Sometimes they come back again

I can't remember the year, exactly. Probably sometime in the very early nineties. We didn't have cable television back then; our house was so far from the road that it would be too expensive to get it put in. At least, that was the story for many, many years. I spent many late mornings on summer weekdays watching PBS: Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, Zoobilee Zoo, Shining Time Station, that show with the artist guy who had a dragon that he let do some of the shading, and whenever I could catch it on, Square One Television. Square One Television was a program focusing exclusively on teaching math to kids in an exciting and humorous way. There was Mathman, a Pac-man send-up where the character going through the maze would have to answer math questions. There was Mathnet, a spoof of Dragnet, where George Frankly and Kate Monday would solve crimes having to do with math. There were sketches, game shows, and music videos. One of these is the video you see above, which was my very first exposure to "Weird Al" Yankovic. It's just another in a series of things I never thought I see again, all made possible by people posting things to websites like YouTube, Putfile, and Google Video. Now I'm just waiting for some videos of the old Polaner All-Fruit commercial ("Please pass the jelly!") and the Buford and Bernice spots for Transmission Specialists (the latter being far less likely), and my memories of childhood can be a little more complete. Or at least a little bit more visual.