Times A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood Lied To You

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood explores the life of Fred Rogers, known to generations of TV viewers as host of the long-running Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. But it's not exactly accurate. Here are all the times A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood lied to you.

Probably the biggest factual fallacy in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood concerns journalist Lloyd Vogel, played by Matthew Rhys. There is no such person. The film is based on a 1998 Esquire article called "Can You Say...Hero?," by Tom Junod. Screenwriters exaggerated or straight-up invented so many character and story elements that Junod asked the makers of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood to give the character based on him a different name.

For example, the filmmakers exaggerated the character's initial nastiness. In the film, Vogel's editor assigns him a profile on Mister Rogers to challenge him to be a little softer because he's so tough on his subjects.

Junod, it would seem, was never such a dark-minded "gotcha" guy. Junod wrote in The Atlantic:

"I was assigned the story about Fred because one of the editors at Esquire thought it would be amusing to have me, with my stated determination to 'say the unsayable,' write about the nicest man in the world."

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Lloyd Vogel wasn't real | 0:14
Fictional family issues | 1:11
A different listener | 2:26
Moment of silence | 3:06
The tent mishap | 3:50
Religious devotion | 4:40
His vegetarianism didn't come up | 5:35

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