#FredRogers #MisterRogersNeighborhood #MisterRogers “People can like you exactly as you are,” Mister Rogers says at the end of the animated short served up today as the heartwarming Google Doodle celebrating the 51st anniversary of the day Fred Rogers began filming Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. The landmark public-TV show went on to run for 895 episodes that endeared itself to generations of children and adults across America with a message of acceptance and kindness that is still worth obsessing over. Google’s mini-movie is set to the show’s theme song, “Won’t You be My Neighbor?”—also the name of the award-winning documentary about Rogers released earlier this year. (A biopic starring Tom Hanks as Rogers, who died in 2003, is to be released next year.) Melissa Crowton, a Google Doodle team project director, explained the vision in a “Behind the Doodle” video: Mister Rogers “is sending out his love and he is sending out a message and he is hoping that his audience takes that a