There were some incredibly simplistic explanations of post-renaissance rege-politics, to the point when I began to suspect that they were in fact catering to the playschool set.
Apart from the use of the word factions.
I began watchign as Henry VIII and Elizabeth (the original) danced around singing
"We're Tudors
Britain's biggest feuders
And just like barracudas
We kill with methods foul.
We're Tudors
Every enemy a Judas
But at least we're not as rude as
Simon Cowell"
The scansion was questionable, as was the historical context, but let's not go into that...
I chuckled.
There was then a show called 'The Time Compass' which actually did cater to the playschool set which gave a laughably simplistic explanation of the Carolingian era.
Apparently when explaining the feudal system of government, they no longer use the feudal pyramid I was taught. They had something called the feudal wheel. I didn't like it.
They then went on to attempt to explain the complex machinations of the Yoritomo shogunate in monosyllabics.
Onto ABC2. There was a show of unknown provenance concerning a character named Myrtle the tortoise. What's wrong with Myrtle the Turtle?
There was the Soup Opéra from France 3 Limousin productions. I love french animation. There's always that little bit of unexpected pizzaz.
And then Sesame street. Who in the name of *numerous expletives deleted* is Murray? He sure as hell didn't exist when I was 3.
I don't like the new theme song. Too much syncopation. Or the title animation. Too modern.
ARCHAISM, PEOPLE!!!
Anyway.
Holy *expletive*! Elmo is a Gordon clone! That was rather unexpected.
At least the count is as politically incorrect as always. Thank heavens for Bela Lugosi in Nosferatu.
Ooh! Big Bird.
Everybody then did the chicken dance before reading Humpty Dumpty.
Who should then arrive but Humpty himself, along with all the king's (talking) horses and all the king's men. He's a bit of a fop. The horses and men are all from different areas of the isles. From what I could hear, there was a scotsman, and a liverpuddlian horse.
And everyone was wearing a showercap so that they'd look bald like Gordon.
There was some filler stuff, and then a short clip about the letter of the day (I). It was a quasi-detective show, involving a private eye (get it???) dressed as the letter i. The person in the suit was George from Grey's Anatomy. There's another show I'll never be able to watch in the same way ever again.
Elmo and four ducks then sang a country song with a ukelele.
"Elmo had four ducks
Four birds of a feather
To waddle with
And quack together
But then one day
It swam away
Oh Gosh, oh gee
Elmo just had three."
And so on in the tradition of
'n little ducks went out one day
over the hills and far away
mother duck said "quack, quack, quack, quack"
but only n-1 came back"
Number of the day was somewhat unorthodox in the fact that it was 12. At least they used a good old-fashioned 90's video to show us.
We then followed a littel girl to her toddler's yoga class.
What is this?
I'll tell you what it is. It's modern. And I don't like it.
There was then a marvellous 90's video about 'when you grow up' involving some good old fashioned R&B (and by that I mean rhythm and blues. Not the modern crap)
Not entirely a fan of modern sesame street, although I did like that word of the day was 'Mustache'
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