Silly and cheering

[redbird]

We just watched the very first episode of The Electric Company. Fargo North, Decoder; Love of Chair; punctuation; the different pronunciations of 'g' (well, two of them: g as in gum and as in gym), special effects that look both psychedelic and very 1970s and which cattitude says came from a machine that ate most of their budget, Rita Moreno and Bill Cosby; crank calls on a phone that rang in Cosby's ice cream cart. Also a silly intro of people saying "hello" in lots of different ways, the sort of thing that you might do at the beginning of the first episode. And an animated 2001 pastiche, introducing "oo" as in boo ⇒ boom ⇒ bloom.

The DVD has four more episodes (not 2 through 5, but something like 26, 58, 342 and 798 (the label looks like 79B, but that seems unlikely)), which we'll watch later.

I'd had a long day, Cattitude is taking good care of me, and eel sushi followed by silly television helped. So did julian_tiger, who purred when it was needed most.