{"id":1272,"date":"2008-05-14T07:28:50","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T12:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/05\/14\/hey-you-guuuys\/"},"modified":"2008-05-14T08:44:39","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T13:44:39","slug":"hey-you-guuuys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/05\/14\/hey-you-guuuys\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey! You! GUUUYS!"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you can hear Rita Moreno belting that out when you read the title to this post, then you are of the proper vintage to appreciate this tidbit: PBS is remaking The Electric Company<\/a>! Production starts this week, and the first episodes should appear in January 2009.<\/p>\n

I have mixed feelings about this. I loved <\/em>watching the original Electric Company. That and Sesame Street were my daily staples when I was Tristan’s age, and definitely contributed to my lifelong love of words and language. So fond am I of those old classics that I asked for and received both of the Sesame Street “old school” DVD sets and the Electric Company boxed set — and honestly? I still love them. They’re funny and quirky and enjoyable to watch over and over again. So, in theory I should be thrilled to see this remake, right?<\/p>\n

Well, not so much. I’ve lamented before<\/a> that the 21st century Sesame Street doesn’t hold a candle to the often psychedelic, folky episodes of the early 1970s, and the Electric Company was even further out there. WAY out there, by today’s standards. I just can’t imagine them doing it justice in a world where vintage Sesame Street comes with the disclaimer that it might not be suitable for preschoolers.<\/p>\n

We’re not in 1976 anymore, Toto. The Electric Company website <\/a>offers downloadable ringtones, wallpaper and buddy icons. They even have a blog, though its link is currently broken. The one thing that gives me hope that the flavour of the original EC may be preserrved is the downloadable iron-on transfer section. Ah, iron-on t-shirts… sigh.<\/p>\n

Well, I’ll wait until January and take a peek before I pass judgment, I guess. But, um, can somebody please help me with my cell phone? Because I really need an Electric Company theme-song ringtone!!<\/p>\n

(Edited to add<\/strong>: Bah! Ringtones not available in Canada, only to residents of the US and Australia. Boo!!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you can hear Rita Moreno belting that out when you read the title to this post, then you are of the proper vintage to appreciate this tidbit: PBS is remaking The Electric Company! Production starts this week, and the first episodes should appear in January 2009. I have mixed feelings about this. I loved … Continue reading “Hey! You! GUUUYS!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}