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Wow, I still remembered all the words. They came to mind just from seeing the title. Weird how your child-mind is like a steel trap for some things. This is right up there with the "12345" song from sesame street, the "teeny little super guy", and a couple others that have continually haunted me all the way through adult hood.

And this video in particular was circulated well into the 80s.

I read this in a book somewhere: the Sesame Street staff are constantly doing focus studies with real kids, measuring things like how long they watch before getting distracted, what they focus on when watching, what they remember after watching, etc. and one of the things that came out of their studies was that kids pay more attention and learn more if an adult is watching the show with them. But in order for an adult to sit through an entire show with a child, the adult also has to be entertained as well. Hence the pop-culture references (including stuff kids most likely have never seen).

Pixar does a great job with their movies along these lines as well by providing jokes only adults are likely to get mixed in with the more slap-stick stuff for the kids.

>> ^RFlagg:

I recall pop-culture references during the 70s, so parody is one of their mainstays. I find it odder when they parody of stuff the kids most likely never saw or know:
True Blood (True Mud):
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Mad Men (they left the title Mad Men for that one)
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>> ^artician:

Has Sesame Street always catered to pop culture like this?


I think it was in the past few years.

>> ^artician:

Has Sesame Street always catered to pop culture like this?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vftf8TTve4s

Has Sesame Street always catered to pop culture like this?

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*Returns from "Dead Pool" - (Still moaning & complaining) :

Hahahaha, god you're adorable, haha. Thanks mate

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimento , Pimento is a sweet chilli pepper.

That fantastically perfect little fold dictates to me that it is done with a machine, I doubt companies that produce millions of jars have people doing it by hand. I would bet this video depicts what goes on at a "mom and pop" style of shop.

Anymore leg work I can do for ya just ask.
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Problem 1: I still don't know how they get that perfectly cut and folded pimento in, nor what the hell a pimento is anyway. Waste of my 5:35.

Problem 2: This whole show is just, "There's a machine that does this, there's a machine that does that, it does xxx per minute. Humans still do this job." There's no narrative. This one about saxaphones from Sesame Street has a much better narration. It gets you interested. I still remember it from when I was a kid.

Problem 1: I still don't know how they get that perfectly cut and folded pimento in, nor what the hell a pimento is anyway. Waste of my 5:35.

Problem 2: This whole show is just, "There's a machine that does this, there's a machine that does that, it does xxx per minute. Humans still do this job." There's no narrative. This one about saxaphones from Sesame Street has a much better narration. It gets you interested. I still remember it from when I was a kid.

@robbersdog49
This will forever be a discussion between people who work with colours.
In the print industry, the photographic industry or the artists of the world.

The truth is it's different for what ever your process is.
RGB for Light
CMYK for Print
& RYB for artists
I work in all three industries and need to switch my brain back and forth between them constantly.

What they are showing here at the most primary level is the RYB colour wheel that kids learn first. It's basic paints and crayons. These are the base pigments used in paints; Cadmium Yellow & Red, Phthalocyanine (Phthalo) Blue or Cobalt Blue. The closest paint colour to magenta would be a Quinacridone.
The primary colours are the ones all others are made from. These are the ones you can't make by adding something else. We use the chemicals that are the absolute most pure to create these pigmants. They are the highest level of purity and intensity a colour can be. Once you start mixing them, the intensity can only be reduced.
Of course these would be balanced using a titanium white, Iron Oxide Black (plus Umber & Sienna).

As we get older, science class points out that light works differently and is a process that works in subtractive colour. Light being white and the other colours being made by adding filters to block various parts of the spectrum.A blue surface isn't so much blue as it just holds on to all wavelengths of the spectrum but reflects the part of the spectrum that is blue. (Etc.)

In indusry, (and most people still don't under stand this process), the printing process uses Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key (Black) (in a transparent or dot)layered fashion to simulate a full colour image.

And don't forget Hexachrome (CMYKOG) which also ads the Orange and Green coloured inks (because simple CMYK cannot simulate every colour).

The CMYK colour system is a simulation of colour and are NOT primary colours. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black are the primary colours within that system only.

ROY G BIV
R Y B are more accurately the Primary Colours in the light and colour spectrum. The coulours between them OG(I)V are all Secondary colours.

*Sidenote: Magenta is an odd coulour which comes from that one man out theory. Indigo is the invisible colour in the spectrum that breaks the rule. That's why in order to create a Cyan colour in paint, we use a Quinacridone pigment. Quinacridone is a transparent colour only and can't be made opaque without mixing it with another pigment and loosing it's purity. It's a damm expensive pigment so it's rarely used.

>> ^robbersdog49:

Primary colours of light are Red Green and Blue.
Primary colours of pigment are Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black.
I'm a geeky printer so this bugs the hell out of me. Blue is a mix of Cyan and Magenta, so it's not primary. It's a mix. Red is a mix of Magenta and Yellow.
Maybe they just weren't clever enough to find rhymes for Magenta or Cyan. It's just a shame they had to be wrong.

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>> ^robbersdog49:

Primary colours of light are Red Green and Blue.
Primary colours of pigment are Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black.
I'm a geeky printer so this bugs the hell out of me. Blue is a mix of Cyan and Magenta, so it's not primary. It's a mix. Red is a mix of Magenta and Yellow.
Maybe they just weren't clever enough to find rhymes for Magenta or Cyan. It's just a shame they had to be wrong.

>> ^speechless:

Why would this not belong in the kids channel?
Is it not a video by kids with a positive message for kids?
Personally, I don't like the video tbh, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be in the right channels.


Kids is for sesame street, Thomas the tank engine,barney,bill nye the science guy, how to build a paper airplane etc. As I was told by THEE highest, as per the channel owners original wishes ( yet shitty standing description)

sesame seeds are always falling off the buns, so lucky some message didn't come out wrong.. still, nice sentimeent and lots of *humanitarian *equality