Captain Kangaroo

Let's see.

I was the Captain Kangaroo Generation.

You're

just happy to see me.

Rowdy says I was the Captain Kangaroo Generation, not the Barney Generation.

I'm with you.

I'm with you.

Oh, it would be so bad.

Yeah.

It was kind of like to the point where he's like, he's watching this, you know, this Barney-esque, you know, Captain Kangaroo show with the lead actor who's playing the part was miserable.

You can tell.

The actor? Yeah.

I'm trying to tell kids to have a good time and to encourage them to be creative and to question things.

The Bob Keeshan quote is the endorsement that matters, though, because Keeshan was Captain Kangaroo.

Decades of children's television behind him.

And he said that with the possible exception of the Muppets, you can't find such creativity anywhere on TV.

Interestingly, while at first Silly Putty was largely marketed to and bought by adults, it soon developed a strong following among children aged 6 to with Hutchins refocusing his marketing accordingly.

For instance, the first television ad for Silly Putty aired in 1957 during the popular children's program Captain Kangaroo and the Howdy Doody Show.

He further reduced the size of each piece to half an ounce or 13 grams and came up with a variety of slogans, including the real solid liquid and the toy with one moving part.

Thanks to these efforts, Silly Putty soon became a fixture of homes across the United States.

But they were so topical in talking about the Vietnam War.

But it was shows where kids were allowed, but it wasn't Captain Kangaroo.

It's like as you started to outgrow... pure kids entertainment and you know a lot of that you know full-on kids entertainment uh you know was you know it was not as sophisticated as it is now although i do have to say when i remember when i was young uh when i first encountered peanuts and like you know charles schultz wrote to intelligent kids and it was really really cool that the person writing this comic strip thought i was smart and enough to understand his references and talk about kids being depressed at christmas time and stuff like that was you know i'd never that that was the you know probably actually the first time i encountered that like first encountering peanuts like a little bit before batman uh and it and it was always fun it was always you know because so much uh of kids entertainment just thinks, well, you know, kind of operates from the assumption of, well, kids are dumb.

So just make it dumb.

Mm-hmm.

Which is apparently a Captain Kangaroo character.

I had to look it up.

Yes.

Yes.

You did?

I used to watch Captain Kangaroo.

I n- I did not have any idea what this reference meant whatsoever until you told me.