Ah, well, you see the Dutch translation was VERY good. They even got the right to create their own new characters, which AFAIK no other country got. We have Tommy and Ieniemienie (Eeneemeenee). And our big bird is called Pino.  And we had a great cast of Dutch actors to support them. It wasn't all that American anymore.

Picture of the Dutch Sesamy Street cast

yalahii.

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Sahi wrote:

Picture of the Dutch Sesamy Street cast

Wow - you did get treated well.  Even the setting's different.
An urban american street really might as well have been mars for all the relevance it had to me.

Sahi wrote:

And our big bird is called Pino.  And we had a great cast of Dutch actors to support them. It wasn't all that American anymore.


yalahii.

[ December 15, 2005: Message edited by: Sahi ]

The Big Bird in germany was called Bibo!

I loved him very much! But I liked the "Graf Zahl" also.

I bought a cd with sesamstreet songs - I I was very surprised, that I remembered nearly all lycrics after this long time of years!!!

Meike

mabinogi wrote:

I think the thing was just how utterly and totally overtly american it was.

And I don't mean that in a mass-media, hollywood sort of way.

I mean in the little details, the everyday stuff that matters to a kid - it was all different and wrong.  Strange names for things, strange concepts, and so on.

It was all too much for a poor little Kiwi kid with his marmite sandwich, his gumboots and his Buzy Bee.

Besides, I always preferred cartoons ;)

What's a Buzy Bee? Gumboots are a type of boot, I guess? I'm picturing galoshes. Tell me if I'm wrong, here, because now I must know.

For everyone who loved these old kid shows. Here I found this:

Serienoldies

Its in german.

and I loved the fraggles as well as sabre rider and Wickie

*starts-singing:"hey,hey wickie..."

Things are getting weird in here...

I'm still sick as a dog.  Well, not as OUR dogs, who are remarkably well.  They're probably thinking, "Sick as a human", and glad they're not.  If you know what I mean.

Sherman, in fact, has such a rugged immune system that he's just been diagnosed with an ear cyst caused by too many white blood cells.

So healthy he's sick, in other words.

Meanwhile, I just feel like crap.  Still.

mabinogi wrote:

Even the setting's different.
An urban american street really might as well have been mars for all the relevance it had to me.

I thought the difference was cool and interesting - people with apartments below the stairs that went up from the street to the main doors.  New rather than irrelevant.  My first introduction to American culture. 

What did bug me was the ABC song.  Americans end it with Zee - we end it with Zed.  Sesame St caused widespread confusion on this point.

As an aside, my other early exposure to Other Cultures was my mum explaining about Prince Charles was that he comes from another country so I might not be able to understand what he says.

Max I hope you dont have strep throat. Cause if you do you need to see a doctor. Check out the wiki article to see if that sounds right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strep_throat

Hands in pockets? Is that...is that a gang thing? Are you in a gang?! Did I just get threatened by a so called "gangsta"?! (note: this is not funny unless it is said in the whitest voice imaginable. And then it's only funny to me.)

Also, Max? Get thee to a doctor. *I'll* pay for it if it means you don't die or grow extra tentacles or something. You're too awesome to wander around all diseased.

~poke~ PM for you, brat. :)

why didn't anyone offer to buy me a new life when i lived in my car for six months!?!? you strange humans. i'll be fine. i was just trying to relate to tad, because, you know, the bible tells me to.

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