The Horrors of Lady Elaine
My eyes!!!
A keen friend referred me to the unbelievable mashness of Lady Elaine Fairchilde from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. This chardonnay-loving she-puppet exudes staggering amounts of mash from each and every enlarged pore on her frighteningly engorged nose (speaking of "ew").
A quick google search unearthed a treasure trove of commentary on the Lady. An entire message board details her mash-like qualities without quite knowing how to articulate that creepy, dirty feeling.
I'll let these folks speak for themselves:
i used to have nightmares about lady elaine, the woman who lived in that spinning thing... in my nightmares, [she] used to appear in my clothes inside of my closet. and if a kid's show can do that, it must be evil.
I hated all the puppets, especially that scary red-nosed Lady Elaine and her stupid rotating museum thing
... between the ages of 3 and 6 I kept confusing Lady Elaine and Nancy Regan. They were both scary middle aged women who dressed in red and lived in a house with ionic columns.
Lady Elaine Fairchild was creepy and mean in her Museum-Go-Round.
I really really loved this show when i was little but when [Mr. Rogers] went to puppet world and... to Lady Elaine's house i would have to shut my eyes and cover my ears...I was completely terrified by lady elaine i had to sleep with my dad for 5 years and i would have nightmare that she would be right out my window and i thought if I would get up at night she would grab my feet under the bed..I know its sounds stupid but this show scared me for life..DAMN YOU LADY ELAINE AND YOUR STUPID RED NOSE
Sure, kids love this kind of stuff!
I have to wonder, are all puppets scary-mash or do Lady Elaine and the Sleestaks uniquely possess mash's elusive je ne sais quoi?
UPDATE: Lady Elaine Fairchilde, the blog. Kinda awesome.
posted by lil c @ 6:47 PM
21 Comments:
horrifying!
hi cristy.
when i clicked to find out that your keen friend was me, i saw that weird and very old photo of myself. it reminded me that i STILL have your jacket that i borrowed for that party...almost two years ago. i'm a bad friend.
WOW, this blog hasn't ceased to amaze me. In fact it just keeps getting better and better. If Christy's definition of "mash" was added to the dictionary, then surely Lady Elaine's picture would have to be next it.
*oh, and not to mention her voice. her voice rivaled her look in mashiness.
one of my recurring nightmares as a child involved being trapped inside a moving vehicle in which the driver (often, my mother) would suddenly disappear. in several versions of this horrifying dream, the car would be careening through mister roger’s neighborhood of make-believe – nearly smashing into L.E.F.'s museum-go-round and that weird blue owl's tree house.
p.s. i just did a google search to make sure that blue bird was actually an owl. i was right – it was an owl – an owl named “x.” x?!?!? suspect.
p.p.s. speedy delivery = even more suspect
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holy crap, cristy. this is amanda and i've often wonder how you will reveal your genius to the world. . . i am pleased to see this blog.
on to lady elaine: no more than three weeks ago i entered into a discussion about that booze-hound of a puppet and her "intoxicating" merry-go-round. her voice was certainly the most fear inducing sound, and her spastic movement was confounding.
and is it me, or did king friday and his child-bride, queen saturday, come straight from coto de caza? check out sara's description:http://pbskids.org/rogers/make_believe/queen_char.htm
Lady Elaine Fairchilde, a counter voice to that tool, King Friday XIII, was the only character willing to stand up to his control-freak edicts and pronouncements!
The only people I've ever known who have been horrified by "that Fairchilde" are eldest children.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde, a counter voice to that tool, King Friday XIII, was the only character willing to stand up to his control-freak edicts and pronouncements!
The only people I've ever known who have been horrified by "that Fairchilde" are eldest children.
it's true, i am an eldest child. yet, i think the horrors of lady elaine's rosacea span across the barriers of birth order, uniting us all.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde: The Blog still exists - but is unfortunately inaccessible at this point. I plan to be back as soon as blogger fixes my permissions page.
Come and visit me again - I'll be back!
And...I'm back!
Come, and learn to love Lady Elaine.
I think that whole puppet scene was weird--LEF looked like a bad alcoholic ....along with KF--this seemed to reflect some sexual deviance of Mr. R---something weird was going on.
i can't believe i found this site... i was trying to explain to a co-worker of mine (who is from colombia and is therefore unfamiliar with mr. rogers) the horrors of lady elaine, who used to chase me around family reunions in my dreams with a huge knife in hand. her red nose and her burnt looking face, along with that voice... i've never looked at a puppet the same way again.
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Up until I was 8 years old I could not sleep facing my bedroom door. Whenever I did, I would hallucinate that Lady Elaine would come and beat me up. It was so insanely creepy, and to this day I still have nightmares of her in my home and trying to kill me. She is the bane of my existence. And zombies.
I used to pull my feet up on to the chair or couch so she wouldn't get my feet from under the couch! That beast that she is!
I googled lady elaine to get a pic to send to my friend to show her what my boss looks like. can you believe? a human lady elaine??it's f***ing true!
does anyone think sometimes bill clinton has a lady elaine-esque look about him, with his shiny red nose and cheeks?
She never scared me, and her rotating museum rocked! Now Henrietta Pussycat.... There's one worth pulling the stuffing out of.
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