ms. woody woodstock. all all the kids were talking about and i had no idea who it was. i pleaded to my mother that i lacked basic media literacy. that everyone knew this red woody woodstock. we are broadcast people we didn't have cable. so all the good cartoons were in cable. so i basically fell for whatever it was. what passed for children's programming at the time which was cartoons since sugar cereal commercials and i also watch sesame street which i loved. sesame street itself had mockups of advertisements like you know today sponsored by the a or the number five. they use advertising content to get children interested in learning. that that worked at least in my memory. it was better than the other shows but that was my childhood, i was raised in this situation just like everyone else. i didn't realize it at the time but it was shows like the transformers, but i didn't think them at the time as advertisements. when you think about it for a minute you say of course there advertisements for the toys in the mid-is by the toys. the fact that were watching was the same