User blog comment:I'm Blue daba dee daba die/Pure Good Proposal: Mister Rogers/@comment-2059440-20191009191207/@comment-2059440-20191010010419

oh, he also appeared in Sesame Street briefly and helped to talk about imagination and how important it was to have imagination but also counter it with reality - so even when Rogers was guest starring in other works he, as a character and as a person, was always about education and improvement... I'd compare him to people like Henson.. who shared the blurring between fiction and reality as they believed that fiction was a tool to help the real world grow.

I also liked the episode when Mister Rogers had the Wicked Witch from Oz enter the home and had her both as the "witch" and as the actress, to explain to children that while things seem scary they aren't really going to harm you - every episode and scenario had a benevolent cause.. like I mentioned in previous statements even if you take away all this Mister Rogers (the character) is almost universally loved as a grandfather-like figure to many.. so he counts.