Where in this Pizza Hut is Carmen Sandiego?

@@TK17000 the bathroom?

If I recall correctly I think there was some sort of deal with North Dakota school districts and the company

Makes me remember the SNL sketch "Where in the World is San Diego California."

@@TK17000 trick question, she's in the taco bell

I guess the cappella Here’s Comes Treble wasn’t available 😉

Yo, have you seen "Do It A Capella?" Rockapella's out there making Brooklyn audiences do the Arsenio hand-pumping whoop thing. They were hip-hop as shit. I am very curious about an alternate universe where The Persuasions or Ladysmith Black Mambazo ended up on Carmen Sandiego, though.

and including a rapping grandma

I did get the impression that they picked Rockapella because they were truly excellent musicians and had the right energy for the show, not because they were safer than rap music.

the 90s were wild and i miss them sooooo badly

just goes to show how much of our future depends on making sure children have a good and inspirational upbringing. Crap parents and education systems are probably to blame for a lot of our societal ills

Cool

Wow, my Grandfather was a mathematician and during WW2 he was a map maker. It was his job to take photographs and other information along with current maps and use math to determine where things were to make new maps that included bases and artilery and other things like that. I wish I had learned more about the specifics when he was still alive.

I absolutely adore this comment! It's so wholesome and I love it!

Thats awesome, tell him a random dude in youtube comments thinks hes cool as hell

*Greg's Mom (REALLY...No Kidding.)*

@RepentandbelieveinJesusChristno

@RepentandbelieveinJesusChristI refuse

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ i like that but comeonnn

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ shut up

they were the cornerstone of this show. i hope they got paid very well

Remember their Folgers commercial? 😅

Once when Greg muffed a line, the group or at least a member, spontaneously and off camera sung the correction. Greg acknowledged the goof and thanked the group. They instantly sang “save it!”

My twin, who was blind,also died at 29, loved em so much he got their tapes and would listen all the time. We'd sit in front of our 13" TV with coat hanger and aluminum foil rabbit ears and watch every day after school. We could've been on the show we were so good at geography. From Boston so wasn't far.

There's a local radio station in my city that plays Rockapella's Carmen San Diego theme once a week. I dig it, but it's pretty baffling.

Well when you take a look at all the inclusionist, 'ist' and 'phobe' accusing, brain dead morons, that are in charge of the shows that are on now; Yeah it is. But then again at that same time we had other masterpiece shows like 'Married With Children' that had Al 'The Great Modern Philosopher' Bundy, as well as many others.

@@buckrodgers1162 17:59

@@iguanaafternoon, Yes I know. But it's one thing to have it naturally. It's an entirely different thing to forcefully retcon things to have it, and then call the original fans of the subject 'ists' and 'phobes' for simply disagreeing. Like WB's BatWoman, the Ghostbusters movie from 2016, Star Trek Discovery, and so on.

@@buckrodgers1162 you can disagree with something without being transphobic or racist and its disingenuous to pretend that anyone who criticizes something gets painted with those labels. Its also really weird to even bring that up on an entirely unrelated topic. log off and go outside m8

@@Wootmaster, And there we go with the accusations of being 'ist' and 'phobe'. All I said was direct and to the point. There was no malice behind it, yet you start saying that it was 'this and that', when it wasn't. Maybe you should take your own advice, and then take a good look in the mirror. Because this is the exact stuff I was talking about.

Exactly! :-)

I would sit down now and watch this. I have nostalgia from watching it as a kid. But watching this footage, reminds me how exciting it was, so well done!

Same here hun. We had channels 2, 4 and 7. Sometimes we could get channel 3 if you move the rabbit ears just right.

Well, as the man said: The writing staff were encouraged to watch Animaniacs, and Rocky & Bullwinkle for inspiration on how to make the show funnier. And sneaking the host's own mother in as a prank sounds like something one might see in either cartoon.

I wish more game shows would do that. So funny and adorable at the same time

The fact that there are two comments side by side _(besides this one)_ that both start with "the fact that" is something I wish I had a nickel for, every time it happened! I mean, I would only have one nickel, but it's still weird that it'd happen!

I remember seeing that episode!

Really wholesome I saw that episode it was just sweet

Right! This and the magic school bus

@@LadellTurner also reading rainbow

Always been that X-Factor. The Chief and Greg's chemistry was electric, and Rockapella being everpresent but not in the spotlight was a perfect example of what musicians would call "The notes you don't play"

$3.5mil was a lot of money back in the day

the 90's were littered with shows like this.... ask anyone in their 30's about Beakman's World, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Reading Rainbow, Encyclopedia, etc etc and watch their eyes light up... this vid brought back many memories for me.

She also was the DJ and the narrator of the movie Warriors. And a lot more. But that’s what i first remember her from.

It's very easy to see why she was chosen. This energy and enthusiasm really shows how much fun the role was for her.

She was a great actress. She played every role greatly including the mom from Lean on Me. So great that it was hard to watch her as Thigpin.

She played Ella Mae Parker on The District.

it's one of the reasons it was a hit parents could watch it along with their kids

@@thewkovacs316 I watched it myself and I had no children.

Man, just hearing her mentioning Mister Rogers Neighbood when giving the lowdown on Pittsburgh, PA as that particular location was used for the jail time challenge in the episode "You ain't nothing but a house thief" which was aptly-titled as such due to Graceland as the loot should serve as quite a painful reminder, because Lynne Thigpen's passing was exactly two weeks after that of Mr. Rogers himself, which I obviously remember during my early teen years!

I was so upset when she passed on. My mom watched All My Children. I remember her on there and called her "the chief." I think she was doing both shows and Broadway at the same time which is probably she prerecorded her segments.

I will forever call her "The Chief." I was actually annoyed in the cartoon series for Carmen Sandiego in the 90s that the Chief wasn't Lynn, and was actually some annoying nasally voiced face on a screen. Lynn was THE Chief! Then, Now, Till The Ends of Time.

Also, thank you Carmen Sandiego, for making me pretty damned good at geography! 😅

She was also one of my favorite parts of The Warriors.

@@angelmarie2281 Same here.... TOTALLY devastated. 😢

I loved ghost writer

Agreed 👍

Ghost writer was so good.

Same here! 😁

Yes!

The theme song actually changed part way through the series. The original says "to Czechoslovakia and back" where later it was changed to "to Czech and Slovakia and back". I only noticed because I had two copies of the song and picked it up when listening to both of them.

@@jeffy210 Great catch as its hard for me to hear those sort of changes as i am hard of hearing sadly.

Also, wow, Where in Time owed a LOT to Doctor Who!

I know! I have so many questions.

I’ve never met anyone from North Dakota. Or even South Dakota. Are y’all around, or what’s the deal? Where. In the. world. Is. Anyone from a Dakota?

@@sirdavos9319 Presumably most of them are in North and/or South Dakota

Why is North Dakota so special?

Blame North Dakota Education and Tourism boards for that one.

That's how you really get a feel for what kids want, and work with that and find ways to logistically incorporate the kids' wild ideas into a coherent show. Nobody does that anymore, its all about money, so you just get a bunch of CEO's slapping garbage together and then it flops.

@@MrWolfSnack although if they wanted to actually make money the smart way instead of the quick way, they would continue to workshop ideas from actual kids. The problem is that they don't want to take the time and would rather recycle something from old formulas that are proven. Then they change the formula in some awful way and ruin it anyway lol.

If you interviewed 10 an hour for an 8 hour work day, you could power through that in nearly 2 and a half weeks, ballpark. Hey, they didn't say personally one-on-one, and PBS didn't have that much money. Haven't you ever been part of a marketing study?

Its over 900!

Nowadays that'd get ya 20 years...

Sounds funny 🤣

Here's a joke: where the hell is Carmen sandiego? Me: she's on sandiego California jackasses!

Sounds like a legit way to go through Dante’s Inferno tbh.

...You might just get your wish at this rate. My writer's brain likes this very much. oAo Do you mind if I play with it some??

@@avivagodfrey9272 lol as long as you link it to me! Would love to read it :)

I saw them in the early 2000's at a small venue in Long Island, NY with my dad, he loved them and bought all of theirs CD's! It was a great show!

That sounds amazing. Best ending to a concert.

That's bad ass. I love when people can embrace their pop culture past. Instead of getting pissed. Anytime someone brings it up. I'm talking about you Harrison Ford!!!

Incredible

I'd bet that they're pretty proud of their stint on that TV show. I can't imagine there's many things more emotionally rewarding than making a generation of kids happy.

I wonder if any of them wrote "Disney Land" or "Disney World" on their grand prize. They're in the contiguous 48 states, after all!

@@nick012000 Many of the kids wanted to go to California (where Disneyland is) or Florida (where Walt Disney World is). The producers told them to write down anything else, because they didn't want the big reveal to be the same two states every time, but they still got to go where they really wanted to go.

@@furrykef That explains why one time I swear I saw a kid win and he wrote down New Jersey

@@nick012000 well after Season 1, it became anywhere in North America. Hawaii is part of North America.

Contestant - "No, they only give out cans of tuna... and they're not even dolphin-safe!" PBS Exec - "..."

He did it 2 times before with Between The Lions & I think Zoboomafoo

@@marcusblackwell2372 I'm pretty sure the "thank you" after the viewers like you thing was added to PBS programming long after Carmen Sandiego aired, though

@@boriszakharin3189 but they did. Unless... When did they start that? Zoboomafoo came out 4 or 5 years after Where In The World ended, and Between The Lions came out 6 years after it ended

@@marcusblackwell2372 According to LogoPedia, "thank you" was added in 1999, so after Where in theWorld is Carmen Sandiego finished its run: logos.fandom.com/wiki/PBS/Viewers_Like_You#:~:text=They%20didn't%20add%20%22Thank,Russel%20Comedy%20Special%20in%201991).

@@boriszakharin3189 in that case, it WAS there for Between The Lions because that came out in 2000

They are still at it! I saw them in concert a few years ago. Go if you can!

they are still going but not with the members that appeared on the show. Only one is still active in the group.

lol funny but true

Or “How Much You Gonna Risk?”

Literally 😂

SHE STOLE THE BEANS FROM LIMA FOR PETES SAKE

YESSS

RIP Lynne. It was SO sad when she passed! :(

She died!?

@@Carmelmen1 yes. In 03

@@Carmelmen1 Yes, in '03 from cancer sadly.

Agreed. I did some research and found out she was born/raised, has a school named after her, and is buried in Joliet, IL where I currently reside. Pretty cool 😎

This is amazing! I loved the cartoon

Même chose pour moi!! Sauf que je tombais rârement sur cette émission, mais n'empêche que cette vidéo m'a rempli de nostalgie.

I didn't watch the English one, but the Québec one was one of the French shows I didn't mind watching because it wasn't just another cheap voice-over! And I remember their a cappella group were called Voxappella, which included a woman and a black man. I find it funny that having an a cappella group was specific to that show, but it did give it a fun energy.

Yes! I remember so well! From Québec as well ❤

Why don't yall speak English like normal people?

Unfortunately, a reboot with the original cast is impossible. Lynne Thigpen, who played The Chief, passed away in 2003.

@@kattrielladoesstuff Yeah she died relatively young, I didn't know her from much but I always did love her in this role growing up.

If they were to do a modern reboot of “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” I could kind of see Leslie Jones or Yvette Nicole Brown playing The Chief.

Man u missed out. I feel sad for the gen zers lmao.

@@kattrielladoesstuff "That Rockapella" is most likely off the table as well... though weirdly enough based on interviews with Geoff Castellucci it sounds like getting together a reboot of the show filming in Orlando is like... "A thing" that VoicePlay are seriously interested in (...or at least were for quite a while)? Of note: apparently the entire genesis of that group started with Geoff, Layne, and Earl gathering after school to watch every episode and nerd out over Rockapella together!

This is a great anecdote!

This is such a sweet story, thank you for sharing

Your mom sounds awesome

I remember the following sweepstakes. I won forst prize if i recall correctly . Which was the 1994-95 edition of the where in the world game, and either an atlas or guiness book of world records. Can't recall what the grand prize was. I think it was a paid for trip?

Awesome story, tyvm for sharing! 😊

And despite the changing definitions of fashion over the years, her look has always managed to remain stylish.

There is just something almost timeless about variation on that 40s Noir look. Her early incarnations with the black fedora look like Frida's getup in the ABBA music video of "Money, Money, Money" funnily enough!

Also, the fact that they decided to make her latina woman instead of the typical white male master criminal is pretty cool, especially since her characterization isn't stereotypical or sexually objectified at all. She's just a badass master criminal looking fly in her awesome coat and fedora, who happens to be a hispanic woman.

No ask

"Yes ma'am." lol 😂!

Greg Lee was the best. I don't think the show works without him or Lynne Thigpen (RIP).

God I actually remember watching that one back in the day. It was the talk of the school all week as we debated whether it actually was Greg's mom or just an actress.

@@mikeb8674 I always wondered why they replaced him with Kevin Chinnick on Where in Time

Former Senator and now President Joe Biden

yeah that was so wholesome

I wonder if they surprised him, and that's why.

He couldn’t handle it, absolutely adorable! You could tell he is a good son who really loves his Mom! ❤️

@@catloverKD He definitely seemed surprised when she appeared

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SAMEEEE!!! I wrote to DIC and requested how could I get one. Still waiting on a response...

Me too

That jacket was Fire

SAAAAME!

4 real

ikr? that was so sweet!

He had tears in his eyes! So precious!

That was so nice! And she did a great job!

That was so amazing! Made my week

Grown men turn into shy boys when their moms appear.

Yes! Ghost Writer was my jam. With every episode getting closer to solving Ghost Writer's identity.

The last episode of ghost writer freaked me out and I loved it.

In the 90's, I remember that the kid who made it to the last round would rarely catch Carmen Sandiego because it was so tough. That infamous giant floor map!

G-ghost writer! (Wuh wuh wuh wuh word)

agreed! my youtube-addled brain kept waiting for something to go wrong but it was just blissfully wholesome

I think they had to sell her on the educational part.

Yeah, 91 here! :-)

you were a contestant? Spill the deets!

So jealous! I wanted to be on the show so much! Please make a video about your experience!

Nice

That is so cool!

So cool!! I’m really happy that you had that experience

I also watched as a young adult. It was a good show. That theme song lives rent free in my head.

As an adult now you gotta love the energy they put into the show.

I’d love to go on an adult version of the show.

This is really interesting. I wish I got to see this show. But I did get to see a few reruns of the animated one and later Carmen Sandiego on Netflix. They changed it to “Czech Republic and back”

I remember that change.

@@shawnise me too

It was also really weird when the "Roseanne" theme song got lyrics for the first time. It was never intended to have words.

Animaniacs did that with the line about Bill Clinton playing the sax to we pay tons of income tax

Where in the world is Karma Sandiego?

@@haulforlove9720 ⏰ out for me

She really was a wonderful educator and besides Rockapella, she's the part of the show I remember and cherish the most.

@@Sgt_Glory same Lynne Thigpen was awesome I miss her she would’ve been that kind of teacher that made you excited to learn.

She was such a talented stage actress too, and Tony Award winner. She died very suddenly at only 54.

She was a national treasure, globally

♥

Lynn Thigpen was taken well before her time.

This is literally causing me to cry nostalgic tears reading this; that is so sweet!

@@rightsarentpolitical Yes, she was a real lady!

totally

I still get upset when I type in "Carmen Sandiego theme" into youtube and the first few hits are from the cartoon. And the cartoon's theme is pretty good too, it just gets BTFO by the game show's.

If anyone mentions a warrant or I hear it on tv I still hear "The warrant!" in my head.

I literally dont remember this show but I could still sing the theme song before watching this

Tell me you weren’t one of the people who watched the show just waiting for Rockapella to sing the theme at the end of every episode! 😂 They were awesome.

I'd never really liked musicals, with the exception of stuff like Tiny Toons and Animaniacs... not even Disney movies got me. But damned if I didn't appreciate Rockapella

90s TV, for kids at least, really was superior to anything we have today, it was bring the country together too, far less issues with race and now it seems like everything is about division.

@@DATWagonator And like they said in the video: The show actually DID take diversity into consideration. But they didn't say "Did you see the chief is black?", "Today we have a black male contestant, a Hispanic female contestant, and Mark whose heritage and gender are boring, forgettable, and regrettable." , etc. The show was just FUN.

@@vlo4829 Yup. I watched this show as a kid and I just saw all different types of kids. I didn't even care if it was a girl or boy, it was just fun to see kids doing this

I've sang in a few amateur quartet/ ensemble barbershop type groups. Those Rockapella fellas just have that absolute genuine love of music and showmanship. I've been with guys who'd don a tux on a Tuesday evening and sing with as much enthusiasm and heart at a sleepy senior center just for the love of music and the opportunity to entertain people, no matter the venue. These guys are having the time of their lives here! Also, the general societal moods of genuine equality and diversity we had in the 90s was so unifying and wholesome; we really need to get back to that. Things today are totally toxic. Seems like the people griping the loudest about perceived problems are sowing the most division. We're much more united than we think; unfortunately there's a lot of $$ to be made in the online race grifting sphere and in the griping about race grifting sphere.

Rockapellas were the doo-wop group of the 1990’s reviving the sound of the 1950’s and 1960’s doo-wop music of the Moonglows, the Heartbeats, the Flamingos, the Marcels, the Platters, and others doo-wop groups of the time. I remember when Don K Reed was with the Rockapellas as a guest on the “Doo-Wop Shop” a long time ago when it was on WCBS-FM and it was good, and they sang the show’s theme.

I saw them a couple of times in the 1990s good to hear they are still around.

Their vocal drummer was AMAZING. Did he get a solo break in Carmen Sandiego?

Lynne Thigpen is her name.

She was also the moon in the bear in the big blue house!

@@the_emmasculator Never would have guessed that one, what a throwback.

I love her surprise appearance on Lincoln (2012)!

Rest in peace, Lynne Thigpen.

I totally agree, Geddy!

Same! Though I still suck at geography.

Sure was a great time to grow up! I feel for the kids nowdays with this time period being their "good ol days"

Definitely

Agreed. To me, the 90's was this show, Thomas the Tank engine, etc we didnt have cable either. I had no idea who Doug or Hey Arnold was lol

😆

The chief was perfect. She was absolutely hilarious with her overly serious demeanor. Absolute gold with that casting

I'd pay first class rates for a crowded coach middle seat if Rockapella did the pre-flight safety briefing.

Aww this comment gave me all the feels, so wholesome 🥺 I loved Carmen San Diego as a child it made me understand that there was A WHOLE WORLD of different countries and continents and places to see. I remember highlights magazine made a mail in game inspired by Carmen (at least I think that was the idea) where you had to solve geographical puzzles and I would get it in the mail every month (my grandma bought it for me since she saw my interest in the show) and I loved getting it in the mail I felt so important that I was finally getting mail 😂 I was about 6 when the show was still popular

@@lisalove991 wowwww my grandmother did the same for me with those highlight books...omg I absolutely forgot about that ‼️👌🏿🖤

@@twizzy585ful yesss I loved them so much! Thanks for your comment 💕

@@lisalove991 yours aswell thank you

Their loss lol!

The PBS stations and HMH own the rights to the game shows. The 90's cartoon is on the DHX KZfaq channels.

@@JeffreyPiatt too bad HMH doesn't have a production company then maybe it could dvd release or even whatever production company makes Mrs Maisel (not amazon, I actually found out Mrs Maisel has a Game Show Carmen connection)

They will eventually

As much as I loved a plethora of 90’s era Nickelodeon & Cartoon Network shows, I really don’t think WitWiCS would have meshed very well with other shows on those networks (with the possible exception of Legends of the Hidden Temple).. Without a doubt, Carmen San Diego will always score MAJOR nostalgia points with me (&prolly just about every other American 90’s kid who at some point got that relentless ear worm of a theme song lodged in their skulls as well!)

THISSSS!!!!!!!!!!!! And it was free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood!

as a boston native so much of my childhood was defined by wgbh. LOVE them and all they’ve done!!

@monny287 OOOH TWO OOOONE THREE FOOOOOUR! SEND IT TO *ZOOM*!

I never realized how lucky I was to grow up in Pittsburgh! 🙂

As an adult I'm now realizing that must have been one of the US towns named Lima because the one in Peru is pronounced "leema".

@@stevethepocket No, that's how they pronounced it in the song.

@@stevethepocket It's pronounced Lima. As in, the bean type.

Cool. Thanks to your dad for putting together such a great, fun show.

I loved that show so much. Your dad did a great job!

Your dad is a legend. Tell him thanks for all the amazing work he put into this show!

Awwwww! I was a grown woman(and a high-school English teacher) by the time the game came out, and still I loved it. Also enjoyed watching PBS Kids TV in the afternoon to unwind. This show was such a delight.

Yo your Dad is a legend! This was my show growing up. Please thank him for all of us.

I went through it too, I remember being so bummed about not making it on the show.

In the 2019 reboot on Netflix, the show modeled Chief after her and I literally squeed when I saw her for the first time. 🥰

@@SB-jn8cw Same

Yo that's so cool!!!

accurate

I just got off of a shit day of work and opened KZfaq to see it. Day is automatically better!

EXACTLY!😃

Very appropriate simile my friend

I've never had warm milk Sounds abhorrent

I admire your drive.

Your parents should of whipped your butt! Who told you to use the phone!!!!!??🤨

No u weren’t

I mean...forget the obvious oddities here, how the hell could any 3 year old in that day and age know that a show is "done"?

Bless your heart! I told PBS years later that I won't pledge any money until they bring it back. To this day I still haven't sent them ANY money....

I remember when her death was announced. My response, "Chief died?" She was a memorable part of my childhood

I remember her as the radio dj from “The Warriors” movie.

I remember her from Lean on Me as one of the parents. Even though her character on that movie was annoying, she really was a favorite of kids who watched Carmen Santiago…

She was amazing in Godspell, too. What a wonderful performer. It’s a dreadful shame.

WHAT!?

I have autism and this was middle school for me. I definitely still know all the words ☺️. I bet she does too. Acapella just does it for me lol like Pentatonix. 😁

Do it, and we wanna know if she remembers

may i ask what her disability had to do with this comment?

@@stormcloudsabound One has to imagine that it was included as a sort of invitation to be condescended and lectured to by a busybody stranger with schoolmarm energy on the internet. You wouldn't be able to do us all a favor by being that person, would you?

@@stormcloudsabound I think the original poster was saying that it helped them bond with someone that they really didn’t understand too well at the time. It brought people together.

She was even included on certain PC games, as well.

@Andrew McFadden Oh dude they better at least ask her to do it. It would be dumb not to as people like me who watched the show as a kid will have hardcore nostalgia. It would be cool if they got the guy too but that is secondary imo.

@Andrew McFadden well shit.

She was also Luna on Bear and the Big Blue House. 🌝🐻

Hahah same. I forgot much of the show details, but the chief is unforgettable!

4-5 episodes A DAY is an insane production pace. I was just thinking that while watching them party on the map at the end of the episode. I'd bet once cameras cut they were like "Alright kids, that was fun! NOW GET OUT OF HERE. We've gotta shoot another episode in FIVE MINUTES."

I appreciate now why Greg looked exhausted at the end of some of those episodes.

They could only film in June and July probably.

and who would have thought that our current President was on this show.

Which could also be a nod to his turn as a POW spy in Stalag 17.

Tonight on Biography

@@ChrisCaramia Dude, SPOILERS !

Awesome! What are some favorite places you traveled / worked?

That's awesome, I'm your age and loved this show and it definitely taught me about the wonders of the world and the awesome geography I didn't always get in school.

@@tejaswoman It's hard to judge but I think Australia overall was the best :)

@@nativefraulein5801 Awesome! I currently live abroad and my fascination with Geography and culture started with this show and the floppy disc game mentioned at the beginning. I'm 33

Also a 37 y.o. and I definitely have the wanderlust! Too bad for me I haven't acted upon it the way I'd dreamt, but I do wonder if this show had anything to do with my desire to see the world!

Same. She was the best!

I grew up with the Carmen Sandiego CD-Rom games. Lynne Thigpen will always be the Chief to me.

She is my recollection of the show

strange that she would turn down the offer doing the electric company exposed rita moreno to a whole new gen and opened a ton of doors for morgan freeman

@@thewkovacs316 She probably heard "kids game show" and just reflexively said no out of habit. No one knows how the kids game show is gonna turn out before it starts. She definite didn't think she would become an icon. David Alan Grier turned down the role of Bubba in Forrest Gump because if he was going to play someone mentally challenged, he wanted to be the lead. He was not happy how things turned out.