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Play with me sesame ernie says baseball3/11/2023 This is the weird contradiction of educational TV, really. If Noggin did audience research that found that after watching Play With Me Sesame, kids went off and spent more time playing imagination games with household objects and less time watching Noggin, they’d take it off the air so fast your little blue head would spin. So no matter how much Play With Me Sesame talks about reading or drawing pictures or playing on the computer, the thing they really want you to do is to keep watching Play With Me Sesame. When you think about it, there’s something fishy about the whole concept of an “interactive TV show.” The whole point of television - and this isn’t me being crabby media-crit boy, this is the real actual purpose of everything on television - is for you to keep watching television. Now, call me old-fashioned, but is that really the way to encourage kids to read? It’s fun to wear your book like a hat, it’s fun to dance with your book - but when we tell you to sit down and read your book, we instantly distract you with mooing children. Then there’s a pause of exactly two seconds before they start showing us film clips of kids making animal sounds. Ernie thinks that’s a good idea, and announces: “Ernie Says, read your book!” He sits down and reads Bert’s book. Bert objects, saying that he wants to read his book. “Now, Ernie Says: Make your book talk! Like this! Hi, there - I’m a talking book!” Then it’s on to dancing with your book, wearing your book like a hat, and taking your book for a drive around the room. “Now, Ernie Says: Make your book walk!” He moves the open book back and forth like it’s walking. “Ernie Says: Put the book in front of your face!” Bert wants his book back. “Ernie Says: Get a book! Uh… scuse me, Bert, would you mind if I borrowed that book?” He grabs Bert’s book, and starts the game. “Hey, we can play Ernie Says with a book,” Ernie says. In today’s episode, Ernie wants to play Ernie Says, but Bert is busy reading a book.
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