Thanks Kermit! You're right, sometimes it's tough being different but there are always great things about being just who you really are.
C is for cookie, that's good enough for me, too Cookiemonster.
Like Oscar, I love trash. Especially trash on tv. :)
Rubber duckie, you're so fine, I'm so happy that you're mine. Rubber duckie I'm awfully fond of you.
But put down the duckie if you wanna play the saxophone.
When Sesame Street first came on the air, I disdained it as a baby show. After all, I was nearly six, a first grader. I could read and do my numbers. What did I need with a show aimed at preschoolers?
Then I started watching. Yeah, there were parts of it that were beneath my grade level. But so many parts were delightful.
Like Big Bird, I had friends nobody else could see. His frustrated assertions that Snuffie was real were eventually revealed to be true, but for so long nobody else saw the elephant in the room.
Like Oscar, there were times I reveled in being bad. My room's messy and I like it that way!
Unlike Sesame Street, my community was not very well integrated. And there weren't many African-America, Latino, or Asian people on tv. But on Sesame Street I saw a world that integrated well. While the country was struggling with racism, integration, and bussing, Sesame Street treated everyone with the same love and respect.
Sesame Street wasn't just mindless entertainment, or merely lessons on ABCs and 123s. It was a vision of the world as it could be, as it should be. It was smart, using parody and satire to get points across.
Later I enjoyed the satire and off-beat humor of the Muppet Show. And I cried when Jim Henson died.
Sesame Street made a difference in my life, even though it was "too young" for me.
Thanks PBS!