Oh oh overdue

[prog]

Another sign that the world outside my window thinks that I am supposed to be raising children now: the cable guy is over and has put on PBS, which is showing an ersatz "Electric Company"-type show, and there's a skit featuring an armored knight with a teen-slacker voice putting on a low-budget TV show, titled "Gawain's World".

Now there is a "silent e" animation with approx. the same plot as the 1970s one but no Tom Lehrer music, this generic jazzy thing instead. Very strange.

Comments

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

when the cable guy came not that long ago, he asked if my mom or dad was home.

i guess what i am saying is - the cable people are the last group you should be reading signs from.

[gemini6ice.livejournal.com]

Sounds like Between the Lions, which is a fabulous show!

[prog.livejournal.com]

I guessed it might be, coz I'd heard of it before, and the puppetry had a definite bent to the leonine. Also monkeys.

Having not actually seen the show before, I didn't realize how much it's a direct descendant of The Electric Company, though. It was similar right down the wide variety of skits that visually showed two syllables colliding together to make a new word.

I definitely learned to read with that stuff. I mean, a long time ago, not this morning.

[jtroutman.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, yes! Between the Lions is a great show. Very smart, lots of little bits tucked into the pieces that only the adults will get.

I got to meet Chris Cerf (one of the creators of the show) some years ago, before it started airing on TV. He showed demo photos, video clips, and even brought some muppets with him on stage (yes, Pop!Tech, of course -- where else?). He was heavily involved with Sesame Street.

He was the one who came to me about 45 minutes before going on stage with a CD full of pictures and said "can you help me put this into a slideshow?" I managed (thanks to JPEGView on MacOS).

He was really nice, actually, and one of the few folks that I definately got the feeling of "standing the shadow of greatness" while talking to him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Cerf