another glass.
As a kid, I probably would have just been sad too, but watching it as an adult, I was just in awe at how brilliant it was. They went so out of their way to model good healthy behavior.