Reading Rainbow - The End.

[Goosemaster]

'Reading Rainbow' Reaches Its Final Chapter @ NPR:brokenheart:


I used to love this show.:heart: One nice quote from the story was that one of the commentators defined RR as a show that did not simply teach reading, but rather reveled in it.

 

[trmiv]

Those motherfuckers!! They canceled the Rainbow??? Dammit I grew up watching LeVar Burton on that damn show!

:music: Butterfly in the skyyyyyyyyyyy :music:

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: trmiv

:music: Butterfly in the skyyyyyyyyyyy :music:

I will never forget that song:heart:

:music: Butterfly in the skyyyyyyyyyyy, I can so fly so high, reading a book, singing a hook... butterfly... READING RAINBOW!!!:music:

 

[Possessed Freak]

Great show, it will always live on in my memory.

 

[rocadelpunk]

rip reading rainbow

 

[PottedMeat]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: trmiv

:music: Butterfly in the skyyyyyyyyyyy :music:

I will never forget that song:heart:

:music: Butterfly in the skyyyyyyyyyyy, I can so fly so high, reading a book, singing a hook... butterfly... READING RAINBOW!!!:music:

Good show. Also "But you don't have to take my word for it ..."

 

[waggy]

ohh that sucks. my daughter loved the show.

 

[Modelworks]

I was in high school when I started catching episodes of the show and it seemed to be a really good program , on the level of sesame street at the time. Then I saw it a couple weeks ago. It is not like it was. It was trying to make social commentary with short documentary like clips rather than being about the books. The show was about black children whose fathers were in jail and how they read books together. A good topic, but I think off focus from the original shows. Don't think it should be taken off, but it wasn't at all like the early shows.

 

[Tobolo]

Holy crap, this was still on TV???? I feel robbed for all of the years that I have misse dit.

 

[irishScott]

And slowly but surely all of the good shows die.

Had a good run though; was obsessed with this as a kid. When I learned LaVar was the same guy as Geordi (when I was about 5) I was all NO WAI. Lol. Good times.

 

[bignateyk]

WTF, that was still on? I remember watching that like 15 years ago.

 

[R Nilla]

Originally posted by: Tobolo
Holy crap, this was still on TV???? I feel robbed for all of the years that I have misse dit.

Yeah, I had no idea this show was still on and am amazed that LeVar Burton was still hosting after all these years.

I definitely watched a lot of Reading Rainbow as a kid.

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: trmiv

:music: Butterfly in the skyyyyyyyyyyy :music:

I will never forget that song:heart:

:music: Butterfly in the skyyyyyyyyyyy, I can so fly so high, reading a book, singing a hook... butterfly... READING RAINBOW!!!:music:

Apparently, you already have...even though it's right there in your link. Your lyrics don't even make sense...

 

[ViviTheMage]

That was still airing??

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: irishScott
And slowly but surely all of the good shows die.

Had a good run though; was obsessed with this as a kid. When I learned LaVar was the same guy as Geordi (when I was about 5) I was all NO WAI. Lol. Good times.

That's why I started watching star trek IIRC. I was interested to see what this other program was and then I also discovered the movies and what not.

 

[PottedMeat]

Originally posted by: R Nilla

Originally posted by: Tobolo
Holy crap, this was still on TV???? I feel robbed for all of the years that I have misse dit.

Yeah, I had no idea this show was still on and am amazed that LeVar Burton was still hosting after all these years.

I definitely watched a lot of Reading Rainbow as a kid.

I watched a lot of PBS because my parents were too cheap for cable and it was the only station we could get reliably OTA.

I liked many of their shows and when I flip through PBS now it seems like there aren't many shows like it anymore. I remember 3-2-1 Contact, Square One, some drawing program with a guy called Commander Mark. Plus all those Nature/Nova stuff on primetime.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: trmiv

:music: Butterfly in the skyyyyyyyyyyy :music:

I will never forget that song:heart:

:music: Butterfly in the skyyyyyyyyyyy, I can so fly so high, reading a book, singing a hook... butterfly... READING RAINBOW!!!:music:

Apparently, you already have...even though it's right there in your link. Your lyrics don't even make sense...

I didn't think that needed a [/s]

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
That was still airing??

 

[zebano]

Wow, I didn't know it was still on. That was my favorite show until I got a little older and into TNMT.

 

[R Nilla]

Originally posted by: PottedMeat
I remember 3-2-1 Contact, Square One, some drawing program with a guy called Commander Mark. Plus all those Nature/Nova stuff on primetime.

:thumbsup: Square One was awesome.

 

[darkxshade]

What will happen to Geordi LaForge?

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: trmiv

:music: Butterfly in the skyyyyyyyyyyy :music:

I will never forget that song:heart:

:music: Butterfly in the skyyyyyyyyyyy, I can so fly so high, reading a book, singing a hook... butterfly... READING RAINBOW!!!:music:

Apparently, you already have...even though it's right there in your link. Your lyrics don't even make sense...

I didn't think that needed a [/s]

Yea, I thought you might say that. Don't you be fucking around with the lyrics to Reading Rainbow! That show was my life. I hope you burn in hell!

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: R Nilla

Originally posted by: PottedMeat
I remember 3-2-1 Contact, Square One, some drawing program with a guy called Commander Mark. Plus all those Nature/Nova stuff on primetime.

:thumbsup: Square One was awesome.

ditto:heart:

 

[Zolty]

Well it's only several thousand to renew it, if someone were to pay for the show I am sure they would air it.

 

[Redfraggle]

I loved that show as a kid, it fed my already voracious appetite to read.