The Letter People!

Hell yeah! Early literacy, baby!

When I was a kid, a program called "The Letter People" was used as an instructional aid. Each letter had a character with different traits and a snappy song to match! Apparently, they've changed some of the characteristics to make them less offensive to the new brand of kiddies- so no more Ripping Rubberbands.

Also tragically changed was Mr. X- who had a wicked, wicked song! Behold the synth weirdness!



My brother (TRON/GangstaFam) was OBSESSED with Mr. S when he was little, even dressing up in his own Super Socks and running around the living room!

Here's the song:



As I was obsessed with anything that had the letter V, and still am, to a degree. Part of the appeal of Valparaiso University for me was the yellow V. So I was all about the violet, velvet vests of Mr. V!



What were your favorites? Any memories of the letter people?

Once upon a time, in a deep dark forest, an old woman, tappin' her toes...

Moonbeam said:

PS, the S song starts with a Motown sample of a Jimmy Ruffin song!

Naughty.

Moonbeam said:

HamsterHuey said:

I am scared of Mr X. now.

My favorite was Mr. M., "Munchy Mouth."


But I think I preferred the show's theme song to any one character theme.

HamsterHuey said:

Once upon a time, in a deep dark forest, an old woman, tappin' her toes...

HamsterHuey said:

I am scared of Mr X. now.

Once upon a time, in a deep dark forest, an old woman, tappin' her toes...

Lammastide said:

Once upon a time, in a deep dark forest, an old woman, tappin' her toes...

OMFG that brings back memories of the 70's

We never had this in HOlland, so to me it is all new. And scary, sometimes. Mr X freaks me out.

OMG, y'all are killing me over here!

The tv people over there were on some major drugs, I am sure.

TRON said:

OMG, y'all are killing me over here!

Once upon a time, in a deep dark forest, an old woman, tappin' her toes...

Oh my. The Renner Co. is online! That's a long time ago!

Should we invade chat?

TRON said:

OMG, y'all are killing me over here!

HamsterHuey said:

CHAT!

This thread took me right back to kindergarton.

Memaw loves her Seyhan

AHHHHH!!!!! This used to be the SHOW!!!

Jumping on my mom's bed to the theme song...imitating the characters after the show went off...life was so simple.


Introducting Miss A!!!

http://www.youtube.com/wa...re=related

MoniGram said:

This thread took me right back to kindergarton.

HamsterHuey said:

MoniGram said:

This thread took me right back to kindergarton.

I now imagine all them kids packed in kartons somehow. Pod people.

Memaw loves her Seyhan

I was forever traumatized by these. My kindergarten teacher had stuffed animal versions of each of these that she was making for the class. I dared pick one up to look at it before it was finished and she spanked me in front of the entire class. Still hate the bitch to this day.

We had blow-up versions of these in our kindergarten class hung up around the room as we got to them each week.

Our first was Mr. M. I'll forever remember his song. "I'm Mr. M with a munching mouth... my mouth goes munch munch munch...."

The TV show was utter crap though. Some of the worst production values in the history of children's television. Turn up the damn lights! It's like "Meet the Feebles" but not on purpose and without the sex.

I hate that they got all politically correct and changed a bunch of them. I was outraged when they did it.

I don't think I ever watched The Letter People. I use to watch Sesame Street,and Romper Room.

~Imagine The Possibilities~

TRON said: