Happy Birthday, Mr. Rogers! a Tribute to What We All Loved about Mister Rogers' Neighborhood And Pbs
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(peaceful acoustic music)
- I love Mr. Rogers, because he just made you feel special.
He's just real and authentic.
This is who he is.
I feel like that's really hard to find,
and so I think that just sticks with you.
- I think the best part is that he was just always a
warm, welcome presence.
You saw him, and it feels like everything
is gonna be okay.
- The thing I remember most about Mr. Rogers
was how he talked to me as a kid.
He always seemed to talk to me more like an adult,
than I think most of the adults in my life did.
I always felt drawn to that.
- I have taken on a new motto, which is
there's no need to rush.
So as I'm standing in a checkout line,
and I start to get impatient,
I think about how Mr. Rogers never seemed
like he was in a rush,
and he was always fully present in what he was doing.
- Mr. Rogers is very welcoming and informative, I guess.
When I was little I never would have said that
he was informative, but looking back,
I can definitely see how much I learned from him.
He was a very good teacher.
- My son is six-years-old, and he has
severe, nonverbal autism.
And like a lot of autistic kids,
he didn't sleep through the night.
And when Mr. Rogers came on at five AM,
and his smiling, singing face, my son would stand at the TV
and laugh and smile, and it would be the first
relief I would get in like eight hours.
- All of his messages were about kindness
and about dignity, and finding ways to
show that in the world.
And so I look back with a little bit of nostalgia,
but also with a lot of affection to know
that those were the kinds of values I was being taught
as a kid, on television.
- Many years ago, I was visiting Nantucket,
and was headed home, so I was at the airport.
And there in front of me was Mr. Rogers,
sitting on a bench.
He was surrounded by children.
I will never forget Mr. Rogers and that magnetism
that he had in real life.
It was that same magnetism that he had for all of us
on television.
