My opinion on Elmo has changed

[WazzupMyBoyz]

In addition, despite ending after 64 episodes, the original Elmo's World continued to be re-ran on Sesame Street until season 42. I don't know why they wanted to do this anyway.

 

[GizmoAkimbo]

Even though Elmo was never one of my favorite characters on Sesame Street, I never really minded him too much. However, I did feel he became a very overexposed character once his popularity increased during the 1990s.
However, I will give "Elmo's World" some credit, as there were occasionally some good parts of it, even if still had flaws and issues. I was fine with watching Elmo Saves Christmas and CinderElmo, even if I personally feel Zoe would have been a better fit for the Cinderella role in the latter project.
Honestly, I think that Elmo has become a more dominant character on Sesame Street now more than he ever did during the 2000s. While he was definitely used a lot during the 2000s, there were still several characters that still did get the spotlight in street stories and segments. Elmo was not even one of the main hosts of Play With Me Sesame.
Now, particularly in the last few years, Elmo is used in basically every street story and segment, which is honestly not necessary at all, while so many of the other major characters barely get used anymore. However, it is what it is with this show at this point.

I like the points you've made, as it reminded me that it tends to be the way of things once shows (of any genre really) ends up building massive amounts of success and a prominent fanbase. They end up focusing on the most obvious icons of the show, thinking the character is the heart of it. An example of this I come to think of is Spongebob---he's received much of the same treatment as Elmo has in recent years.

I thought it was an interesting phenomenon to point out.

 

[salemfan]

During the time when a lot of adults found Elmo to be annoying, I came up with the idea of a Sesame Street special with Elmo portraying the Beast EXACTLY because of all the adults who found Elmo to be annoying. My idea called for:
Big Bird-Maurice
Zoe-Belle
Oscar-Gaston
Ernie and Bert as Cogsworth and Lumiere

 

[Daffyfan4ever]

Yes, that’s exactly how I felt! Like by the time season 32 was over it was just beating a dead horse at that point. And even then, I think “Elmo’s World” was at its best moments during the first two seasons. The season 32 stuff was just okay, then everything else afterwards….. no.

Even then, I think the series could have honestly just worked better as its own separate series for TV (or even direct to video for that matter) instead of forcing it into the last remaining minutes of the show to avoid having to make a ton of new material/recycle old segments.

I mean ****, with seasons 30-32, I think those end segments slightly mess up the flow a bit with the main stories being presented during the street scenes with the plot ending too quickly before it transitions into “Elmo’s World.”

“CinderElmo” was okay imo, “ElmoPalooza” however I definitely have so many nostalgic memories with and some of those song covers honestly knocked the original segments out the park.

I remember having a cassette tape of that and it was actually pretty good.

 

[Spongybobchum]

I don't hate him anymore. Zoe has left my hate-radar too, and even Abby has.
The only characters i hate nowadays are characters like Gabriëlle, who are literally just Muppetized humans.
Before you say anything, that's VERY different from Muppet humans.
Muppet humans have unnatural skin colors no one in the real world has (e.g. Bert and Ernie).
So Gabrielle and co. are not Muppet humans, but Muppetized humans. It's a BIG difference.

 

[salemfan]

Muppet humans have unnatural skin colors no one in the real world has (e.g. Bert and Ernie).

The two examples you mentioned also have noses that don't look like what the noses of people in the real world look like.
I hope from you telling us what you perceive as "Muppet humans" that Julia and her family are classifiable as Muppet humans.

 

[Spongybobchum]

The two examples you mentioned also have noses that don't look like what the noses of people in the real world look like.
I hope from you telling us what you perceive as "Muppet humans" that Julia and her family are classifiable as Muppet humans.

Yup!