Reading Rainbow ends this Friday

Reading Rainbow to end after 26 years.

Reading Rainbow comes to the end of its 26-year run on Friday; it has won more than two-dozen Emmys, and is the third longest-running children's show in PBS history — outlasted only by Sesame Street and Mister Rogers.

This is fucking tragic and worthy of all manner of scorn. How fucking asinine is it that a show whose sole purpose was to get children to read is being canceled? I know not whether one ought to blame funding problems or the Bush Administration's jackassery with regard to Public Education. But I suggest blaming something and focusing a wealth of scorn upon that which is blamed.

I get that I grew up with the show, learned to read partially as a result of the show, and attach to the show a wealth of childhood memories. So in that regard, yes, I'm fucking pissed for personal reasons. But I think that absent those personal ties the mere fact that Reading Rainbow, a show which has for 26 years prompted children to read, can simply fucking die is simply an atrocity.

I mean COME THE FUCK ON! Reading Rainbow gave us RUN DMC RAPPING ABOUT READING! Dora the butt-fucking Explorer never had Run DMC!


"So if you look into a book, like Run DMC says, there's fun to find."

So, yeah, after the final episode airs this Friday I suggest that you hate something which you think is to blame for the end of Reading Rainbow while you curl up with your favorite book and a glass of whatever gets you drunk fastest. Because shit like this is just another example of how fucking worthless and shitheaded this god-damned world is.

But you don't have to take my word for it.