Meet Lily, she’s the latest muppet to join the Sesame Street crew and her family is starving. She was created for a special episode to raise awareness about hunger in America and imaginably, to berate Cookie Monster for being such a glutton. Although it’s great to see Sesame Street tackling the country’s current economic issues, do they really need another character on there to rep the poor? Oscar lives in a fucking trash can.
Sorry internet and same sex marriage for muppets activists, Bert and Ernie aren’t gay. This latest online online push to demand they get married on a show designed for preschoolers is patently ridiculous, no matter how nicely it fits into the current narrative. In the end, their sexuality is irrelevant. Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell stated it best the last time rumors about them started swirling about: “They are not gay, they are not straight, they are puppets. They don’t exist below the waist.”
Remember a couple of weeks ago when conservatives were griping about liberal bias on Sesame Street after they aired a skit featuring the “trashy” “Pox News?” Well, in response, the show has created a new character…”Spill O’Reilly,” on Bill O’Reilly’s show last night. It was quite funny.
The city has finally located Sesame Street and not surprisingly it’s on the Upper West Side. |NBC|
Says female grouch on Sesame Street: “From now on, I am watching Pox News. Now there’s a trashy news show!” Says conservative blogger Stage Right in response: “I can’t even sit my kids in front of Sesame Street without having to worry about the Left attempting to undermine my authority.” The video is below…we report, you decide. Read more »
Well here’s a good way to close out a rough week! Michelle Obama recently appeared on Sesame Street to talk about gardening and healthy eating. Too bad Big Bird showed up demanding to see her socialist husband’s birth certificate: Read more »
I’ve been meaning to post this all day and kept forgetting to get around to it, but seeing that most people born in the latter half of the 20th century were raised on Sesame Street combined with the fact that the internet seems to have a raging boner for Mad Men (myself included), I just can’t not post it. Read more »
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