Sesame St is great

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• SurfinBird@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Reminds me of the one about the Beatles.

  Paul: Guys, I’ve written the greatest love song ever. John: I’ve written a song to change the world for the better of humanity. George: I’ve traveled the world and incorporated new instruments from other cultures. Ringo: I’ve written a song about a yellow submarine.

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  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wait…Is “Yellow Submarine” not about an ex-Chinese ex-war machine full of utopian communists rescuing diverse survivors of nuclear war into a floating mobile commune (presumably full of recreational drug use)?

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• Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In regional versions of Sesame Street Big Bird has an actual name (although usually it isn’t the exact same character, but another kind of large bird). I think mostly because in those languages it wouldn’t be an alliteration. But I like to think it’s just because Americans are rude and never bothered to learn their name, calling them Big Bird because of how they look.

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  • zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can’t just say that and not show a picture of Garibaldo

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “BE NOT AFRAID!”

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• GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bird shot… big bird shot.

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  • LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nooooo they shot big birdy

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• ZeffSyde@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I had zero clue that Snuffie was imaginary until well into adulthood.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The original plan was for him to be imaginary. For a long time, no one else on Sesame Street could see him. But it became upsetting to viewers that everyone laughed at Big Bird when he said Snuffy was real, so they wrote an episode where he introduced himself to everyone and from then on he was a regular part of the cast.

    Also,Snuffy’s original design was kinda creepy.

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    • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      More than just upsetting to viewers, the messaging of Snuffleupagus was leading to kids thinking that adults wouldn’t believe them if they were being harmed:

      The fear was that if we represented adults not believing what kids said, they might not be motivated to tell the truth. That caused us to rethink the storyline: Is something we’ve been doing for 14 years—that seemed innocent enough—now something that’s become harmful?

      smithsonianmag.com/…/brief-history-sesame-streets…

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    • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh, wow. The reveal might have happened after I’d aged out of the show.

      Thanks for the correction!

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    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Also,Snuffy’s original design was kinda creepy.

      That’s the most load-bearing use of the word “kinda” that I have seen in a sentence. That “kinda”, while valid, is undet so much stretch strain, it could shatter at any moment.

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  • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wait what

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• atlien51@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Feelings are okay!”

  Andrew Tate: Shut the F-

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