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October 21, 2007 by Betsy Bird

Video Sunday – Zombies and Conjunctions

October 21, 2007 by Betsy Bird   7 comments

This week it seems appropriate to begin with a tribute to the Robert’s Snow snowflakes that will be coming up for auction soon.



Thanks to Goading the Pen for the link.

That’s a rather Christmassy way to begin this week’s videos, of course. Let’s get into the Halloweenish frame of mind then, eh? According to fellow New York Public Librarian Walter Minkle at The Monkey Speaks, this next vid comes to you thanks to the Allen County Public Library. With NYPL creating Doofus & Dilligent vids and Allen County doing this (don’t the zombies look suspiciously librarianish?), the trend for library-based YouTube videos continues to skyrocket. Check it out.


I include this next piece with mixed feelings. You may be familiar with the controversy surrounding the new biography of Charles Schultz entitled Schultz and Peanuts. The New York Times neatly encapsulates the various problems people have with the book. This video is of the author in question. Taken entirely apart from the work written, it’s an interesting video. I don’t know how far you can necessarily trust it (you’ll note that its editor confuses Rerun with Linus at one point) but I think it’s worth looking at just the same. Thanks to Sandbox for the link.

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This next one goes out to any stay-at-home mom or dad who has to watch bad children’s television programming.


When I have kids I’m raising them on a strict diet of Electric Company, School House Rock, and old school Sesame Street. They’ll be the grooviest kids on the block, no question. Thanks to Bookmoot for the link.

Hm. Now I’m all nostalgic for old timey children’s tv. Let’s end with a great School House Rock and a weeeeeeeeeeeeeeird Sesame Street clip. The latter makes an excellent tie-in to Halloween, I think.


About the time you see a daisy with feet, that’s when you wonder what this did to your infantile brain.

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About Betsy Bird

Betsy Bird is currently the Collection Development Manager of the Evanston Public Library system and a former Materials Specialist for New York Public Library. She has served on Newbery, written for Horn Book, and has done other lovely little things that she'd love to tell you about but that she's sure you'd find more interesting to hear of in person. Her opinions are her own and do not reflect those of EPL, SLJ, or any of the other acronyms you might be able to name. Follow her on Twitter: @fuseeight.

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About Betsy Bird

Betsy Bird is currently the Collection Development Manager of the Evanston Public Library system and a former Materials Specialist for New York Public Library. She has served on Newbery, written for Horn Book, and has done other lovely little things that she'd love to tell you about but that she's sure you'd find more interesting to hear of in person. Her opinions are her own and do not reflect those of EPL, SLJ, or any of the other acronyms you might be able to name. Follow her on Twitter: @fuseeight.

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  1. rams says

    October 21, 2007 at 6:33 am

    I’m okay with the daisy feet, but rhyming “clothes” and “holes” can’t have been good for the republic.

  2. Jennifer Schultz says

    October 21, 2007 at 11:21 am

    I just received the Charles Schulz biography. It’s a doorstopper, though. I still haven’t managed to read last year’s Walt Disney biography, which could also be used for weight lifting.

    As for children’s programming-I was more of a Nickelodeon kid than PBS kid (my sister was the opposite). I remember the freaky shows like Pinwheel (I know…blatant ripoff of Sesame Street without any redeeming values, but it did have the Paddington cartoons) and Today’s Special-back then, I think Nickelodeon got a lot of its programming from Canadian shows (You Can’t Do That on Television, etc). I remember it going to arts programming at night before Nick at Nite was created. There are several Nickelodeon nostalgia sites out there.

    If you want to play “Fun With Youtube,” do a search for Kids Incorporated. Awesome television.

  3. Jennifer Schultz says

    October 21, 2007 at 11:25 am

    …Thinking back, Kids Inc was Disney, not Nickelodeon. From what I remember, Disney would alternate between pay channel/basic channel status for a while, so I missed out on some shows. But I definitely remember “Looks like we made it! We’re Kids Incorporated!”

  4. Brooke says

    October 21, 2007 at 12:06 pm

    Ooorg. You just HAD to bring the “Kids, Incorporated” theme song back into my brain, DIDN’T YOU? Oh, and I had worked so hard over the years to banish it into a dark place!

    I, for one, wanted to say thanks for the kid’s tv folk song. Totally made my day.

  5. Fuse #8 says

    October 21, 2007 at 1:43 pm

    I, for one, never really bought into Kids Incorporated. But Nickelodeon was definitely on my radar as well. Today’s Special and Pinwheel? Check and check. Pinwheel was weirder than Sesame Street, I think. At least the foreign shorts were. While Sesame beat Pinwheel in terms of recurring characters, Pinwheel was superior when it came to introducing my American generation to things like Bagpuss, Magic Roundabout, Emilie (French), King Rollo, The Clangers, Paddington, and god knows what all. As for You Can’t Do That On Television, my mother (the first person to comment on this post today) eventually tried to dissuade me from watching it. Too much vomiting was the reasoning there, I think.

  6. Alkelda the Gleeful says

    October 21, 2007 at 9:37 pm

    “Daddy Dear” is very dada. I am not sure whether I like it or whether it disturbs me (or both). I’m a fan of the dandelions roaring, but not so much of the dolly getting “dizzy in the head.”

    P.S. There’s an ad for “The Seeker” below my word verification box. Aiee.

  7. Jennifer Schultz says

    October 22, 2007 at 12:24 pm

    “I, for one, never really bought into Kids Incorporated.”

    Yeah, well, I was a dork. I actually wanted to be on the show.

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