Hey Prawny... Finished reading the Season 42 article you posted. And I'd be super-psyched for the Cast-Iron Cooks and Furry Potter episodes as you mentioned. Except, and I hate to burst your bubble, but the Furry Potter episode's not going to be what you and I thought it might be. According to the synopsis offered by the Sesame Workshop and posted at Muppet Wiki, that episode's just an excuse to promote literacy by having Telly want Gordon to read the book to him, which Gordon can't because his glasses are missing, only to end up with Telly reading to Gordon. So yeah, a golden opportunity full of parodical potential fumbled out of their hands.
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At least there's a bunch of other episodes to look forward to, hope we get mentions of Utah and/or Vermont this year, I still need those two states to finish off the MUP3 collection.