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Fat Blue AM guy with short black hair (Jim Henson), Pumpkin AM guy with short blonde hair (Frank Oz), Purple AM guy with short black hair who looks pretty similar to Roosevelt Franklin (Jerry Nelson), and a Green AM girl with long red hair in a pony tail (Fran Brill).

The main point is that the wiki was able to manage to guide every episode that’s otherwise just been sitting around in the vaults since they aired on TV. Obviously yes, new episodes will require new guides. It’s just now officially caught up.

This thread really feels pretty tasteless if I’m being honest.

That really doesn’t answer my question but okay.

Okay, so by that logic why allow 6-29 and 32 to have repeat episodes but give crap for 41 onward having repeats?

I mean realistically Sesame Street knows how to keep up with the times so…. Even without Elmo, I’m sure it would have still gone strong. I mean you could have easily just turned Big Bird into a more dumbed-down version of Barney and I’m sure it would catch a child’s eye.

People just seem to forget (sometimes even purposely) that this is a show literally aimed for preschoolers…. And Elmo is the one most kids are immediately attached to. Again, I can agree I do think his character has been a bit overexposed as the years have gone by, but that’s just the honest...

And that surprises you how?

Quite a big Beatles fan actually, loved them since childhood, especially since after previously hearing Ringo Starr as the OG British narrator in “Thomas the Tank Engine.”

No, that was an original song by Donald Siegal and Luis Santerio. I don’t know why that one was cut because it was fully intact in its final episode airing of 3611 on HBO Kids.

I….. have a pretty big hunch the OG poster on this thread is EXTREMELY heavily active on Reddit. :search:

I mean Elmo being overly-exposed popular isn’t anything new in this current decade or the past. I was already aware of that experience when I was taping episodes from 36-39 from 2006-2012 (when my local CVS at the time stopped selling blank VHS tapes and I was by this point not really as...

I mean I can agree Elmo has been frequently shoe-horned unnecessarily way too often when the popularity of his character really spiked with “Elmo’s World” (which honestly only dropped in quality for me the more episodes were produced, but it could also just be my bias talking of when I...

It’s also worth mentioning every Muppet character that has real-life human flesh skin tones also at least has a specific nationality identified to their race rather than just being “black” or “Asian” etc. Elijah and Wes are African-American, Ji-Young is Korean-American and TJ is...

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I mean even with his retirement, the Brown AM pattern would still often be used for other characters. So creating new characters with real life human flesh skin tones that are a big part of their characters isn’t anything new.

I also understand this was all the way back in season 1 when very often pre-existing Muppets would be recycled into other characters, but we have had at least three Caucasian characters beforehand long before the Brown AM pattern was made (and more puppets with real-life human flesh skin tones...

We’ve literally had a Brown AM pattern since season 25 of Sesame Street. Once upon a time, Kingston Livingston was a major recurring character on the show during the ATC days.

The show has literally been extremely diverse from the very start since day 1 in 1969….. a time when even then there still was barely a whole lot of representation on television and Sesame Street was one of the biggest new changes bringing in diversity to television. I’m not sure what you’re...