Good morning cyberspacers, what do you want to watch this morning?
Since yesterday afternoon I've had the ad urge to watch my old Sesame Street videos. I know that thought is definitely a little juvenile and sad but it's really true. You see I have two old Sesame Street videos, and one slightly newer than the others. Of course the one in the best condition is the newest one. I got it this spring as a hand-me-down from my aunt only because she had bought it on dvd. You see the only reason it's in better condition is because I personally don't find Elmo in Grouchland as good as the other two tapes.
The tape in the worst condition isn't my favorite anymore, but it definitely was my favorite when I was younger. This was before the creation of Elmo's World, and one of the only tapes focusing on mainly Elmo before the creation of Elmo's World and before Elmopalooza, which honestly, was not as good as I had expected it to be at the time. This tape mainly focuses on a game show Elmo is hosting. There is a variety of outlandish questions, and each time a character gets a question right they get to jump on a miniature trampoline that somehow has to power to launch them into the ceiling, or at least to a rather high height. Elmo being the three year old that he was originally created to be often cuts in and answers the questions, because at that point in life what child wouldn't want to jump on a trampoline? I've looked on the internet in multiple places, which yes, that does include wikipedia, and no place really has any record of the tape ever being made as far as I can find. With Elmo usually being my favorite, it's pretty easy to see why that tape would've been watched more often when I was younger.
The past few days though, I've been wanting to watch the last tape though. Labeled as All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever this tape has become my favorite of the 3. A mash up of multiple different sketches with pieces in between to connect them on the subject of Big Bird, Prairie Dawn, and one other character whose name is slipping my mind, trying to create a group for the finale of the tape which consisting of a large group of characters singing "Sing" which for me is definitely a major trademark of the show. The skits include multiple different things such as "Happy tapping with Elmo" and "Doing the Pigeon".
Something in society makes me feel slightly wrong that I love watching these tapes so much still at my age, but being a teenager and who I am, makes me care about that a lot less. I don't even feel like it's a guilty pleasure, I'll honestly say that to me it's still pretty awesome. I have no reason to feel ashamed for liking these tapes, it's not my fault that I still love being a little kid sometimes.
So cyberspace, what makes you still feel like a little kid?
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I bought Elmo in Grouchland for Quinn because it was inexpensive at Target and I thought it might fill a Sesame Street need. We have Count on Sports with Ernie and Bert, but Elmo only makes a cameo in that one. I have to say quite honestly that I found the villain in EIG to be horribly annoying and when I'm able, I hide the tape so we can't watch it.
When I am addressed as a "cyberspacer".
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