PBS has announced that it is developing an animated spin-off series based on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. Presumably Mr. Rogers will be a CGI young wizard and King Friday will be a werewolf voiced by Justin Bieber.

PBS has announced that it is developing an animated spin-off series based on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. Presumably Mr. Rogers will be a CGI young wizard and King Friday will be a werewolf voiced by Justin Bieber.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde will still manage to scare the shit out of me, regardless.
“Boomerang Toomerang Soomerang!”

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Seriously, I was traumatized in my childhood. Between her and Madame, my formative 80s years seem to be a nightmare of big nosed, tranny-esque puppets.
This has nothing to do with anything, except that it was the most ridiculous/amazing/wonderful thing I’ve ever read, and I really feel like I should share it with you guys:
“Emeril (the crappy short-lived sitcom) came on the air right when a new president of NBC was taking over, and there was just a big shift going on. And then 9/11 happened, and that really pretty much killed it.”
NEVER FORGET.
Creating spinoffs seems like exactly what the mission of public broadcasting should be.
Hyeah. Last time someone setup a tiger as a role model, it ended up cheating on its supermodel wife with Perkins waitresses.
Ludacris will rap “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe will be accessed via a mobile app from the Trolley iPhone.
nostalgia!
Mr. Rogers’s cardigan will stay a cardigan, because today’s audience will see it as a classy Mad Men homage. However, he will change into a pair of Crocs.
I really want to make a joke about adding a HIV+ character like in the South Africa version of Sesame Street, but I will refrain so as not to Lower the Discourse.