Fruit of the Loom Kinder T Shirt Kids T Shirts 104 116 128 140 152 164Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about movies and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the movie urban legends featured so far. : Universal Studios used to offer an incentive tied in with a joke from National Lampoon’s Animal House. National Lampoon’s Animal House was director John Landis’ big break as a director, as it was his first film for a major studio, specifically, Universal Studios. The film was a very big hit (especially considering it was a very low budget film). At the end of the film, there is a bit of a “where are they now” for each of the main characters. One of the “villains” in the film is the scheming sorority girl, Babs (played by Martha Smith, who is awesome), who hates the guys at Animal House and tries to worm her way into becoming the girlfriend of the rival fraternity, Omega House. In any event, at the end of the film, she gets her comeuppance.

And for HER “Where are they now” bit, it is said that she’s now a tour guide at Universal Studios. Well, after the closing credits finish, there is the Universal Studios logo and an old-fashioned ad saying “When in Hollywood, Visit Universal Studios.” Then, a second or so later, the parenthetical (Ask for Babs) appears on the screen. Landis would go on to use this end joke after the closing credits on all of his films for Universal. Including his next big hit (also with Animal House star John Belushi), the Blues Brothers… What happened if you DID “ask for Babs?” At the time, if you did, in fact, “Ask for Babs,” you were rewarded with some sort of an incentive. History has been very vague as to exactly what kind of incentive you received (a discount? a free entry?), but we know that SOME sort of incentive was attached to the phrase, because in 1989, Universal Studios announced that they would specifically no longer give out any incentive for the phrase.

My thinking is that it was never a clear-cut “you get X” for the phrase, but rather an informal type of situation, determined by whoever the manager was that day. And as time went by, it was likely decided that this was probably not something they wanted to encourage or make official, as if they made it official, clearly EVERYone would just use it.Indoor Wall Lights Homebase What I wish someone could tell me, if they ever experienced it, is what exactly WAS the incentive? Oreck Air Purifier With HepaWe know that there WAS one, I just can’t tell for sure what it was, and I’d appreciate anyone’s help who actually “asked for Babs.”Shiba Inu Puppies For Sale In Kansas City Landis came back to Universal to do the Blues Brothers sequel in 1998, and he brought the in-joke back with him!

As a final tie-in to the joke, in an anniversary edition of Animal House, they showed the actors and actresses in their aforementioned future roles, and Martha Smith is shown leading a tour guide at Universal Studios. Feel free (heck, I implore you!) to write in with your suggestions for future installments! My e-mail address is [email protected] on Tuesday, February 19th, 2013 at 12:57 pm and is filed under Movie Urban Legends Revealed."Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?"Opening themenote Joan Ganz Cooney of the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop) created this hour-long series in 1969. Initially, it was created as a means of preparing young inner-city children for kindergarten. Instead, it got to everybody and became one of the all-time great educational shows.The show teaches literacy, counting, simple logic, and social skills through a kaleidoscopic mix of puppetry, animation, and short films. In a radical departure for the time, it was designed to deliberately mimic the fast pace and style of TV advertising in order to "sell" learning to kids: -friendly story featuring the recurring characters on the Street would be intercut with rapid-fire "commercials" for that day's "sponsors" ("Sesame Street has been brought to you today by the letters A and S

, and the number 7...").The show was—and still is—also revolutionary in having an elite squad of educators and child psychologists pore over every single aspect of every segment in the whole show. Sesame Street has been called a living laboratory, and the show has been constantly tweaked to introduce new curriculum and improve its educational value. The show was completely in 2002 to respond to new child development research. As per :Sesame Street underwent an obvious, dramatic makeover... The new format emphasized rituals and repetition, featured brighter, more cartoon-colorful real-life characters and sets, and more exaggerated, simplistic mannerisms in addressing the screen and seeking viewer interaction. Regular segments...are almost identical from one episode to the next, with only minor story details changing between shows.The set has expanded and contracted over the years but in classic form is a typical New York cul-de-sac, with a brownstone apartment block, a convenience store, a boarded-off vacant lot, and a big open area at one end used as a playground.

This urban setting, multiracial human cast (plus guest stars, including Jesse Jackson and ) and multicolored Muppets added to the hip, inclusive feel.Although aimed at preschool children, Sesame Street deliberately includes enough mainstream to entertain older children and parents as well, the better to encourage family involvement in the learning process. A cameo appearance on the Street , showcasing such diverse stars as , , Madeline Kahn, the Star Wars droids, , and . All of this has had the side benefit of the show developing over the decades, as the original audiences have grown up and introduced the show to their children.On November 11, 2009, Sesame Street celebrated its 40th anniversary, making it the longest-running and most successful children's show in American TV history. For the sake of education, we hope it stays around for at least 50 more.The human cast has varied over the years, but for many years the core remained relatively stable: black married couple Susan and Gordon (and later their adopted son Miles), who work as a nurse and a junior-high science teacher, respectively;

Puerto Rican college student Maria; black student and store clerk David (until 1989); white freelance musician Bob; his deaf librarian girlfriend Linda (until 2003); Hispanic "Fix-It Shop" owner Luis, who later married Maria, and they have a daughter, Gabriella. These characters have gradually been phased out of the show, and currently the main humans on the show, as of 2016, are Nina, Alan and Chris.When Will Lee—who played Mr. Hooper—died mid-season in 1983, the show , with honesty, dignity and respect, in what is still considered a milestone of children's programming. His store's ownership has changed hands a number of times—Mr. Hooper left the store to his assistant David, who sold it to black retired firefighter Mr. Handford following his own departure, who handed over ownership to Japanese-American Alan in 1998—but the store retains Mr. Hooper's name to this day.Various specialized , created and performed by and his crew, star alongside the humans. The Sesame Muppet characters were initially intended as parts of the "commercial" shorts that would only air on occasion, but they became such a hit that the show was tweaked very early in the season to include them into the core structure.