I'm fully convinced that there's an anniversary season curse. If not the fact that the episodes are all meh to pretty good at best, the expectations behind them are ASTRONOMICAL! This season does indeed look better than last, parody or no parody, block or no block. That is if they fully kept it... we won't know till Monday. I so am gonna draw Iron Monster at some point. Just not for a bit.Besides what's already been discussed, and minus that horrific block format and Elmo's usual over dominance, this season looks very good. I'm loving the parodies (especially A-Team) and the street stories look decent as well. I just have one minor complaint: can someone PLEASE tell Joey Mazzarino to try out DIFFERENT VOICES for characters he perform? He uses the same voice for EVERY character he does, and since he's a principle performer now, wouldn't it be fitting he tries different vocal ranges instead of that same "squeaky-whiney" voice he always uses?
Anyway, I agree. I like Joey and his voices are all pretty similar, but the only one that bugs me is the elephant... mainly because I'd LOVE to see the elephant rotate on performers so we can see Monster Clubhouse Shakespearean elephant by Marty again. They have the wolf on a rotating series of performers.