The new Electric Company

Just caught a bit of this on Channel 13. Interesting...seems almost like a young person's version of MadTV, mostly from the 24p video look and the hip-hop influenced snotty attitude.

But is it The Electric Company? It is whatever the Sesame Workshop says it is, I suppose. Call me an old man, but for me The Electric Company is Rita, Morgan, Judy, Skip, et. al., on a videotape soundstage accompanied by primitive electronic graphics and funky Joe Raposo songs. But after all, the show was never intended to be nostalgic entertainment for culture-starved 30-somethings. It was for the kids, before all else. And above entertainment, it was to teach them to read. Will today's second graders look back fondly on Electric Company 2009 while we, their parents' generation, struggle to look back, fondly or otherwise, on anything, in between doses of Geritol?