LeVar Burton has already raised over $5 million with his Reading Rainbow Kickstarter campaign, which will bring the beloved educational program to a new generation of schoolchildren. Now, with that goal already accomplished, the host has already set his sights on another form of web-based communication with Tweeting Rainbow, a parody sketch aired on Thursday nights episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! The clip finds Burton teaching kids the art of the favorite and analyzing a series of bizarre tweets from celebrities (including Snoop Doggs thoughts on mayonnaise).
The video opens with a spin on the classic Reading Rainbow theme song: Its time to read / Whats in my feed / A Tweeting Rainbow goes the hook, while images of various hashtags (#Thuglife, #YOLO) and tweeted pics (burgers, baby penguins) grace the screen. In his ever-comforting style, Burton introduces the shows concept to a group of four children (A tweet is a passport into how someones thinking or feeling at any given moment) before scrolling through a number of celeb examples.
Burton uses a tweet from Mario Lopez (Woke up with a huge zit in the middle of my forehead. Look like a unicorn) to showcase how transportive Twitter can be; he also uses a strange Snoop Dogg tweet (Put ya face in the mayo) to kick off an imaginative roundtable discussion as to why a person would shove that particular condiment into their face.
Elsewhere, Burton explains what a retweet is, takes the kids on a video field trip to see how a tweet is made, asks them to come up with their own (We all wish nap time could be forever, little dude) and vows to start a Twitter feud with Kanye West on the next episode.
Its gonna be #fun, he says in his sign-off. Never change, LeVar.