November 6, 2006

The miracles of the Children's Broadcasting Corporation

Everybody knows and loves Sesame Street. It's on in something like four billion countries and is watched daily by like fourteen trillion children under the ages of four.

Heck, a fair number of people probably even remember 3-2-1 Contact. It was on for a dozen years, and it had the ever classic "Bloodhound Gang" mysteries.

But the forgotten middle child between the journey from Sesame Street to 3-2-1 Contact was the excellent The Electric Company, weening little children from their learning of the letters into more complex words and psychadelic images. The Electric Company wasn't on the air for nearly as long - only a half dozen years total, but it left a lot of classic images in my brain.

Check out some of them that are available over at YouTube.com - before they're yanked down for copyright infingement.

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