Reprint: Kid's TV revisited

--Sorry, sorry...this is the official last day of recovery from the sinus infection. Not that I don't have ideas, just that it's been difficult to stay awake long enough to physically type them out. :)

As for the kid's shows...yeah. Highly inappropriate olfactory stimuli aside (really did not need to know I had 'that just-rolled-out-of-bed smell!') I lurve Bear in the Big Blue House and hug it and pet it and call it...well, Bear. In every loose, clever, earnest way possible it's the direct descendant of the Sesame Street Muppets - making Elmo, yes, the redheaded bastard child. We just won't get me started on the little red freakazoid, OK?

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