Lady Elaine Fairchilde

Today I realized my daily work at home ritual is a lot like Mr. Rogers.  I laughed...sang the song...and then cringed and was really ashamed of myself.

Why did I think this?  Well...I came home from dropping the kids off, walked in the door, hung up my coat, put on a sweater cardigan, then checked the mail.  When I realized this, I laughed...sang the song to myself as I picked up the newspaper outside, and then cringed...felt yucky and wanted to take a shower.

Lady Elaine was my least favorite character on the show.  Her voice was scary, she was kind of ugly & she was always angry.  Because of her, all I remember about the 'beloved' children's show is that I absolutely hated it.

When I looked up the characters, searching for this despised puppet...I found this description of her:
Lady Elaine is the curator of the Museum-Go-Round, a revolving building containing collections of everything from A - Z. This mischief-making impish woman is always getting into one thing or another, but that's often because she worries that she's not very lovable and needs attention. As an outspoken, opinionated character, she is generally the only one in Make-Believe who stands up to the King whenever he has made an unreasonable demand. And she often brings a lot of humor to Make-Believe.

Really, Lady Elaine was an ugly character because she had a low-self esteem & worried about getting people's attention & love? I think this description of her was nice, as I never, and still don't think she brought any humor to Make-Believe land.

Then, I found she has a facebook page!  This is what the creator said about her, which I believe to be much more accurate, but I don't agree that she was 'awesome':
Sure, she was a total bitch, appeared to have a drinking problem, and was quite possibly a drag queen, but that's what added to her awesomeness.

I think this may be the core of my dislike for this puppet...I don't think I could figure out if she was a woman or a man, rightfully so - this is very confusing for a child.

All I am sure of is that Monday, when I come home from dropping the kids off...you bet I'm going to change up my routine so I'm not like Fred Rogers anymore...good bye stupid cardigan!