Hmmm, I seem to remember the “hey you guys” part being tacked on to the front of the song after some skit with a female garbage collector or something got really popular. Then again I saw the first episode of Sesame Street when I was a kid. But for those who want to wax nostalgic try soundamerica.com they have a vast collection of wavs from childrens programs, cartoons movies ect… and the silent e song is there with about a dozen others from the same songwriter
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WHy is it that everyone I know can only remember one bloodhound gang episode and that’s the one where they find the missing “stolen” camera by pouring salt in the well to make the baggie float?
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That “silent e” song from the Electric Co. TV show was sung Tom Lehrer (one of the rare times he recorded anything after those early albums in the 1960s).
My favorite part of “Zoom” was the ubbie-dubbie language (which we called “double dutch” in the neighborhood where I grew up).
“Hu-bye fru-bends! Ub-its ub-all wub-ays gub-ood tu-boo tu-balk tu-boo yu-boo!”
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“Its fiction, but all the facts are true!”
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If I recall correctly, it was not a camera but a clock.
There was a show I used to watch as a kid, but for the life of me I can’t remember the name of it. It was pretty freaky (for a 8 year old), all I remember is that it often involved other dimensions, time travel, people disappearing, and ghostly writing on a fogged up window.
The show might have only been on in Canada, any ideas?
Best kids show in Canada, MR. Dressup!!
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Scooby, are you talking about Ghost writer? the words on the fogged up window sound like it but the other dimensions, time travel and people disappearing doesn’t. I don’t know what it is but it sounds cool. As for the blood hound gang I just rember The one where they are in a spooky libary or something, boy add 20+ years to a memory and things start to get a little foggy, go fig. 
no matter where you go…there you are
I wondered if anyone was going to mention Tom Lehrer as the composer and performer of the Silent E song. He also wrote the “Ly” song (“At an eating contest you boast/That you can eat the most/So how do you down your 50th piece of pie?/Eagerly/Eagerly/Eager…LY”)and the “Sn” song, featuring a wolf-like animal in a somewhat seedy top hat singing about how he likes to snore and sniff and sneeze. As a kid watching TEC, I recognized Lehrer’s voice from the albums he had made a decade or so earlier (I was in Jr. High/High school during TEC’s run). Lehrer was a brilliant satirist, and had a genius for imitating musical styles. He is to popular musical satire what Peter Schickele’s P.D.Q. Bach is to classical music.
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Man, reading this brought back memories for me too. I used to watch those shows all the time - sure wish I could remember more specifics. Any of you folks remember “The Great Space Coaster”? It wasn’t a PBS show, but it was equally quirky with some funny characters. “No gnus is good gnus with Gary, Gnu”. I also saw “Square One TV” during its short run, but I was always a math nerd (still am).
P.S. Now that I think about it, I can remember a bunch of Bloodhound Gang episodes. I.e., the amnesiac scientist with a tape of a cricket chirping…and a secret coded signal. Not to mention the famous actress who faked her death and disguised herself as a white-bearded cousin “Tex”. Ironically, I don’t recall seeing the one with the clock and salt…
My god, new episodes of Zoom? I wonder if they’re still at the same zip code? You remember: OOOOOOOOH-two-OOOOOOOOOONE-three-FOOOOOOUUUUUUR! SEND IT TO ZOOM!!!
Thinking about that show now it hardly seems real. It’s almost like I hallucinated the whole thing.
Another reason why I liked the “Zoom” program back in the 70s was it featured actual kids as the stars, which included adolescent females. Being an adolescent male at the time made the show much more interesting than most other PBS programs.
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Best kids show in Canada, MR. Dressup!![/quote}
Oh, yeah! Y’know, he’s still on Scoobysnax! He’s a lot fatter and a lot grayer, but he’s still there. You can see him on, oh, it’s either TLC or the Family Channel, I can’t remember which. But Casey and Finnegan are nowhere to be found. Remember them? I grew up in Detroit where Channel 9 was the Canadian channel. We got “Mr. Dressup” “The Friendly Giant” and “The Uncle Bobby Show”. Remember that one? Bimbo the Birthday Clown! That thing terrified me.
Sigh. One of these days I’m going to learn how to make those bold and quote codes work properly.
Anyway, here’s the freaky thing. I remember watching Sesame Street and Electric Company at SCHOOL! I was in the first grade, and if we got our work done, the teacher would sit us all around a table and turn on the tube. My parents’ tax dollars at work.
Actually, it was probably a better education than I was getting in that sorry-ass public school.
Scoobysnax, did the spooky show involve a haunted Printing shop one of the kid inherited and crossword puzzles?
I remember something like that.
You guys were lucky. We only had Bozo and Hobo Kelly and they were on at some unGodly hour in the morning. But I can still remember some of the Bozo song.
Bozo, Bozo
Always laughs, never frowns
Bozo, Bozo
Bozo the clown.
(?)
Well, I now feel the need to delve into the childhood programs which made me the man I am today…
ZOOM: Man, I loved that show. I think it was because I lived in New York City, because that and Sesame Street (which I swore was actually a street in Manhattan somewhere as an impressionable youth) most closely resembled the multi-ethnic world I lived in. Of course I eventually reached the point where I outgrew Sesame Street, so I turned to…
THE MUPPET SHOW: Oh my GOD I loved this show and still do - if anyone knows about someone doing reruns, please let me know!! I still think back to those two geezers who complained all the time in the balcony, and that great band fronted by Dr. Teeth! And the ecclectic guest hosts were usually great!
And speaking of Jim Henson creations, I also vividly remember seeing a very early Kermit appearance on a more adult-flavored show, where he is eating a worm, and it keeps going until he finds out it is the nose (?) of a huge monster, who proceeds to eat a scared-shitless Kermit in one gulp. After seeing this, I was shaken for days! Like, how DARE something eat Kermit! I think I even cried to my Mom I was so upset!!
THE NEW ZOO REVIEW: Looking back, this world of giant hippos with parasols and a frog in a turtleneck interacting with normal humans had to have been a mindfuck! And it was… I still remember the theme song!
LAND OF THE LOST: My favorite of the Kroft Superstars shows, I ran home from school for this one. Remember the crystals, the sleestack, the fighting of huge dinos with sticks in the eye? I sure do!
SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK:I can still remember learning that “a noun is a person, place or thing,” the functions of conjunctions, rooting for Bill to become a law, and unpacking my adjectives. And yes, Zero is still my hero!
I also, as an adult, envied the youth for having such quality fare as Degrassi Junior High and Where In The World is Carmen Sandiego.
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Before this thread gets (justifiably) bumped to MPSIMS … Satan mentioned the New Zoo Revue and here’s something I’ve been trying to remember for a long time. What were all the characters names? One was Henrietta and I think one was Freddie but I can’t for the life of me remember the third.
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yeah yeah YEAH!! All the good kids’ TV! OK, I’m gonna go through this post again and find out what questions I can answer.
From Ivana:
Yeah, me and my sister were too old to order them but we had great fun cracking on Bill and Mortimer Ichabod Marker. Giving the wrong answers and all that. Great fun!
From SoxFan59:
That’s “Ubbi Dubbi” - I sent for the pamphlet back when the original series was on the air. And yes - they’re still at
Box three-five-oh BostonMass OH two ONE three FOURRRRRRRR…
From BonnKansan:
Yeah! What the hell was that gorilla’s name? And Baxter, the clown thingy on the run from the evil ringmaster.
“Get on board, step inside, we’re going on a magic ride…”
From Satan:
That more than likely was “Sam and Friends”, one of Henson’s first forays into TV. He’s a local boy - came outta the 'burbs of Maryland, and did some hilarious commercials for Wilkins Coffee. I saw one of their trucks rolling down Wisconsin Avenue a few years back and nearly lost it laughing. I couldn’t believe they were still around.
Speaking of which, does anyone know where I might be able to land video copy of Henson’s “Timepiece”?
From ruadh:
“We have fun with our friend Doug
(Our friend Doug!)
And his helper Emmy Jo
(Emmy Jo!)
With Charlie! Freddie! Henrie-e-etta!
We have fun learning what we don’t know
It’s the New Zoo Revue
Comin’ right at you…”
my head hurts.
I remember a lot of educational programming coming on in the mid-afternoon on PBS, and a lot of these shows that people only half-remember sound familiar to me too. I seem to remember the Bloodhound Gang being a part of 3-2-1 Contact. The haunted printshop sounds familiar too- wasn’t there some evil alien named Duneedin on it?
Now for a real stretch - anyone remember The Hot Fudge Show? With that weird fuzzy tooty goof named Seymour…
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You had to mention the New Zoo Review - I hate that show.
Here’s a challenge for y’all: The premise was that the children went to this tree, which had a door. When they went in, the inside was much larger & had all sorts of neat stuff. There was a closet(?) and when one of them went in there, some sort of neat film or graphics would be shown. The one I remember was a graphic done to “Windmills of your mind” … which pretty much dates this, eh?
Smegmum
The haunted printshop sounds right.
Any idea on the title??
And Leslie, yes Mr. Dressup is still on the air but they are reruns, he retired about a two years ago after being on the air for more than 25 years.
Scoobysnax
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Not a stretch at all, Olentzero. I believe that show came out of Detroit. It was hosted by this dude named Larry . . . Larry. . . .damn, I can’t remember his last name anymore. But he wrote a bazillion jingles that everyone would recognize.
I can see more
When I talk to Seymour
It’s never a bore
Just me and you
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We’ll see all our troubles through
Shall we, Seymour?