"Ooh my white!"

I continue to love my new health provider. Okay, I got a little pissy when one employee told me to wait and then the one she'd been talking at the time to failed to notice I was there, but he made it up to me afterwards. I was making an appointment to come back and have some stitches removed when I noticed Schoolhouse Rock was playing on the flat screen across the room. I mentioned this and he said, "Unfortunately there's only four of them on a loop, so it gets a little annoying. That's why we have the sound turned way down."

"You should get some of the others, like Time for Timer or Dr Henry's Emergency Lessons for People."

He gave me a blank look, which isn't surprising given that he wasn't even a foetus when those shorts were on the air. Dr Henry was on my mind because only moments earlier, when the dermatologist was explaining what to do in case of "rebleeding", I brightly informed her (also a gamete in the 80s) how I learned all about the efficacy of direct pressure from this clip:

I didn't realise that as I was burbling on he was googling away until he showed me his search results. He also cleared up some misconceptions I've carried around for years. One was that Dr Henry, Timer, and Schoolhouse all appeared on different networks. Wrong; all three were broadcast by ABC. Now the reason I'd thought this is that I remember being told that these PSAs were created in response to a government mandate to mitigate the effects of the screeching ads for sugary cereals and cheap plastic toys crammed into gaps between programmes. But your man said they'd tried to substantiate that claim during an earlier conversation and failed to find any support. Hmm.