No, I'm not taking about what Kevin Murphy thinks of himself... or is it Bill Corbett? Or maybe Mary Jo? Bridget? Mike?

Oh, well. No, this was a series of animated films back in the Seventies which dealt with issues such as emotions and health, but in a funny and goofy way. A lot better than Churchill Films' Feelings series, because they don't just drop you without an ending.

So why should these shorts be riffed?

(1) Made a whole lot of them than ACI Films did. Seriously, there were several shorts made, and I recall they used them first as a filler for Captain Kangaroo, then later in schools, where they eventually meandered to PBS/GRETA channels. Whereas ACI taught us how to make things out of garbage, and find abstract things in county fairs or numbers with turkeys, The TMIP films focus on things that children deal with like making mistakes, how the body works (no, seriously, but family-based), and the world around you. But in an animated, bizarre sort of way.. which leads to number two..

(2) Teaching lessons with strange methods.. the one I recall was about teeth, but had the character going about claiming he was 'brushing his teeth,' by eating things you chew to keep them healthy. Another was about 'touching,' (which I've submitted the clip here) which taught kids it was okay to 'touch' things, which was odd because everywhere I used to go, they'd tell you NOT to touch things. Odd..

(3) Amazingly bilingual: Thanks to Sesame Street and other PBS shows early on, TMIP has some kids in the show speaking Spanish as well as English, which isn't really a bad thing but you wonder why they switch between languages and wonder if you're watching a kid's show of if you stepped into a foreign film of sorts.

Overall, TMIP wasn't bad, it however shows how ridiculous it was teaching our kids stuff in the Seventies through animation. Here's a clip from the series.. called Touching.

Touching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMi0sUzvlOc