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For context, in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe itself Lady Elaine had accidentally caused a freak blizzard that threatened to cancel the Make-Believe Olympics that had been planned throughout the rest of the week >!(ultimately they recreated the ending of the earlier opera "The Snow People", with Henrietta reprising her role and Harriet Elizabeth Cow in place of Teacher Reardon)!< and was also one of many episodes where Ella Jenkins visited. At the beginning of the show, after finishing "Won't You Be My Neighbor", Mr. Rogers demonstrated a Candyland-esque game with a NOMB theme.

I know Fred wasn't one for merchandising, but that game should've been made available in the real world. Even now I'd love to own a copy.

^(Before anyone asks, the song is "Another Night In Paris" by Aloe Blacc.)

"The perfect place for the songs living rent free in your head", so claims the announcer and the words on screen in case you activated the "mute" button. Maybe I'm the only one who feels this way, but commercials using "current" slang (and is that even still current by now) scream "trying too hard". And of course this show of T1KT0K's reach is disheartening as well.

Was reading up on them and stumbled across the fact they were a couple. I don’t know why, but I’m mind blown by this! Absolutely amazing they got to work together for that many years helping define 70s/80s/90s television!!

And of course they also produced Happy Days, Perfect Strangers, Laverne and Shirley, Mork and Mindy, Bosom Buddies and way more! Yet, no gay characters on any of the shows (from my what I remember), of course given the time period. Although Laverne and Shirley, Bosom Buddies and hell, Perfect Strangers (despite them being cousins) aren’t exactly ringing as straight roommates, but I digress.

Was going to put this on TIL but realized it was probably too niche and needed to come to my people ha.

https://preview.redd.it/d09am0kgnw4h1.jpg?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c802456f3b99d5d408561d3659b261413fdd7fc

I thought Christmas ads were done until September at earliest.

https://preview.redd.it/0m2n96is25zg1.jpg?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=440a1cca8edd91f9c00310da2f26eb9ac8cb0022

Why show a woman barely staying in her corset that matches her skin to sell your women's fashion magazine? Unless that really is the latest thing (I don't pay attention to fashion trends, I just throw on whatever).

The fact that I saw this ad in r/MrRogersNeighborhood is icing on the cake.

https://youtu.be/kscSdxbNaBU

Unfortunately, while Alexa usually ignores first party commercials while I'm watching Prime, in this case "she" responds to the guy requesting "House of the Dragon" by misinterpreting it as me having requested "Teach Me How To Dougie" or the "House of the Dragon" soundtrack on Amazon Music. Meaning I have to suddenly scream "Alexa stop" a few times in rapid succession, and of course those are now in my Amazon Music history. Observe:

https://preview.redd.it/ttxe1b8sn2yg1.jpg?width=623&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91ed0bbf45059653c14af38451323d7652c39dc3

I now have to scramble for the mute button or (ironically) ask Alexa to mute the TV every time I observe this commercial starting and pray that I catch it before the offending line is spoken.

P.S.: This is not the place to brag about how you don't and never will have Alexa. I'm pretty sure there's a whole subreddit for that. And apologies to anyone who played the ad only for their own Alexa to play either the HotD soundtrack or whatever song includes the words "how" or "house".