You know that traffic light Mr Rogers had in his living room?

[Bucky]

Do you think he stole that from a small town intersection late one night? Is that why a whole generation of teenagers used to have big stop signs in their bedrooms? Seriously, just how much did that man corrupt two generations of American kids?

[HopeHoops]

1. He also talked to an electric trolley

I think he had issues.





Seriously, Fred Rogers was one of the most wonderful people to ever live.

[datasuspect]

2. he was hopped up on goofballs and nembies

[fizzgig]

3. don't you know he's responsible for us having an over-inflated sense of worth?

we all think we're special because of him

[Bucky]

6. Generation of narcisists

High self esteem is ruining this country. Our grandparents were self loathing neurotics who couldn't ever tell the difference between male & female hippies... and they beat the Nazis and the Depression.

[fizzgig]

8. i'm a self-loathing neurotic

so why aren't i successful? can i blame mr. rogers for that?

[no name no slogan]

4. The only teenagers who had stolen signs in their rooms were on TV

I lived in a mostly rural area (where stealing signs was easy to do), and I knew maybe one person who had a stolen street sign in their room.

Danny Partridge may have had one, but nobody I knew ever did.

[gbate]

5. Stop trash talking my childhood icon!!

I loved Mr. Rogers and his group of friends.



:loveya:

[Orrex]

7. I will kill all of you except gbate

Fred Rogers is not to be maligned, you heathens.

:grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr:

[gbate]

9. You can go ahead and malign Lady Elaine Fairchild, though.

[Orrex]

10. She's got chutzpah!

But what's with the gin blossoms?

[Bucky]

11. Somewhere, out there on the intertubes, there's some Lady Elaine Fairchild/Fred Rogers slash fiction

Subgenres: "Puppet references" and "No puppet references"

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. I don't know, but I always wanted it.

Something about having a traffic light of your very own intrigued me as a kid. Don't ask me why, because I won't be able to tell you why.

[CreekDog]

13. Mr. Rogers pioneered the show "about nothing"

:think:

[RagAss]

14. Henrietta Pussycat. The TAO of my generation.