Popularity
Ants In Your Pants was an entirely new concept in children's television. Although many children's programs (both at the time and in the present) were very musically based, this was the first known to feature music videos. As a result, the show became hugely popular with children and was widely praised by adults. Its soundtrack was a Juno nominee in 2000 for Best Children's Album. Despite the program's popularity, very little, if not any merchandise was produced, and even homemade recordings are rare. As of 2012, there is no official home video release. Fortunately, a small collection of music videos from the show began appearing on YouTube in 2007, with the highest-viewed video, "Tomato Hat" (which featured a young Justin Hines), peaking at almost 100,000 views.
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“Here also was made the novelty ‘Chestnut Bell’ which enjoyed unusual popularity during the gay nineties when every dandy jauntily wore one of the tiny bells on the lapel of his coat, and rang it whenever a story-teller offered a ‘chestnut.’”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.... He was fixed in the house of lords, that hospital of incurables, and his retreat to popularity was cut off; for the confidence of the public, when once great and once lost, is never to be regained.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“A more problematic example is the parallel between the increasingly abstract and insubstantial picture of the physical universe which modern physics has given us and the popularity of abstract and non-representational forms of art and poetry. In each case the representation of reality is increasingly removed from the picture which is immediately presented to us by our senses.”
—Harvey Brooks (b. 1915)