{"id":4824,"date":"2010-07-05T20:49:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T20:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/05\/nostalgia-isnt-what-it-used-to\/"},"modified":"2010-07-05T20:49:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T20:49:27","slug":"nostalgia-isnt-what-it-used-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/05\/nostalgia-isnt-what-it-used-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"

SteelyKid has some molars coming in, which led to some intermittent generalized fussiness this weekend. When she gets that way, she can sometimes be calmed down using videos on the computer, such as the “Wheels on the Buss” DVD my mom has. In order to spare the sanity of the adults in her life, though, we supplemented this with kid-friendly YouTube clips, eventually running across this:<\/p>\n

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I have very distinct memories of this when I was a small child watching Sesame Street– I hesitate to call them happy memories, because I think I recall being upset when the singers are carried off. But I definitely remember this.<\/p>\n

What’s really striking, though, is how little of this clip will have any relevance to SteelyKid and her classmates. that. Operator-connected calls were on the way out when I was watching this, there are almost no pay phones any more, and phone booths had vanished well before the pay phone. And toward the very end, the singer says “It only costs a dime!” which, yeah, not so much.<\/p>\n

This is, however, a nice reminder of how Sesame Street mixed kid-oriented educational material with stuff adults could find funny. We haven’t tried SteelyKid on the modern Sesame Street (she goes to day care before it’s on, and DVR’ing it to watch later seems kind of silly), but that day is not too far off. I just hope they still have some adult-friendly content, because I’ve been stuck listening to some other recent kid-oriented television, and I think I’d rather pound a screwdriver through my eardrum than sit through “Dora the Explorer” again.<\/p>\n

Other classic bits from the Street:<\/p>\n

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And right at the moment, you can go to YouTube, and click the vuvuzela button to enrich the experience with the sound of a few billion angry bees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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