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: