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Talk like a Pirate Day–with Elmo!

Saturday Sep 20, 2008

I am not kidding. Elmo. For the last 6 months or so I’ve seen more Elmo than anything other single type of programming–period. It’s the side effect of the strange psychological mind-meld that furry creature can achieve with the 2-year-old age group.

However, a few moments of Sesame Street are actually cool and clearly have some “inside jokes” aimed at the older kids/grown-ups watching it with the little ones.** This one is perfect for the theme of today, featuring the sexy, sassy, singular Tina Fey as the Skipper of this bunch o’ scalawags! It’s about 13 minutes and has some “annoying” Elmo moments of course, but it’s all worth it for Tina and the smart-alecky muppet shipmates. I’m hosting here instead of YouTube in case of “copyright” violations (not with PBS, per se, but with hot-ticket celeb media lawyer types WRT Tina Fey)–enjoy!

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And on a similar note, Change of Shift, the illustrious nursing blog carnival is hosted this week by Emily McGee, aka crzegrl, and of course also has the pirate theme built right in. She’s got multimedia content to go with all the awesome posts there, so check that out too!

In closing, yes, I know I’m posting this the day AFTER but the video encode (it’s my own personal rip from the TV, not commercial) and some other things didn’t allow me to get it in before the end of yesterday. But it’s never too late to honor pirates, right?! :) (and yes, I didn’t talk like a pirate, but I’m just trying to get this late post up before it gets later. Don’t make me walk the plank!)


**As a side note, I should say that our TV is never used as a babysitter, though it’s nearly impossible to not have it be a crutch when things get super-hectic. The norm is interactive participation, and having funny cameos like Tina Fey makes it a LOT easier for adults to do that.

2 Comments »

Who doesn’t want to be a pirate who reads! Awesome.

-Kim

September 21st, 2008 | 4:14 pm
Celeste:

Hey! Remember when you did a post about this very subject, songs in 5/4 time??? I saw this on NPR today and thought, Enrico did it FIRST. :o)))))

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94723908

September 30th, 2008 | 3:07 pm
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