Mister Robinson's Neighborhood

Mister Robinson's Neighborhood was a recurring sketch on the comedy television series Saturday Night Live.

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Comedy - Television series - Saturday Night Live

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The sketch parodied children's show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, a PBS staple where new information about the world was presented by Fred Rogers in a quiet, methodical, highly elocuted manner. In the sketch, Eddie Murphy's character "Mister Robinson" speaks in a similarly stilted manner, but lives in a considerably grittier venue, with landlords hunting him down for rent, and defrauding children of toy money.

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Parodied - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - PBS - Fred Rogers - Eddie Murphy - Landlord - Rent

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Rogers took no offense to the parody, finding it amusing and affectionate; he even took the opportunity of a promotional apparance on NBC to seek out Murphy in his SNL dressing room and tell him such.

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