Every other commercial as a kid (je suis la jeune fille!)

You know what's funny? Reading your comment is the very first time I ever wondered what that phrase meant.

I lived this exact scenario. "Jish-wee lah-joonvee" was the only french I knew growing up. And I also learned that what I was attempting to tell people was that "I am a little girl".

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"je swee lajoo vee!"

That's exactly what I thought she was saying, too. Rewatching it now, I can clearly hear "la june fille" but as a child... I wondered wtf a lajoo-vee was.

I've taken two years of French and seen this commercial probably twice that, and I never made the connection. Jishwee lazhoom vee was just something that was ingrained in my childhood.

I grew up in Iran, before coming to the US my dad bought me MUZZY & Seasame Street videos. When we got here the next year i was right there with my peers in 4th grade and only stayed in ESL classes for 1 term. My spelling was way better too, i owe it all to a giant green thing and a giant yellow bird.

I had Spanish Muzzy :)

I had an OG 4th grade teacher. He was old and we weren't and I wasn't a huge fan of him. Looking back we did some dope shit though.

He had these tapes. And he used them to teach us French. Why? Because why the fuck not. I remember one day we were having to say things out loud in class and one kid said his name was 'hamburger'. And how saying that you're tired sounds like you're saying you're fat and gay.

We were only 4th graders and it was only while we were in his class, so it wasn't something we could really use going forward though. This was in Santa Barbara, CA.

Good times.

The French and Spanish versions are on Youtube, if you're really curious. ;)

My buddy's korean and his parents got the english language version to learn when they came over. it's very slow speech, very distinct pronunciation. probably would be fun to watch while stoned.

We used them in middle school (intro) language classes, but I didn't own them.

My mom bought them from the family before a trip to France one summer. Didn't help us learn the language much.

The funniest thing was that the set came with the "movie" (if you could call it that) in both French and English. My younger sister sometimes decided to watch the English version, which was laughably stupid.

My mom got us the French one. It was awesome. I learned nothing but I was a kid and thought it was great.

Shit, $28 each month for 6 months for three VHS. No wonder my parents didn't buy it for me.

You must be fluent in every major language.

http://youtu.be/teaevlTqLp8 There ya go :-)

I can still hear that pleasant crunching sound, even 20 years later. It's still there, deep in the recesses of my memory.

Ha.. I almost married her.

Yes, please

I could be your wife, except I'm unmarried and male.

That always drove me NUTS. It was like they taped over the film but didn't time it right or something.

I said, "ad" a lot.

I always wonder how much of my brain is being used with useless information like that. Or how I can still sing a song like My Own Worst Enemy on a whim when it comes on the radio.

Same. And I owned it :(

Despite the fact that Rosetta Stone predates Muzzy.

Yeah, Scooter Dog and Muzzy get arrested after Muzzy eats a bunch of parking meters. If memory serves, they escape by having Muzzy eat the prison bars over the window.

You're welcome! Glad you came across it.