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There are few personalities that unite Canadians quite like Mr. Dressup.
For 29 years, spanning an impressive 4,000 episodes, the beloved children’s show host appeared on television screens across the country, inviting kids to explore his iconic Tickle Trunk alongside a legion of puppet sidekicks, including the cherished duo of Casey and Finnegan.
And although many are familiar with the character portrayed by Ernie Coombs, far fewer know the endearing story of how Mr. Dressup came to be a mainstay on Canadian TV.
Now, a new documentary is set to explore that, taking a deep dive into the Mr. Dressup’s legacy as well as his profound impact on children’s programming.
“There’s not enough time to discuss the things that I learned (while making the documentary),” Rob McCallum, the director of Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe, told Global News. [...]
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The Vinyl Side of CBC Television
#cbc#records#canada#canadian#the tommy hunter show#wayne and shuster#hockey night in canada#the friendly giant#mr. dressup
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Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe - Official Trailer | Prime Video
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"When children would ask me if Casey was a boy or a girl," puppeteer Judith Lawrence says in the new documentary, Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe, "I would say, 'Yes.'"
"Both Casey and Finnegan were created by Lawrence, an extraordinary puppeteer who the documentary makes clear deserves nearly as much credit for the legacy of Mr. Dressup as Mr. Dressup himself, Ernie Coombs. It also shows that Lawrence believed wholeheartedly in the power of dress-up and make-believe in moving beyond a binary world."
Mr. Dressup aired from roughly the 1970s thru to the '90's on the CBC tv network in Canada. Back in the days when some channels were publically funded and available on traditional airwaves for free.
Mr. Dressup was actor Ernie Coombs and he apprenticed under Mr. Rogers before coming over here to Canada to make Mr. Dressup. It was essentially a Canadian version of the Mr Rogers' Neighborhood show in it's goals, but with a premise based on dressing up and colourful make-believe characters, which were used to approach to daily life in a way kids could learn from.
I was quite young but did grew up on the late 90's re-runs of the show. I remember how quaint it was...
#mr. dressup#childrens' tv#canadian tv#cbc#nonbinary#non binary#mr rogers#casey mr dressup#gender neutral#judith lawrence#ernie coombs#mr dressup#canada
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Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe (dir. Rob McCallum) x VIFF 2023.
Amazon's biographical documentary on the legendary Canadian-American children's entertainer Ernie Coombs captures much of the same gentle warmth of his three-decades-long CBC television series. This is a very nice and pleasant walk down memory lane for anyone who grew up with Mr. Dressup. His exploration of Coombs' roots, family, and strong connections to Fred Rogers as a mentor/friend is delightfully remembered. It's an entirely pleasant (albeit light) viewing experience.
Screening at the 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival as part of the Special Presentation series at the Vancouver Playhouse on Sept. 30 and Park Theatre on Oct. 5.
#viff#viff 2023#amazon studios#amazon prime video#prime video#cbc#documentary#features#media#reviews#movie#mr dressup#mr. dressup#movies#ernie coombs#movie review#film#film review#streaming#tiff#tiff 2023#fred rogers#mister rogers#mr rogers#mr. rogers
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Mr. Dressup is from Mr. Dressup, a tv series about an amiable man who teaches preschool subjects with his puppet friends using games, songs, and the infinite number of costumes inside his tickle trunk. Often referred to as “the Canadian Mister Rogers”, Mr. Dressup has become an ionic and beloved figure
Gwen is a character from the animated franchise Total Drama. She is a goth girl who loves art and astronomy, and first appears in the Total Drama Island series, where she competed to win the titular game show.
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#poll#tumblr poll#children’s tv shows#kids tv#kids shows#Mr dressup#polka dot door#today’s special#camp cariboo#the elephant show#skinnamarink tv#Sharon Lois and Bram#big comfy couch#Theodore tugboat#under the umbrella tree#breaker high#incredible story studios#are you afraid of the dark?#bookmice
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just finished watching that new documentary about Mr. Dressup. I'm fully crying; I'm just feeling so much nostalgia :')
I highly recommend it if you watched Mr. Dressup, or if you simply enjoy Canadian film/television history
#krenenbaker's thoughts#I've watched Mr. Dressup so much throughout my life#had so many episodes on VHS#so seeing everything about the development of the show and Ernie Coombs hit a very emotional spot#also rewatched ''The Log Drivers' Waltz'' tonight#I love Canadian media so much
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mr dressup documentary coming to prime .............. i'm about to cry in canadian sooooo hard
#nat.txt#for the unawares: mr dressup was sort of canada's answer to mr rogers (they were friends irl!). so you can imagine#(technically mr rogers is the canadian answer to mr rogers since its first version (misterogers) was a cbc show BUT I DIGRESS)
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My parents and I are going to watch the Mr. Dressup documentary! I’m so looking forward to it.
#Mr. Dressup will forever be nostalgic for me#in a way that my brothers will never understand as I am a part of the last generation who got to watch Mr. Dressup
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the fan overlap is probably incredibly small but season 8 of ninjago reminds me soooo much of alex rider’s whole deal, and not just because we’re dealing with a little blonde blorbo who has to save the world too many times.
I mean, young teen forced to grow up way too fast after being prepared for a role as superhero is a huge piece of overlap. The propensity to self-sacrifice by running into horrific situations alone. The lost dad, and the unstoppable force that is the drive to get him back or at least find out what happened.
Scorpia Alex running off to Venice to nearly get himself killed in the pursuit of finding out who his dad was, because no one will tell him anything. Lloyd trapping the gang in the hold of the Bounty so he can escape and take on his father alone, not expecting to fight him (or nearly die) but armed with love because that saved his dad before and surely it can happen again.
It doesn’t, and they both come out nearly dead (remember the assassination attempt at the end of Scorpia where you thought Alex fucking died until Ark Angel came out? Lloyd on death’s door in the tea shop and eventually revived but without his powers, and the villains ahead are bigger than ever.)
The sequence of Lloyd’s fight being broadcast across the country honestly felt voyeuristic to me, literally sickening. Harumi wants the world to watch Lloyd literally die, which is grimly reminiscent of about five billion scenes in the AR series where Alex’s death is intended to be slow and spectated. Grief’s live dissection, Yassen’s bullfight, Cray’s real life Feathered Serpent, the Muay Thai death match, the crocodile torture scene. And so on.
And then all the times Alex has to sit and get manipulated and/or punished by watching footage of the only people he loves getting fucking murdered? Jack in Scorpia Rising, John in Scorpia, Sabina getting mutilated in Eagle Strike, Alex and Sabina both in the same book watching Cray nuke the whole goddamn planet. And so on!
So normal for these two guys!
So then there’s their nemeses’ obsession with making them feel the pain that they once inflicted. And obviously it’s off the mark: Harumi’s trying to get revenge for her whole fucking life by destroying the world around Lloyd, when a. he wasn’t there when her life went to shit, and b. the whole devourer situation would have been worse if the ninja did nothing yet she’s blaming them for having failed at their attempt. unreal. But she targets him for their similarities. She knows how her background as a parentless “chosen one” has fucked her up and she knows Lloyd’s exactly the same as her, so she’s going to exploit that to make him hurt the way she’s hurt.
Yet it’s the same for Alex: Julius Grief is literally created to be Alex. Literally an evil clone, who looks exactly the same, has identical mannerisms, was groomed all his life for one purpose, had a sickeningly singleminded dad and no affection, has been abandoned by society and left to fend for himself as an adult while he still looks like a 14 year old but with the trauma of about three dozen lifetimes, AND SO ON. So when Julius tries to get revenge (getting mad and getting even) he targets Alex with his rage, and you get that horrific gun battle at the end of Scorpia Rising with two identical boys fighting to the death. But he doesn’t even act out of his own agency: there’s a bigger organisation masterminding all of this and using the kid as a pawn in a greater political and economic ploy.
That last sentence applies to both Alex and Julius. MI6 carried out a fake assassination attempt on Alex to get him to work for them, Scorpia literally breaks into and out of a secret prison to get Julius and dangle freedom and revenge in front of him as a carrot.
So, misguided revenge on an identically traumatized emotional twin, voyeuristic violence. And what’s probably an age-inappropriate number of parachutes.
Oh, and don’t forget that flaky adult figure who dies in the story arc before this one, leaving the protagonists abandoned but not before burdening them with a personal mission that’s emotionally loaded and unfathomably difficult. Yassen Gregorovich, meet Master Wu. Go to Venice, find Scorpia, and you will find your destiny. Travel through time to find some guy who lost himself in a time vortex. Flaky adult figures! And both of them had painfully close relationships with the two boys’ dads. huh.
So it’s just two guys who would die to get their fathers back.
The whole “you say the greatest villains are the ones who got away. So what am I.” bit from Lloyd and then dropping into dead space. then the way that question blurs the line between hero and villain? EXQUISITE. Harumi spends the entire second half of the season trying to cast Lloyd as the destructive one. MI6 spends at least four books, five if you count Never Say Die, trying to gaslight Alex into thinking he’s the delusional one, seeing ghosts around corners and too trigger-happy about hunting someone down. Then in Scorpia, the whole stint at Malagosto has him literally wavering between sides--he’s fully prepared to kill Mrs. Jones in cold blood. What is right or wrong when it’s just you and a world of adversity and you just want to survive?
and as a bonus: that line is the most Alexander John Rider mic drop I’ve seen since I was 14 and eating Horowitz’s books whole while Alex dropped one-liners in the teeth of every single villain monologue.
#if this post did one thing it's make me realise alex rider is way more fucked up than i remembered#ninjago#alex rider#lloyd garmadon#harumi ninjago#julius grief#yassen gregorovich#and me; mr dressup#actually me; vibrating with horror and excitement#there's more than this but this is what I've got rn
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Taking a break from the Jenna Coleman flood, here's another Amazon Prime production I'm looking forward to seeing. This one is for Canadians of a certain age - a long-awaited documentary on Ernie Coombs, the iconic Mr. Dressup.
(I hope they do one on Bob Homme, the Friendly Giant next!)
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I was talking to my sister this morning, and her youngest son was refusing to put on his snowsuit.
Me, jokingly: Thomas, put on your snowsuit!
My sister, just done at this point: we have that book. No lessons were learned.
#the boys are hilarious#also if you are canadian and used to watch mr dressup#please know that i said my line#in the exact ame way robert munsch did#when he was on the show
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Brandy Style Diva
#brandy and mr whiskers#flash#an official dressup this time!#i liked this show. and i liked brandy herself. i liked spoiled mean stylish girls. aside from mandy totally spies.#i think the few times i played this game i went for a similar outfit?#i just didn't like most of the options
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