Hey You Guys!!!!!!!

Do you remember The Electric Company? The kids show from the 1970s? That show was AWESOME. Morgan Freeman was on it!!!! Well, there's a new Electric Company and it comes on at 5:00 PM on weekdays. We've been watching it almost every day. It has some of the old cool stuff with letters and words, and some mostly dorky kids who have a running dramatic theme of some kind. It's filmed in New York, like the old one was, and there is some very hip cool culture/music/dance, etc. I thought I heard 50 cent (the rapper) on there today, but I could be wrong.

We were driving to a turkey farm last weekend (a subject for another post) and Jacob was playing with the Halloween card he got from his cool Aunt Cindy.

Suddenly, from the back seat I heard, "The Electric Company, The Electric Company!!!"

"Where?" I asked, craning my neck around to the back seat.

"Right here," he said, pointing to the tiny rose logo on the back of the greeting card. And then it hit me: The Electric Company is sponsored by American Greetings. They have a 30 second graphic commercial (tastefully done, of course) at the beginning of each show.

Rewind back to two weeks ago, when Jacob finally got to buy the "Pillow Pet" he had been trying to earn with stickers. As we rung up the "Pillow Pet" at the register, Jacob squeezed the Pillow Pet and said, "It's extra soft and machine washable!" Jacob had memorized the commercial EXACTLY.


(Here's the Pillow Pet Casey chose when she earned hers. She got a sticker for every night she slept through the night. She had to get 20 stickers to get the Pillow Pet!!!)

It gets worse. Last week we did some speed shopping for some tennis shoes for Jacob. He went wild for a pair of Sketchers. "Mom, the Z strap locks into place, every time!"

Ummmmm....I think it's safe to say that Jacob has been watching a little too much TV lately. He is a walking robot of consumer information! I hope the advertising industry is happy. Hey you guys, you are doing a great job!