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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 731830" data-attributes="member: 259">I loved him as a kid, and then laughed at him as a teenager.  The last show of his I ever saw started off with a science experiment:  to demonstrate how rainbows work, he took a flashlight and a spray bottle out into his back yard and sprayed the water in front of the flashlight beam.  He did this for a couple of minutes, trying to get a rainbow -- to no avail.  Finally he came back inside and scribbled in a coloring book while singing a song about how frustrated he was.  At that point, I was rolling on the floor with laughter and didn't watch the rest of it.And that was my last impression of him  until sometime last year, when I heard him interviewed on the radio.  He was the most freakishly un-self-conscious person I've ever heard:  with no sense of irony or self-deprecation, he began a long dialogue in the creakily falsetto voices of Daniel Tiger and Lady Elaine Fairchild, introducing the various characters to the interviewer (who was clearly wigging out).I mean, it was weird, but it was cool.  He was making a fool of himself, but he cared so little about that, that there was nothing foolish about it.  And his warmth and love came through over the radio pure and unadulterated in a way I rarely encounter in my adult life.He was a strange, strange man, but wonderful at the same time.  He joins Jim Henson and Dr. Seuss in the pantheon of childhood heroes gone.Daniel</blockquote>

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