he was nothing but pure class. he gave everyone respect regardless of age, color, sex, or anything. he was just nice and respectful to everyone he met. and just wanted to help everyone do good. and we all loved him for it. and he never talked down to anyone. he always talked as equals with everyone.
Im 40 years old, and i remember Mister Rogers very much. He was my favorite among Sesame Street , Romper Room, Abd even The Magic Garden which i absolutely loved as well... Mister Rogers truly made me feel special, and i specifically remember being calmed by his voice. I truly loved and revered him and cried when he passed away. His personal approach to us kids, will Always resonate with me...
Hi manwomanboogie, I wrote him and he wrote me and my nieces back three times. He left no one out. He was not from an average place, in a manner of speaking. I am sorry you lost your friend. He loved all of us. Just the way we are. Well now, you are 44, I hope you have taken with you his thoughts and feelings and have passed them on to others.
How i wish Mr. Rogers would have been part of my childhood. I feel blessed to know him now, as a grown woman! I'm sure he is missed and still loved. What a great guy! Much ❤️ from Austria 🇦🇹
This had to be around 1970 when he was young and just starting to becoming famous. He was a marvelous man and should be remembered forever and ever !!!!!!
I love the comment from “Can you say...Hero?” Regarding the way that he talked. “The sly voice that sounds adult to the ears of children and childish to the ears of adults”. I think that means he was just who you needed him to be when he talked to you.
Well your welcome! I originally wanted to upload the whole thing, but since rules got stricter, it couldn't. I'm glad you did get to see a long snippet at most.
I think Mister Rogers would love MOST of Daniel Tiger. But however, I don’t think he would like the Treasure Hunt/Dinosaurs haunting argument scene because that is why he hated tv in the first place, the stomp three times episode, or the hitting episode because he does not like hurting.
Fred Rogers didn’t like it when people got hurt at the same time when people or characters do get hurt, it was best to address it in an educational and inspiring way. There have been a lot of times when characters from The Neighborhood Of Make-Believe got harmed and Fred believed it was important to address that people do get hurt sometimes at the same time people shouldn’t hurt people just for the sake of hurting. There was an episode when Lady Elaine Fairchild threw a ball so hard that it accidentally hit X the Owl to the point where he had to be bandaged and looked at by a doctor. You are right about how people hurting other people on purpose for the sake of bringing someone down is bad and Mister Rogers didn’t like it at the same time if it was meant to help children learn and cope with strong feelings of anger and sadness, it is good to talk about with children.
Boys are boys from the beginning girls are girls from the start....this song can get blown up and torn apart in this world today... I grew up with Mr Rogers. God bless him and this wonderful true song.
That song is to comfort a common fear among children that their penis might fall off, or that they might have had one before and lost it. He's reassuring them that their bodies aren't broken just because they look different from their siblings. The song isn't intended as an anti-trans message. If alive today, Rogers would be loving and understanding of trans people.
I think the world hurts, because people hurt. Something bad in our lives that hurt us make us repel from anything that is familiar with that hurt. Mr. Rogers was a wrench thrown into the works of hurt. We need a few more wrenches like that!
I grew up watching Fred Rogers but I have to say - the song in this video would be considered unacceptable today, because people would say he invalidates trans people.
Apparently Michael Keaton was in Mr. Rogers. He must've been so young. Other than his wrap up, I didn't see him in any of the clips. Would it be possible to upload a snippet of that?
During this entire tribute movie, Keaton was pretty much the host, I don't recall seeing him in any other past footage with Fred, but I'll look and see as soon as I figure out where I left that movie! As for his guest appearance on the PBS show I don't have that.
Ryan Yang Thanks Ryan. According to IMDB, Mike was in Mr. Rogers in 1975 season as 'volunteer Michael Douglas'. His first on screen TV appearance. He didn't get other work till 1977, It would be interesting to see his transition from Mr. Rogers to his more enlarging and notable roles.
Michael Douglas broke into the business as a stagehand on Fred's show, and he also appeared in Pittsburgh supper club cabaret entertainment with Don Brockett (Chef Brockett). He had a few on-camera bits on MRN as one of the "Flying Zucchini Brothers." When he moved to Hollywood and joined the Screen Actors Guild, the names Mike Douglas and Michael Douglas were already taken - by the talk show host and by Kirk's son - so he had to pick a new name. He liked Buster Keaton, so he picked Michael Keaton. I first met Michael when he was working with Don Brockett, and he wowed me with his quick wit and amazing sense of timing.
When I was three my parents were buying a new house in a new housing development and I had a mega crush on the house salesman. When my mom asked me about it, I said "He's a fancy man." I thought I came up with that because I didn't know the word handsome; but maybe it was Mister Rogers that taught introduced the word fancy to me.
It's not that weird a choice. Children sometimes think that girls are boys whose penises fell off. It's like the common fear of being sucked down the drain, it seems silly to adults but children are deadly serious about it.
