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Carroll Spinney Rest In Peace I grew up watching SS, Mister Roger's and 3-2-1 Contact on analog OTA KQED ch. 9 on my grandparent's HeathKit TV. About 8 yo, I

Carroll Spinney Rest In Peace I grew up watching SS, Mister Roger's and 3-2-1 Contact on analog OTA KQED ch. 9 on my grandparent's HeathKit TV. About 8 yo, I figured out the ultrasonic remote receiver would change channels by rattling house keys on a keychain. PS: I'm curious if the Waze cookie monster voice is actually Mr. Spinney.

205guy 7y ago
Funny, we discovered our TV's remote was ultrasonic when we could turn it off with a Slinky. "Rolling" the Slinky back and forth fast enough between two hands created a high metallic sound and we figured the remote must be emitting ultrasound for that to work--we just didn't think about how it worked before. I guess the off frequency was the lowest because we could never get it to do anything else, just turn off. My honest Sesame Street story: before we had a TV (my parents didn't want one in the house) I was allowed to go to a neighbor's house on Saturday morning to watch with them. One time when I was about 5 years old, I showed up early (7am, 8am?) and just let myself in and turned on the TV before they got up. They would watch Sesame Street, but I never really liked the characters, I just didn't get why there were muppets and monsters living with people in a real city, it just seemed so made up (of course, now I see it as a race/not-race thing). Maybe it was too urban and didn't relate to my suburban upbringing. But I loved the pinball animation (except for the repeated counting and numbers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOaZbaPzdsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOaZbaPzdsk
- imroot 7y ago
  Little known (or, maybe widely known fact): The Pointer Sisters sung the Pinball Number song.
- nsxwolf 7y ago
  My favorite was the Geometry of Circles animations with music by Philip Glass: https://youtu.be/D--qSD01VRA https://youtu.be/D--qSD01VRA
dtparr 7y ago
Cookie Monster was not a Carroll Spinney character. Frank Oz, who also voiced/puppeted Yoda in Star Wars, originated Cookie Monster.

205guy 7y ago

Funny, we discovered our TV's remote was ultrasonic when we could turn it off with a Slinky. "Rolling" the Slinky back and forth fast enough between two hands created a high metallic sound and we figured the remote must be emitting ultrasound for that to work--we just didn't think about how it worked before. I guess the off frequency was the lowest because we could never get it to do anything else, just turn off. My honest Sesame Street story: before we had a TV (my parents didn't want one in the house) I was allowed to go to a neighbor's house on Saturday morning to watch with them. One time when I was about 5 years old, I showed up early (7am, 8am?) and just let myself in and turned on the TV before they got up. They would watch Sesame Street, but I never really liked the characters, I just didn't get why there were muppets and monsters living with people in a real city, it just seemed so made up (of course, now I see it as a race/not-race thing). Maybe it was too urban and didn't relate to my suburban upbringing. But I loved the pinball animation (except for the repeated counting and numbers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOaZbaPzdsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOaZbaPzdsk

imroot 7y ago
Little known (or, maybe widely known fact): The Pointer Sisters sung the Pinball Number song.
nsxwolf 7y ago
My favorite was the Geometry of Circles animations with music by Philip Glass: https://youtu.be/D--qSD01VRA https://youtu.be/D--qSD01VRA

dtparr 7y ago

Cookie Monster was not a Carroll Spinney character. Frank Oz, who also voiced/puppeted Yoda in Star Wars, originated Cookie Monster.