As much as I frequently make fun of current children's programming, my generation had our fair share of bad examples, such as Sesame's Street's Don Music: the poster boy for shame and self-loathing.

Who can forget his classic line,

"Oh, I'll never get it right! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER!!!"

which, of course, was always punctuated by banging his head against the keys of his piano. There's a lesson every parents wants their kid to learn ...

That poor guy always looked like he was barely holding it together, even when he did manage to piece together some rhyming lyrics, but we loved to laugh at his pain even more than at that guy who always fell down the stairs with dozens of pies. Even worse, no one else ever offered Don Music the advice that "if at first you don't succeed, try again" or "doing your best is all that matters".



Don stopped doing new material after his creator, Richard Hunt, died in 1992 and because parents were complaining that kids were imitating his defeatist headbanging at home.

However, Don Music left us with such gems as "Mary Had a Bicycle", "Can You Tell Me How to Get To Yellowstone Park", "Whistle, Whistle Little Bird" and "Drive, Drive, Drive Your Car".

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you ...