On the news that the Electric Company is coming back, Caro over at Sound Taste recalls "a bicultural childhood, spent mostly in the DR, but with yearly visits to Queens, where I gorged on Cocoa Pebbles and Underdog. For learning English, Sesame Street and other "educational programs" were key." [full post]

I have to confess that, owing to my lifelong habit of picking oddball also-rans, my favorite show was actually the thoroughly bizarre Vegetable Soup:

A completely trippy recurring segment on soup called "Outerscope 1" inspired me and my pal Rudy to dedicate every Wednesday afternoon (we had half days Wednesday in fourth grade for some reason) to building a robot.

Even now, the whole dirty/clean thing happening above is blowing my mind, forget about when I was 8.

As far as Spanish-language skills, I have to confess that the only thing I ever picked up from Sesame Street was open/closed. My family are immigrants, so I have locked-in hereditary opinions about borders and such, but I don't think it's an accident that the only thing I remember relates to access, entrances and exits.