Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Legacy

Legacy

  • Idlewild and Soak Zone, an amusement park near Rogers' hometown of Latrobe, Pennsylvania has an attraction called "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood of Make-Believe" featuring a life-size trolley ride, designed by Rogers.
  • The planetarium show "The Sky Above Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" is a computer-animated adaptation of the television show for preschool-aged children.
  • After three years as a traveling exhibit, the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh had Welcome to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood installed as a permanent exhibit in 2004.
  • A kiosk containing artifacts used during the series is located on Concourse C of Pittsburgh International Airport, near the children's play area.
  • The Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Archives at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences is an academic resource and collection that contains correspondence, scripts, props, puppets, fan mail, 911 videotapes (3 episodes are missing, presumed wiped), and scholarly articles that show the cultural impact of Fred Rogers' work.
  • A statue of Fred Rogers exists on the North Shore of the Allegheny River near Heinz Field.
  • The music of the show was interpreted by an eclectic mix of modern artists for the 2005 album Songs From the Neighborhood: The Music of Mister Rogers.
  • A famous skit from Saturday Night Live is titled "Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood", an obvious parody of "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" set in a housing complex neighborhood and starring comedians Eddie Murphy (as the title character) and Gilbert Gottfried (as a parody of Mr. McFeely, "Mr. Speedy").
  • The musical project Symphony of Science, in association with PBS Digital Studios, created a music video called "Garden of Your Mind" from clips of the show, using spoken words of Rogers pitch-corrected spoken words to create a song.
  • The 2012 series Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, produced by The Fred Rogers Company, is based on characters from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

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