Just finished watching this excellent documentary about the life of Mr Dressup. You would be hard-pressed to find a Canadian born before the late 1990s who wouldn't rave about how amazing his show...
Just finished watching this excellent documentary about the life of Mr Dressup. You would be hard-pressed to find a Canadian born before the late 1990s who wouldn't rave about how amazing his show was as a kid.
Many people refer to Mr Dressup as Canada's version of Mr Rogers. The two men were very close friends Mr Rogers was the best man at Mr Dressup's wedding for example, and Mr Rogers was actually developed in Canada, and Ernie (Mr Dressup) came up to Canada with Mr Rogers to create/work the show. After his contract was up Mr Rogers took the show back to the USA and Ernie created first Butternut Square and later Mr Dressup to fill the programming gap up here.
I've often said that much of the "polite/nice" Canadian stereotype comes from a few generations growing up watching his show.
Highly recommend giving the docu a watch and hope it tickled a bit of your childhood nostalgia as it did for me tonight.
Thanks so much for mentioning this documentary. I was so excited I watched it right away ☺️ I grew up in the U.S. but close to the Canadian border. Location and with television signals being what...
Thanks so much for mentioning this documentary. I was so excited I watched it right away ☺️
I grew up in the U.S. but close to the Canadian border. Location and with television signals being what they were in the late ‘70s we only received a small CBC station so I grew up with Mr. Dressup (and the Friendly Giant) instead of Mr. Rogers. Moved further into the U.S. years later and I remember it being so weird that the kids had no idea who Mr. Dressup was nor had ever watched a hockey game 😆
Mr Dressup was great... until that bitch Annie came around and complained all the time before heading over to the community centre. To be fair, I was in my 20s when she was doing this, so maybe...
Mr Dressup was great... until that bitch Annie came around and complained all the time before heading over to the community centre. To be fair, I was in my 20s when she was doing this, so maybe kids could relate to her shit attitude toward life and teamwork.
Before Annie, who is awful, there was Casey and Finnegan. For the longest time they really creeped me out and I was convinced that they lived in the living room that The Friendly Giant was setting up every day.
Anyway, I'm going to check this out. A few of these kids shows were great. Also, I just now realized that Fred Penner isn't Steve Smith / Red Green.
In the movie they flash back to the episode of Fred Penner that Mr Dressup appeared on (and there is some sad context around that episode that I'll leave for viewers to discover) and I turned to...
In the movie they flash back to the episode of Fred Penner that Mr Dressup appeared on (and there is some sad context around that episode that I'll leave for viewers to discover) and I turned to my wife and said I remember this episode and watching it with my kid sister. By that point I had aged out of both shows but I still remember how much of a cool feeling it was having them both on the show at the same time.
Just finished watching this excellent documentary about the life of Mr Dressup. You would be hard-pressed to find a Canadian born before the late 1990s who wouldn't rave about how amazing his show was as a kid.
Many people refer to Mr Dressup as Canada's version of Mr Rogers. The two men were very close friends Mr Rogers was the best man at Mr Dressup's wedding for example, and Mr Rogers was actually developed in Canada, and Ernie (Mr Dressup) came up to Canada with Mr Rogers to create/work the show. After his contract was up Mr Rogers took the show back to the USA and Ernie created first Butternut Square and later Mr Dressup to fill the programming gap up here.
I've often said that much of the "polite/nice" Canadian stereotype comes from a few generations growing up watching his show.
Highly recommend giving the docu a watch and hope it tickled a bit of your childhood nostalgia as it did for me tonight.
Thanks so much for mentioning this documentary. I was so excited I watched it right away ☺️
I grew up in the U.S. but close to the Canadian border. Location and with television signals being what they were in the late ‘70s we only received a small CBC station so I grew up with Mr. Dressup (and the Friendly Giant) instead of Mr. Rogers. Moved further into the U.S. years later and I remember it being so weird that the kids had no idea who Mr. Dressup was nor had ever watched a hockey game 😆
Mr Dressup was great... until that bitch Annie came around and complained all the time before heading over to the community centre. To be fair, I was in my 20s when she was doing this, so maybe kids could relate to her shit attitude toward life and teamwork.
Before Annie, who is awful, there was Casey and Finnegan. For the longest time they really creeped me out and I was convinced that they lived in the living room that The Friendly Giant was setting up every day.
Anyway, I'm going to check this out. A few of these kids shows were great. Also, I just now realized that Fred Penner isn't Steve Smith / Red Green.
In the movie they flash back to the episode of Fred Penner that Mr Dressup appeared on (and there is some sad context around that episode that I'll leave for viewers to discover) and I turned to my wife and said I remember this episode and watching it with my kid sister. By that point I had aged out of both shows but I still remember how much of a cool feeling it was having them both on the show at the same time.