"Can You Tell Me How To Get...

Feb 06, 2022 18:13

... if you don't know the next line, you had a different childhood to mine

Here in Australia, the ABC must have started showing Sesame Street not long after it debuted in the USA in 1969, as I can't remember it not being on television & I was 2 in the Summer of '69 (though it would be many, many years later, that I got my first real 6-string!!) & ( Read more... )

nostalgia, television, history

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meowmensteen February 6 2022, 20:24:20 UTC
Obviously because of my name, I sang it, "How to get to Stephanie Street!"

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waitingman February 6 2022, 21:03:42 UTC
This is acceptable!!

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supernutjapan February 11 2022, 11:03:13 UTC
I (and all my kids)used to love it. They had it on educational TV here in Japan and I could change the voice to the original English. One of the few shows I could watch in English growing up. A decade or so ago, the show decided it would create a Japanese version instead of continuing to provide the English version. Well, it didn't go very well, because the people watching the show were watching for the English. I was quite upset about their policy too, being an English teacher. Now we don't get it at all. Talk about not understanding their audience.

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waitingman February 11 2022, 11:16:46 UTC
I'm sure someone, somewhere at the Network, thought it would be a good idea to do a Japanese version... because as we know, that always goes well !!

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