A little girl answers her door to find Big Bird standing there. Big Bird takes her hand. He leads the girl to the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, on a safari, marching through a Suffrage demonstration, to a ballet, through the markets in India and then to the Moon.
Am I the only cynic who thought, “Big Bird just abducted that child!”? (He did bring her home after their adventures but…sigh. It just shows that my innocence is lost…)
Oh, and there’s the other PBS Ad where the mom is reading to her child and Jim Lehrer, some animated character, the This Old House guy (I think) and others are in the room, making comments.
I, of course, thought, “That child is going to have nightmares.”
What did I learn from those ads? Time to reclaim my sense of wonder. Or to check for Jim Lehrer under my bed each night…
