ONE, ONE MORE UNTIMELY DEMISE (http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20624075,00.html)
Short, sad fact.
I was pondering the loss of this great person, and it occurs to me that at least for me, Sesame Street was at least as important to my education as a human being as the first two or three years of public school.
The most troubling thing about that is something I just now realized. If it weren't for Sesame Street, I literally would not have known that it's not OK to treat people who are different from me like shit, or assume they are all weird or something.
This is not a universal experience, obviously. But it strikes me that none of the institutions that are supposed to improve society taught me that simple thing. Religion, actual public school, my parents, and my friends all left that one out. It took a TV show to let me in on that.
Anyway, RIP THE COUNT.
One sad person, ah ah ah... :horrormirth:
Sad times.
The Count is one of my favorite Sesame characters. He made counting fun :cry:
I was just reading about him the other day, and how he had to retire due to his health.
I won't go so far to say that I learned all of the social responsibility and getting along stuff from Sesame Street. I did actually get that stuff from my folks and my education. However, that aside, old school Sesame Street was the shit. It had just enough of that Muppet humor, wit, and wackiness to tickle my imagination. New School Sesame Street is lame.
They jumped the shark when they went all in on Elmo, who is easily the most annoying Muppet ever invented. Even worse than Rizzo.
Agree on jumping the shark. Elmo ruined it.
I didn't learn all my social responsibility from Sesame Street but that's the only place where I was exposed to those ideas until I was 8 or 9.
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But it occurs to me that a bunch of PDers learning social responsibility from Sesame Street speaks very ill of the show. You horrible fucks. :lulz:
I'm far more saddened that we lost Gobo. Fraggle Rock was more my style. I forsee a rewatching of the first season in his honor. =(
Furthermore, Elmo is a shitbag. That voice grates on my ears like dozens of cats' nails over an old chalkboard.
The Fraggles were great. Henson was a mad genius. Too bad it didn't get passed down to his offspring. None of those Muppet properties have been the same since he passed, though, the last Muppet movie wasn't awful.
Elmo isn't nearly as bad as Baby Bear...
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