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Nostalgia. Easily one of the best feelings in the world, right? Well, yes and no.▼
▲Easily one of the best feelings in the world,
Nostalgia is such a bittersweet feeling. It consumes you with the innocent happiness that once was, yet fills you with sadness at the fact that those times are over forever. It can even give you a jolt of hate for the way things turned out in life.
For me,
I always loved Steve. His signature green stripes were always a comfort to see after a day of having your toys stolen and your sandcastles crushed (if only the problems today were as simple). The way he would always greet me
Being such an avid fan as a kid, I would feel terrible if I just let the phase pass me by. I proudly watch
You can imagine my excitement when I had an opportunity to meet with some of the workers of the show. My mom's always had strong connections to industries, being a writer herself. When she heard she had a possible job opportunity to work in children's television, she instantly thought of me.
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Anyway, my mom eventually learned that she wouldn't be used as part of a children's writing staff, which canceled any type of plans for me to meet with the writers. As a result, I was pretty bummed. I had been marking down the days in my head for what felt like an eternity, only to have my dreams dashed... then again, that sort of thing usually happened to me; so, it was nothing out of the ordinary.
However, I did receive a complimentary email in replace of the visit. Undoubtedly, my mother had a hand in this. That's one thing about my mom, she's not willing to let her
The email was basically just one saying how sorry everyone was that I would not be able to visit after all. And how they were sorry that my mother wouldn't be contributing to any of their projects.
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I shrugged off most of that, not really believing that anybody was sorry. I mean, I'm sure they may have felt bad, but I was almost positive this was one of those things that receptionists send out to ease the blow of the situation.
As I continued to read, I found one particularly interesting part of the email. I can't really remember too much of the actual conversation, but I was offered a chance to have a one-on-one conversation with one of the producers of
The conversation was pretty slow, as there was a long waiting period between email responses. The time total we spent talking roughly added up to about a month (at least, that's what I figure), whereas the actual time span was probably over a year due to the waiting periods and gray areas of conversation.
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Here is what I discovered when I opened the letter. There was a little reluctance at the beginning of the email, but that was probably just from jitters of not wanting to divulge too much information. Trust me, when you're in a business like this, you learn that telling too much is a big no-no.
However, after getting the okay from higher authorities, they were cleared to tell me the inspiration for the original run of
I can't post the exact contents of the email as they are classified just between myself and the producers. I can, however, leak the story in my own words... at least, I have been to my friends. I mean, come on! I got as close to a nostalgic dream as possible! I can't just bite my tongue about that!
So, here's the story written in my own words. Brace yourself! You are about to enter what is a very touching story about a one of the most well-known children's shows of all time (if you don't count the seemingly never-ending
During the planning stages of
As they began getting ready, discussing characters, working out details, reworking things that didn't sit well, and roping in cast and crew, the team of producers had one very special child in mind as inspiration for the character of Steve. Yes, yes, I know. A child was the inspiration for an adult character? To simply answer your question – yes.
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While each character was impacted in some way by the habits of children and even the habits of parents, Steve was based on a child imparticular. They didn't just base the character upon the traits of a child, but an actual child.
You see, as they were doing their research, they would sit a group of children around a television. They had a variety of children view previews of what was then
One of the children in the group had been sick with Rhabdomyosarcoma – a tumor that appears in the cells of muscles and can be found in any part of the body – since he was an infant. He stood out to the team as he seemed to be one of the more responsive children to the video, despite his illness. He also seemed to have an advanced rate of intelligence; not a genius or something you read about in sci-fi comics, but he was definitely ahead of the rest of the group.
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The team liked to test the show with many other groups, but the boy always stood out in their minds. One day, as the shows production began to slow (they were still lost on the proper name, hadn't developed their host's signature striped shirt, hadn't given the host a definite name, and didn't really do much with the lively inanimate objects we all know from the 90s), they received a letter from the boy.
Again, I can't say the exact words of the letter. Not only because it's
Basically, the boy had scribbled out a short letter in crayon. It had many misspelled words, but they said they were able to figure out what he meant – mostly because the boy's mother had attached a version of the letter in her writing without her son knowing. It said something along the lines of:
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However, Angela managed to let Traci and Todd (the other two head producers) keep charge of the studio while she readied herself for the visit. She had kept in contact with the boy's mother via phone calls, having received the woman's number at the end of her letter that requested the visit.
About a night or so before Angela was to make the visit, she got an urgent phone call from the woman, saying that the boy had been placed into a medical-induced coma when his illness began to spread and cause organ failure. However, despite the panic, the woman refused to cancel the visit, knowing that it may have been her son's dying wish to
So, Angela decided to continue on her way to the hospital in the days ahead. When she arrived there, the patient she was looking for was said to still be in the coma. He had a few bad spells, but was stable enough to have a very brief visit.
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The email had stopped there, since these producers are busy people with lots of projects weighing on their heads. However, I was promised another email as soon as the hustle and bustle had drawn closed. After another long wait of about three or four months, another email popped into my inbox. I was in so much anticipation that I even dropped working on a school project to read it (still managed to get an 85 on that project, though. Not too shabby, if you ask me).
While the beginning of the email left me feeling sad, as it informed me that the young boy had passed away soon after
Now, even all these years later, when I watch
I'm not really sure about anything else or any other shows. My mom's moved on to working on her own projects and hasn't really dabbled too much into children's shows. Obviously, I no longer keep contact with the producers and crew of
In conclusion, it was a great experience and an amazing honor to be able to come that close to knowing the background of just one of the many shows I loved as a kid.
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I ended up following in my mother's footsteps, aspiring to write for television. I'm actually wanting to work in children's television specifically. So, who knows? Maybe I'll end up getting the inside scoop on some other great shows. And, I promise, if I do, I'll keep in touch... if I'm allowed, that is. This business is more hush-hush than you think. I just hope a chatterbox like myself can keep my mouth shut.
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