Barney go away.

On our way home from watching Transformers a couple of days ago, my friends and I started throwing random entities from our youths, and I stumbled into one of my all-time favorite shows.

Perhaps growing up most of you would have watched Sesame Street, or perhaps some other weird wacky kiddie show. To me, Lamb Chop's Play-Along would always be the best. All-time.



And it's not one of those shows where my mom would go "hey, it's time to watch (this or that)!!!" just because it was educational or it would perhaps shut me up for the meantime. No! I was 7 or 8, and believe me, I was HIGH on Lamb Chops! Best thing in the world. Ernie and Bert can go back to Rubber Duckie and shower 'til their skins crumple up like a prune, Lamb Chops was the baddest there ever was.

Now, if that song didn't get you jumpin', (bounce your bottom in your chair, bounce it here, bounce it there!) then maybe this all-time favorite would:



Thank you Charlie Horse, Hush Puppy, and Lamb Chops, for all the good times, and for this song which probably was the first song I really enjoyed singing, before all the Abba's and Carpenters' came into my life. It still amazes me how socks with a rudimentary pair of eyes amaze and entertain me, day in and day out.

And of course, to Shari Lewis, God rest her soul, for opening my eyes to the world of ventriloquy.

I always knew Lamb Chops was high on drugs or something. He had some rocker's aura about him. I mean, who bounces up and down that chair the way he did? All of them were mere questions, until I stumbled upon this:



Forget Barney, Lamb Chops for life. In fact, I'll start looking for Lamb Chops DVD's now so that my kids will get to watch it, and not turn into some purple grinning psycho monster.

I'M OUT!!!