Amen to that. I find Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street the founding fathers of edu-tainment. I never found Fred Rogers, even with his extremely laid back demeanor boring. He was like a kindly uncle that came in and told you stories, and let you meet his friends. And Sesame, well, that was a pretty amazing product. Even with the ultra toned down Elmo-centricities of the show, it's still an amazing product.
I actually saw an episode of this years back, and found it dull and somewhat annoying. Most of the characters on the show sounded like Adam Sandler impersonations to me (At least the puppet Turtle thing).
From what I remember, there are muscial numbers, but they're mainly chapter breaks inbetween the shorts. Maybe they didn't include them on this release. But trust me, they were BAD. Very bland muscial numbers. I saw them all the time, flipping past PBS on many a saturday morning.
I agree with the review. it's not a bad show, but it doesn't do too much to become a good show either. Now Arthur, that's a show. I'm disapoointed it came out 10 years too late for me.
